Create a scheduling poll and let everyone vote

A scheduling poll is a quick way to find a meeting time for a group. You propose several time options, share one link, and everyone votes on the times they can make, so the slot that suits the most people is easy to spot.

Create a poll in Decider, tap a few time options on the calendar, and share the link with your group. Everyone votes Yes, Maybe, or No, and you lock in the time with the most agreement, usually within a couple of minutes.

Yes. You can create a scheduling poll, invite as many people as you like, and find a time at no cost, and the people you invite never pay to vote.

No. Anyone with the link can vote in seconds, with no sign-up and no app. Only the organizer needs a free account to create and manage polls.

Yes. Every proposed time is shown in each participant's own time zone automatically, so remote and international groups always see the correct local time.

Three to five options spread across at least two different days is the sweet spot. Fewer than three and you are effectively asking people to accept one fixed time; more than about eight and response rates drop because the poll starts to feel like work.

A booking link publishes one person's free slots so individuals can book a private 1:1 slot with them. A scheduling poll does the opposite job: it collects opinions from a whole group on a shortlist of candidate times so everyone can attend the same meeting. If several people must be in the same room or call, you want a poll.

A grid asks every participant to paint their whole week, which is accurate but slow and easy to fill in wrong. A poll asks a much smaller question: can you make these specific times, yes, maybe or no. That takes seconds on a phone, which is why polls usually get a faster and more complete response from a casual group.

That is what the Maybe vote is for. A slot with five Yes votes and two Maybes is usually a better real-world choice than one with four Yes votes and no reservations, and the tally keeps the two counts separate so you can make that judgement rather than having it hidden in one number.

Yes. You can add or remove time options while the poll is open, and votes already cast on the remaining options are kept. Nobody has to re-vote from scratch, and the link stays the same.

Give it a soft deadline in the message you send, such as votes by Friday lunch, and lock the winning slot as soon as you have enough answers to be confident. A poll with a stated deadline is answered several times faster than an open-ended one.

Yes. Run the poll once on candidate weekly slots, then reuse the winning time as the recurring slot in your own calendar. Polling again is only worth it when the team composition changes.

For a group that just needs a time, look for three things: no account for the people you invite, automatic time-zone conversion, and a calendar export at the end. Decider is free on all three, which is why it tends to beat both the older grid tools and the ad-supported polls for casual groups.

There is no practical limit, and the tally stays readable as the group grows because you are reading vote counts rather than interpreting shaded regions. Polls of forty or fifty people work fine; above that, expect to lock a time before everyone has answered.

Yes. The organizer view lists everyone who has responded, so you can chase the two people holding up the decision instead of nudging the whole group again.

Yes, automatically. Each participant's browser zone is detected and every proposed slot is converted, so a 15:00 Stockholm option reads as 09:00 to someone in New York without anyone doing the arithmetic.

Yes, and that is the main reason groups use a poll. A poll asks people which of your proposed times they can make, so no one connects a calendar or exposes what else is in their week.

Everyone invited can see the tally, which is what makes the result feel fair and stops a second round of debate. If you need a private collection instead, ask people to reply to you directly and enter the answers yourself.

You lock the winning slot, everyone sees the confirmed time on the same link, and each person adds it to Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar in one tap. Any video link you attached travels with the invite.

For anything above three people, yes. A chat thread makes each person read every previous reply before answering, so the effort grows with the group. A poll asks each person the same small question independently, and produces a countable answer instead of a conversation you have to summarise.