Schedule your Alfy coffee chat in Microsoft Teams

In Microsoft Teams, click 📅 Schedule your chat on Alfy's round post or in your reminder DM. Alfy shows the times when you and your match are all free in the next 7 days. Pick one, and Alfy sends everyone a calendar invite from your own Outlook or Google calendar.

Step 1: Open Schedule your chat#

Click 📅 Schedule your chat on Alfy's post for the round in the channel or group chat, or in the reminder DM Alfy sends you. The dialog is private to you.

If the buttons don't respond, use Open your chat on the web ↗ in the reminder DM. It signs you in to the web dashboard, where you can do everything below.

Step 2: Pick a time#

Alfy suggests 3 times when you're all free, with your timezone. Choose the Meeting length first if you need a shorter or longer chat, and click Show more times to see the whole week.

If nobody's calendar is connected, Alfy asks you to connect yours first. One connected calendar is enough for Alfy to check your teammates' free time. See connect your calendar.

Step 3: Send the invite#

Click the time, then confirm with Send invite. Alfy creates the event in your calendar, with you as the organizer, and invites the others by email. Alfy also tells them in a DM: "🎉 … sent you a calendar invite".

Reschedule or cancel#

Open 📅 Schedule your chat again:

• Reschedule: pick a new time and confirm with Move it. Everyone gets the updated invite.
• Cancel: click Cancel the meeting, then Yes, cancel it. Everyone gets a cancellation, and you can pick a new time later.

Already booked, or not meeting?#

Alfy sends you reminders until your match answers. Click ✅ We've scheduled it if you set up the chat another way, or 🙅 We won't meet this time. See answer Alfy's coffee chat reminders.

Good to know#

• Times are on weekdays, between 9am and 6pm in each person's timezone, on the hour or half hour. See how Alfy matches people.
• Every program offers scheduling. There's no setting to turn it off.