Getting started · Whenly.software
There is no sign-up form on this page. That is deliberate.
whenly.software is early access. We could put a form here and mail you afterwards, but a form that does not create an account is a form that lies about what it does. So: a conversation first, and an honest account of what runs today — which, plainly, is not the poll yet.
What is built is the shared no-double-book booking floor the whole schedule.software family is built on. What is being built is everything that makes whenly a find-a-time product: the poll, the three-answer marking, the overlap finder, and the one-tap lock onto that floor.
What actually happens
Four steps, and you can stop after any of them.
✓1 — Tell us the shape of the problem
Write to [email protected] with what you keep having to schedule — a committee, chaperones, staff PD — roughly how big the group is, and how you do it today. One paragraph is plenty.
✓2 — An honest walkthrough of what is built and what is not
We show you the shared booking floor that is real, and we name the find-a-time pieces that are still being built. You should leave able to repeat back exactly what is running and what is not — no surprises in week two.
✓3 — Reserve early access to the poll
If the find-a-time flow is worth your time, we add you to early access and tell you where it is in the build. No card, no charge, no account provisioned — there is nothing to bill for a product that is not live.
✓4 — Come along as it lands
As the poll, the overlap finder, and the one-tap lock ship, early-access coordinators are the first to run a real group poll on it. Until then, this page will not pretend the button does something it does not.
Bring one scheduling question with a visible stopping point.
A useful starting note describes what the group is trying to decide before describing a desired tool. In an original fictional adult planning example, the organiser needs one forty-minute discussion with three colleagues. They have two candidate afternoons, but replies mix a preference for one afternoon with a condition about the meeting's length. The immediate problem is knowing which answers apply to a forty-minute discussion. It is not a request to migrate everyone's calendar or declare a meeting confirmed.
The organiser can write: We are comparing two afternoons for one forty-minute discussion. Some replies describe a shorter meeting, so I cannot treat the current count as agreement on the full window. That supplies the task, the conflicting input and the point where the existing process stops. It gives a product conversation something concrete to examine without supplying names, actual schedules or a collection of private explanations.
The output of that preparation is an inquiry, not access. There is no poll-creation control on this page and no account is provisioned by reading the example. A reader who needs an operational way to arrange a meeting should continue using a process they actually have. The purpose of this starting exercise is to make the unmet requirement clear enough to discuss, without letting a promising design stand in for an available service.
Keep the desired outcome separate from evidence that it happened.
The fictional organiser might want a single chosen afternoon and a room held for the discussion. Those are two desired outcomes. The supplied material establishes neither. A clearer scope note names both, then explains that the unresolved duration must be addressed before the group count is meaningful. This prevents an inquiry about finding a time from being read as a request that already has every necessary detail settled.
What if the organiser simply asks whether Whenly can handle the whole thing? That broad question is understandable, but a small worked case makes the answer more useful. It distinguishes the group-overlap problem from the room dependency and makes the current closed-surface boundary visible. The site describes the design and provides contact information; it supplies no live booking action or checkout. A conversation about scope is not itself completion of either task.
After preparing the note, reread it for verbs that overstate the situation. Proposed, available, preferred and booked mean different things. If a sentence says the group has agreed, identify the agreement that supports it. If it says a resource is reserved, identify the established process that performed that action. Where the example supplies only a question, keep it as a question. That is enough preparation for a useful inquiry.
One final detail is the time basis. A scope note about an adult group in different places should not assume that an unexplained 10:00 means the same thing to every reader. State the basis used in the fictional example and identify whether the real task requires reconciling different local times. This is a requirement to discuss, not evidence of automatic timezone conversion on Whenly. It helps the conversation stay attached to the actual scheduling problem rather than a candidate label whose meaning changes with the reader.
What starting does not involve
No card, no charge, no account created on a web page.
There is no live checkout on this site, and no committed price to check out against — the pricing page says plainly that no figure is set. Reserving early access does not create a payment, does not store a card, and does not commit you to anything.
The find-a-time poll, the overlap finder, and the one-tap lock are in development. Reminders are opt-in and currently send nothing. We would rather you hear all of that here than discover it after you have told your committee it is handled.