Requester
Identify who is asking.
Collect name, organization or department, email, and phone only when useful.
- Name and professional affiliation.
- Email for confirmation and joining details.
- Relationship to the office or meeting owner.
Describe your scheduling process. Makeform creates an online form for requester details, meeting topic, preferred times, attendees, time zone, and platform needs.
Send meeting requests to Slack, Google Sheets, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a prompt, adapt it to your scheduling process, or send it to the Makeform builder.
Audience
Prospective and current clients requesting office time
Format
Request form with three preferred slots
Prompt size
298 chars
Example form structure
Request form with three preferred slots
Name, organization, and contact details
What would you like to discuss?
First, second, and third preferred times
Your time zone
Preferred video platform
Suggested routing tags
New requests
Needs scheduling
Confirmed
Ask for the requester's time zone beside each preferred time. A time without a zone creates another email instead of a bookable option.
Step 1
Request
topic, attendees, duration, and context
Step 2
Compare
preferred windows and time zones
Step 3
Confirm
final slot and platform chosen
Step 4
Meet
agenda and joining details ready
Why use a request form
Collect enough context to choose attendees, duration, and a workable proposed time before an email chain begins.
Require a topic, objective, and desired outcome so the recipient can accept, redirect, or answer without a meeting.
Collect several structured date-and-time choices plus time zone and duration instead of parsing availability from prose.
Use topic, department, or request type to organize each submission for the scheduling owner.
Flexible for every requester
Start with the closest scenario, then change the audience, time options, routing, and preparation questions.
Capture the client's goal, background, attendees, and preferred windows before assigning an advisor.
Route by department, flag deadlines, and keep required and optional attendees distinct.
Ask for an agenda, organization details, and preparation materials before scheduling.
Triage short questions by topic and offer standard session lengths without an open-ended email exchange.
Request workflow
Generate the intake, tailor the questions, share one link, and use complete submissions to coordinate the final slot.
Tell Makeform who may request meetings, which topics you handle, what availability to collect, and where requests should go.
Add your departments, standard durations, supported platforms, time-zone list, and conditional follow-up questions.
Place the form on a contact page, intranet, or email signature for consistent intake.
Notify the scheduling owner, compare the proposed windows, then send the confirmed calendar invitation and joining link.
Form vs email vs booking page
Direct booking is useful for predictable calls. A request form fits meetings that need context, routing, attendee decisions, or manual confirmation.
Field guide
Collect enough detail to evaluate and schedule the request without asking for basics again.
Requester
Collect name, organization or department, email, and phone only when useful.
Purpose
Ask for a focused topic, relevant background, and desired outcome.
Availability
Use structured fields for multiple times, time zone, and duration.
Attendees
Separate required attendees from optional participants and collect appropriate contact details.
Preparation
Collect agenda points, reference links, or a file for preparation.
Logistics
Ask about platform, dial-in, access needs, and invitation constraints.
Related tools
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for office teams replacing scattered scheduling emails with one consistent intake.
It is an online intake for proposing a video meeting before confirmation. It collects the requester, purpose, attendees, preferred times, time zone, duration, and platform needs. The office reviews it and sends the invitation separately.
Require name, email, topic, purpose, preferred windows, time zone, and duration. Add attendees, department, urgency, agenda, and files only when they affect routing or preparation.
Ask for two or three windows when staff confirms meetings manually. Multiple options reduce follow-up. Pair them with a required time zone and say whether a range is acceptable.
No. State that the meeting is not booked until the office sends confirmation and a calendar invitation. Use direct appointment booking instead when eligible visitors may reserve open slots immediately.
Yes. Use a department, topic, service, or meeting-type choice to organize notifications and workflows. Partnership requests might go to operations while demonstrations go to sales.
Yes. Add a file upload or request a document link. Name useful materials, such as an agenda, brief, or screenshot, and keep the field optional unless review depends on it.
Yes. Makeform offers unlimited free forms and responses, including generation, editing, publishing, and collecting requests. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Require a time-zone dropdown or city plus UTC offset beside the preferred times. Repeat the zone in the confirmation and send a calendar invitation for local display.
Replace scheduling back-and-forth with a complete request.