Add travel time to Calendly
Published 17 September 2026
Calendly's buffers are a fixed number of minutes, the same around every meeting of an event type, wherever it is. Calendly's own help lists travel as a reason to set one, but it can't know the road: 10 minutes to one client, 50 to the next. DOFOTT reads the address of each booking once it reaches your Google Calendar and adds a travel block before and after it, timed by Google Maps. Those blocks are busy time, so your Calendly link stops offering the hours you'll spend on the road. Nothing to install in Calendly.
What Calendly does, and what it doesn't
In an event type's limits and buffers you can keep time free before and after meetings. Calendly applies that buffer around your existing meetings too, so a booking can't land right next to one. It's a good tool for a gap. For in-person meetings it has one limit that no setting fixes: the number is the same for the café around the corner and the other side of town, so it's either too long or too short.
DOFOTT works one level down, in Google Calendar itself. Every event with a location gets its own trip, whoever made it, and Calendly already reads Google Calendar to decide when you're free.
Three steps
- Check that Calendly checks your Google Calendar for conflicts. In Calendly's calendar settings your Google account should be connected, with the calendar your meetings are in checked for conflicts. New bookings should be added to a Google calendar too, so they get travel time.
- Connect DOFOTT. On dofott.com, click Connect Google Calendar and sign in with Google. Set your home address, a work address if you have one, and how you travel: driving, transit, walking or cycling.
- Give in-person event types a location. An in-person meeting with your address, or one that asks the invitee for theirs. Every booking of that type now reaches Google with an address, and DOFOTT adds the trip.
What happens after that
- Someone books you, the trip appears. Calendly writes the booking to Google Calendar, DOFOTT hears about it there and adds a block before and after it, from wherever you'll be coming from: home, work in your work hours, or the meeting before.
- Your link knows about the road. The blocks are busy events, so Calendly treats them like any other meeting in your calendar: the next person can't book you while you're driving back.
- Reschedule or cancel, the blocks follow. When a booking moves, its blocks move with it. When it's cancelled, they go.
- Video calls stay as they are. A booking whose location is a video link has no road to it, so it gets no block.
- Invitations too. A meeting someone else sent you with an address gets the same blocks once you've said yes, and your Calendly link respects them. An invitation you haven't answered keeps its blocks free, because a meeting that may not happen shouldn't close off the time.
Things to know
- Keep a short buffer before in-person event types. DOFOTT adds the trip to a booking after it's made, because until then nobody knows where it is. A buffer about the length of a typical trip for you keeps someone from booking a slot you can't reach. Once the booking is in, DOFOTT puts in the real time.
- A clash stays visible. If a trip runs into another meeting, DOFOTT doesn't shorten either. You see the overlap in your calendar and decide.
- Google Calendar only. If Calendly checks an Outlook or iCloud calendar, DOFOTT can't add travel time there yet.
- The durations come from Google Maps, for the time of day the meeting starts: live traffic when driving, timetables for transit. For parking or finding the room, add a 5, 10 or 15-minute margin in DOFOTT's settings.
- One button to undo. Delete account and remove all DOFOTT blocks in DOFOTT's settings takes out every block it created. Your Calendly bookings aren't touched; DOFOTT never changes an event it didn't make.
Connect Google Calendar → Free during beta.
Does Calendly have a travel time feature?
Calendly has buffers: a fixed number of minutes before and after meetings of an event type. It does not look up the route, so the buffer is the same for a meeting next door and one across town. DOFOTT adds the real travel time from Google Maps.
Do I need to install anything in Calendly?
No. DOFOTT connects to your Google account once. Calendly writes bookings there and reads your busy time from there, so the blocks work in both directions on their own.
Will my Calendly link stop offering the time I spend travelling?
Yes, as long as Calendly checks the Google calendar your meetings are in for conflicts. The blocks are busy events. The one exception is an invitation you have not said yes to: its blocks stay free until you do.
Should I keep my Calendly buffers?
Keep a short one before in-person event types. DOFOTT adds the trip once a booking is made; the buffer stops someone booking a slot you could not reach before that.
Is DOFOTT free?
Free during beta. When a paid plan comes, you get 30 days' notice by email, and the blocks already in your calendar stay.