I can send one poll, see availability at a glance, and quickly identify the best option.
HOW IT WORKS
Thirteen people inside, nine outside. One link.
A deal that needs sign-off from thirteen people inside your organization and nine outside it takes more than a few emails to pin down. Group Polls make it a breeze.
STEP 1
Propose the times
Pick a few slots, or let Doodle propose ones that work for your calendar. Share one link. Nobody needs an account, an app, or the same calendar system as you.
STEP 2
Everyone answers, including "negotiable"
Yes, no, or it works if it has to. That third state gets a decision out of a group where the perfect slot doesn't exist, which is most groups.
STEP 3
You see the best slot, and book it
Sorted by what the room can actually make, with who's firm and who's flexible visible before you commit anyone.
THE PROBLEM
Every extra person makes the time harder to find.
Every person you add brings another calendar and another inbox. Replies trickle in, the thread splits, and the meeting can slip by weeks.
18%
of meetings setup via email don’t happen
In an academic study of 1,894 meeting requests handled by human assistants over email, 82% ended in a booked meeting and 268 were cancelled first. A poll keeps every request visible until it's settled. [2]
56%
ask someone or book a meeting to get information
Atlassian's State of Teams 2025 found 56% of workers often have to ask someone or schedule a meeting to get what they need. Each of those needs a time. [3]
13 + 9
And the room keeps growing
A typical B2B buying decision involves 13 people inside the buying organization and 9 outside it. At that size, one shared link keeps every answer in one place. [4]
FIRM, OR JUST FLEXIBLE
See who's firm and who's flexible before you commit.
A "yes" and a "negotiable" aren't the same commitment. Doodle keeps the distinction visible, and keeps track of every poll still waiting on an answer.
- Best slot surfaced first, with the counts that justify it
- See who's firm and who's flexible before you commit anyone
- Run several polls at once without losing track of what's waiting on whom
OUTSIDE YOUR ORGANIZATION
The people you need in the room rarely all work for you.
A board vote, a client meeting, a candidate interview. Group Poll was built for exactly this: everyone answers from the same link, regardless of who they work for or what they use to manage their own calendar.
Anyone with an email address can respond.
A board member, an outside counsel, a candidate between jobs. Participants don’t need a Doodle account or to be on your calendar system.
- No account or login required to respond to a poll
- Works the same whether respondents use Google, Outlook, or another tool
- A live view of who has answered and who hasn't, so nobody has to chase by email
Once it's booked, everyone gets what they need to show up.
The winning slot goes out as a calendar invite to every respondent who gave an email, with the agenda, location, and a video link already attached.
- Calendar invites sent automatically once the time is confirmed
- Video conferencing link, agenda, and location included by default
- Optional deadlines and reminders for groups that need a nudge
ADAPTIVE DAY BRIEF · MOBILE
The brief, before you're at a desk.
At eight in the morning, the day arrives on your phone as a short brief of what's coming. What's next, who's in it, what's owed, and anything that changed overnight.
WHAT YOU GET
What Group Poll does today
Group Poll
Propose times, the group votes yes, no, or if it has to, and one poll settles it. No account needed to answer.
- Available now
- Available now
Unlimited polls and slots
Run as many polls as the week needs, with as many options as the question deserves. Available with Pro plans.
- Available now
- Available now
Caps and privacy
Limit how many people can take a slot, and hide the participant list from respondents.
- Available now
- Available now
Automatic calendar invites
Confirmed times go out with a video link, agenda, and location attached, to every respondent who gave an email.
- Available now
- Available now
Deadlines & reminders
Set a deadline and let automatic reminders chase slow responders, so one person doesn't have to.
- Available now
- Available now
Co-hosted polls
Two people running the same poll, so it isn't stranded when the person who made it is away.
- Coming soon
- Coming soon
FAQs
No. Anyone with the link can answer, with no account and nothing to install. A poll works for people outside your organization too.
APPENDIX
Every number below comes from Doodle's own poll data, except where a source is named. Full citations in the table.
| Figure | What it measures | Period · basis |
|---|---|---|
| 87% | Knowledge workers who say they lack the time or capacity to coordinate | [1] Atlassian, State of Teams 2026 · 12,035 knowledge workers |
| 56% | Workers who often have to ask someone or schedule a meeting to get the information they need | [3] Atlassian, State of Teams 2025 · 12,000 knowledge workers |
| 82% | Meeting requests coordinated by email that ended in a meeting actually being scheduled | [2] Cranshaw et al., Calendar.help, CHI 2017 · ~1,900 requests |
[2] Cranshaw et al., "Calendar.help: Designing a Workflow-Based Scheduling Agent with Humans in the Loop," CHI 2017. [4] Forrester, The State of Business Buying 2026 (nearly 18,000 business buyers).
Bring us the date nobody has agreed on yet.
The offsite, the panel debrief, the review with eleven people and two time zones. We'll show you it settled, with everyone's answers in one view.