Appointments
Appointments handles scheduling and syncs booked meetings to your CRM. When a prospect books a meeting, graph8 automatically creates or updates the contact, syncs the meeting to your CRM, and assigns the correct owner.
How It Works
The flow:
- A prospect books a meeting through your scheduling page
- The scheduling system sends an event to graph8
- graph8 processes the event — creates/updates contacts and syncs to your CRM
- The meeting appears in your CRM with the correct contact associations
This runs automatically in the background for every booking.
Appointment Events
graph8 processes four types of scheduling events:
| Event | What Happens |
|---|---|
| Booking created | New meeting booked — contact created/updated, meeting synced to CRM |
| Booking updated | Meeting details changed — CRM meeting updated |
| Booking canceled | Meeting canceled — CRM meeting marked as canceled |
| Booking rescheduled | Meeting moved — original marked as rescheduled, new meeting created in CRM |
Reschedule Handling
Reschedules are handled differently by CRM:
- HubSpot / Pipedrive — the original meeting is updated to “rescheduled” status and a new meeting is created
- Salesforce — a new meeting is created (Salesforce doesn’t reliably support finding and updating the original)
Contact Creation
When a booking comes in, graph8 automatically processes the attendees:
- Creates new contacts if they don’t exist in your database
- Updates existing contacts with any new fields (phone number, name)
- Processes guests from the booking response (additional attendees)
- Skips the host — the meeting host is treated as the owner, not a contact
- Deduplication — prevents creating duplicate contacts
CRM Sync
Meetings are synced to your connected CRM:
| CRM | Capabilities |
|---|---|
| HubSpot | Create meetings, update on reschedule/cancel, associate with contacts |
| Salesforce | Create meetings, associate with contacts |
| Pipedrive | Create meetings, update on reschedule/cancel, associate with contacts and attendees |
Each synced meeting includes:
- Title and description
- Start and end times
- Location and meeting URL
- Contact associations
- Owner assignment
- Booking UID for tracking reschedules and cancellations
Owner Assignment
Control how meeting owners are assigned in your CRM:
| Mode | Behavior |
|---|---|
| Use host as owner | The meeting host becomes the CRM owner — no fallback if host isn’t found |
| Use default owner | Try the host first, fall back to a configured default owner |
Configure owner assignment per CRM integration in Settings → Integrations.
Settings
Appointment settings are configured per CRM integration:
| Setting | What It Controls |
|---|---|
| Entity type | Whether to create contacts, leads, companies, or deals from bookings |
| Field mappings | Map booking fields to CRM fields |
| Owner assignment mode | How meeting owners are determined |
| Default owner | Fallback owner when host can’t be matched |
Next Steps
- Connections → — Set up your CRM integration
- Web Chat → — Let visitors book meetings from chat
- Sequencer → — Link sequences to appointment outcomes