Recipes

Cal.com recipes

Send Cal.com’s booking webhooks to a Text Hook and text each person who books.

Three recipes for Cal.com. Each names its trigger and the BlueBot step, lists the fields to map and says how to test it with your own number before anyone else gets a text.

How Cal.com connects

Text Hook: A Text Hook is a BlueBot address the app posts its own webhook to. You map its fields to a recipient and a template, and each post becomes a text.
Zapier: BlueBot’s Zapier app has a Send Text action and instant triggers for incoming texts and every change of state.

Confirm each booking

Part	What it is
Trigger	Cal.com’s Booking Created webhook
Action	A BlueBot Text Hook turns each post into a text
Connects through	Text Hook

Steps

Ask for a phone number on the event type’s booking form.
Make a Text Hook in BlueBot and add its address as a webhook in Cal.com for Booking Created alone.
Book a test meeting, then pick the attendee’s name, phone and the event’s title from the payload BlueBot kept.
Write the template, and each booking becomes a text from your number.

Map the fields

Text Hook setting	Set it to
Recipient	The field in Cal.com’s post that holds the person’s phone number, written as a path such as `{{body.phone}}`.
Text	Hi {{body.first_name}}, you’re booked for {{body.event_title}}. The details are in your email. Reply here if anything changes.
Metadata	`source` set to `cal-com`. BlueBot adds the hook’s id by itself.

Test it

Post a sample to the hook’s address with your own number in the phone field, as below. A text arrives on your phone, and the hook’s page lists the post.

A test post shaped like Cal.com’s

curl -X POST "https://usebluebot.com/h/YOUR_HOOK_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"phone":"+15555550123","first_name":"Maria","event_title":"sample event title"}'

Text the new time when a booking moves

Part	What it is
Trigger	Cal.com’s Booking Rescheduled trigger in Zapier
Action	BlueBot’s Send Text action
Connects through	Zapier

Steps

Start a Zap with Cal.com’s trigger for a rescheduled booking.
Use Formatter by Zapier to write the new start time the way people read it.
Add BlueBot’s Send Text action and map the attendee’s phone to To.

Map the fields

BlueBot field	Map it to
To	The person’s mobile number from Cal.com. US numbers can leave off the +1.
Text	Hi {{first_name}}, your meeting is now {{start_time}}. Reply here if that doesn’t work.
`{{first_name}}` in the text	Cal.com’s first name field.
`{{start_time}}` in the text	Cal.com’s start time field.
Metadata	`source` set to `cal-com`, and `record_id` set to the record’s id, so the status and reply webhooks for this text can find the record again.
Service	Auto, the default: iMessage when the person uses it, otherwise SMS through your iPhone.

Test it

Put your own number in To and press Test step. A text arrives on your phone from your own number, and Zapier shows the message BlueBot returned with state: "queued". Then map Cal.com’s field back into To and turn the Zap on.

Text yourself each booking

Part	What it is
Trigger	Cal.com’s Booking Created webhook
Action	A BlueBot Text Hook turns each post into a text
Connects through	Text Hook

Steps

Make a Text Hook in BlueBot with your own number as the recipient.
Add its address as a webhook in Cal.com for Booking Created.
Book a test meeting, then map the attendee’s name and the event’s title into the template.

Map the fields

Text Hook setting	Set it to
Recipient	The field in Cal.com’s post that holds the person’s phone number, written as a path such as `{{body.phone}}`.
Text	New booking: {{body.attendee_name}} for {{body.event_title}}.
Metadata	`source` set to `cal-com`. BlueBot adds the hook’s id by itself.

Test it

Post a sample to the hook’s address with your own number in the phone field, as below. A text arrives on your phone, and the hook’s page lists the post.

A test post shaped like Cal.com’s

curl -X POST "https://usebluebot.com/h/YOUR_HOOK_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"phone":"+15555550123","attendee_name":"sample attendee name","event_title":"sample event title"}'

Before you turn it on

Text only people who asked to hear from you. Anyone who replies STOP goes on your stop list, and BlueBot cancels texts to them. Stop words
A text that can’t go yet waits with a hold rather than failing: quiet hours, your Mac away, a daily limit. Holds
Cal.com with BlueBot on the integrations page says what else the two do together.