Invitations
Fantastical includes a number of tools to make it easy to manage invitations to and from other people.
Responding to invitations
When you receive a new invitation you'll see an inbox icon appear at the top of the window. Click this icon to view all your pending invitations and choose to set your status to Accept, Decline, or Maybe by clicking the corresponding buttons.
Inviting people to events
Fantastical will search for contacts stored on your Google server, providing you've added your Google account to Settings > Accounts, and that the contacts you want to invite belong to the same account that you are creating the current event on.
Checking contact availability
Video: Invitee and Room Availability
After adding invitees to an event, a check or cross icon will appear next to their name indicating each invitee's availability at the time of your event. A yellow exclamation mark icon indicates that your contact is not available on the server, and thus availability is unable to work. Please note that iCloud does not support availability.
In addition to using the check and cross icons for a quick indication of your contacts' availability, a more detailed availability view can be displayed too. Click Check Availability to open a schedule planner and observe your contacts' availability throughout the day. In the bottom-left of the availability planner, you can use the pull-down menu to toggle the timeline to either display "All Day" or "Work Hours". The Next Available Time command is the quickest and easiest way to schedule an event, with Fantastical instantly performing the hard work of finding a time when you and your invitees are all free. You can also configure a time manually, and if one of your contacts has an event booked for the time of your event it'll turn red to indicate a conflict.
Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Webex conferences
Pre-existing Google Meet links created on Google Calendar's website will be visible in an event's details. Click the link to join the call. You will also see any pre-existing Microsoft Teams links that have been created on your Microsoft accounts. Zoom and Webex meetings are also available in Fantastical. Add a Zoom or Webex account by going to Fantastical's Settings > Accounts. You'll then see a "Zoom Meeting" or "Webex Meeting" option appear in your events. Use this option to create meetings directly in Fantastical and the meeting will be set up and sent to your invitees.
