Invite Participants During a Meeting
    • 06 Feb 2025
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    Article summary

    Just realized you forgot to invite a colleague to your meeting? Not to worry, inviting participants to an active meeting couldn't be easier!

    Let's take a look at how this works.

    Who can use this

    Users on a free or business Dialpad Meetings license can add participants to an active meeting.

    Invite additional participants to an active meeting

    To invite participants to an active meeting, select the Participants icon from your Meeting’s control bar.

    1. Select Invite Participants

    2. Enter the names, numbers, or email addresses of any Participants you'd like to invite

    3. Select Send Invites

    *If entering a name, you'll need to hover over it to reveal the contact's number or email address.

    Note

    If you'd like to have us instantly dial-out to the invitees, select the checkbox Have Dialpad Meetings dial out to participants.
    *Available only to US and Canadian numbers, excluding AK and HI

    Enable SMS notifications

    If you'd like to send an SMS notification when sending invites to participants with phone numbers, Participant Text Notifications must be enabled.

    These can be enabled at the time you schedule a meeting, or from your settings.

    Enable SMS notifications when scheduling a meeting

    To enable SMS notifications while scheduling a meeting, simply click Enable when you schedule a meeting.

    Meeting scheduling interface showing SMS invitation settings and participant details.

    Enable SMS notifications from Settings

    To enable SMS notifications from your Dialpad Meetings Settings, head to Participant Notifications.

    1. Navigate to Text all participants

    2. Select the desired SMS preference
      Settings for notifications including email and text options for meeting reminders.


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