---
title: "Invite Participants During a Meeting"
slug: "invite-participants-during-a-meeting"
tags: ["notifications", "Meetings Settings"]
updated: 2025-09-22T19:18:08Z
published: 2025-09-22T19:18:08Z
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.dialpad.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Invite Participants During a Meeting

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.

> [!NOTE]
> **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** [Invite-participants-meeting](https://app.vidgrid.com/embed/E4zGinzVry9F)

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

> [!NOTE]
> 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.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/0f28ad44-2863-4372-a27e-c6728808d742/Images/Documentation/meetings-enable-SMS(1).png)

### 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 ![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/0f28ad44-2863-4372-a27e-c6728808d742/Images/Documentation/meetings-enable-SMS(2)(1).png)