Pending invitations

Protect the time while a calendar invitation is waiting for your response.

Unanswered invitations can leave a slot looking free. Heldrey can hold that time as Busy until you accept or decline, then remove the temporary protection.

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What Google Calendar does today

Pending invitations do not always block your availability

A Google Calendar invitation can sit unanswered. Depending on settings, that tentative event may not occupy the slot the way an accepted meeting does, so colleagues and booking tools can still treat the time as open.

Where the gap is

Double booking can happen before you RSVP

The invitation is real, but the calendar still looks free. Heldrey’s Invite Hold is a temporary Busy protection for matching pending invitations — not a second copy of the meeting with its private details.

The Heldrey rule

Hold the slot until you accept or decline

The rule lives in Heldrey. Matching unanswered invitations get a Busy hold for the same time. Heldrey does not copy the invitation title, description, or attendee list onto a second event.

Heldrey rule · 05

Invitation waiting for a response

Enabled
WhenAn event is created or changes
IfThe invitation is awaiting my response
Do
Protect the time until I respond
Protect unanswered invitations
Google Calendar · Work
Result in Google Calendar
Tentative · Client review10:00–10:45
Held until you respondSame time
09:3010:0010:3011:0011:30
OccupiedHeld
Previewed against recent events

Your calendar. Your rules.

Remove the hold when the invitation is resolved

When you accept or decline, the temporary Busy protection goes away. If the invitation is still pending, the hold stays attached to that time.

01 Event changes
02 Rule evaluates
03 Calendar responds

Control before and after automation

Preview and undo before anything is a surprise.

Preview

Preview which pending invitations would receive a temporary Busy hold before enabling the rule.

Activity + Why?

Trace each calendar change back to the rule that caused it.

Undo

Reverse supported actions without manually rebuilding the event.

Needs Attention

When a safe result requires judgment, Heldrey asks instead of guessing.

Google Calendar automation

Set the rules once.

Heldrey keeps your Google Calendar behaving the way you want — whether you configure it yourself or let your AI assistant do it for you.

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