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- Welcome to CheapMeet
Video meetings, calls and team chat in your browser, for a fraction of the usual price. Here is how it fits together.
- Getting started
Create your account and workspace, invite your team and hold your first meeting in a few minutes.
- Account and sign-in
Email sign-in links, Apple, Google, Microsoft and GitHub sign-in, passwords, email verification, your profile and personal settings.
- Find your way around
A tour of the app: the navigation, Chat, People, Activity and your account menu.
Meetings and calls
- Meetings
Start a meeting now or schedule one, invite people, add an agenda and files, and find your meetings on the calendar.
- Calendar
Your meetings, personal events and connected calendars in one place: views, quick create, drag to move, shortcuts, time zones and sharing your availability.
- Join a meeting
Open a link or code, check your camera and microphone in the lobby, and what to do if you can't get in.
- In a call
The call controls, layouts, raising your hand, reactions, hold, the participants list, chat, materials, pop-out and leaving.
- Host controls
Let people in, mute, spotlight and remove people, change who can join, and end the meeting for everyone.
- Screen share and whiteboard
Share a screen, window or tab, use laser pointers, and draw together on a whiteboard.
- Calls
Ring one person or a group for a voice or video call, answer incoming calls, and what happens when nobody answers.
- Guests
People outside your workspace join from a link without an account. How they join, what they can do and how to control it.
- Troubleshooting
Fix camera, microphone, sound, connection and browser problems, and how to report a problem.
- Meeting audio by phone
Dial into an enabled meeting, use your own phone for audio, invite someone by phone, and manage phone participants.
- Business Phone calls and settings
Use an assigned number, forward unanswered calls to a verified phone, and set the main number’s recipients and business hours.
- Voicemail
Where phone messages appear, how you hear about them, playing, marking, downloading and deleting them, the main number’s shared inbox, and turning voicemail on or off.
Chat
- Chat basics
Direct messages and group chats next to your meetings: the Chat page, starting a conversation, search and Saved.
- Messages
Write, reply, react, mention, edit, delete and pin messages, and see who has read them.
- Files and links
Attach files and photos, the size and storage limits, blocked file types and how long chat history is kept.
- Group chats
Name a group, add and remove people, choose what history they see, mute, hide and leave.
- Reporting and moderation
Report a message, how messages are held for review, and how owners and admins decide reports.
- Notifications and status
Your presence status, Activity, desktop notifications, chat pop-ups and quiet hours.
Workspace administration
- Workspaces
What a workspace is, its web address, belonging to several, and what happens if one is suspended.
- Members and invitations
Invite people by email or link, let your company domain join, manage pending invites, change roles and remove people.
- Roles and permissions
What owners, admins, members and guests can do, and the rules for changing roles.
- Workspace settings
The workspace name, address, allowed domains and meeting defaults, and the other settings tabs.
- Usage and limits
The Usage tab: minutes used this month and today, warnings at 80% and 100%, and meeting activity.
- External access and partner organizations
Choose partner organizations, agree who can chat and call, answer requests, and check or stop access.
Plans and billing
- Plans and limits
What each plan includes, what a minute is, how per-seat minutes are shared, and what happens at each limit.
- Billing
Upgrade to a paid plan, choose seats and monthly or annual billing, manage payments, and cancel.
- Phone pricing preview
The proposed Business Phone and Meeting Phone Access products, annual discounts, the shared phone balance and prepaid credit.
Reference
- Keyboard shortcuts
Every keyboard shortcut in the app, calls, chat, the calendar and the help center, and the actions you can type in search.
- Limits reference
Every plan limit and product limit in one place.
- Glossary
The words CheapMeet uses, and what they mean.
- FAQ
Answers to common questions.