Help / Roundtables

How people vote

People vote by opening a link — no 42min account required. This page describes what they see, so you know what you're sending them. (Want to collect the votes? See Results and booking.)

Getting to the poll

There are two ways people reach a roundtable, depending on its audience mode:

• Anyone with the link — you share one link (from the Share tab or the card's Copy link button). It looks like 42min.us/rt/…. Anyone who opens it can vote after entering their name and email.
• Specific people — each invitee gets their own link in an invite email from 42min. Their link already knows who they are, so there's nothing to fill in.

Voting

The poll shows the meeting details (host, duration, location) on one side and the proposed times on the other, grouped by day and shown in the voter's own time zone — so nobody has to do time-zone math.

To respond, the voter taps a time to cycle through the options:

• One tap → Yes (this works for me).
• If you allowed Maybe votes, a second tap → Maybe (could make it work).
• Another tap clears it.

There is deliberately no "No" button — leaving a time unmarked already means it doesn't work. Voters can mark as many times as they like.

How responses are saved depends on how they arrived:

• Personal invite links save each change automatically — a small "Saved" note confirms it.
• Shared-link voters pick their times, then enter their name and email and click Save to submit. After that, their changes save automatically too.

If Open voting is on, each time also shows a live count of how many people have picked it. With Blind voting, voters only see their own choices.

Changing a vote later

A response is never final. As long as voting is open, anyone can reopen their link and change their picks — returning on the same device restores their previous answers automatically. A deadline countdown on the page shows how long they have (it turns red in the final 24 hours).

Reminders

For specific-people roundtables with reminders on, 42min automatically nudges anyone who hasn't responded — around the halfway point to the deadline and again about 24 hours before it (or once ~48 hours after publishing if there's no deadline). You can also send a reminder by hand from the Results tab. Shared-link roundtables have no fixed invitee list, so they don't send reminders.

After voting closes

Once you book a time — or the roundtable expires or is canceled — the link stops accepting votes. Anyone who opens it then sees a short "voting is over" message, and, if a time was booked, the confirmed date and time. The people on the booked meeting also get the normal calendar invitation and confirmation email for it.

Common pitfalls

• Past times disappear. A candidate time that has already passed is hidden from the poll — it can't be booked, so there's nothing to vote on.
• "Enter your name and a valid email." Shared-link voters must identify themselves before their votes can be saved. Returning with the same email updates the existing response rather than creating a duplicate.
• A voter sees no counts. That roundtable uses Blind voting — counts are visible to the organizer only.