Meeting Cost for Google Calendar™

Adds meeting costs to Google Calendar. Company configuration available through Flowtrace paid plans.

Meetings are investments. Flowtrace helps Google Calendar users see the time and financial impact of meetings before they are sent. The Flowtrace Meeting Cost extension adds real-time meeting cost estimates, meeting policy reminders, and optional invite validation directly into Google Calendar. Organizers can make better scheduling decisions while creating or editing invites, instead of discovering meeting waste later in a meeting dashboard. Use it as a free meeting cost calculator for Google Calendar, or connect it to the Flowtrace meeting analytics and calendar analytics platform for company-wide configuration, meeting policy automation, and organization-level insights. FREE FEATURES: • Estimated cost for one-off and recurring meetings • Cost visibility in calendar, event creation, and invite edit views • Pre-defined cost tiers and alert thresholds • Lightweight cost awareness for individual users and teams PREMIUM FLOWTRACE FEATURES: • Dynamic invite validation rules before meetings are sent • Meeting policy reminders at the point of scheduling • Organizer review dialog for meetings that breach company rules • Custom cost estimation logic • Organization-level alert thresholds • Custom language and terminology • Centralized deployment and management for Google Workspace • Integration with Flowtrace meeting analytics dashboards ALSO AVAILABLE FOR MICROSOFT OUTLOOK Flowtrace also provides Meeting Cost and invite validation for Microsoft Outlook Calendar, including Outlook Desktop and Outlook on the web. Organizations using both Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 can use Flowtrace to bring meeting cost transparency, meeting policy reminders, and behavioural nudges across their calendar environment. The Google Calendar extension and Outlook add-in are part of the wider Flowtrace Meeting Analytics platform, helping teams connect real-time scheduling behaviour with organization-level meeting analytics and meeting culture transformation. BUILT FOR BETTER MEETING CULTURE Flowtrace helps teams move beyond passive reporting. By combining meeting cost visibility, calendar analytics, meeting rules, and behavioural nudges, organizations can reduce unnecessary meetings, improve meeting hygiene, and build more accountable scheduling habits. Use Flowtrace to: • Reveal high-cost meetings before they happen • Encourage better agendas, durations, and attendee choices • Support meeting policy adoption inside Google Calendar • Improve calendar habits across teams • Connect front-line scheduling behaviour with leadership-level meeting analytics PRIVACY AND DEPLOYMENT Flowtrace is designed for business and Google Workspace environments. Users can sign in with Google, while organizations can deploy the extension centrally with managed configuration. Premium features require a Flowtrace subscription and administrator setup. Flowtrace focuses on calendar and meeting metadata needed for cost estimates, policy checks, and analytics. It is not a meeting recorder, transcription tool, or note-taking extension.