Zoom
Email to Zoom,
the easy way
ForwardThis is the simple tool that connects your email to Zoom. Forward any email along with some simple instructions, and it’s handled. Nothing to download, nothing to set up. Works with dozens of your other apps too.
Setup in 30 seconds.
How it works
Connect Zoom
Create a free account and connect Zoom. It takes about 30 seconds, and you only do it once.
Forward an email
Forward any email to your ForwardThis address along with your instructions. One email can ask for several things at once.
Done.
ForwardThis replies when it's done, with a short summary and links to what it made - and an undo button if something doesn't look right.
Just forward it
to do@forwardthis.io
Fwd: Kick-off next week?
Set up a Zoom for this on Thursday at 2pm for 45 minutes, call it Northgate kick-off, and put it in my calendar.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Thursday afternoon suits us if it still suits you. We'll have Rachel and the two designers on, so allow an hour if you can.
Set up Northgate kick-off
Thursday 2:00pm, 45 minutes · join link in the reply
Added to your calendar
Thursday 2:00pm to 2:45pm · Northgate kick-off
ForwardThis checks with you before it invites anyone. Everything else undoes for 24 hours.
Some other examples
- “Move the Northgate kick-off to Friday at 10am.”
- “What's my Zoom link?”
- “Find the recording of Monday's design review.”
Everything ForwardThis can do in Zoom
Create calendar event
Set up a Zoom meeting
Reschedule or edit event
Reschedule or edit a Zoom meeting
Cancel event
Cancel a Zoom meeting
Look up calendar
Check your meetings
Read a record
Read a meeting, its invitation, or its summary
Look up records
Find recordings, or who joined
Try it with a real email.
Forward any work email to the address below and see what ForwardThis can do. No signup required.
Occasional product emails may follow.
Why you need ForwardThis
Email is messy, every message asking for something different. It means constantly leaving your inbox and juggling tabs. ForwardThis skips all of that: forward an email along with some simple instructions, and it’s handled. Compatible with every email provider, and it works across the apps you’re already using.
Questions
- How do I send an email to Zoom?
- Forward the email to your ForwardThis address with a line saying when the meeting should be, like "set up a Zoom on Thursday at 2pm for 45 minutes and call it Northgate kick-off". ForwardThis creates the meeting and replies with the join link, ready to pass on. The first time, you'll need a free account with Zoom connected, which takes about 30 seconds - that's the entire Zoom email integration.
- Does it invite people to the meeting?
- Not by default. It gives you the join link and you share it, which is how most Zoom meetings get their attendees. If you do ask it to register named people, Zoom emails each of them their own confirmation, and because that reaches other people's inboxes it checks with you before it goes ahead.
- Can I set the details, or reschedule and cancel a meeting I already have?
- Yes, all in the line you write. A new meeting can have an agenda, a length in minutes, a passcode, a waiting room, a rule about joining before you, and a repeat like every Monday. For one you already have, name it by its topic and it can change any of those or move it. Zoom doesn't email anyone for a plain reschedule and the join link stays the same, so the link you already sent still works. Cancelling always checks with you first, and undo works for 24 hours on anything that can be safely taken back.
- What else can it tell me about my Zoom account?
- It can list what's coming up or what's already been held, read out one meeting's settings, passcode and join link, answer "what's my Zoom link?" with your personal room, list your cloud recordings and their links for a date range, and tell you who actually joined a meeting. It never deletes a recording: that is permanent in Zoom, and an approval can't show you what would be lost.
- How is this different from Zoom's own scheduler or Zapier?
- Zoom's scheduler is quicker when you're already in Zoom and you know exactly what you want. Zapier can create a meeting from a trigger, but you build a rule for each case first, and it works best when every meeting is the same shape. ForwardThis is for the meeting that starts as an email: the client suggests Thursday afternoon, you forward it with one line, and the join link comes back to you along with the calendar entry.