Issue:

I want to invite other participants to my meeting, either beforehand or during the meeting.

Solution:

This guide covers how to invite other participants to a meeting:
Inviting others to join a meeting

How to invite others without scheduling a meeting beforehand

If you want to invite an individual without scheduling a Zoom meeting beforehand, or during a scheduled meeting in progress, you can follow these steps:

  1. Sign in to the Zoom desktop client.
  2. Start or join a meeting.
  3. In the meeting controls, click Participants  .
  4. At the bottom of the Participants panel, click Invite.
    A pop-up window will appear.
  5. In the window, choose from the following invite options:

Contacts

  1. Click the Contacts tab.
  2. Select a contact's name from the list or search for a contact.
  3. Click the individual you would like to invite.
    Note: You can select multiple contacts.
    After selecting contact(s), their name(s) will be highlighted in blue, and they will appear in the list at the top of the window.
  4. In the lower-right corner, click Invite. 
    Selected participants will be immediately invited to the current meeting, which will appear on their desktop or mobile screen. 

Email

  1. Click the Email tab.
  2. Select an email provider:
    • Default Email: Invite others by using your default email application for your computer.
    • Gmail or Yahoo Mail: Invite others by using the Gmail or Yahoo website. You will be prompted to sign in to your account.
      Your email service will be opened, either through your desktop mail application or through your default web browser.
  3. Add recipients to the email and send it.

Notes:

  • A new email will be composed automatically with the meeting information in the email body.
  • These email options are affected by the Only show default email when sending email invites option on the Settings page. Enabling this setting will remove the Gmail and Yahoo options.