Compare Webex Meetings Types

See the table and following descriptions for more details.

Standard Scheduled Meeting

You can schedule a standard meeting from your Cisco Webex site, in Microsoft Outlook using the Cisco Webex Meetings Desktop App, or from your mobile device.

• You can schedule single occurrence or recurring meetings.

• You can choose to require registration when you schedule the meeting.

• You can choose to allow attendees to join the meeting up to 15 minutes before start time when you schedule the meeting.

• You can add alternate hosts and let anyone with a host account on the Webex site host the meeting.

• Someone with a host account on the Webex site can schedule a meeting on your behalf. You are the only host who can start the meeting.

• Each meeting has a unique meeting URL that users click to join.

• Each meeting has a unique video address that users dial if they join by video system.

Personal Room Meeting

Personal Room meetings are best for impromptu meetings, and back-to-back meetings in which the meeting host wants to remain in one meeting room for several meetings and have attendees join at different times.

• You can start a Personal Room meeting from your Webex site. You can schedule single occurrence and recurring Personal Room meetings in Outlook using the Webex Meetings Desktop App.

• Attendees can't join before the meeting starts but, during a meeting, you can lock your Personal Room. People wait in a virtual lobby until you admit them. You can also set your Personal Room to lock automatically zero to 20 minutes after the meeting starts.

• You can add cohosts or alternate hosts to let others host your Personal Room meetings without you.

• Your cohosts or alternate hosts can schedule personal meetings on your behalf.

• All Personal Room meetings use your Personal Room URL as the meeting link that users click to join. Your Personal Room URL is in the format company.webex.com/meet/ username.

• All meetings use your Personal Room video address as the video address that users dial if they join by video system.

Personal Conference Meeting

A Personal Conference meeting is an audio-only meeting that's similar to a conference call. This meeting type can be escalated to a standard scheduled meeting, if needed. A meeting URL is generated when a Personal Conference meeting is scheduled. For more information about setting up your Personal Conference account numbers, see Schedule a Personal Conference or Audio Only Cisco Webex Meeting.

• You can schedule single occurrence meetings from your Webex site and in Outlook using the Webex Meetings Desktop App. You can schedule recurring meetings using the Webex Meetings Desktop App.

• You can add alternate hosts to let others host your Personal Conference Meetings without you.

• We don't recommend that you allow attendees to join before the meeting starts. Doing so could allow unwanted participants to potentially cause fraudulent telephony charges before the host joining.

• If you escalate the meeting to a standard Webex meeting, each meeting has a unique meeting URL that users click to join.

• The maximum number of participants is 500 audio-only participants. If escalated to an online meeting, the first 25 participants can join.