Create Multiple simultaneous meetings

[oceanm (Kevin)]

Hi Zoom Developer Community,

I’m working on a mentorship feature for a platform called OceanM, where healthcare professionals can book virtual mentorship sessions with senior mentors. We are currently using the Zoom API to facilitate these sessions and have encountered an issue.

Use Case:

• Multiple mentorship sessions need to happen simultaneously.
• Each session involves only two participants (the mentor and mentee), with no host from our organization present.
• Ideally, users should not need to log in to a Zoom account and should be able to join the meeting directly via the join URL.

Current Setup:

• We use a Zoom Pro (Named Host) account.
• Meetings are created via the /users/me/meetings endpoint (JWT Account-Level App).
• The meeting settings include join_before_host: true and waiting_room: false.
• The join URL is shared with participants, who then access the meeting via the Zoom app or browser.

Problem:

When one meeting is active (at least one participant has joined), subsequent meetings created with the /users/me/meetings endpoint result in the error:
“This host is already running another meeting.”

Question:

What is the best way to handle this scenario so we can support multiple simultaneous mentorship sessions?

[gianni.zoom (Gianni)]

@oceanm

Meetings are created via the /users/me/meetings endpoint (JWT Account-Level App).

JWT app-type had been deprecated for a while now. You must be using an account-level OAuth. If you’re creating via the me url parameter, is the understanding that all of these simultaneous meetings are hosted by one person? There are limitations on the number of simultaneous meetings that share a singular host. Are you able to enable “schedule for” and create meetings on behalf of the other users so there are different hosts scheduling the meetings?

[Tejaswini]

hey @oceanm
Did this workout for you? we’re trying to implement something similar. Were you able to create mulitple active simultaneous meetings where host is not present in anyone of them ?