# Send meeting invitation **URL:** \ **Category:** API and Webhooks\ **Created:** [July 4, 2019, 12:47pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/send-meeting-invitation/4886 "2019-07-04T12:47:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![harald.glanzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/eada6e/32.png) [@harald.glanzer](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/harald.glanzer)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2019, 12:47pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/send-meeting-invitation/4886/1 "2019-07-04T12:47:27Z")
hi, - how can a person be invited to a (running) meeting via REST API - is this possible in? - i guess the API calls regarding ‘meeting registrants’ are not suitable to invite persons (i.e. send email) during a running meeting…? regards, hari ---
**Author:** ![harald.glanzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/eada6e/32.png) [@harald.glanzer](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/harald.glanzer)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 12:20pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/send-meeting-invitation/4886/2 "2019-07-05T12:20:52Z")
we need a way to signal an invitation to another (logged in) user. a possible solution would be to send an IM / chat message to the to-be-invited user (provided he is logged in with his desktop zoom client). searching this forum and the API documentation, i am not really sure if / how this is possible? if possible - what is the exact REST API endpoint family for - posting a new chat /(=IM?) messages - check for new messages thx in advance hari ---
**Author:** ![michael\_p.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/michael_p.zoom/32/18105_2.png) [@michael\_p.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/michael_p.zoom)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2019, 6:42pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/send-meeting-invitation/4886/3 "2019-07-15T18:42:59Z")
Hi Harold, > [@harald.glanzer](#): > > how can a person be invited to a (running) meeting via REST API - is this possible in? Our REST APIs are designed for pre or post meeting actions so being able to invite someone during a meeting is not possible at this time. > [@harald.glanzer](#): > > i guess the API calls regarding ‘meeting registrants’ are not suitable to invite persons (i.e. send email) during a running meeting…? Correct, meeting registrants doesn’t have the same functionality as inviting a user. > [@harald.glanzer](#): > > we need a way to signal an invitation to another (logged in) user. > a possible solution would be to send an IM / chat message to the to-be-invited user (provided he is logged in with his desktop zoom client). > > searching this forum and the API documentation, i am not really sure if / how this is possible? if possible - what is the exact REST API endpoint family for > > - posting a new chat /(=IM?) messages > - check for new messages What you could do is create a chatbot[1]. Subscribe to the meeting.create webhook event[2]. Once you get the webhook notification, you can send the user a message to invite them to the meeting[3]. 1 - [https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/guides/chatbots/build-a-chatbot](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/guides/chatbots/build-a-chatbot) 2 - [https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/webhook-reference/meeting-events/meeting-created-delete](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/webhook-reference/meeting-events/meeting-created-delete) 3 - [https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/im-chat/sendchatbot](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/im-chat/sendchatbot) Let us know if that helps! ---
**Author:** ![DeveloperBot](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/developerbot/32/12632_2.png) [@DeveloperBot](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/DeveloperBot)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 6:32pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/send-meeting-invitation/4886/4 "2020-08-21T18:32:25Z")
Closed on August 21, 2020, 6:32pm UTC