Why This Matters
Keeping track of your client and customer bookings is important to the success of your business. It builds trust when you are on time, whether it’s in person, on the phone or digitally. Having software to track or schedule your appointments and update you through various digital means is even easier to maintain these days with integrations, plugins and apps. Appointment-booking tools, calendar tracking and scheduling apps remove the manual, repetitive work associated with managing schedules and let you focus on growing your business.
Resources
The Importance of your Booking Software on your Website – WooCommerce’s article explaining why having your booking software on your website is important instead of through an external platform.
The Best Appointment and Scheduling Software – Zapier’s list of the best appointment/booking/scheduling software.
Appointment Scheduling Apps and Booking Software – HubSpot’s list of recommendations.
Recommendations
Calendly – For individuals and teams with a free basic account along with 2 paid tiers depending on the amount of users. Integrates with many other platforms with all 3 tiers.
You Can Book Me – There is a 14 day free trial after which it’s one paid tier for all features. Integrates with multiple other platforms.
Acuity – A Squarespace company. Adapts to multiple business models and has a basic free tier and then 3 paid tiers that come with a variety of other features. Also integrates with other platforms in the paid plans.
Picktime – Picktime is an online appointment scheduling software and a booking management system for businesses of any scale