Appointment Scheduling Handbook

Calendar Syncing in a Meeting Scheduling App

There are several meeting scheduling apps that allow pooling yours and your prospects' calendar to show the time best suited for the meeting you are about to set. There are also many that has the feature that allows you to create a voting poll and share that with the candidates. In cases where you use voting polls, candidates can see each others selected slots and to best decide their preference. After the votes are collected you can use that to set the meeting to best suit your case.

Voting poll example in Doodle meeting scheduling app

Apps like Doodle, Calendly, Zoho, and Karen have the voting poll feature. Among the four, Karen app has the best features to suit any SMB suit from salon to education, hospitality and more. Furthermore, it caters to both appointment booking and meeting scheduling needs.

Karen is a 24x365 hours online facility that offers convenience to the clients and they can book appointments and make payments as and when they are comfortable. Besides, it offers a personal chat room for clients where you can easily communicate with them and send alerts, confirmations and reminders before and after the booking.

It synchronizes with Office365, Outlook, Gmail, iCloud, and MailChimp to align all meetings and provide real time availability. An intuitive dashboard shows analytical reports to get a statistical insight of the meeting activities. It tracks the number of appointments per week, missed and canceled bookings, new addition to the client base and much more to drive success for your business ecosystems.

With Karen clients can send reminders through text or email alerts and control the no-show ratio.It also tracks the number of appointments per week, missed and cancelled bookings, new addition to the client base and much more.It has a free plan that lets you book up to 20 appointments per month, and the paid plan starts at 8$ per month.

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