What is the best app for calendar sharing?
There are several applications in the calendar sharing niche both generic and vertical-specific software that are wide used among SMB suits to help tackle the back-end administrative tasks. Some of the most popular ones are listed below to help you make a choice. However, there are several other apps that may not be mentioned here but should suffice your requirements, in which case make sure you take a good look at the user accessibility and level of security.
Acuity Scheduling
Apart from the generic features of a scheduling app such as customized replies, client management, text reminders, and many such, Acuity takes care of payments and deposits through Stripe, Square, or PayPal, offer coupons and vouchers for discounts, advanced reporting about appointments, no shows, & performance, and optimizing your availability for maximum appointments and fewer gaps. Acuity offers a 7 day trial before you select your plan.
Gettimely
Gettimely leverages their expertise in scheduling in the salon and health care sector by regularly upgrading their app to fit the present market trends. Apart from the features of calendar management, client dealings, marketing, and sales and payments, Gettimely also allows integration with Xero, WordPress, Mailchimp, Afterpay, Paypal, Quickbooks, and vend. Furthermore, they also manage your inventory and employees besides the features of multi-location and dashboards. It has no free version, but the paid versions allow a free trial. The paid version starts at 15$ for a solitary user.
Calendly
Calendly lets you customize your meeting slots by providing details such as a 30-minute meeting or a round-robin, a group, or a one-on-one. It syncs with your calendars such as Google, Outlook, or Yahoo and keeps your timetable up to date. Your clients can then choose from these options to book a meeting or schedule an appointment.
Karen App
Karen is a 24x365 hours online facility that offers clients with appointment booking facilities and make payments as and when they are comfortable. 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 canceled bookings, new addition to the client base and much more. Furthermore, it caters to both appointment booking and meeting scheduling needs. Karen can be integrated with Zoom and Zapier to scale its further reach.
Meetingbird
The best part of this application is that one does not need a separate account for setting a meeting through Meetingbird. All you need is a Google account or an office 365 to schedule appointments here. There is a Meetingbird Chrome extension that is tandem with Gmail if you plan to use mails for scheduling. The app may be integrated with Zapier, Front, Zoom and Google Meet as well. Meetingbird is a completely free application.
