Personal scheduler appointment software
January 24, 2012
Are you looking for a way to accept appointments from the web right into your calendar? This can easily be done with a personal scheduler calendar like ScheduleOnce.
If you are an independent service professional you will probably feel much more comfortable to have the appointments scheduled in your personal calendar rather than having to manage them in a proprietary calendar that you are not used to. ScheduleOnce will easily connect to your calendar be it Google, Outlook, iCal or any other calendar that can sync with Google calendar and almost any calendar can. Once your calendar is connected ScheduleOnce will read and write to it in real time, ensuring that you never get double booked.
ScheduleOnce works across systems and time zones. It does not require registration and all that people need is a browser. ScheduleOnce also connects to your calendar in real time and ensures that you don't get double booked.
In terms of administration, ScheduleOnce allows you to easily specify when you are available using recurring and date specific availability. The combination of these two powerful availability methods ensures that you can easily display your availability in the way you want it quickly and easily.
So what is the difference between a personal scheduler and a regular appointment scheduler? Appointment schedulers typically have their own built in calendar. They may also sync that calendar with a personal calendar but still, all scheduling is done against their proprietary calendar. A personal scheduler does not have a calendar. It uses the user's personal calendar as the calendar against which all scheduling is done. For this to be effective the connection to the calendar must be a real time connection so that double booking does not happen.
Another important difference is the experience of the people that schedule time with you. With a personal scheduler like ScheduleOnce people come to your personal MeetMe page and can see your profile information together with time slots in which you're available. This level of personalization does not exist in the general appointment schedulers.
With ScheduleOnce you get a personal MeetMe link. People that click your link arrive at your MeetMe page where they can easily see when you're available and schedule appointments with you in a matter of seconds. The MeetMe page can be personalized with your contact information and picture links to your social profiles.
Its really easy to get your MeetMe page. All you have to do is sign up to ScheduleOnce. When you sign up you are guided through a simple three step wizard that creates your MeetMe page and you are then ready to accept appointments.
It is also important to mention that your MeetMe page is connected to your calendar, so that times in which you are busy are blocked out on your MeetMe page and when an appointment is booked via your MeetMe page it is automatically created in your calendar.
Outlook Compatible personal scheduler
Are you looking for a personal scheduler Outlook compatible? you have reached the right place. ScheduleOnce will connect to your Outlook calendar and will enable you to accept appointments and one on one meetings directly into your Outlook calendar.
However, since Outlook is a desktop calendar and is not available on the internet 7x24 like your personal scheduler should be there is a need to connect your Outlook calendar to the internet. Many vendors offer proprietary connectors but they very often underestimate the complexity and effort that it takes to write connectors for Outlook. The result is that their connectors are buggy and clumsy and may also pose a security risk.
ScheduleOnce has taken a better approach - We use the Google connector for Outlook. This is a very lightweight connector that does exactly what it should - It syncs Outlook and Google Calendar. Now since ScheduleOnce connects to Google Calendar you are done! This is really the best method to connect to Outlook and get yourself a personal scheduler Outlook compatible.
Mac OS X personal scheduler software
ScheduleOnce is a personal scheduler software for Mac OS X users. With ScheduleOnce a Mac user gets a personal MeetMe page and a personal MeetMe link in the form of meetme.so/yourname. The link is short and memorable and can be added to your email signature, web site, or can be simply sent to customers. When customers click the link they can easily see a booking calendar with time slots in which you're available. They select one or more time slots according to your instructions and schedule a time with you in less than a minute.
The special feature for Mac users is that the MeetMe page can easily connect to their iCal calendar. This is done by syncing iCal with Google Calendar and then connecting Google Calendar with ScheduleOnce. This approach is highly secure and is used by many of our customers.
Some of our customers are very senior people that can easily afford more than one assistant but they don't hire one. Instead, they use ScheduleOnce, and they are very heavy users. Some of them even say that ScheduleOnce works faster and better for them than if they had hired an assistant.
ScheduleOnce has a completely free, fully functional trial so check us out and see how a personal scheduler application looks and feels.