Google Calendar vs. Square Appointments

For small businesses or personal use, it works out well. The whole idea of a free platform on a free service is very alluring, especially if you don't have high end or high tech services for such a program already. Calendar would work in most business, school, and personal situations to keep track of where you're headed.

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Looking to automate and have something handle appointments with ease, then square appointments will suit you well. It brings various schedules, tasks and calendar appointments into one place and helps you keep on top of things. Can bring to your attention up and coming appointments, scheduling and meetings with out the need for checking through calendars and to do lists.

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• Makes it easy to schedule meetings and block off time
• I can see everyone in my org's calendar's as well which makes it convenient when scheduling calls with multiple people so I can see when they have overlapping availabilities.
• Integration with Zoom and Microsoft Teams for video calls that can be added from the calendar invite itself

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• Square had good interoperability with Google Calendar, so all of our calendars were in sync.
• Square Appointments we easy to use for clients, and with a few Luddite exceptions, worked flawlessly.
• Square Appointments made it easy to schedule appointments without having multiple email messages or play phone tag with anyone.

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• Being able to group a team much easier so I don't have to add the same people over and over again without having to have access right to create a Google group
• Room or space management, because of repeating events the rooms of the office tend to be always "occupied" but not everyone is there due to how the new hybrid way of working is
• Better way of working together in the calendar events where it's easier for the team to prepare if I give a clearer better UI of all the documents/presentations they might need to look over

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• Additional functionality: real-time availability calendar to customers
• Not redirect away from our site to Square
• Additional functionality: Ability for customers to add up sales when checking out

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It's a bit outdated on how things should be working, the UI per say hasn't changed much and I believe there is still a lot more room for improvement in how the calendar shows, the creating process, the parameters on setting up an event and it could be better integrated with the g-suite and other tools

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• Square Appointment is excellent at support! I have had several calls with them, and not one time have they dropped the ball, leaving me frustrated without a solution — not one time.
• The community forum in Square Appointment can answer most of the questions, but if I have had real issues, I am always able to talk to a person. That is very valuable to me as a customer.

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Google Calendar is a close competitor and I think wins in certain categories like general appearance and enabling focus hours & working hours. However, Microsft 365's calendar just seems like it has been built out more with a focus on business use case (despite still having many grievances with Microsoft 365).

Square Appointments is easier to use that other solutions from my experience. I find the user interface to be cleaner and more intuitive. I like the reminder features as well as suggested calendar blocks. It is helpful to have the option to show my time as free or busy, include when I am on vacation, and sick time.

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• Very significant improvement in employee productivity (more than 10%), because people spend much less time arranging meetings.
• Essential tool to develop remote work within the company during Covid.
• No need to build an email infrastructure (significant cost reduction in IT infrastructure).

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• Square Appointments enabled us to deal with a large number of clients in a much more rapid time frame than we would have done otherwise.
• Square Appointments has empowered us to go after other large organizations' business for photography sessions.

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