Omnify vs. YouCanBookMe

Shailja Rohillah, of Omnify, went above and beyond to respond quickly and did everything she could to accommodate my needs. Even when the exact thing I wanted, was not an option, Shailija not only found a work around but put the time in herself to address my need.

YouCanBook.Me has made it really easy to schedule calls with applicants and with team members scattered across the world. We use it a lot to schedule follow up calls with potential leads from conferences and other recruiting events, which has been really key in converting leads from those events, and we direct applicants for our internship and staff positions to YouCanBook.Me to schedule interviews. We also use it to schedule calls with team members internationally. It is most useful for scheduling a call between two participants.

Incentivized

• Customer support. Every time I had a question I got prompt, friendly, and knowledgeable help.
• Ease of set-up. I had no prior experience in the tool and set up our schedule and our users in 1 evening.
• Pleasant user interface. It was easy to read, easy to customize (even in the "cheap" version), and overall very professional.
• Rapid development cycles. We seemed to get new and exciting functionality every 1-2 weeks.

• Allows a prospect flexibility in choosing a time to meet
• Saves me a lot of time with followup phone calls to book a spot
• I can choose the times I am available for each day
• If I block off time in my Outlook calendar, it blocks it off in YouCanBook.Me as well, so if there is a one-off time I cannot meet, I can just block it in my calendar instead of going into my YouCanBook.Me account

Incentivized

• We would love to have more specific options for restricting the number of times a client can book a reservation per week.
• It would be very beneficial for admins to be able to book clients in advance for classes that are not available to the mass clientele yet.
• We would like to be able to edit client's email addresses. Several of our members have typos in the emails provided, so they aren't receiving confirmation emails and they can't log in, so they have to make new accounts.

Incentivized

• We loved the old version of youcanbook.me. Once they updated the site and functionality, we hated it. We kept reverting back to the old version, but now we cannot use the old version anymore. The new version has made it much slower to set up a new profile and fill in all of the reminders.
• If they made it faster to populate a new profile by limiting repetition, that'd be awesome. We have to edit the titles of calendar events, emails to us, emails to participants, etc.
• Working with Google calendar is sometimes frustrating, but they've recently updated it to make it easier for us to duplicate calendar events. Youcanbook.me syncs with Google calendar, so making all of the calendar events set to "Free" (previously, "Available") is pretty annoying.

Incentivized

I'd give it a 10 except it didn't always render well on mobile devices, which caused some frustration for users. Otherwise it was easy to use, easy to manage, easy to make it look like "our" site, and very pleasant.

Omnify's customer service has been pretty much always on point. Their chat feature is a great way to keep track of past communications and follow up on recurrent issues, and their response time is most of the times very quick.

I looked at software based systems for access control, etc. none of them could provide all of the features and usability for both the end user and host that Omnify could. Other, similar web/cloud based services are not as flexible or customizable. Omnify knows that everyone's business isn't the same and has a skilled team of customer care folks ready to do whatever is needed to help you succeed.

Youcanbook.me is a pretty unique service, but some others have come up since we started using it in 2015. There´s some competition like simply book or roomzilla, but he haven´t considered them because they aren't as cost-effective or simply haven't found a need to do it yet. Folk at youcanbookme have given us great user support and have many benefits for the educational sector, which make it hard for competition because we are pretty happy with their service :)

• Pricing point at the beginning allowed for growth.
• Margins started shrinking as pricing went up though.
• Ability for online booking & payments allows to save on front desk staff.

• This has saved me untold hours of telephone tag and email wars by allowing people to self-serve. Time is the most valuable commodity.
• The reminder system also saves time.
• The best is that, once it's set up, it doesn't require regular maintenance unless my products or meeting types change.

Incentivized