Shortcuts vs. Timely Booking and Client Management Software

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Shortcuts
Score 3.6 out of 10
N/A
Shortcuts Software offers their self-named Shortcuts software to spas and salons looking for an end-to-end business management platform catering to their particular needs, emphasizing appointments and bookings management, and featuring mobile guest and member self-service application, SMS appointment confirmation, and cash flow tracking with reporting, scalable to meet the needs to single or multi-site operations.N/A
Timely Booking and Client Management Software
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Timely is appointment scheduling and business management software for spas and salons from the New Zealand company of the same name.
$25
per month per user
Pricing
ShortcutsTimely Booking and Client Management Software
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$25
per month per user
Elevate
$35
per month per user
Innovate
$40
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ShortcutsTimely Booking and Client Management Software
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsAll plans available through a simple monthly plan, with no long-term contract.
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ShortcutsTimely Booking and Client Management Software
Considered Both Products
Shortcuts
Chose Shortcuts
While Shortcuts has a more friendly UI, there are other vendors in the market that have developed their products in a way that suits user requirements from any industry. Shortcuts, in my opinion should look at expanding their use case to make it compatible for other industries …
Timely Booking and Client Management Software
Chose Timely Booking and Client Management Software
Harvest has been a very competitive software when compared to timely software, but both the software has their own pros and cons, which I really find interesting. Harvest has a better cloud-based system, but when it comes to discounts and customer service timely based software …
Chose Timely Booking and Client Management Software
Timely is by far the most user-friendly and fun to use. It's got a great interface, works on iPads, and training is super easy for the team. Other software is clunky and takes too long to set up and train the team to use.
Chose Timely Booking and Client Management Software
  • Calendly does not have Xero integration (was a deal killer for us), Timely Does.
  • Calendly does have much nicer booking process, compared to Timely.
  • Calendly does not have Google Calendar Integration (was a deal killer for us), Timely Does.
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User Testimonials
ShortcutsTimely Booking and Client Management Software
Likelihood to Recommend
It can actually handle the dynamic slotting, being an organization which is extremely operations-heavy, it becomes essential to manage inventory at out hand to increase efficiency and cut-down unnecessary cost to bring-in profitability; and Shortcuts solves perfectly for that
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Hairdressers or massage salons, the places where they are too busy to take an appointment via the phone effectively. Places with high pace client walkthrough and multiple staff members. Timely is perfect for environments like that as it would assist in automating a huge part of the admin processes. In my experience using it for high-value services, [it has] proven to be a sales killer due to two main reasons: 1) Booking process taking so long, that a lot of clients change their mind or just call, as for the money that they are saying they are expecting better service. 2) Shows price only at the end of the process, which clients don't like, they want to know price upfront.
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Pros
  • Optimize Operations
  • Reduce No-shows
  • Plan Inventory and Staff
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  • Scheduling appointments
  • Online bookings
  • Rebooking emails and texts
  • Friendly interface
  • Great tech
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Cons
  • Shortcuts currently only provides expertise in salon and spa business, they can bring in expertise for different industries at hand
  • The flexibility for rescheduling and cancelling the pre-booked slots can be relooked at
  • Can offer additional features to the clients for a user-friendly UX
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  • Support is slow and not very knowledgeable. Taking into account that they work only UK time, makes it almost useless.
  • Users are taken through a very lengthy booking process that required a lot of information from them and gives a price only at the very end. Because of that, we have got only 5 bookings in 5 years. Majority of people preferred to book over the phone as it was too difficult.
  • Event/Class booking does not allow you to book more than 1 ticket at the time
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Alternatives Considered
While Shortcuts has a more friendly UI, there are other vendors in the market that have developed their products in a way that suits user requirements from any industry. Shortcuts, in my opinion should look at expanding their use case to make it compatible for other industries as well
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Timely is by far the most user-friendly and fun to use. It's got a great interface, works on iPads, and training is super easy for the team. Other software is clunky and takes too long to set up and train the team to use.
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Return on Investment
  • Increased Margin
  • Reduced Costs
  • Increase in Efficiency
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  • Cost efficient because of discounts
  • Regular customers gets a lot of concessions
  • A little higher for non-regular customers
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Screenshot of a view of the Timely calendar.Screenshot of an example of Timely's administrative automation.Screenshot of Timely's automated re-booking feature.Screenshot of TimelyPayScreenshot of Timely's customizable client communications.Screenshot of Timely's analytics, on a mobile app.