Square Appointments vs. TidyCal

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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Maybe if you are needing a large enterprise solution you may need something else but we have found that it fits all of needs as a 32 people team. It has worked flawlessly since we installed it. I keep focusing on this but it is a 30 min set up and that’s it.

• 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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• The ability to create multiple booking types and personalize them
• The integration of Zoom and payment types
• The ability to create scheduling polls for group meetings

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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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• There is a learning curve it takes some time for new user to understand the process.
• UI can be made attractive.
• Integration with other video conference tools like Amazon's chime

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Usability is ridiculously easy.

• 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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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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I can use the free plan, which includes
unlimited monthly meetings and appointments. However, I can only link one
calendar. The free plan calendar supports Google Calendar and Office 365
calendar integration. The software has been tried and tested by numerous employees from different backgrounds in our organizations. The interface was a hit with the majority of them, and they found it to be incredibly useful.

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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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• It cut my Scheduling time by at least 50%.
• It impresses my clients and saves them time.
• It's the reason some of my clients end up hiring me.

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