TidyCal vs. Zoho Bookings

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.

Zoho Bookings from my personal experience is best when you have a growing list of customers and need to get free of the hassle of taking written notes in your Rolodex. It's like a CRM but optimized for booking tasks. I believe it would be less suited, if you are a new business starting from scratch

Incentivized

• 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

Incentivized

• Online booking without hands on involvement by our team
• Security of publishing a link for free consultations
• Automated two-way syncing with our calendar
• Ease of use both for us as well as our clients

Incentivized

• 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

Incentivized

• Remove Zoho Branding in Basic Plan
• Provide Reports on revenue in all plans
• Remove the expiry date for Zoho Wallet credits

Incentivized

It still needs more robust features and customization, like workflows and such. I'm confident they'll continue improving it, but some particular customization settings aren't available, in terms of triggers, content, look and feel, but it is mostly very detailed and particular. If you're ok with adapting to it, it is an excellent tool.

Incentivized

Usability is ridiculously easy.

Some of the integrations and features are harder to set up. Once everything is set up its fairly straightforward, but if like ATI you have multiple branches or departments utilizing Bookings, you would need to set up separate booking sites for each office/salesperson

Incentivized

A lot of things are not great as this is a new tool, but they fix it relatively quickly. They don't have a direct phone number, but Zoho support has good service overall

Incentivized

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.

Incentivized

I found the integration with the two above is great if you're a Google Calendar user which we are not. While with Zoho Calendar we can have two way integration with Google Calendar there wasn't a need to do so. With Zoho Bookings which also integrates with Google Calendar we didn't have to worry about that as the integration with our Zoho Calendar was virtually automatic. There was also the cost consideration as the two above have a free version it was limited and didn't have all the bells and whistles we needed. Zoho Bookings provide us with everything from a single sign-on web browser and mobile app

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

• Zoho Bookings does not have either a positive or negative ROI as this is included with our Zoho Suite of features and we have enough licenses currently for anyone who would need access.
• It would be a negative ROI if we needed to purchase additional licenses solely for our engineers or the entire organization, most of who do not need access to any of the other Zoho Suite of features.

Incentivized