Microsoft Bookings reviews

Great Booking and Appointment Management System

Pluspunten:

Great solution under the same subscription which is already semintegrated with familiar Microsoft tools. Incredible performance overall and syncronization across different devices and apps.

Minpunten:

Permission control could have been handled better and access to the booking system via other Microsoft platforms and add ons is rather difficult. Same goes for usual utilities and options which are available on other Microsoft applications. Still it is easy it integrate and manage, but not with other soft than Teams.

Vital for distributed teams with multiple systems

Opmerkingen: We have people all over the country using many different systems to book time with our staff. Bookings takes the guess work out and allows users to control their calendars more effectively. If someone is attempting to schedule a meeting and isn't on the network, we immediately provide the link to our Bookings page and make it easier on everyone.

Pluspunten:

There are many tools that provide the same type of service as Bookings but the security of the Microsoft suite was important to us. We've previously used other tools but we were able to get everyone into Bookings which made training and troubleshooting easier for the entire staff. Our recruiters are asked to meet with students daily and rather than emailing the student their available times, recruiters can simply provide a link to the calendar which allows students to pick an available time simply. We work with several partners who don't have visibility to calendars when scheduling meeting. Access to the individuals' bookings page makes scheduling easier and reduces the chances of people getting double booked. Meetings booked through a Bookings page is moved over to the Outlook calendar with a notification. Cancellations are also updated in Outlook and the attendees are notified.

Minpunten:

The customization opportunities are limited. Users can set things like email reminders and calendar invites, and modify color schemes and logos. Would like to see more integrations with other MS products. For example, if a meeting is booked that is going to require a conference call or an online software. It would be nice to automatically have a Microsoft Teams meeting and invite created and emailed to the participants. Ability to create a one-time bookings page that incorporates the calendars of several people would be a nice addition to the product.

Simple and Functional Bookings

Opmerkingen: I love it. It has saved me a lot of time and hassle. It is fully functional and simple to use. I highly recommend it for everyone who needs to have meetings regularly.

Pluspunten:

I like how easy it is to do what it says it can do - Book a meeting. Instead of mentioning our available time and going back and forth about the availability of both parties, I just give the booking link and it gets easy for everyone. I also like that I don't have to pay anything extra since it is included with the Office subscription. Other thing I like very much about Microsoft Bookings is that the bookings and cancellations are automatically updated in my calendar so that if someone books a meeting but cancels it, other people can again book at that particular time slot.

Minpunten:

I wish it automatically created teams meeting once the booking is done (similar to calendly), but it doesn't. I also wish we could customize the booking link to match the theme of our website. Other than this, there aren't many cons of Microsoft Bookings.

Great tool but limited options

Opmerkingen: It works great for booking but very limited options.

Pluspunten:

Booking is great to create reservation pages to book time with other people. Also when you have a service in your organisation it helps book the schedule of a team.

Minpunten:

I find booking a little useless since you have the functionality Find Time in Outlook that really simplify booking time and meeting with other colleague. If booking had more options to book rooms from various levels and various locations I think that would make this product even better.

MS Bookings For The Win.

Opmerkingen: Despite the smaller number of options, this is my go to scheduling package.

Pluspunten:

Seamless integration with Outlook and Teams.

Minpunten:

Not as many customization options as other platforms.

Convenience and functionality that work for us

Opmerkingen: Overall for us Microsoft Booking works quite well and is a very helpful tool to make sure we get appointments scheduled quickly and have additional tools for the functionality of the booking system that make it very simple to use.

Pluspunten:

The convenience of being able to sync calendars, create recurring appointments and send and get confirmation through the booking systems connection to our outlook, makes Microsoft Booking a highly effective and very necessary part of our tools and systems. Clients can confirm within the email and we get that confirmation as well as regular reminders on the appointed day. Fewer missed appointments by our clients because they also get SMS reminders making it really convenient for us. I also like that it integrates with zoom and teams to have additional functionality to what appears to be a "simple" scheduler.

Minpunten:

I don't like that getting paid for appointments is still not a simple as some of their competitors who have their standalone booking systems that also allow for payment within their software.

Time to Meet

Pluspunten:

The online booking feature is the most impactful. Bookings syncs with a calendar to allow prospective clients the opportunity to view open time slots to meet.

Minpunten:

The integration of Bookings into my daily routine required effort. The platform would do well for a barber or any professional who charges a fee for their service or time. Bookings needs some polish for those of us who meet and provide a service which may be offered free of charge. Those in a non-profit industry may find that extra time is needed to tailor Bookings to our specific needs before deploying.

Share your calendar with Bookings by Microsoft

Opmerkingen: I use Bookings for client consultations. I is some much easier to allow client to choose an available time book themselves instead of the back and forth trying to figure out a suitable time via email.

Pluspunten:

Bookings by Microsoft is one of those apps included with Microsoft Office 365 and it allows you to take online client bookings. It is easy to setup and use.

Minpunten:

I would like more flexibility in creating the booking calendar and clearer notification email when a client books an appointment.

Very niche product - not for "general" business use.

Opmerkingen: Pretty frustrating. There seemed to be a lot of potential. We used Bookings to schedule an online client event with team members. We managed to make it work, but during the process realized this product is almost specifically designed for a "Hair Salon" type booking structure. Hopefully there will be iterations to make this work more for general business use.

Pluspunten:

Integration with Office 365, price, booking pages Some of the scheduling features

Minpunten:

Cannot get a "bookings" link for an individual Cannot have a bookings option that requires specific people (two or more) - you can only do "OR", not "AND" combinations.

Microsoft Bookings

Opmerkingen: Saved us so much time, and back and forth emails. We would not be able to do our seasonal hire without it.

Pluspunten:

Our very small team annually hires over 150 people over the course of a few months. Having the ability for our team to sync their calendars/availability and let interviewees book their own interviews has been a game changer for us. Saves so much time and effort. It auto syncs with Teams so everything is taken care of. And since its built into the Microsoft suite it wasn't a separate program we needed to pay for. Bookings really runs itself once you've set up your parameters, which is so important to us.

Minpunten:

As we are using it for interviews, we must have two of our own staff present on the interview. Teams can't book with two of our team without me making a built in team of every pairing. So I do have to manually enter the second interviewer, which is frustrating. This is the only downside we have found with bookings.

Microsoft Bookings wrote the Book

Opmerkingen: overall very easy to implement and intuitive for clients

Pluspunten:

simple to use; easy to implement, pretty straightforward

Minpunten:

sometimes too simple; would like to se emore features. soemtimes don't always see the number of acceptances or an accurate representation

Easy Booking

Opmerkingen: I use Microsoft Bookings to schedule individual technical support sessions with new faculty members using a personalized scheduling webpage and link. Also, I appreciate the automatic reminders to help me stay organized.

Pluspunten:

I love the convenience of accessing Bookings directly through my Office 365 app! Also, this scheduling tools syncs with my Outlook calendar allowing others to book an appointment. Once the appointment is booked, an email notification is automatically sent to me and the requester. The great thing about this scheduling tool is that you can customize questions to ask the requester so that you can prepare for the upcoming appointment.

Minpunten:

Microsoft Bookings does not sync with external calendars. For example, if you have a personal calendar on a different application, you would have to manually insert those appointments on your calendar so the requester does not book when you are unavailable.

Please develop it more!

Pluspunten:

I like how it integrates into 365 easily & it's relatively easy to explain to users.

Minpunten:

It really needs work! No Microsoft Flow automations and awful embedding options, just looks really ugly.

Easy planning, by your customers

Opmerkingen: It really solves the booking problem. There is no middel person needed to take phonecalls and schedule customers in. All is done for you and scheduled for you.

Pluspunten:

When offering a service, where customers have to see and book available days this is the best office. Integrated in the office 365 package it has great compatibility with the other applications. Made bookings are placed directly in the agenda and new customers are placed in the contact list. The customers sees a clean and clear webpage provide by microsoft.

Minpunten:

No cons, this really is a great application with no better.

Schedule/booking meetings with customers

Opmerkingen: To set, meet and collaborate with other customers to serve them on the best side.

Pluspunten:

It is easy to add customers and their calendars to set up future meetings. Cross organizations tool.

Minpunten:

Many times i need the customer exactly details and sometimes it is not reachable.

Bookings

Pluspunten:

I thought this was great to integrate with my calendar and not have to go outside the Microsoft suite for a booking tool.

Minpunten:

I felt it was not as easy to use as other booking software. The messaging was not as customize-able and it was hard for clients to reschedule.

Great way to organize meetings

Opmerkingen: Excellent tool to allow clients to schedule themselves a meeting based on your set schedule.

Pluspunten:

Easy to set up office hours and modify based on the day. Syncs with calendar.

Minpunten:

Better directions for setting it up for the first time.

Excellent appointment scheduling tool

Opmerkingen: This software is a great tool to have an organized schedule and ensure you are not overbooking yourself. It is very easy for clients to use and it even sends out meeting reminders to them.

Pluspunten:

I liked that I could post my availability and my clients could book their own appointments. I liked that I could create different meeting types/categories and lengths.

Minpunten:

The initial set-up process can take a bit of time and can be difficult if you aren't very tech savvy, but there are tutorials and people who can help you get this software set up.

Easy to setup, love the capabilities

Pluspunten:

I just started to use this now that it is integrated to my Office 365 for business. I love the use of it and it will be used for a long time. It is fully integrated into all my users and the capability of it being able to grow with my company easily is why I chose it.

Minpunten:

I wish I could modify more of the theme aspects. It would allow it to mimic my website more. I am locked with my website to not be able to embed it and if I did it would not blend well.

Bookings

Pluspunten:

A company through which you can find and book a place for various travels

Minpunten:

I have nothing special to distinguish, a great organization in every respect

Bookings facilitated my life

Pluspunten:

I really like the friendly interface, the design, the collects for differences one appointment of another, I love that it sends reminders, and confirmation emails. My clients tell me that they like to book with Bookings since it is easy, and practical. Although I still receive appointments by phone.

Minpunten:

I want to export appointments from Booking clients to Excel, but I could not

Good but a little half baked.

Opmerkingen: The software works but could definitely benefit from some more polish and features.

Pluspunten:

Setup and use in simple. Setting up the software is hassle free. Using it is also very simple. It overall works to the base amount.

Minpunten:

The options to customize appointments is lacking along with more integrations. Overall it doesn’t have the MS polish.

Bookings had made work life so fast and efficient for me

Pluspunten:

This app had helped me and my team mates many times to plan our time, it goes beyond a schedule tool, it had made my life alot more easier and arranged. And I can go back any day to track my activities at work. Beautiful way to work and live!

Minpunten:

At first I couldn't understand the user interface but with time I picked up

Microsoft Bookings Review

Opmerkingen: This is a new item that I have begun to explore and implement via partners I work with- I have used MS products for ages now and am always up to try new things- I am happy with what I have encountered thus far but oddly enough I feel as though it doesn't fully live up to the MS offerings (especially in the look and feel department)- High hopes though!

Pluspunten:

Synced up with 365 package and APP fairly seamlessly and is making life more efficient for me- Especially the synergy with Outlook- As this is new(er) to me I am still working my way through the system but find it to be impactful already- Nice that others can view calendar and make meetings and cut out the steps of asking for my availability- Customization aspect is nice as well

Minpunten:

Out of the gate it took a minute for me to get this going- In a perfect world I always appreciate when programs just "start"!- Once rolling, to get the workflow integrated into my daily routine took a second too- As said new to me, and moving in the right direction now!

If you use 365, use this for booking

Opmerkingen: Used Microsoft Bookings during academic year to handle advising appointments

Pluspunten:

For organizations within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, this is an incredible option for booking and maintaining an appointment calendar. It fits seamlessly into your Outlook calendar, lets you customize your entire setup, and is a seamless process for both creator and client,

Minpunten:

There is no good way to manage your booking page through Outlook itself - you must do everything through the web app.