Acuity Scheduling

Acuity Scheduling is my best pal

Opmerkingen: Overall, I love Acuity Scheduling, it's my right hand in this business I'm running by myself. It takes a huge load off of my plate. Once things are set up - which can be as easy or a grueling as you want to make it - it's just a seamless part of my life and business.

Pluspunten:

I love the customizability of the software, I can integrate it with many programs, and I can make things super simple for my clients.

Minpunten:

I've had several times where I've had to go delete a whole series of appointments and there's no easy option to delete an entire section of appointments. For instance I had a series of webinars that were Group Appointments with several dates each. I decided to discontinue that program in lieu of a new direction and initiative for the company. I had to manually delete each one, typing DELETE each time. If I could delete an entire "category" of appointments, this would be much better.

Overwogen alternatieven: Calendly

Redenen om over te stappen op Acuity Scheduling: Acuity Scheduling was already available and easily integrated into my Squarespace website. This was good because I decided that I didn't want to create a website from scratch, rather I would use a "drag and drop" system with some customizability. It just so happened that Squarespace met my needs there, AND as a vital part of their services, they already had a scheduling application that I would receive a DISCOUNT on if I bought into their services. Squarespace, and of course Acuity Scheduling, were a "no-brainer" decision for me and my solo consulting business.

Acuity is the #1 tool a Coach needs

Opmerkingen: It handles all of the scheudling needs so we dont go back and forth with clients about booking appointments. It also integrates well with Stripe so we can use it for paid appointments. And because we can add forms, it can also add in intake and client onboarding processes as well. When I started my practice I asked other coaches what tools they were using and this was hands down the number one recommendation that I received and happily the platform has grown with my business over the years as well.

Pluspunten:

I like Acuity because it is easy to incrporate and maange multiple calendars at once whether fora solo practitioner o r for a multi practiitioner practice. We have been ablet o provide access to about 2 dozen different calendars usingthe tool and beign able to track all the appointmn types on the back end is great for our marketing intel as well.

Minpunten:

There is definitely a learning curve in settin this up. It is not as intutive as other platforms I ahe seen but aI thin that comes with the robust features of the platform. Getting new contractors onboarded is somewhat challenge=ings as many folsk are not familiar with syncing their calendars this way or setting up time zones correctly which can cause problems when working with clients.

Overwogen alternatieven: Calendly

Redenen om over te stappen op Acuity Scheduling: More dynamic and features to take payment, integrate with my multiple Google calendars to make sure I wasn't double booking and the use of forms

Acuity Review

Opmerkingen: Loved it, but Acuity is not with the times and the technology wasn't modern enough to continue to trust it and use it for our business.

Pluspunten:

I like how the admin has great control over the backend and has full use and capability. I also like the ability to brand everything.

Minpunten:

It doesn't natively integrate with third-party calendars. We had to switch to Calendly solely because of this reason.

Overwogen alternatieven: Calendly

Redenen om voor Acuity Scheduling te kiezen: At the time, I wasn't in charge of the switch from Calendly so I'm unsure. I just know that at that time Acuity fit our company better than Calendly, but now we've switched back to Calendly.

Overgestapt van: Calendly

Redenen om over te stappen op Acuity Scheduling: Unsure because I wasn't a decision-maker at the time. I believe it was because the admin features on the backend were far more developed than Calendly and admins had the complete control necessary.

Acuity is amazing!

Opmerkingen: Overall, I've used this tool with the last 2 companies I've worked for and I continue to use it today. I've tested out a few other scheduling tools and can say hands down that Acuity is the best I've found and I keep going back to it.

Pluspunten:

The booking tool is incredibly easy to use! I have to use it for my own scheduling needs but on those sessions I am also setting it up for my clients and then I teach them how to use it. The majority of cases, my clients are able to pick it up in just that one session because it's so simple. There isn't a whole lot to the features. Everything is labeled simply so you don't waste time trying to figure out what it does etc.

Minpunten:

There isn't really anything that I don't like about it.

Overwogen alternatieven: Calendly en ScheduleOnce

Redenen om over te stappen op Acuity Scheduling: The other tools were complicated. And in an unnecessary fashion. My clients also found those tools difficult to manage and when it comes to the simplest task, updating availability, it was always much more troublesome than it needed to be.

Acuity Scheduling

Opmerkingen: We've been using the software for about 3 years and like the fact that we can set up appointments and have it send forms to the the client, so they can have things ready, when they come in.

Pluspunten:

Integration was simple. Our clients love being able to access our advisers calendar and scheduling their own appointments, when it's convenient for them. We are able to block out time, when needed, and clients can see what is available.

Minpunten:

I wish it was easier to change an appointment made through Acuity, in our CRM.

Overwogen alternatieven: Calendly

Redenen om over te stappen op Acuity Scheduling: It seemed easier to use at the time. We had 2 offices we were using it for.