12 Online Appointment Scheduling Software Providers

Online Appointment Scheduling Software

What Is online Appointment Scheduling Software?

At its most basic, appointment scheduling software lets you record and manages your appointments with clients. The most recent generation of appointment scheduling software goes one step further, it allows your clients to schedule their own appointments online (within preset availability parameters). Most products even include mobile functionality.

Many appointment scheduling packages will also take payment to allow the client to pay for the appointment online, send SMS and email reminders, and even update your calendar software automatically.

Now that you understand what appointment scheduling software is, you may wonder what the advantage is to using it.

Advantages of online Appointment Scheduling Software

Let’s take a look at appointment scheduling without appointment scheduling software and then explore the difference that appointment scheduling software can make for service based businesses.

While each package works a little differently, the examples below are typical for many online software providers.

Without appointment scheduling software, a prospective client emails you asking for an appointment time. You email back suggesting several dates and times. Unfortunately, none of these dates and times is to the client’s liking, so they email back again asking for different dates. You could go back and forth like this several times, before actually scheduling an appointment. In some cases, the client might actually lose interest before an appointment gets set up. This process is defined as an appointment request.

With appointment scheduling software, a prospective client clicks on a scheduling link on your website. They view a list of your available timeslots, select the time that is best for them, choose the type of service they would like, and pay for it online.

You can see how easy the appointment scheduling software could make things for both you and your clients. The next question becomes, how do I find the right appointment scheduling software for me?

Options for Appointment Scheduling

Once I realised what advantage appointment scheduling software could provide to service businesses, I went searching for the best online software providers. This post lists what I found.

Here are twelve online appointment scheduling software providers:

1.       Bookitlive (AUS)

bookitlive

bookitlive is one of many Australian (Melbourne) based appointment booking systems launched in 2008 for Australian based businesses and  now has a fully international version.

Payment: Monthly subscription charge (AUD, USD, GBP Euro)

Facebook:bookitlive
Twitter: bookitlive.net
Google Plus:

Address: Blackburn Victoria, Australia

Phone Number:+61 3 8376 7778

2.       BookFresh (USA)

http://bookfresh.com/

Bookfresh formally known as hour time is an American based online booking system that was launched in  2007 and Hour time then changed its name to BookFresh

Facebook:BookFresh

Payment: Monthly subscription charge (USD only)

Address:217 South B Street, Suite 5 San Mateo, CA 94401

Phone Number:No phone number listed on web site

3.        Bookingbug (UK)

http://bookingbug.com

bookingbug is UK based appointment booking systems.

 Payment: Monthly subscription charge (USD & GBP only)

Facebook: BookingBug

Address: 64 Paul Street, London, EC2A 4NG, United Kingdom

Phone Number: +44 20 3287 9111 

4. Clickbook (AUS)

http://clickbook.net/

Clickbook is another Australian Melbourne based booking service provider, the web page gives no indication when it was launched but indications are between 2006/2007.

Facebook:Clickbook (Page has been closed down)

Payment:Monthly subscription charge (AUD, USD, GBP NZD)

Address: Sydney, Australia, 2000

Phone Number:No phone number listed on web site

5. OAM2 Online Appointment Manager (AUS)

http://www.oam2.com/

Yet again another Australian (North Ryde, NSW) based booking service provider created by Digex Australia, beta was launched in 2007.

Facebook:No page

Payment: Monthly subscription charge (AUD only)

Address: North Ryde, NSW, Australia

Phone Number:+61 2 8090 2720

6. Appointments Online (AUS)

http://www.appointmentsonline.com.au/

Another Australian based booking systems based out of Perth. The web site indicates it was written by Mates Rates. There is no indication when it was launched indications are between 2008/2009. Facebook page indicates 2006.

Facebook: Appointments Online

Payment: Monthly subscription charge (AUD only)

Address: Subiaco East WA 6008, Australia

Phone Number:+61 8 6364 379

7. Go Bookings (AUS)

http://www.gobookings.com

Go Bookings  also know as Appointment Diary is based out of Brisbane Australia was an early entry in to the Online Booking system market launched in 2000.

Facebook: gobooking (not being maintained)

Payment: Monthly subscription charge (AUD only)

Address: Cleveland, Brisbane QLD 4163, Australia

Phone Number:+61 7 3286 6633

8. Appointment Quest (USA)

http://www.appointmentquest.com/

Appointment Quest appears to be the first American based Online booking System launched in 2001.

Facebook:No Facebook page

Payment: Monthly subscription charge (USD only)

Address: Broomfield, CO 80038-0667, USA

Phone Number:(800) 591 9894

9. Web Appointments (USA)

http://web-appointments.com/

Web Appointments commenced Development in 2003 and is based in America. There are no contact details on the web site.

Facebook:No Facebook page

Payment: Monthly subscription charge (USD only)

Address: No address details on web site

Phone Number:No phone number listed on web site

10. Appointment Plus (US)

http://www.appointment-plus.com/

 Appointment Plus created by Storm Source Software is an American based software development company with offices in Scottsdale, Arizona and San Francisco.

Facebook:No Facebook page

Payment: Monthly subscription charge (USD only)

Address: Scottsdale, AZ 85254, USA

Phone Number: (800) 988 0061

11. Genbook (US)

http://www.genbook.com/

Genbook, Inc. is a privately-held, venture capital-backed company headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Facebook:Genbook

Payment: Monthly subscription charge (USD only)

Address: No address details on web site

Phone Number:No phone number listed on web site

12. Getbookedin (Canada)

http://getbookedin.com/

Getbookedin is Canadian  based appointment booking systems. Launched in 2012.

Facebook: bookedin

Payment: Monthly subscription charge (USD only)

Address: BookedIN 202 - 63 Albert Street Winnipeg, MB R3B 1G4 Canada

Phone Number: No phone number listed on web site