BookSteam vs. Square Appointments

BookSteam is suited pretty much for any business that takes appointments. It's perfect for businesses who don't want the hassle of phone scheduling, rescheduling, calling people back and talking to the answering machine. Everything is automated and done online. I believe they even offer class scheduling, so that is also perfect for businesses who need group scheduling.

My clients are regularly able to schedule me in for meetings as opposed to me always having to coordinate the meeting and book it. They can see my availability and schedule around it. This allows me to have consultations with many more clients which results in better retention

Incentivized

• Online scheduling, canceling, re-booking customers.
• Taking payments online via PayPal at the time the client books.
• Sending out sms reminders and sms confirmations so clients will not miss their event.

• 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.

Incentivized

• Might be a more complex tool - needs its learning curve
• The possibility to use it as a way to provide classes or webinars in series may be a bit complicated

Incentivized

• Glitchy. Frequent crashes where data is lost
• Not a ton of customized features within an appointment
• Takes a while to set up

Incentivized

• 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.

Incentivized

I tried to use few other scheduling systems before but I always thought they were somewhat incomplete, something was always missing, from design point of view to missing features. For me it's always about ease of use and how everything is organized. I can say that BookSteam got it all figured out and I recommend it

Though office can offer a lot of appointment base tasks. Square appointments seem to help keep track, with a more direct approach. It helps to declutter integrations and information, that can often get missed and feel to convoluted. It's approach is more specific in handling appointment needs and scheduling. We would recommend it.

Incentivized

• Customers are happy as they can book themselves online any time.
• Our staff is happy as they have their own access.

• Ease of scheduling brings in more appointments
• Must have a card on system to schedule and prepay for an appointment
• Offers multiple types of appointments
• Cancellation fees

Incentivized