Google Calendar vs. Square Appointments

Google Calendar is well suited for scheduling 1:1 and smaller group meetings and recurring meetings. It's also well suited to connect with scheduling software. However, there is still a lot of opportunity for improvement when you want to make a very well-organized calendar (for example, limitations with the meeting tagging & categories). It's also not as well suited for helping with scheduling for bigger groups.

Great for booking and managing appointments. This software is very user-friendly due to its simplicity. The interface is intuitive and easy to use for all ages. The only time this software may not be appropriate might be with someone who is managing their calendar manually and not using a software solution at all.

Incentivized

• Scheduling and manipulating time slots for an event or meet
• Provides alerts before the scheduled event's time
• Direct integration with google meet which enables the user to organize a hassle free meeting.
• Subscription to other's google calendar's to keep a track of their schedule.
• Integration of multiple calendars into one.

• 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

• the user interface should be improved for better experience.
• Needs more app integration for example adding notes to calendar events.
• I would also love to see an integration with google maps, where I can share locations from maps to events directly on calendar.

Incentivized

• Additional functionality: real-time availability calendar to customers
• Not redirect away from our site to Square
• Additional functionality: Ability for customers to add up sales when checking out

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

Most of the other services we would use don't have the same integration with other Google services that Google Calendar has. The ability to view and set things from your email is very convenient. So is the ability to have your notifications automatically show up on an Android phone as a reminder.

Incentivized

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

• Very significant improvement in employee productivity (more than 10%), because people spend much less time arranging meetings.
• Essential tool to develop remote work within the company during Covid.
• No need to build an email infrastructure (significant cost reduction in IT infrastructure).

Incentivized

• 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