Motionsoft vs. Timely booking & payments system

MoSo was a fairly outdated software. However, we may have needed to upgrade to the newest version in order to continue with them which may be the reason that my experience, overall, was not a positive one. At the end of the relationship, the MoSo team became unresponsive with regard to questions about what we were being charged for the service and how deposits were being utilized

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I've researched a lot of salon software, and Timely was the top-of-the-line software that does it all compared to competitors. It has a friendly interface, offers easy ways to communicate with clients via text and emails, and provides insights and reports, so it indeed does everything you need for booking software. On top of that, it's cloud-based, so say goodbye to only accessing your appointment book through your computer at the salon.

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• Invoices across multiple entities
• Adds products to invoices easily through the user interface
• Adds and cancels customer access

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• Integration with Google Calendar allows avoiding double ups
• Automatic appointment bookings with SMS reminders
• Xero integration and Automatic Invoicing, Payments and Partial Reconciliation
• Multiple Staff Members to be booked
• Facebook Integration, allows people to book from Facebook

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• No ability to load information. Everything had to be done manually
• Keeping good track of which entities held Accounts Receivable. One entity would be the parent of the customer and AR would appear under their home location
• Invoicing was very ugly

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• UI/UX
• Cloud based system
• Has to be more customer friendly

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We ended up moving away from MoSo to Sage Intacct, in which we had a much better experience with the invoicing process and the flexibility. I do not recall what other products were evaluated instead of MoSo during the initial buying decision process, but one of the key drivers for purchasing the software was the ability to cross locations

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Timely is by far the most user-friendly and fun to use. It's got a great interface, works on iPads, and training is super easy for the team. Other software is clunky and takes too long to set up and train the team to use.

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• Positive in invoicing one customer across multiple locations
• Negative Customer Service experience
• Negative Ability to Scale

Incentivized

• Bragging rights, yes. Always cool to tell how automated your business is.
• ROI, no. In our case, it wasn't worth the time spent in integration into the website, system setup, plus subscription fee. However, take into account, that High-Value Professional Services is a wrong industry for this product.
• Convenience and confidence that there will be no double booking across G Suite and Timely was tested and were really handy at the times.
• No ability to use our own SMTP. If your server has Anti-Spoofing DKIM and etc., setting it up with Timely was a nightmare as support had no idea. So a lot of emails were going to Spam on the client's side.

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