QReserve is a workplace scheduling software for meeting rooms, labs, offices, desks, amenities, equipment & people, from the company of the same name in Hamilton.
$60
per month unlimited bookable spaces, up to 100 active users
Zoho Calendar
Score 8.6 out of 10
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Zoho Calendar is an online business calendar designed to make scheduling easy. It can be used to stay on top of a schedule, or to share scheduled events with peers.
Definitely great for booking meeting rooms, private conference rooms, etc. I wish there were more options for viewing a sort of "who's in the office when" schedule. I would also like some sort of weekly reminder function -- e.g. can you send a message to the whole team (generated by QReserve) every Monday morning to remind them to book space in advance if they will be coming into the office in-person at all that week. One thing I will say is that their customer service team is VERY helpful and responsive any time I've reached out to them (which is definitely not the case with so many other tech / software tools!)
It is good for office use for keeping track of meetings and various important events. It is very nice to share a calendar with the whole team and the whole team has access to it, everyone can modify and update events. Furthermore, it is less appropriate when you use it on mobile, and it also cannot record the meetings.
More pricing tiers -- the free version is not quite enough, but the cheapest paid version has way more features than we need
When booking a space, some of the fields to customize the details on what the space is being used for are not intuitive / obvious enough, so my staff often do it incorrectly
I subscribe to Zoho One so I use many of the modules that come with that single subscription. I've had intermittent issues with scheduled Zoho Meetings through Zoho CRM not appearing in my Zoho Calendar. Zoho has been working on the issue but it will be fixed for a while and then I'll miss a meeting because it wasn't appearing.
Since there are lots of preference options, it can be a little confusing when setting up. It does integrate with other calendars where you can choose one or two way syncing which is helpful if you keep separate personal and work calendars. You can set your start day of the week which for me I have it set to Monday. There are also time zone options which are great but still a bit confusing to me.
Support has been excellent. As always, they are quickly responsive, and I feel they genuinely wish to address and fix any issues. It's unfortunate that my issues with meetings created in Zoho CRM don't always appear in my Zoho Calendar. While they mostly appear, my confidence level on any given week that I can see what is on my schedule is decidedly lacking.
We looked at Skedda and a few others. I can't remember the specifics since it was over a year ago, but QReserve definitely seemed the best in terms of price, ease of implementation, and ease of use.
Zoho calendar allows us to schedule, manage and track your appointment, meetings, birthdays, and other important dates. And also collaborate, share and publish your daily activities. Zoho Calendar also provides you to make it more creative by changing the themes. Event reminders are also available on Zoho Calendar, so we can be reminded either via email or through a pop-up about appointments, dates, milestones, and events. Reminders can pop up as early as 30 days before an event.
Once the meeting is created on the Zoho calendar, you don't need to remind invitees to join the meeting at a particular time or day. Zoho calendar does that for you.
If any invitees are unable to join the meeting, they can ask for a different time prior to that meeting.
Sometimes if many meetings are in the pipeline then there can be overlap.
