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    Acuity Scheduling, a Squarespace company

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AAcuity Scheduling is an appointment management platform developed by the company of the same name in New York and acquired by Squarespace in 2019.

    $14

    per month

    Ticket Tailor

    Score10 out of 10
    N/ALondon-based Ticket Tailor offers their online ticket sales system supporting different volumes of events with differing pricing tiers, touting a relatively low cost of service compared to other ticketing solutions.N/A

    Xola

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AXola, headquartered in San Francisco, provides cloud-based software designed to make it simple for businesses to manage reservations in real time from any channel—bookings made in-person, over the phone, through their company website, on Xola’s vendor mobile app, with local resellers, and online travel agents that are integrated with Xola.N/A
    Pricing
    Acuity Scheduling, a Squarespace companyTicket TailorXola
    Editions & Modules
    Emerging
    $14
    per month
    Growing
    $23
    per month
    Powerhouse
    $45
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    Pricing Offerings
    Acuity Scheduling, a Squarespace companyTicket TailorXola
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    92%
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    Implementation went as expected
    96%
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    User Ratings
    Acuity Scheduling, a Squarespace companyTicket TailorXola
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.3
    (48 ratings)
    8.0
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    10.0
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    Likelihood to Renew
    9.3
    (3 ratings)
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    Usability
    9.5
    (9 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    9.7
    (16 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    Acuity Scheduling, a Squarespace companyTicket TailorXola
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Squarespace
    I think any business can benefit from Acuity Scheduling. In my experience, however, and maybe I just haven’t found the correct settings yet, it’s been difficult to manage 4 business schedules with multiple employees and varying hours that change day-to-day and week-to-week. So I definitely would recommend it to more simple business models with set hours, as it seems like it would have all the functions one might need. I still would recommend to more complex businesses like mine as well, but also include discussion of some of the potential drawbacks.
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    Ticket Tailor
    If you want to quickly and easily sell tickets to an event without a lot of hassle or absurd fees, this is a great platform. I'm not sure this would work well for complex, multi-tiered ticket sales for events that have thousands of tickets.
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    Xola, Inc
    Xola is suited for small, medium, and large businesses that handle internet bookings, direct telephone bookings, and concierge/affiliate bookings. It tracks scheduling, payments, affiliate billing, can message customers through SMS or email, can hold notes on clients as any good CRM should, can be automated to do many features through the integration of apps.
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    Pros
    Squarespace
    • Clicking on the link opens up my calendar, which has an uncluttered look, making it easy for my prospects and clients to review their options and make their choice.
    • I am able to customize my schedule, the types of appointments I want to offer, and even decide how many appointments I want in a day. There are so many details that I can customize.
    • I can customize how my calendar and emails look for my prospects and clients so that I come across professional and coordinated. I want the look of my business, website, etc. to have a polished, cohesive, and interesting presence.
    • I love that there is a workshop/class/series option for my workshops. My attendees reserve their place and pay upfront. I can duplicate these events or add future dates. It's wonderful. This saves us a lot of time and is so convenient.
    • I haven't had any trouble with my scheduler. It works flawlessly, so I don't have to take time out of my day to fix, troubleshoot or call customer service.
    • I love that I can add questions for my prospects to answer right away before booking a call. This means 3 fewer steps for me. 1. They answer these questions without an email from me. 2. They make their reservation and get a follow-up email, right away. 3. I customized the follow-up email with more details and actions to take to prepare for our call.
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    Ticket Tailor
    • Affordable.
    • Allows multiple discount codes and multiple price levels.
    • Excellent customer service.
    • WordPress plug-in that worked flawlessly.
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    Xola, Inc
    • CRM data base.
    • Automated texts and emails for reviews.
    • Tracks billing.
    • Keeps schedule.
    • Tracks guides and their availability to be scheduled.
    • Quickly adjusts seating and pricing.
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    Cons
    Squarespace
    • Administrator interface is tricky to use. It is not easy to add new types of meetings or edit the settings on the current types of meetings we have
    • I'd like to see them send out more reminder emails leading up to the meeting scheduled to reduce the number of no-shows and reschedules
    • Make it easier to customize the confirmation emails-- easier ability to add videos and customizable text
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    Ticket Tailor
    • Online knowledge base could be expanded. I had questions that were not included in the FAQs - but were quickly answered via chat.
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    Xola, Inc
    • Integrating the Viator / Trip Advisor API so that the encrypted customer emails can show up in Xola and the client may be emailed from inside Xola. Viator says that other platforms allow this but Xola is still lagging on this one.
    • Some minor tweaks allow the integrated tipping app to append a more customized message.
    • Really trying hard to find something else to say because Xola does everything really well.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Squarespace
    Acuity Scheduling has been very reliable. If you don't believe me, check out their status page here. They do a pretty decent job maintaining their app. To be fair, it's a pretty simple tool so they shouldn't run into too many hiccups given it doesn't feature near as many options as other applications on the market run.
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    Ticket Tailor
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    Xola, Inc
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    Usability
    Squarespace
    It is very easy to use once you get to know the program but with years of working with the program I am still finding new things that I had wished I knew about earlier. I feel like aspects of the website become hidden that would help productivity a lot if I knew they existed beforehand.
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    Ticket Tailor
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    Xola, Inc
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    Support Rating
    Squarespace
    Every time I had a question on how to do something or had any issues with Acuity Scheduling, mainly in the very beginning, when I was learning the platform, customer service was excellent. They were prompt to respond, friendly, and very helpful until I had the right solution.
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    Ticket Tailor
    Customer support representatives were amazingly responsive to questions. We received replies even outside of their stated available hours. They always understood the question/issue immediately and were very thorough and specific in their explanations and step-by-step instructions. Ticket Tailor customer support is among the best I have seen in any industry. Quick, smart, and always helpful.
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    Xola, Inc
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    Alternatives Considered
    Squarespace
    In the case of Schedulicity, the system was awesome (very easy to set up and had some nice features) but did not offer the functionality and flexibility that AcuityScheduling does. In the case of SimplyBook.me, they offer lots of functionality but the interface is extremely complex and you pay a la carte for features so you're going to pay exponentially more for the same set of features as compared to AcuityScheduling. Their customer service was also lacking, in my opinion.
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    Ticket Tailor
    Ticket Tailor is much more flexible at a much lower price point than Eventbrite. It was, by far, the most practical and affordable solution. The same functionality with Eventbrite would have required the more expensive "professional" price level which was prohibitively expensive for our small company, especially in its early stages.
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    Xola, Inc
    Xola has many similar features but in the end, the friendly fast 24/7 free always on and always ready to help customer support blows everyone else away. Many times I have found Xola to be able to expedite a customer issue or confusion with software integration or support for their software in a way that saves $$$ because my reservationists can resolve the issue or their confusion and quickly get back to work.
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    Return on Investment
    Squarespace
    • Minimizing no shows
    • Giving me back time by taking tasks off my mind/to-do list to focus on bigger more important things
    • Payment management (it helps me make sure I receive my payments/recurring payments and follow up with clients if a payment has failed)
    • Honestly just saving me from scheduling nightmares and headaches
    • Timezones! It does it for you! (I work internationally)
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    Ticket Tailor
    • A box office that is easy to use.
    • The ability to cover box office costs by setting a service charge.
    • Seamless integration with our website.
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    Xola, Inc
    • Increased ROI because of increased efficiencies.
    • Increased ROI because helpful and quick 24/7 support via phone or chat when new hires forget their training.
    • Increased ROI because billing can be cross checked.
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