Quick and efficient availability detector
November 29, 2017
Quick and efficient availability detector
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Doodle
I use Doodle mainly in my department, which focuses on onboarding new users to our platform. During our onboardings, we provide site information and training. To train the onboarding presenters, I schedule video calls with them, and to be efficient with our use of time, we try to schedule as many people at once into a single training session. The best way to do this with my team, that we've found so far, is to utilize Doodle's scheduling function to find out when everyone is available. While I use Google Calendar religiously, most of my team members do not, so relying on shared Google Calendars to schedule meetings does not always provide the most up-to-date information about availability.
- Doodle provides options for quizzes, polls, and scheduling, which makes it a versatile tool.
- Doodle very clearly shows you the top choice(s) picked by respondents, making it easy to select a time that is best for the most people.
- Doodle allows you to connect your calendar, which helps to more efficiently select workable time slots - and syncs your events.
- Doodle doesn't require respondents to create an account in order to participate in the poll.
- Doodle's user interface could use an update. The Dashboard is just bullet points right now and could be a little more aesthetically pleasing.
- If you have a lot of date/time options for people to go through, it can be fairly time-consuming/tedious for people to fill out the form. It's not always the best way to schedule events if there is a lot of availability that you want to show.
- The ads on the free version can get a little overbearing, just because of their location.
- Doodle has allowed my team to quickly and easily schedule meetings to complete training sessions in a timely manner
Doodle is a platform that allows you to see others' availability, while Calendly and YCBM require respondents to actually make a booking at one of the times you offer. Doodle allows more flexibility in that you can see if there are multiple times when multiple people are available, then schedule a meeting at the best time for everyone, not just the best time for one person.