“Appointy didn’t just solve our scheduling challenges, it allows our staff to focus their effort on faster, better quality video production. Appointy is saving us time, money, and allowing our staff to work more efficiently for only pennies a day.”

What an amazing and rewarding surprise we found on our e-mail inbox yesterday morning!

We received a video testimonial from an Appointy client, “Southern Channel, Charter Cable – Channel 18″, which made the start of 2012 an absolute bliss. See how Appointy.com is helping clients around the world. We are truly honored by this gesture and could not be more thankful. Days like this encourages everyone at Appointy to race the bar and to succeed our clients’ expectations.

Who would have thought 3 years ago when Appointy began with a small idea but with great expectations, that Appointy would be leading the scheduling software era, with over 19,000 business in 78 countries. It all started in a small bedroom office, in a small town; but we have proven today that big ideas can come from anyone, big success stories can come from anywhere. All you need is a strong determination, a clear vision, and to never loose your principles along the way.

Case Study – SOUTHEASTERN CHANNEL, CHARTER CABLE CHANNEL 18

//CHALLENGE

Deploy a web based scheduling system to a team of over 30 designers, videographers, editors, and reporters in a busy television broadcast environment.

// SOLUTION
Appointy online scheduling system integrated directly into a WordPress intranet website that allows producers, staff, and external clients to seamlessly schedule channel resources.

1. Appointy allows our team to get things done faster, more efficiently, and ensures everyone seamlessly works together. Covering more than 3 parishes (counties) the Southeastern Channel’s fast paced – high–‐energy production environment can’t afford scheduling errors. Appointy allows us to ensure every production is completed professionally; with particular attention to ensuring all public interaction represents the high standards expected by the university.
2. Utilizing Appointy’s state of the art web–‐based resource management and scheduling features we’re always one step ahead. The system is the only one that offers a turn–‐key solution for scheduling, staff resource management, and organization wide calendar synchronization.
3. Production and support staff all love using Appointy! With its easy to use interface and robust customization features our organization was up and running in less than 30 minutes. Because Appointy is so easy to use scheduling appointments and resources is no longer a chore and the real value of resource management is something our entire organization benefits from.
4. Appointy is everywhere all the time. A hosted application like Appointy allows our organization to focus on what we do – video production – not manage an IT infrastructure to organize our resources. Even the most novice computer user can quickly orient themselves with Appointy, but when you need help or have questions Appointy’s knowledgeable staff is always quick to respond and eager to help!

Happy New Year 2012 from all at Appointy!!!

Have a super memorable new year celebration. May love, courage, good fortune, and happiness fill your life in this new year. Leave 2011 without regrets, only good lessons. Everything we missed this year let’s make up on the next! Let’s make sure 2012 is a year to remember, a year of good fortunes and infinite success!!!!

Over the past 5 years, Appointy has embraced a culture of open innovation and out of the box thinking in the online scheduling industry. With all the customer’s inputs, requests, complaints, love, support and patience, Appointy has evolved to latest 2.9 version with 19000+ businesses in 78 countries. Every few seconds, we book an appointment somewhere in the world.

We were the first one to realize that scheduling software will be the future of daily deal industry and brought discount coupon feature with version 2.0 released in Oct 2010.

In 2011, we brought very innovative features including improved repeat booking, capacity booking, IPad web App, Mobile web app, Facebook integration and also improved the overall experience of Administrator, Staff & Client interface.

In terms or of features and early innovation, Appointy is still the Market leader. Here is why:

1. Appointy is still the only scheduling software that allows booking of multiple services at once. For example, your clients can select service haircut and haircolor at once and Appointy will only bring the times when both can be done in a row.

2. Appointy is the only scheduling software that allows customers to select quantity based on the capacity set by administrator for a particular service & time.

3. With only Appointy, you can set times to open in a particular order. For example, you can open evening hours only when afternoon time slots are full or open 10:00 AM only when 9:00 AM is booked. No other scheduling software does that till date.

3. Appointy is the only scheduling software that allows your customers to book an appointment with their Facebook or Gmail login. Clients can book an appointment without keyboard with a few clicks.

4. Appointy is the only scheduling software available in 21 languages.

5. Appointy is the only scheduling software in which business hours works at service & staff level. It means that any service can be performed at any time. For example, a staff can perform hair color only on wednesdays from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM.

6. Appointy is the only software to provide email customization that are sent to clients.

and much more… Try it today and see for yourself.

In 2012, you can expect more innovative features that should bring you hell lot of customers without any extra effort.

Here is a list of features launched with update 2.9

1. Much improved recurring/repeat booking for your clients: Whether your client schedules 2 appointments or 20 appointments, our new interface will blow your mind

2. Quantity with recurring booking feature – First recurring, then quantity booking and now its time for quantity with recurring booking. Allow your clients to book seat for more than one person for multiple days.

3. Free timeslots with available Quantity – Now, your client can see the number of seats available at a particular time. For example, 10:00 AM (4), 10:30 AM (2) …

4. Echeck payment status – Payments made through echeck on Paypal will now be marked with a status as “Echeck Payment”. Such appointments would be treated as unapproved regardless of the payment settings. Administrators can approve such appointments manually.

5. Block day, date or time for all staff at once.

6. The word Quantity can now be renamed to something more meaningful depending on your business. For example, tutors can call it “Seat” to make it look like “1 Seat Available”.

7. Much improved Agenda view – You will have to use it to find the minor tweaks we have done to make your life easier.

8. Clean Mobile interface for your clients with ability to Autologin.

9. Ability to Autologin for Admin, Staff and Clients on your IPhone, IPad, Android, PC or MAC.

and much more…

Here is a list of main features which are coming next week in our update#2.8

• Create your own theme: Match your Appointy calendar’s color to your website with our easy to use graphical “Custom Theme Builder”.
• Improved “Day view”: Improved icons with color coding to differentiate between Approved, unapproved, Paid and Group bookings.
• Improved “Agenda View”: You will be able to differentiate between unapproved, approved or paid bookings with a single view.  Failed bookings can also be viewed directly on the “Agenda View”.
• Track Appointments: Track from where and how your appointment was booked. Was it booked from PC, Mobile or IPad? Was it booked as a result of Appointy’s social channels like Social Promotion, Review Promotion, Email Marketing or was it booked from Facebook, twitter etc. Everything is now traceable.
• Track Users:  Track from where your customers are coming.
• Improved Customer tab: Much improved customer tab with different tabs for Upcoming and Past appointments.
• “Social Login” on Mobile: Like desktop or PC version, now your clients can log-in with their Facebook and Gmail account from their Mobile phone also to book an appointment with you.
• “Social promotion” on Mobile: Like desktop or PC version, now your customers can invite their friends to your business after making an appointment through mobile phone also.
• Improved Mobile administrator: Much improved  mobile version of Administrator area with lot of functionality.
• Improved “Discount Coupon” button: Made improvement to the “Apply” discount button on the customer tab.

Do let us know what you think about our update 2.8

Post Update: August 30th, 2011 - Update 2.8 is live on all accounts.

From today, we are added a new category “Update”  to our blog that will track updates. Every month, we release new features and bug fixes. We will post a brief of the changes done in every update.

Today, with Appointy 2.7 update, we are launching:

Much improved “Social promotion”: Now you can customize “Social Promotion”. Earlier, you were only able to set a discount. Now you can be creative and design your offer. Offer can be a discount on a service or an incentive to promote your business. If you don’t know about “Social Promotion” then please contact us and we will help you design a “Social promotion Strategy for you”.

Offer Coupons: Now you can create “Offer Coupons” like “Discount Coupons”. For example, now you can offer free delivery or free stuff to clients. You will need to create an “Offer Coupon” from “”Promotions”–>”Discount Coupons” and promote it on your social channels or emails. Your clients can enter the “Offer Coupon” at the time of booking.

Improved IPad interface: Now drag & drop appointments to reschedule appointments on your IPad.

Above all, there are many bug fixes and flow improvements. We will be writing more about these new features and fixes in our coming blogs this month. Stay Tuned!

As always, if you have any question then please feel free to contact us at contact [at] appointy.com. We are here to help.