As a real estate agent, property manager, or any service-based business owner, scheduling appointments can be a nightmare. Mis-scheduled or missed appointments can be detrimental to both your bottom-line and reputation. If you are looking for prosperity within your business, scheduling appointments efficiently and reliably must be a top priority.

Luckily, there are many solutions out there—by utilizing booking software you’ll save your business from lost productivity due to manual errors. This can also boost your bottom line. Handling bookings and appointments by hand in this day and age is inefficient, considering how many time-saving tools that can automate this process are available.

The typically small fee of the marketing automation software is easily made up by the reduction in scheduling errors and increased efficiency. Likewise, this will reduce lost time and revenue due to clients not showing up, thanks to the ability to send them reminders before their appointments roll around and give them the chance to cancel if circumstances change.

While a tight schedule and good booking solution won’t work miracles, you can bet that they will make running your business considerably easier and more efficient. Convinced automated scheduling systems are the way to go?

Let’s take a look at a few of the options available for your business:

 

Product Name/Link	Free Trial	Starting Price Point	Integrates with Google Cal	Integrates with Outlook	Integrates with iCal
TimeTrade		Free	X	X	X
Full Slate	X	$29/mo	X	X	X
You Can Book Me		Free	X	–	X
BookSteam	X	$19.95/mo	X	X	X
Acuity Scheduling		Free	X	X	–
Bookafy	X	$20/mo	X	X	–
Schedule Shopper		Free	X	–	–
GenBook	X	$30/mo	–	–	–
Square Appointments	X	$30/mo	X	–	–

Personally, I have been using You Can Book Me for years and have found it to be very easy to use and has met all of my needs. I hope you find this list helpful! Let’s go make our businesses more efficient!

P.S. If you have any additional tools that you have found helpful please let us know and we will review them.