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Lana O'Brien's avatar
Lana O'Brien
Silver Contributor
Jul 20, 2016

Announcement: Bring in business 24/7 with Microsoft Bookings

To help make appointment scheduling simpler and more efficient for you, your staff and your customers, Microsoft is introducing a new Office 365 service called Microsoft Bookings!   Customers can...
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C_the_S's avatar
C_the_S
Bronze Contributor
Sep 13, 2016
Tomislav Bronzin wrote:

I have Office 365 Business Premium tenant but I can find Microsoft Booking on the Office 365 Launch Bar.

 

Does anybody know when Micrisift Bookings sitll be available?

Are you on First Release? Those will be the ones to get it first.

After that no one really knows how long it will take to roll out to the rest, it could be many months unfortunately.

Tomislav Bronzin's avatar
Tomislav Bronzin
MVP
Oct 08, 2016
Yes, we have First Release turned on on several tenants that we administrate, but we can't see Bookings :-(
  • LizP1's avatar
    LizP1
    Iron Contributor
    Oct 11, 2016

    I've found out why some of us can't see Bookings yet: there has been a critical piece of info missing from this thread - it's only available in the US and Canada so far. So, everyone else (including me) stop looking! I wonder when the rest of the roll-out will take place??

     

     

    • Chandresh Jain's avatar
      Chandresh Jain
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      Mar 17, 2017
      The roll out to the rest of the world is now complete - please give it a try and let us know if you have any feedback.

      Thanks!
      • LizP1's avatar
        LizP1
        Iron Contributor
        Nov 20, 2019

        I know this reply is 2.5 years later Chandresh Jain but just re-reading the thread and thought I'd close the loop. I had a conference call with a couple of you back in 2017 to talk through some of the differences between bookings and calendly. I still use calendly or my HubSpot calendar as Bookings doesn't really do the same thing. Bookings is great is your a hairdresser or dog washer (as per the examples here) whereas calendly allows people to book a meeting with me that I can then modify (I can add an address, add people, in fact, everything you can do with a regular Outlook calendar entry). 

         

        I think they are two completely separate products - one is for people booking a service and the other is for people booking meetings. And as it turns out, we have very different scheduling needs. 

         

        If a Microsoft product ever turns up that is as easy to use, and reliable (Cortana is not quite there yet), then I will make the shift. For now, I live by my calendly link. 

         

    • Tomislav Bronzin's avatar
      Tomislav Bronzin
      MVP
      Oct 11, 2016
      Have you tried to open US tenant account?

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