Jul 20 2016 09:08 AM
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 schedule your business directly online
Reduce missed appointments with confirmations and reminders
Make it easy for your customers to reschedule or cancel bookings
Manage bookings and customer information from anywhere
Automatically add bookings on staff calendars
Bookings is now rolling out in First Release to customers who subscribe to the Office 365 Business Premium plan and will roll out to all Business Premium customers worldwide in the coming months. Read more of Office Blogs.
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Sep 08 2016 08:29 PM
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?
Sep 13 2016 04:31 AM
That's great news. E3 and using Timetrade and we'd love an intergrated solution!
Sep 13 2016 07:31 AM
@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.
Oct 08 2016 03:14 AM
Bookings is more designed for customers to make an appointment with a services provider. The dog groomer is a good example. There are some good third-party Cloud solutions for this in the market but none so far made by Microsoft. This helps Microsoft capture a need of the small businesses that chosen to power their businesses with Office 365.
From an SMB perspective the downside I can see is lack of financial integration. Most other appointment booking solutions via the web include invoicing and then integraton with financial products like Xero. In the age of automation, I'm double-handling if I have to handle customer bookings in one system but invoice them in another. Of course this depends on the circumstances of the business and the service, but it's a good reason why I might choose something else instead of Microsoft Bookings.
For Enterprise people and their external contacts, I guess the closest you get outside of your solution is the FIndTime or Boomerang add-ons to Outlook?
-Sonia
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Oct 11 2016 02:07 PM
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??
Oct 11 2016 02:41 PM
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Mar 20 2017 08:05 AM
Do we have status for E3?
Nov 12 2019 12:28 AM
Very Good!! We are waiting for it to come to E3 and E5
Nov 19 2019 04:14 PM
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.
Dec 02 2019 09:31 PM
@Lana O'BrienAwesome. Great stuff
Jul 21 2020 12:28 AM
Is there any plan to role this out to GCC tenants?