busybusy vs Booqable: Which is a better fit?

Aaron H.: Hey. My name's Aaron. I'm a project manager and I give busybusy a five star review. For more videos like this, click the link below. Before busybusy, we tried other products like Procore and even just writing things out on a normal timecard. When we switched over to busybusy, it did take some time for our team to learn how to use this app, but now that we've got everybody on it, this app has really helped us be able to track our time, manage our time, and keep accountability on each of our individual projects. We chose busybusy for its flexibility with our 80-plus employees that we have. It gives us the ability to have them log into different projects throughout the day as they're working, as they're doing the things that they are supposed to be doing, we can then be accountable to our client and just let them know that, "Hey, this is accurate billing. This is the amount of time, the amount that these projects take to do this, and we can bill for that time." Whereas before, we ever had that ability. When we first got started with busybusy, it was pretty tough. A lot of the older people in the company were afraid to use an app, and they thought that the GPS tracking meant that we were going to be tracking them all the time, but unless somebody has the time to sit down and just watch every little move that they're making, it just wasn't realistic. And so we got them all to buy into it and they have their GPS location on, just so that way, everybody knows that we're clocking in and out of the project, and it gives us just that one more level of checking for accountability. But, after four years of using this app, we've just really grown to love it and really grown to have the expectation that everybody knows how to use it. And any new hire, just it's no question. It's "Hey, get this app. We're going to get you set up with a log-in. You'll get there and be able to log in and out of your projects with ease and be able to tell us what you're doing and what you've been doing all day without having to take the time and write it down with an old-fashioned piece of paper and pencil." If you're looking for an app that will track your employees and give you readable data to be able to help you with your billing, to help you with accountability for your guys, and just be able to put at ease having to go through a timecard that's written down on a piece of paper, or even maybe you've tried some other apps where you still have to go through and add everything up and figure out how many hours people have, this is the solution. This has been such a wonderful thing for us, and we can click on the individual person, or we can look at the company as a whole, and we can see how many hours we worked this week, and we can break it down to how many hours we put in on specific jobs. And just the ability to account for that saves us hours and hours of time. And payroll is no longer an issue and checking in with guys and trying to figure out where they were working and trying to put together this billing, it's just all right there at my fingertips, either on the app or right there on my desktop when I'm sitting in front of my computer.

James S.: Hi. I'm James. I'm the owner of a trailer rental business and we use Booqable and I would give it five out of five stars. Prior to Booqable, I was using a software that many other trailer rental businesses use. This software works for a lot of people, but unfortunately didn't offer a lot of the nice things that Booqable does offer, like automated booking, the ability to integrate payment systems and we really enjoy using Booqable for our trailer rental software. We chose Booqable for a couple of reasons. One is Booqable is very affordable. So it has several different plan options. So that was super helpful for us in terms of right sizing our business against Booqable's service offerings. Another great thing about Booqable is the fact that you are able to create your own website. It has a lot of customizability. It's great for somebody like us who we're not looking to get super deep into website creation. Booqable makes it super easy. If you've got any questions about how to do anything at all, customer service is right there, available 24/7 and they're super responsive and always looking to solve your problem rather than send you to a tech article or some sort of supplemental material. Lastly, we really like Booqable because it helps us stay organized. It helps us collect payments on trailer rentals and furthermore, it's a useful tool for invoicing, payments, authorizations, everything. So it's a one-stop shop, not a lot involved in terms of learning curve. So we really enjoy using it. So getting started with Booqable was a super simple process. Just to kind of highlight a few things, one of them is it's super easy to get signed up. Once you get signed up, there's a step-by-step checklist on the front page of what you need to do to get set up. That was super helpful for us because we were able to walk through the steps, get connected to our payment systems, get connected to our website or domain name, etc. It was very easy and if you have any questions along the way, you had a customer service representative there right alongside you, ready to help. Another thing that's great about Booqable is if you weren't able to get in touch with somebody, there are tons of supplemental articles, videos, etc that can help you to and walk you through what you're trying to accomplish. So really helpful and useful. So what would I say to somebody who's looking to switch to Booqable? I would say go ahead and do it now rather than later because I wish that I had started with them. I spent a considerable amount of time working with a previous supplier and the relationship did not go very well. They weren't providing good customer service. Their pricing was more expensive and their website and software was just very difficult to use. Booqable was a game changer. Wish I had started off with it and you won't regret switching to Booqable.