TeamDesk vs Sign In Scheduling: Which is a better fit?

Jane: My name is Jane. I have a small company of less than 10 employees and I give Sign In Scheduling a rating of three out of five. So we were looking at Sign In Scheduling when we were looking to kind of move our processes and to kind of enhance the productivity of the team. We were looking at products such as 10to8, and Schier Scheduling, and Calendly. And ultimately, there are some really useful points about this. You don't have to set it up too much. It's easier for individuals to kind of use and there are some kind of great integrations with it. But ultimately, we went for a product which was already built into a CRM system to kind of allow for continuity. With using elements such as Sign In Schedule, or the elements I liked about Sign In Schedule were the automatic reminders, and the messages that are sent, and also that it would take some payment details as well. And you would have less contact with your providers. It'll not be your providers with your clients. So you'd have less going back and forth all the time about what dates, and times, and stuff like that. And you can have multiple people on the system. And also, there's a two-way syncing feature with most calendar appointments. So setting it up was pretty simple. It's pretty intuitive, and it copies a lot of the look and feel of most of the calendar and booking systems such as, it made me feel like it was kind of a part of the Gmail system. And I liked the fact that you could see the calendar or the overall of what was going on with everybody. The problems started where it came to trying to set up integrations and things such as Zapya, because costs that weren't made clear at the beginning started to appear. And as you were going through the process, you were adding more and more costs in, in order to perform something that was advertised as low cost or no cost, which kind of made the time that we'd spent on it wasted, because we had to go back and reassess it when that information should have been available at the start. And you would find that it would reset the settings that you had for things like messages and for emails to go out, which meant that you had to constantly check on it and you couldn't rely on elements such as that. They were the main ones for me. I would really think about what it is that you want, where you are now, IE at the moment, could you use the free version of it, but what will happen in a year's time? Or do you need other integrations and services? And really look at how much that costing will be. And also look at the type of service that you want to provide for your client, and whether or not you can do that without the expense exceeding your budget. And I would certainly be kind of getting all of that cost information and that user experience information at the very beginning, and really thinking about it rather than halfway down the process, which was a learning experience for me.