Top 5 Free or Affordable Appointment Scheduling Software Tools
Top 5 Free or Affordable Appointment Scheduling Software Tools: One of the most time-consuming and frustrating tasks that recruiters face is scheduling interviews with hard-to-reach candidates and time-pressured internal managers. It’s fine when you are scheduling one or two people, but if you schedule lots of interviews it becomes an onerous task
Of course, some of you may be luckily enough to have a PA to complete these tasks but this is becoming increasingly rare, and also not a very cost effective way to do it when you can use free or affordable software to automate interview scheduling. Of course, you’ll find that many of these tools can also be used to schedule other types of meetings with multiple people, such as staff appraisal meetings or staff one to one meetings or even customer meetings.
Here are my top 5 free or affordable interview scheduling and meeting booking software tools.
1.Simplybook.me. This is a online appointment scheduling software and booking tool for all service based industries. It’s a heavy duty tool aimed at booking based business like salons, events organisers etc. Using this tool, you can create your own branded, booking website or integrate it with your existing site or Facebook page. You can accept payment upon booking via paypal, stripe, CardConnect and more. There is a freeware option with paid subscriptions starting at £7 a month. Try it out now
2.Bookafy. This is powerful and fully automated online appointment scheduling software tool for interviews, meetings, demos and appointments. Just give your interview candidates or interested party your booking link and they can access the available slots in your calendar (as predetermined by you) and book themselves in to your calendar without any involvement from you. They can also reschedule too, without any input from you either. It will synchronize with outlook or google calendar and you can also collect payments at booking time if you wish. There is a freeware option with paid subscriptions starting at $7 a month. Try it out now.
3.Calendly. This appointment scheduling software tool will enable you to schedule job interviews and other types of business meeting without the back and forth of emails. All you have to do is to input your availability preferences and maximum length of time per meeting and then share your link with candidates or other interested parties and Calendly with do all the legwork of booking. Candidates can pick a time and calendly will do all the scheduling. It integrates with google, outlook and icloud calendars. Special features include time zone intelligence, buffer times between meetings, last minute meeting prevention. It also supports 1 on 1, round robin and collective availability meetings. There is a freeware option with paid subscriptions starting at $8 a month. Try it out now
4.Interviewer Assistant. This is an online appointment scheduling software aimed specifically at recruiters. Using this tool, recruiters can easily schedule interviews. All you do is send out an email invitation to your candidates which will include a link to your booking page where they can schedule their interview, according to the availability parameters you have set down. There is no freeware option and prices start at $12.50 per user month. Try it out now.
5.Timely. This is an excellent online appointment scheduling software tool that will be great for automated booking of appointments with candidates or customers. Customers expect to be able to interface with your calendar online and candidates will soon expect that too. This tool is easy to use. You can simply add the Timely buttons to your website (it works really well with wordpress, facebook, squarespace, weebly and rocketspark). Prices start at £15 per month per bookable staff calendar. Try it out now.
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