Nice one - looks good! Hope it works out well for you.
But, just to chip in:
1) Does your target market know that a Google Account is, effectively, a Gmail address? They might think the barrier to entry is higher than it is.
2) Homepage says:
>No credit card required. No sign up required. Just log in with your Google account.
Which sounds great. But when I hit the FAQs, I see:
> Do you support any payment methods/services other than PayPal?
> Not at this time. Maybe Google Checkout if there is demand.
Maybe it's just me in my nerddom, but "just log in with your Google account" combined with "no credit card required" made me expect Google Checkout to be the default payment method, or at the very least supported.
May be worth adding a nod to Paypal somewhere earlier on, or an FAQ towards the top of the list explaining what payment methods are supported (and why the customer should be happy about them/it, etc, etc). Would help you avoid the negative, "No, sorry, only PayPal" vibe of the current answer.
whats the timezone shown in the pop out? Is it mine or can the user configure the timezone to be specified?
what if i have multiple google accounts and i want to show the aggregate availability. for example i have four sales reps and they all have free time between 10 am and 11 am. if all four are booked the end user should see the time slot as full, else till all four are booked the user should be able to book that time slot. if that possible?
A year ago we (the guys behind http://WhenIsGood.net) built http://youcanbook.me to solve this problem. Shipped a ton of features since then. We came out of stealth 6 months ago and are already processing 15,000 bookings a week.
Wishing best of luck to the Appointlet team - looks like they've made a great start!
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[ 3.9 ms ] story [ 45.9 ms ] threadBut, just to chip in:
1) Does your target market know that a Google Account is, effectively, a Gmail address? They might think the barrier to entry is higher than it is.
2) Homepage says: >No credit card required. No sign up required. Just log in with your Google account.
Which sounds great. But when I hit the FAQs, I see:
> Do you support any payment methods/services other than PayPal? > Not at this time. Maybe Google Checkout if there is demand.
Maybe it's just me in my nerddom, but "just log in with your Google account" combined with "no credit card required" made me expect Google Checkout to be the default payment method, or at the very least supported.
May be worth adding a nod to Paypal somewhere earlier on, or an FAQ towards the top of the list explaining what payment methods are supported (and why the customer should be happy about them/it, etc, etc). Would help you avoid the negative, "No, sorry, only PayPal" vibe of the current answer.
I agree that just supporting PayPal is a hindrance to people adopting the site. I will make Google Checkout (and maybe Stripe) a priority.
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=...
what if i have multiple google accounts and i want to show the aggregate availability. for example i have four sales reps and they all have free time between 10 am and 11 am. if all four are booked the end user should see the time slot as full, else till all four are booked the user should be able to book that time slot. if that possible?
Currently it only support single users. This is my first web business, so I decided to keep the scope very small and focus on sole proprietors.
That said, I looking into building multi-user functionality, as that is required to compete with the "big boys" like Genbook.
Wishing best of luck to the Appointlet team - looks like they've made a great start!
Keith Harris http://softlysoftware.com
I appreciate the best wishes; I hope there will be a team one day, but right now it's just me :)