Thursday, January 20, 2011

Google Apps integration

We are big fans of Google Apps.
If you don't know it yet, it is an entire ecosystem of web based applications provided by Google, oriented to companies and organizations.

You get email for your domain (i.e. yourname@yourdomain.com) for each person in your company, accessible from the web, Outlook, and any mobile. You get personal calendars. You get online document editing (simplified versions of Word, Excel, etc). You get shared contacts. You get 7Gb of storage.
And all for free! Something like 3 million businesses use it, and we are obviously among them.

The most interesting part is that you can add other applications to your account, and access them with a single click. No separate logins, passwords, and so on. Everything becomes one seamless experience, and you spend less time wrestling with bookmarks, usernames, passwords, and more time growing your business.

And now you can integrate Bookeo too! If you have a Google apps account, you can simply add Bookeo to your Google Apps account. Just click on the "more" link at the top left, click on "Find more services" and search for "bookeo".

Then click on the big Add It Now button, and... you're done! Bookeo will now be added to your "more" menu, and you can access it directly.

your new application, one click away


If you already have a Bookeo registered with your Google Apps email address, you will be brought directly into your Bookeo account. If you don't have a Bookeo account yet, you will start the setup wizard to create a new one.

And what if you want to add other users (staff? receptionist?) to your Bookeo account? Simply add them in the account/Users page. From that moment on, all the users will be able to access their Bookeo account from the "more" menu in Google Apps. It could not be any easier.

Tip remember that you can view your Bookeo schedule in Google Calendar as well! Simply click on the "iCal" button in your Bookeo Calendar page.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Workshops and group classes

In the last couple of weeks we've quietly launched a major new feature: support for workshops, events and group classes.

Now you can set up events that can accept multiple people at the same time, such as workshops and classes, and take bookings for those as well.

The events can run on a regular schedule (ex. every Tuesday and Friday at 5 PM), or on specific dates, so that you have total control of your schedule.



For each event you can set how many seats are available, what consultant is running it (if you want to specify it), what room it is run in, etc. All the upcoming events show up in a separate section of the calendar, but they also show up in the calendar of the consultant/therapist/teacher running them.



You can even choose two different modes of displaying upcoming workshops to the customers - by date (when the customer want something specific, and is wondering when it will be available), or by workshops (when the customer just wants to see what is coming up next).



You obviously benefit from all the other advanced Bookeo features, such as online payments, gift vouchers, notifications, reminders, promotions, prepaid packages, and more!

We hope you will find this new feature useful! Drop us a line to let us know what you think!