The Managed Way To Replace SimplyBook.me

Not quite: we watch your staff counts before billing bites, so you stay ahead of the cost rather than reacting to it.

The plan covers management of up to 5 booking pages and 20 staff members. Within that, we handle booking page changes, availability and buffer rules, calendar and CRM integration upkeep, reminder monitoring, staff and permission administration, and consultation on how to structure your scheduling. Larger pieces of work such as a migration from another scheduling tool or a custom API build are scoped and quoted as separate projects.

Yes. You keep your own Zoho Bookings subscription and own the account, the data, and everything built inside it. We work in your environment as an administrator. That matters if you ever change providers, because nothing sits behind our accounts and there is no export to negotiate. We will also advise on which plan tier fits your staff count and the integrations you need.

Zoho Bookings syncs two-way with Google Calendar, Microsoft 365 and Outlook, Zoho Calendar, and CalDAV calendars including Apple. We set the connection up per staff member so existing commitments block availability automatically, and confirmed bookings appear on the calendar each person already checks. Getting this right is the single biggest reason a scheduling setup stops double-booking people.

Yes, and it is usually worth doing. We connect Bookings to Zoho CRM so an appointment attaches to the right contact, lead, or deal rather than sitting in a separate system. Your team then sees the relevant history before the meeting starts, and booking activity shows up in your pipeline. We can also connect Zoho Desk so support appointments link to the ticket that prompted them.

Mostly by making sure the reminders actually send, which is where a surprising number of setups fail quietly. We configure confirmation emails, timed reminders, and SMS notifications, then monitor that they are going out with the right details. Beyond that, we can add deposits or payment at booking, tighten cancellation windows, and make rescheduling easy so people move an appointment instead of skipping it.

Yes, where your plan supports it. Zoho Bookings integrates with payment gateways including Stripe and PayPal, and we configure whether you collect the full amount, a deposit, or nothing at booking. Taking money up front changes no-show behavior more than any reminder does, though it is not right for every business, so we will talk through whether it fits yours.

Both are supported and both need deliberate setup. We configure group services with seat limits for classes and workshops, and set up resource assignment so a room, chair, or piece of equipment cannot be promised to two appointments at once. Getting resource rules right prevents the situation where the calendar looks fine but the physical space does not exist.

An hourly consultant suits a defined project with a start and an end. Scheduling is not that. Staff change, services change, calendar connections break, and busy seasons need different rules than quiet ones. Each of those becomes a small negotiation when you bill by the hour. A subscription removes that friction: monitoring is continuous, small changes do not need a quote, and we keep context about your setup between requests.

Tell us and we will look at whether the extra pages are genuinely needed or whether several services can live on one well-structured page. Plenty of setups carry duplicate pages nobody uses. If the additional scope is real, we will quote a higher tier or a scoped project for the buildout. We would rather have that conversation than let service quality slip quietly.

Yes. Zoho Bookings is included in Zoho One, and many of our clients reach it that way. The management work is the same either way. If you run several Zoho applications, our Zoho One bundle covers the whole ecosystem rather than one app at a time, which usually works out better once you are managing more than a couple of apps.