can anyone recommend a good online booking system?

[crphillips]

I'm looking for a web based booking system that i can integrate into my website that will allow customers to make their own bookings. Does anyone use one they can recommend? Also does anyone know if there is one that can make allowances for travelling distance...i.e. where it won't allow them to book if over a certain distance away. Also if one person has booked in for a 15 min quote at say 12:00 it won't allow another person to book 12:30 if they're 30 miles away?

 

[Florina]

I know a quite good one, have a look at BookingLive-co-uk and mangostudio-eu. Mango Studio is the company which created BookingLive, the booking system.
It can even be translated in other languages and once integrated on a website it is like it is part of it. Is user friendly!

 

[fisicx]

And through the magic of Google: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=e...ment+booking+system&aq=f&aqi=g5g-v5&aql=t&oq=

Best bet is to try them out and see which one you like.

You won't get the distance calculator thingy though as this relies on knowing the location of every client - and that's just not viable.

 

[crphillips]

I did google it and tried a few and was pretty disappointed with them. It took a couple of hours to tweak the settings and to get it working to something I could trial and then I found it was rubbish so I thought to avoid wasting anymore of my time I'd ask on here as people may be using them and be happy with them

Also I don't see why it would be so difficult to calculate distances as seen as the customer would be booking a quote the address would be pretty important so I'm sure through the use of google maps or something it could judge the approx travelling time.

Florin - cheers.....I'll check those out. Nice to get a personal recommendation.

 

[crphillips]

Hmm....had a look at them and they're not really what i'm after.

We already have CRM software. I'm simply after an online calender where people can see our availability and book our services themselves.