Skedda is a space management platform that specializes in the management of office space, desks, meeting rooms and hybrid workplace scenarios.
$50
Zoho Bookings
Score 9.9 out of 10
N/A
Zoho Bookings is an appointment scheduling software that helps individuals and teams across industries book meetings and services.
$8
per month per user
Pricing
Skedda
Zoho Bookings
Editions & Modules
2) Skedda Pro
$50 per month
1) Skedda Core
Free
3) Skedda Premium
Starts from $150 per month
Basic
$8
per month per user
Premium
$12
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Skedda
Zoho Bookings
Free Trial
Yes
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
Additional Details
Skedda offers 3 packages: Core, Pro and Premium. The platform can be used for free for up to 5 spaces. Pricing is based on the number of bookable spaces alongside other paid platform features.
Custom pricing is available for enterprise-level customers.
Up to a 25% discount available for annual billing.
It is really well suited for managing either desks and meeting rooms, or resources. It was really important for us that equipment could be included as bookable items because we can then track who has them - where and when. The self-service nature of bookings allows everyone to manage their own time.
Zoho Bookings from my personal experience is best when you have a growing list of customers and need to get free of the hassle of taking written notes in your Rolodex. It's like a CRM but optimized for booking tasks. I believe it would be less suited, if you are a new business starting from scratch
Only one account can be setup as the overall owner of the system with control to adjust key settings. It would be good if more than one owner could be assigned to spread out the workload, without the need to for a shared account.
It still needs more robust features and customization, like workflows and such. I'm confident they'll continue improving it, but some particular customization settings aren't available, in terms of triggers, content, look and feel, but it is mostly very detailed and particular. If you're ok with adapting to it, it is an excellent tool.
Some of the integrations and features are harder to set up. Once everything is set up its fairly straightforward, but if like ATI you have multiple branches or departments utilizing Bookings, you would need to set up separate booking sites for each office/salesperson
A lot of things are not great as this is a new tool, but they fix it relatively quickly. They don't have a direct phone number, but Zoho support has good service overall
Skedda is much more comprehensive than these products and has infinitely more controls and options than Survey Monkey or Google Surveys. It would be difficult to implement either platform for the scale of reservations and scheduling we are currently using Skedda for and would make saving user information much more time-consuming for the staff of our organization.
I found the integration with the two above is great if you're a Google Calendar user which we are not. While with Zoho Calendar we can have two way integration with Google Calendar there wasn't a need to do so. With Zoho Bookings which also integrates with Google Calendar we didn't have to worry about that as the integration with our Zoho Calendar was virtually automatic. There was also the cost consideration as the two above have a free version it was limited and didn't have all the bells and whistles we needed. Zoho Bookings provide us with everything from a single sign-on web browser and mobile app
we have been able to increase the amount of people using the spaces - from 20 companies a week, to up to 30 because we gave people the power to book
employees don't have to keep checking emails from people asking about availability - users can just see this for themselves so this saved us a lot of time and workload
Zoho Bookings does not have either a positive or negative ROI as this is included with our Zoho Suite of features and we have enough licenses currently for anyone who would need access.
It would be a negative ROI if we needed to purchase additional licenses solely for our engineers or the entire organization, most of who do not need access to any of the other Zoho Suite of features.
