Shlomi Lavi /
May 26, 2022
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Bottom Line: Which is Better - HotSchedules or Book Appointment?
Book Appointment is more expensive to implement (TCO) than HotSchedules, and HotSchedules is rated higher (88/100) than Book Appointment (62/100). HotSchedules offers users more features (16) than Book Appointment (0). There is a clear winner in this case and it is HotSchedules!
Looking for the right Booking and scheduling solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:
HotSchedules Vs. EICSOFT
HotSchedules: Our Co-Founders, Ray Pawlikowski and David Cantu came up with the idea for HotSchedules while working at PF Chang’s together. Ray was the bartender and David was the manager. When a college project had Ray building a web site, he decided to use it to address one of the restaurant’s primary pain points – communicating the employee schedule. Manager...
EICSOFT: EICSOFT provides the most affordable solutions in designing, maintaining and hosting professional web sites on the Internet. The objective of our business is to provide customized service packages, specific to business and individual needs of our customers.
We started off providing our clients with high quality site design at the most affordabl...
Who is more expensive? HotSchedules or Book Appointment?
The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Booking and scheduling software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for HotSchedules and Book Appointment.
HotSchedules price starts at $49 per month , On a scale between 1 to 10 HotSchedules is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of Booking and scheduling software. Book Appointment price starts at $16 per month , When comparing Book Appointment to its competitors, the software is rated 6 - similar to the average Booking and scheduling software cost.
Bottom line: Book Appointment is more expensive than HotSchedules.
Which software includes more/better features?
We've compared HotSchedules Vs. Book Appointment based on some of the most important and required Booking and scheduling features.
HotSchedules: this software is considered "feature-rich" with more than 10 important features, here is a partial list: Benefits Administration, Employee Self-Service, HR Management, Timesheet, Automated Scheduling, Document Templates, Email Integration, Employee Database.
Book Appointment: We are still working to collect the list of features for Book Appointment.
Target customer size
The product is focused on the restaurant industry addressing both large franchises as well as single restaurants. and Book Appointment's target customer size include: Small, medium and large size businesses.