Shlomi Lavi /
Oct 17, 2022
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Bottom Line: Which is Better - HotSchedules or SnapAppointments?
SnapAppointments is more expensive to implement (TCO) than HotSchedules, and HotSchedules is rated higher (88/100) than SnapAppointments (85/100). HotSchedules offers users more features (16) than SnapAppointments (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. SnapAppointments
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...
SnapAppointments: SnapAppointments provides service based businesses appointment management solutions. More specifically, SnapAppointments provides online appointment software and application programming interfaces (APIs) that modernize service-based business operations. The company also operates SnapAppointments.com, a service booking Website that enables clients t...
Who is more expensive? HotSchedules or SnapAppointments?
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 SnapAppointments.
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. SnapAppointments price starts at $14.99 per user/month , When comparing SnapAppointments to its competitors, the software is rated 4 - lower than the average Booking and scheduling software cost.
Bottom line: SnapAppointments is more expensive than HotSchedules.
Which software includes more/better features?
We've compared HotSchedules Vs. SnapAppointments 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.
SnapAppointments: We are still working to collect the list of features for SnapAppointments.
Target customer size
The product is focused on the restaurant industry addressing both large franchises as well as single restaurants. and SnapAppointments's target customer size include: Small, medium and large size businesses.