Google Calendar is no longer using “Appointment Slots” and has moved to “Appointment Schedule”. The scheduling option of “Appointment Schedule” is more robust than the old “Appointment Slots”.
Imagine your appointment schedule as a more advanced version of block scheduling. Below them, they claim all the benefits that you can get from it but show that booking is easy and you have other additional benefits too.
Here’s the scoop:
- Advanced Booking: Create a booking page and place links on it, allowing guests to choose the time slot they want.
- Smart Scheduling: Eliminate appointment backlogs with calendar sync.
- Flexibility: Setting the booking time interval between two appointments and the minimum number of appointments to be booked per day.
- Why the change?
Google has announced a “new type of appointment schedule” as more convenient and better as it is the central tool for better booking.
What to do
- Mark your calendars: The schedule will return to completely end appointments by July 18, 2024. The slots will remain valid, although you may have to get some others for a temporary period as the transfer process is not worked out. finished yet.
- Recreate with ease: That’s good news! Setting up a booking book again after the schedule is completed will not be problematic.
- Get Help: The Google Calendar Help Center is the place to go for a comprehensive guide on features and the setup process.
- Who gets appointment schedules?
Encouragingly, appointment scheduling is becoming more and more widely used. It has some other benefits also. GSBS users can now access those with Business, Enterprise, Education, Nonprofits, Google Workspace Individuals, and Google One Premium users which is an important feature.
So, say goodbye to those old appointment slot nightmares and see for yourself how we can cure patient scheduling problems!
