Marg Cogsworth

What I liked best about Cogsworth is the simplicity of setting things to be up and running in a few minutes. I doesn't have much complicated steps or procedures to get your booking page LIVE. It only takes a few steps to have your staff onboard and accept bookings online!

What I least liked is that there is no default monthly view for the Booking page (seriously please consider this Cogsworth as the default and not make customers pay extra for the feature! There are also some issues with the calendar synch with Outlook as some days I should be BUSY are shown as available and bookable.

For the businesses seriously considering a booking engine, Cogsworth is well worth the try. Their roadmap is very promising and I for one as a user and administrator would like to contribute further to its development. I know Boris and his team would want their SaaS to be right up there with the kings of booking software. I hope they do good on their promises to their users.

The problem with most business offering services is managing their schedule efficiently and Cogsworth helps them achieve this more efficiently and with effectively.

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The whole process to create an appointment system where our users can easily book a time slot for our services is amazing dead simple. Webhooks, accept online pre-booking payments, reschedule and staff allocation are some of the features we love cogsworth. As a consulting and web development agency, we can do up the whole system ourselves but in doing so, we're simply reinventing the wheel and starving our limited resources.

Personally we feel some of the paid modules on monthly subscription should not be chargeable like redirection after booking, personalized brand booking url, Google analytics tracking, etc. All these add up pretty quick.

Cogsworth is not in the right direction when it comes to pricing personally. When you require other additional features which you feel is basic, these small features may be chargeable monthly

Appointment bookings made easy

What I liked best about Cogsworth smart booking is the ability to embed as iFrame or as a link to my existing website. We are looking for a smart sexy solution for our businesses and we just implemented now on just one site. It is a good thing they have a BIG PLAN for those with more than one business. It is also a plus that they recently went LIVE with their WEBHOOKS feature which connects to other systems that we currently use like Hubspot and Mailchimp, via Zapier.

What I disliked is that my Outlook calendar availability is not synched properly. It does not have the same situation as the google calendar though. I hope they fix it soon. Also maybe include in the Base plan the Monthly view for your calendar.

Also, Cogsworth should look at introducing functions that will differentiate them from their competition like instead of Staff calendar, it would be a PROPERTY with rental units for booking, I think a lot of people will buy that. Like AirBNB on steroids managed by the owners / lessors themselves.

For those providing services, I definitely recommend taking Cogsworth for a spin. It is surely better than receiving a calendar invite. It can easily be embedded onto your Email signature or your website.

Service providers are given the chance now to have their own unique Booking pages, instead of just being sent Calendar invites. I think once the roadmap is finalized for this product, it can stand a chance against bigger names in the industry.

Cogsworth has almost everything a booking software should have. It's super easy to set up and it's got multiple functions for synching calendars and so on. For me the best thing it's the easy set-up process and the ability to personalise customised notifications (email and sms.

The only thing I miss is being able to accept payments when booking. This can be done, but it comes at a monthly cost.

If you need a booking system to schedule meetings with clients, this is a really good solution.

I have started taking bookings for online lessons with Cogsworth.