nextlevelbros

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2 stars
2 stars
Feb 6, 2021

Nice, but absolutely bare bones

I bought this deal because I saw that it did one thing right, that is the booking interface which is beautiful and user friendly, like similar to Calendly. It is beyond me why most booking tools have convoluted confusing non-intuitive methods to pick date and time, but Tidy Cal has this right, for this reason, this is a booking platform I may end up actually using for my business.

πŸ‘πŸ‘ Double thumbs up for snazzy and functional appearance of the booking interface, a rarity.

However, after logging in and testing it out, I notice that most other basics are not covered, here come the thumbs down:
πŸ‘Ž Only AM/PM time. Cmon guys, this is a booking app. The only countries that use AM/PM are former British colonies and the Philippines. The rest of the world use 24hr time format. Inexcusable oversight for a booking platform. Culturally tone-deaf Part I.
πŸ‘Ž Time zone selection shows a bunch of cities that neither I nor my clients have any idea what time zone they use. Or I could pick the time zone of a hostile neighboring country to really piss my customers off, but even then, I am not sure they are on the same time zone as us and will not be looking it up. How hard is it to use the usual list? Cannot complete setup until this is addressed. Culturally tone-deaf Part II.
πŸ‘Ž Cannot save my booking page settings even if my time zone was listed, 500 | Server Error all day long. One more reason I Cannot complete setup.
πŸ‘Ž Only PayPal payments. PayPal has no uptake in my country, PayPal payment option is as good as none.
πŸ‘Ž Only Zapier Integration shown as 'Coming Soon'. This deal is well priced, Zapier is not, and their free plan is extremely meager. here are a few more thumbs down for Zapier: πŸ‘Ž πŸ‘Ž πŸ‘Ž πŸ‘Ž πŸ‘Ž πŸ‘Ž πŸ‘Ž πŸ‘Ž πŸ‘Ž
πŸ‘Ž All the other things mentioned by everyone else like no minimum lead up time for booking appointments.

I bought this thinking to hold on to it till it improves, but even with that in mind, I found it sparse and lacking the absolute basics. Will hold on to it though hoping for the best and that future features are not locked behind monthly subscriptions as some have prophesized based on other Appsumo products.

Even without all the extras that Sumolings desire, it would be cool if it was in any way or form usable today, today that I purchased the deal and not some

future date that may never come. As it is, this is a demo, not a working software product.

I would like to know if Webhooks or Integrately will ever be be implemented in this deal, if not might as well refund now and wait for something better.

Founder Team
David_AppSumoOriginals

David_AppSumoOriginals

May 9, 2024

Hi again, Sumo-ling!

We have TONS of updates released over the past few weeks that fix the problems you had:

1) We have 24-hour time, in addition to our standard 12-hour time. We also made tons of international improvements in general: All international currencies supported by PayPal, translate ability, and more.

2) Any issues related to 500 errors were solved (they were typically because we were seeing TONS of traffic, more than expected, and have since put more juice in our servers).

Plus, we have dozens of other updates including less branding, new features, and lots, lots more.

Hooray! If you'd like to take a look at the changes, please let us know what you think. And, after you verify these changes are good, please update your review score here: https://tacochange.paperform.co/

Thanks for supporting TidyCal. πŸš€

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