Reviews and Feedback From Real Clients

What do you dislike?

Initially there were limits to how much of the timeline I could see on screen (1 year) since this was probably not originally designed to view 2 to 3 years on screen at a time. Having said that, the support team are phenomenal and within 1 month of use they've already updated the application to give me greater visibility on the timeline! The only other con so far is the dashboard - it doesn't really show me what I want to see based on data that I know is in the application. Having said that, I'm confident that we'll address this within the next couple of months.

Reasons for Choosing to Schedule it

I initially piloted PlanetTogether, had an interface built, and did a full proof of concept, but chose not to "go-live". The application was great, but simply too cumbersome for our needs. We needed something with a great user interface for quick "drag and drop" scheduling, something that visually and aesthetically pleasing, flexible enough to change by a system admin without the need for complex IT involvement and reconfiguration. After a couple of hours with a trial version of Schedule it, it was clear that this application met our business needs.

Reasons for Switching to Schedule it

Excel is not a planning application (and I class myself as an Excel super user with over 25 years of experience). Within a complex pharmaceutical manufacturing business, the limitations of Excel become apparent VERY quickly. We also had to contend with version control issues (various spreadsheet iterations being published and shared around the business). Excel is, at it's core, is a data and finance application - it was never intended to be used for planning and scheduling, but most businesses default to it as a quick and dirty solution.

Alternatives Considered

Excel, Werum PAS-X MES, Opcenter APS, PlanetTogether

Comments

I initially set up "Schedule it" for approx. £50 (3 users) in less than 1 week (migrating from an Excel spreadsheet, which had been used for over 20 years and that the business had so far been unable to replace with anything more suitable. The application is incredibly versatile, simple by design, aesthetically fantastic. Within a week I was able to set up and train a further 50 read only users all of whom have been blown away by the amazing step change that the application has brought to the business.

What do you dislike?

The mobile app works, but it is not as user friendly as it could be. Good for read-only, but not great if the user wants to interact with the software.

The dashboard is preset and not configurable so no use to me. If this could be user configured to show specific resources / groups / parameters it would be more use. Currently we do not use this feature.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Information in one place not on numerous spreadsheets. Cloud based so great for users across multiple locations, cutting down on double handling information and pushing emails and SMS out. Information is real-time and readily available. Integration has reduced double-handling of data and eliminated discrepancy between data sets through human error.

What do you dislike?

Maybe its my knowledge, but I'd like to be able to customise the loading sum, to remove holidays and reminders from the total so we can still see how much availability we have.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

If you have multiple team members engaged with multiple customers, the tools and features in Schedule It enable you to clearly and quickly see who is where, doing what, with who, it's made a huge difference to our small organisation.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Simple, for us it removed our ability to double book someone and upset customers by doing so. In a matter of days we had completely integrated it into the team, now we would never go back.

What do you dislike?

There's not much I dislike about Schedule it. I wish for little refinements like when I change to list view in the Admin area, I want it to stay in list view vs reverting back to showing me cards. I wish I could do bulk operations like Select All resources in Group A and reassign them to Group B. I wished I could have bulk imported all my team members but I had to do that one at a time.

Also, though I appreciate the documentation on the site and the ability to converse with support via chat/email, I wish they had a forum so I could talk with and learn from other users.

The basic function of using Schedule it as a scheduler has been easy for me and my colleagues.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Go for it. It is a truly amazing solution backed by an awesome, supportive company.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We have a team of researchers that need to be resourced by our resourcing team. By having the ability for multiple resourcing people responsible for scheduling, we've been able to be more efficient. Also, by integrating Schedule it with our other systems, we've been able to eliminate numerous steps that were previously manually done. For instance, by using Zapier, we've been able to have time off requests automatically added to Schedule it, something one of our team members had to do manually.

What do you dislike?

It takes some time to learn to customize reports....but again we are still learning

Reasons for Choosing:

The evaluation resulted in the selection of Scheduleit.com. This company was chosen as it was the best fit for our requirements, ease of use, visual presentation of data, at the best price. With this system we will have the ability to build templates for each course that we offer and when a class is scheduled, it is a matter of dragging and dropping the class template on a date range.

Once a class is scheduled, each of our business unit can drag and drop the required assets and personnel to fill the requirements for the class. If for some reason the dates of the class are changed its just a matter of dragging and dropping the class on the new date range and any double booking of assets or personnel will be immediately identified.

With the proper filters applied all required data is available and this information can be data mined to create a report or graphic chart format. The software can be simply programed to automatically notify any personnel affected by changes to a scheduled class whether it is an asset, date or personnel change

What do you dislike?

The only draw back is the in the number of ICS calendar files available. This reduces the amount of tutors we can sync with.

What do you dislike?

I do not have much to complain about the software, the truth I can say that it is an excellent tool however it costs a little to learn to use it at first nothing really serious just that it would be good if the user was taught how to handle the software at the time If I buy it outside of that, I don't have any more trouble with this software, it is really useful when organizing a tool that every business owner or entrepreneur should acquire to optimize their business

Recommendations to others considering the product:

For users who want or think about using this software that I can say that it is really worth it, I consider that before choosing to use it, think if your routine is really busy and have problems organizing you can use this software to solve that problem, if you are a person with a fairly quiet daily routine may not need it since it is designed for people with really busy staff or routines.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

The main problem that I can solve with this software are the problems of organization and order in the activities and routines of the day to day, this software allows you to manage your staff and time in an optimal way so that everything works in a correct and orderly way what everything Business owner nowadays longs for an optimized work environment with reduction of failures and optimization of time and effort. This software gives me the main benefit of having control over my time and work so that I can take advantage of time efficiently both I and my workers can know all the appointments and tasks that we have assigned during the day, this allows us to work in a way quite optimal the truth is a benefit that everyone should enjoy nothing is more valuable than time and this software takes care of your time like nobody else.

What do you dislike?

We don't really have any dislikes as anything we have enquired about has mostly been implemented - the only request we asked about that was denied was the removal of having to click twice in the Notes field in order to edit that field's contents.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Go for it. It is a truly amazing solution backed by an awesome, supportive company.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Keeping track of our assets and ensuring they are no double booked

Tracking people's working hours to comply with health and safety requirements

What do you dislike?

After clearing browser cookies, the layout/view preferences are not saved. However, this only takes a few clicks and the feature request is acknowledged already. For us, it would be handy if the mobile version had the ability for the engineers to follow a strict signing off process on-site. For example, signature capture should not be possible without first filling in a 'work completed' summary. GPS tracking and the ability to simply 'clock-in' upon arrival would also be handy. Reporting could be easier to use.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We use Schedule-it to manage the customer bookings for a small team of field engineers. Our engineers perform a variety of visits including training, installations and repairs. The audit log in each event means it's possible for us to see who created, modified or deleted it.

Tracking people's working hours to comply with health and safety requirements

What do you dislike?

It is a very complete tool both at the job level and workers and until now it has met the requirements of the business.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

The program is designed to handle the most challenging long-term ventures, including many individuals. In order to deal with the vast amount of information it may receive from a large-scale venture, it has several resources including multi-user mode, schedules, note alerts, a layout administrator, data analysis, communication agenda, information filters, customized modules to enter data from goods, vendors, consumers and so on.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

It helps massively improve maintenance of necessary records, as well as all of our work resources planned and schedule work shifts for doctors, nurses and different types of staff depending on your field. It is multi-user, multi-functional, and multi device, making it accessible anywhere and instantly synchronizes at any tim

What do you dislike?

To be honest, it is a fairly complete program in your field. It offers the basic functions of a programming software such as the creation and edition of events, while it has more advanced functions such as a centralized database in which details of employees, tutors and even clients are stored. The only detail is that it is hard to get used without proper software training.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

For those who are considering making Schedule it their programming alternative, I recommend analyzing how much use it could have in our lives. I suggest this, because it is a complex software whose potential would not be tested in quiet hours, but is made for more complex companies. Subscribing to not take full advantage of Schedule it means a waste..

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

There are many things that I must watch carefully and thanks to Schedule it I can take note of all these and organize them so as not to forget them. With Schedule it I am always aware of my employees. It has a warning system that does not allow anything to happen unnoticed, but I can comply with everything.

This is a resource programming and event planning software, in a way it has positive repercussions in many aspects of our development and business performance, while allowing us to enjoy our natural life without being constantly aware of the work. This system also reaches our employees, who benefit from the level of competence provided by Schedule It.

What do you dislike?

I was thinking about what I could tell in what I dislike about this software but it is really hard to find something bad. The program is overall well done, maybe the desktop application is some not that cool like in web app but maybe I don't know how to customize this part.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Just go and sign up, I can't recommend other app, this is a complete scheduling software that worth every penny of what you pay. The offers you a free trial, so you can test it first.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

This scheduling software solves many problem for working planning in business or teams. This one of the best doing this stuff. Benefits are many, like improving efficiency in any working group, it takes away the stress from the managers with many features that set up time schedule of employees, you can change anything on the schedule board easily, easy access to anything you wrote down previously, many automate checks detecting availability avoiding conflicts, and many others benefits. Believe me, this program is complete with all kind of tools that helps you in everything you need.

What do you dislike?

Nothing lacking at this stage based on usage to date

Recommendations to others considering the product:

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

The 'learning management tools' are too inflexible for what was needed. Schedule IT is extremely flexible allowing you to inter-relate many objects to create a forward view and then to be able to dump this easily to Excel for basic reporting, is a great bonus.