Microsoft Bookings – Simplify Appointment Scheduling

Microsoft Bookings is the ideal solution to facilitate the scheduling and managing of personal appointments, whether with clients or colleagues. Bookings includes a web-based booking page, integrated with Outlook to optimize your calendar and allow your clients to book a time that works best for them.

Microsoft Bookings offers customization and flexibility options to suit various scheduling needs, covering all departments, individual users, and types of appointments. You can create and manage multiple Bookings calendars, each with its unique configuration. Different calendars can have different page structures, information, staff, and types of appointments and communication.

Bookings are also available as an app in Teams and Outlook, allowing you to create Booking pages, declare your availability, add team members, schedule new appointments, and manage existing appointments. Here are some features of this platform:

• Virtual meetings

Each appointment booked as an online meeting creates a unique meeting link that is sent to participants so they can join via a browser, phone access, or the Microsoft Teams or Skype app.
 

• Personal bookings

Personal Bookings is how you manage your appointment schedules, allowing you to easily set up and share your availability with your clients or colleagues. This way, you can be responsible for your own time and avoid scheduling conflicts. After publishing your booking page, you can share the link with anyone who can see your availability and easily schedule a time when they wish.
 

• Shared bookings

Shared Bookings allows you to invite your team members and create booking pages, enabling your clients to book time with you and your team. It contains various settings to define services, set up schedules and availability, working hours, and customize how appointments are booked. These pages can be customized according to the diverse needs of your organization.

All Bookings data is stored on the Microsoft 365 platform and Exchange Online. Bookings follows all data storage policies defined by Microsoft, which are the same policies that all applications in Microsoft 365 follow. Compliance policies for shared mailboxes in Exchange also apply to Bookings mailboxes.

Microsoft Bookings is available in the following subscriptions:

• Office 365: A3, A5, E1, E3, E5, F1, F3, G1, G3 e G5;
• Microsoft 365: A3, A5, E1, E3, E5, F1, F3, Business Basic, Business Standard, Business Premium, Teams Essentials, Teams Premium.

 

How to access Microsoft Bookings?

You can access Microsoft Bookings through:

• The Web

Users can easily access Microsoft Bookings through the web by visiting the following link: book.ms.

• Outlook and Teams

Microsoft Bookings can also be accessed directly in Outlook and Microsoft Teams. Users can add the Bookings app to the left panel for convenient access:

• Open Outlook or Microsoft Teams;
• Select the Apps icon;
• Search for Microsoft Bookings;
• Select Add to integrate it into your Outlook or Teams interface;
• Pin the app to the left panel for easy and quick access.

Try Microsoft Bookings and see how you can spend less time scheduling and more time meeting with clients!

^{Source: Learn Microsoft}