I have spent so much time comparing booking pages and rates, flexibilities etc. Right now ll I wanted was exactly what you showed! I ended up in a week's worth of research and application learning hell. Literally! What a waste of time and lost advertising time equalling lost business. Typically I stay away from anything Microsoft. (many reasons Long story not needed) but I'm incredibly grateful for running across your video tutorial!
I love this! Is it possible to set up a booking page for someones elses calendar? I am an executive assistant and a calendar delegate for several executives. It would be so helpful If I could set up booking pages with availability for each of my executives.
Hi Kevin! Thank you for this video. I can see another option in Bookings with me right below the Public or Private option, which is actually a checkbox called "Send an email with your personal bookings page to your top collaborators" that shows some of the pictographs of my colleagues. Would you mind explaining what it is about? Thank you!
Great Video, I just wished I could use place holders for the Email reminders like Hi [FirstName] and we booked a session on [MeetingDateTime] or something like that.
Very informative thank you! I do have a question regarding the blocks. One ca set up 1 hour, 30min blocks and so on. But is there an option to let the client see your availability and the decide that he needs for example 2h:45 starting from 8:10? This would also be great as a meeting room management system if you share the room with different organizations or if you have member who are not in your organization but being able to book the room! Thanks Kevin!
This was a very much informative video!! your contents are always clean and easy to understand, keep up the good work! such Insightful videos help many people around!
Thank you for making this video! I'm a teacher and I'd love to use this software to allow students to book office hours with me, but I don't want to limit the appointments to 1 on 1. I typically meet with groups of between 1 and 4 students, who all book independently. Is there a way to make the time slots non-exclusive, so that a small number of people could book the same appointment? Thanks again 🙏
Thank you for your video! I have an issue that I need help with. At my company, we have two rooms where clients can book time slots for themselves, and I made two separate booking pages for the two rooms. However, microsoft calendar I guess is just using one calendar for both. What ends up happening is, when a client books Room A for 3pm, the calendar will show that Room B is booked for that same time slot. It doesn't show up as available for the Room B booking, even though it is. How do I make it so that it is two independent rooms being booked in my calendar? This has been very difficult to deal with, and we cannot have as many bookings as we can. I'd appreciate any tips or help with this issue. Thank you!
I have been trying to make a public booking pager available for my students for wednesdays and thursdays for 30 min each. I select custom hours for those days and create the booking which booking does alright. But when i email it , it only shows wednesdays and doesnt show thursdays in the selection. I changed my regular office hours to include those days. Can anyone tell me what i am doing wrong
Thanks Kevin! Do you expect Microsoft to ever come out with an Adobe Acrobat competitor? I'm paying for 365 but there's nothing for pdfs quite like Adobe.
I have tried to set this up and my business hours are not working correctly. I am open M-F, and my business hours/office hours to book state this under business hour. However, it is only allowing people to book on Mondays only. T-F is grayed out with no meetings availalbe. Any advice?
Great video. I will be sharing with coworkers. For the Personal booking page. Is there a way to change the picture options for the banner? On the personal page I only see stock pictures, and to be honest, they aren't great. I know how to change for the Shared page but was wanting different picture for personal. Thanks.
One thing not shown here that's really annoying is that the Personal Bookings Page requires users to either sign in to the Microsoft account or click Continue as Guest. You can't bypass this, which is just terrible usability. Interestingly, if you set up a shared bookings page, the link does not require this extra step. *But* it creates a new, unlicensed Microsoft account based on the name of the shared calendar, and you can't reuse an existing MS email address). Why is nothing with Microsoft ever straightforward?!? They seem to really hate users!
In your video, it looks like your meeting is coming through as tentative and you have the option to approve it. Mine meetings are coming through as pre-approved. I can cancel or reschedule, but they are automatically accepted and it doesn't appear that there is an option to review or confirm.
For this to work for me I want to be able to select specific times on specific days to make a limited number of meetings available. Primarily as I have a number of different calendars so not all my events are in one place. I couldn’t see an easy way to do that in this tool.
this is possible through the Shared Bookings page, there's an option to set specific days and hours for that particular "service". And you can set it individually for each service you create.
Hi, Kevin. . I would like to know if it is possible to automate Booking by creating a planner task within Teams informing who the staff will do the task, but without allowing the client to choose the staff. The staff person has to be selected randomly through booking and then, with automation, send it to teams by opening a task in the planner informing who from the staff will do the meeting. I appreciate your response. Thank you very much!
@KevinStratvert - I am experimenting with a new Bookings page, and tested it out as the "invitee" from a separate computer using my personal email. When I attempted to book, I got prompted to login to a Microsoft account. When I rejected the Microsoft login, I was prompted to authenticate my email by clicking a link in a message Microsoft Bookings sent to my inbox in order to book the meeting. Is this normal? I am afraid of creating friction in the "book a meeting" workflow if guests have to login to Microsoft *OR* confirm a follow-up email to book... This seems like too much friction relative to other tools I have used (Calendly, HubSpot Meetings) - or am I doing something wrong?
there's a way to allow for people to join the meeting "anonymously" without the need to login to any account. It's a checkbox in the shared booking page.
Great video, Kevin. My organization includes the option to book a meeting room when setting up an in-house meeting in Outlook. When I try to create a booking event, I see a location option, but it doesn't populate with the company's available rooms. Is it possible to incorporate the Rooms option in My Bookings?
I was wondering if microsoft would allow for a migration from family 365 to business. I need this bookings feature. Do you perhaps know if its possible to migrate?
Hi Kevin, Good day. We would like to know if this Booking Page is suitable for our booking purpose. We have around 100+ time slots available within the upcoming few months for the public to book and take up. Each time slot is an hour and can only be booked and taken up by one party/ voter. We would like to open up these slots for the public to vote, are we able to do so and if we could, are we able to generate the summarized report on the final voting result? During the voting process, we understand that voters could change and update their vote. Could be set a vote closing time? Will voters' detailed (name of voter / Organization) and their voting date and time slot booked be captured in the final voting summary report? Thank you. Chok
really do not understand why there is not "Open time" service option .. where customer can decide how much time he wants.. Also this app does not support booking "request" - so customer will request time window and i as service provider will approve it or reject it.. Like : "I as customer want to book car rental - Porsche 911" me as service provider will put there - Yes i approve it because we have one ready for you or .. reject request .. sorry our car was delayed or current customer extended rental... just example. Unfortunately "Booking app" is very simple and does not support lot of use cases I need :/
Hello Kevin, as always very helpful video. I wanted to ask you about how you record your videos. Do you record the screen in parallel to the audio or first record audio and tell put screen walkthroughs on it as b-roll. Wud be glad to get an answer. :)
ARG Why microsoft!!! why give options but then handicap the options.. I want have it available right now during this day. no leadtime Just 15min interval during 9-15(3pm) today.
not really, because tentative is being seen as busy by the bookings tool. But if you set your availability to free on those specific meetings (has to be done manually) it could work
@@KevinStratvert On your earlier video on this topic, UA-cam presents the message, "This video has been removed for violating UA-cam's policy on harassment and bullying." I cannot imagine you harassing or bullying someone, so what exactly did UA-cam object to?
@@Eternal_Tech it’s pretty lame… I logged into a demo account for Nestor to show the end to end flow and made a joke that I was able to log in because I am the IT admin at the Kevin Cookie Company. UA-cam said: “Content that shares, threatens to share, encourages others to share non-public personally identifiable information isn’t allowed on UA-cam. This includes, but is not limited to, an individual’s home address, email address, sign-in credentials, phone number, passport number, medical records, and bank account information.” I guess they didn’t realize that Nestor is a fictitious character here at the company. I updated the video to remove the reference and blurred out all demo account emails. 😔
@@KevinStratvert Thanks for explanation. Those of us who follow you through RSS links (I use feedly) have not got the updated link to this. I only found it after watching your next video.
@@KevinStratvert UA-cam has gone to extremes when it comes to content moderation. I have had comments deleted that contained nothing threatening, profane, illegal, discriminatory, etc. However, with comments, I receive no notice that they were deleted and certainly no reason for why they were removed. Many content creators have resorted to using code words when discussing certain topics in order not to trigger demonetization or worse. For example, UA-cam does not appear to like the "s" word when it comes to the action of a person taking their own life. Some have resorted to using the term, "self deletion," in its place. This occurs when "self deletion" is not encouraged, but just when stated as a fact or discussed as a social issue. In addition, online censorship by large tech companies has become a class issue. For example, expensive Hollywood movies often depict massive amounts of violence, s?xual situations, obscene language, acts of discrimination, inappropriate behavior, etc. However, not only does UA-cam allow such Hollywood movies on their site, they permit ads on them as well. But if a smaller content creator uploads a video that insinuates someone has shared personally identifiable information of a fictitious character, then that video is removed, but the Hollywood movie that shows people being killed, often in graphic and horrible ways, is considered perfectly acceptable. It would be nice if there was a suitable alternative to UA-cam that did not believe that _1984_ is a guidebook that should be followed.
Hi kevin, i was watching the video where you created the kevincookiecompany website. I wanted to ask you if I need a website host or anything else after publishing it
I did this and just had my first client book a meeting/training with me, so easy!!! I love it thanks kevin!!!
Thank you, short, straight to the main point, love it.
I have spent so much time comparing booking pages and rates, flexibilities etc. Right now ll I wanted was exactly what you showed! I ended up in a week's worth of research and application learning hell. Literally! What a waste of time and lost advertising time equalling lost business. Typically I stay away from anything Microsoft. (many reasons Long story not needed) but I'm incredibly grateful for running across your video tutorial!
Your videos are extremely helpful, thanks Kevin! 💯 👨🏼💻
Liked before watching cus it’s Kevin🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
I love this! Is it possible to set up a booking page for someones elses calendar? I am an executive assistant and a calendar delegate for several executives. It would be so helpful If I could set up booking pages with availability for each of my executives.
Hey bro your videos are helpful
Great video as always but not really something that I or people in my company would adopt.
Expecting a like from kevin
Hi Kevin! Thank you for this video. I can see another option in Bookings with me right below the Public or Private option, which is actually a checkbox called "Send an email with your personal bookings page to your top collaborators" that shows some of the pictographs of my colleagues. Would you mind explaining what it is about? Thank you!
why does this man always make me smile
Great Video, I just wished I could use place holders for the Email reminders like Hi [FirstName] and we booked a session on [MeetingDateTime] or something like that.
Very informative thank you! I do have a question regarding the blocks. One ca set up 1 hour, 30min blocks and so on. But is there an option to let the client see your availability and the decide that he needs for example 2h:45 starting from 8:10?
This would also be great as a meeting room management system if you share the room with different organizations or if you have member who are not in your organization but being able to book the room!
Thanks Kevin!
Superb thanks for your video. I can do it for my delivery purposes.
This was a very much informative video!! your contents are always clean and easy to understand, keep up the good work! such Insightful videos help many people around!
Thank you for making this video! I'm a teacher and I'd love to use this software to allow students to book office hours with me, but I don't want to limit the appointments to 1 on 1. I typically meet with groups of between 1 and 4 students, who all book independently. Is there a way to make the time slots non-exclusive, so that a small number of people could book the same appointment? Thanks again 🙏
Yes. When you "add a service" one of the options is Maximum number of attendees.
As usual, a great video by the great Cookie Whisperer!
Is there a way to edit the event description that is sent to the person once they book it?
I will test your way in my Center of Expertise Medical Engineering, THANKS for helping
Thank you for your video! I have an issue that I need help with. At my company, we have two rooms where clients can book time slots for themselves, and I made two separate booking pages for the two rooms. However, microsoft calendar I guess is just using one calendar for both. What ends up happening is, when a client books Room A for 3pm, the calendar will show that Room B is booked for that same time slot. It doesn't show up as available for the Room B booking, even though it is. How do I make it so that it is two independent rooms being booked in my calendar? This has been very difficult to deal with, and we cannot have as many bookings as we can. I'd appreciate any tips or help with this issue. Thank you!
I have been trying to make a public booking pager available for my students for wednesdays and thursdays for 30 min each. I select custom hours for those days and create the booking which booking does alright. But when i email it , it only shows wednesdays and doesnt show thursdays in the selection. I changed my regular office hours to include those days. Can anyone tell me what i am doing wrong
could be a conflict somewhere in availability or the options in the page.
Sir, can you help me on what software you using for the video editing?
DaVinci Resolve Studio
Thanks Kevin! Do you expect Microsoft to ever come out with an Adobe Acrobat competitor? I'm paying for 365 but there's nothing for pdfs quite like Adobe.
I have tried to set this up and my business hours are not working correctly. I am open M-F, and my business hours/office hours to book state this under business hour. However, it is only allowing people to book on Mondays only. T-F is grayed out with no meetings availalbe. Any advice?
have you tried using custom hours for a service?
Thank you for the video!
Great video. I will be sharing with coworkers. For the Personal booking page. Is there a way to change the picture options for the banner? On the personal page I only see stock pictures, and to be honest, they aren't great. I know how to change for the Shared page but was wanting different picture for personal. Thanks.
One thing not shown here that's really annoying is that the Personal Bookings Page requires users to either sign in to the Microsoft account or click Continue as Guest. You can't bypass this, which is just terrible usability. Interestingly, if you set up a shared bookings page, the link does not require this extra step. *But* it creates a new, unlicensed Microsoft account based on the name of the shared calendar, and you can't reuse an existing MS email address). Why is nothing with Microsoft ever straightforward?!? They seem to really hate users!
I agree, creating a new MS email address for the page is annoying, but on the other hand if you're creative with it, it doesn't look that bad.
In your video, it looks like your meeting is coming through as tentative and you have the option to approve it. Mine meetings are coming through as pre-approved. I can cancel or reschedule, but they are automatically accepted and it doesn't appear that there is an option to review or confirm.
For this to work for me I want to be able to select specific times on specific days to make a limited number of meetings available. Primarily as I have a number of different calendars so not all my events are in one place. I couldn’t see an easy way to do that in this tool.
Me too! I was looking for info on the same thing.
this is possible through the Shared Bookings page, there's an option to set specific days and hours for that particular "service". And you can set it individually for each service you create.
Hi, Kevin. . I would like to know if it is possible to automate Booking by creating a planner task within Teams informing who the staff will do the task, but without allowing the client to choose the staff. The staff person has to be selected randomly through booking and then, with automation, send it to teams by opening a task in the planner informing who from the staff will do the meeting. I appreciate your response. Thank you very much!
Can I do specific dates rather than just a day of the week M-F and time? i.e 12/29 1-3p or 1/7 2-5p?
@KevinStratvert - I am experimenting with a new Bookings page, and tested it out as the "invitee" from a separate computer using my personal email.
When I attempted to book, I got prompted to login to a Microsoft account.
When I rejected the Microsoft login, I was prompted to authenticate my email by clicking a link in a message Microsoft Bookings sent to my inbox in order to book the meeting.
Is this normal? I am afraid of creating friction in the "book a meeting" workflow if guests have to login to Microsoft *OR* confirm a follow-up email to book...
This seems like too much friction relative to other tools I have used (Calendly, HubSpot Meetings) - or am I doing something wrong?
there's a way to allow for people to join the meeting "anonymously" without the need to login to any account. It's a checkbox in the shared booking page.
@@Titanify thanks!
Great video, Kevin. My organization includes the option to book a meeting room when setting up an in-house meeting in Outlook. When I try to create a booking event, I see a location option, but it doesn't populate with the company's available rooms. Is it possible to incorporate the Rooms option in My Bookings?
Thank you for this video. How would you go about using this if you manage other calendars?
How do I set 20 minutes meeting time? It seems that I can go for 15,30,45,1,etc but not 20. Does anyone know if this is possible?
Thanks for this video 🙂. Do you know if we can integrate payments?
You could always insert a payment link into the meeting type description. There’s no integrated payments option.
I was wondering if microsoft would allow for a migration from family 365 to business. I need this bookings feature. Do you perhaps know if its possible to migrate?
Yup, that's possible
Hi Kevin,
Good day.
We would like to know if this Booking Page is suitable for our booking purpose.
We have around 100+ time slots available within the upcoming few months for the public to book and take up.
Each time slot is an hour and can only be booked and taken up by one party/ voter.
We would like to open up these slots for the public to vote, are we able to do so and if we could, are we able to generate the summarized report on the final voting result?
During the voting process, we understand that voters could change and update their vote.
Could be set a vote closing time?
Will voters' detailed (name of voter / Organization) and their voting date and time slot booked be captured in the final voting summary report?
Thank you.
Chok
The booked slots in my Outlook app takes few hours to sync, any Ideas how to update that?
really do not understand why there is not "Open time" service option .. where customer can decide how much time he wants..
Also this app does not support booking "request" - so customer will request time window and i as service provider will approve it or reject it..
Like : "I as customer want to book car rental - Porsche 911" me as service provider will put there - Yes i approve it because we have one ready for you or .. reject request .. sorry our car was delayed or current customer extended rental... just example.
Unfortunately "Booking app" is very simple and does not support lot of use cases I need :/
what tool are you using now to do this? Not sure there's many out there that have that option.
@@Titanify in house developed
This is all nice and very well explained, but! HOW DO YOU DELETE them afterward?
It's a mailbox so it needs to be deleted in M365 Admin
I got a question is there any Blu-ray players that have a Blu-ray Disc recorder in it like a dvd recorder
Can we use this as Function Room booking for our organisation?
Is there a way to turn off the verification code when you send an invite?
only if you use a shared booking page and check the box to allow people to join anonymously
Hello Kevin, as always very helpful video. I wanted to ask you about how you record your videos. Do you record the screen in parallel to the audio or first record audio and tell put screen walkthroughs on it as b-roll. Wud be glad to get an answer. :)
Why did the first video get taken down for "bullying or harassment"?!
Can you explain please about the new Outlook preview desktop app ?
where can I sign up for this cookie consultation? I'm rather peckish.
I don't have this option in my outlook. how do I get this?
ARG Why microsoft!!! why give options but then handicap the options..
I want have it available right now during this day. no leadtime
Just 15min interval during 9-15(3pm) today.
Is it possible to book my tentative meetings as available times?
not really, because tentative is being seen as busy by the bookings tool. But if you set your availability to free on those specific meetings (has to be done manually) it could work
Failed site
I copied every instruction and my client is asking me about cookie? 🤣🤣
I must be loosing it. I thought I watched this video last night. Is this version different?
Slightly different. UA-cam didn’t like a portion in the middle so needed to edit and re-upload.
@@KevinStratvert On your earlier video on this topic, UA-cam presents the message, "This video has been removed for violating UA-cam's policy on harassment and bullying." I cannot imagine you harassing or bullying someone, so what exactly did UA-cam object to?
@@Eternal_Tech it’s pretty lame… I logged into a demo account for Nestor to show the end to end flow and made a joke that I was able to log in because I am the IT admin at the Kevin Cookie Company. UA-cam said: “Content that shares, threatens to share, encourages others to share non-public personally identifiable information isn’t allowed on UA-cam. This includes, but is not limited to, an individual’s home address, email address, sign-in credentials, phone number, passport number, medical records, and bank account information.” I guess they didn’t realize that Nestor is a fictitious character here at the company. I updated the video to remove the reference and blurred out all demo account emails. 😔
@@KevinStratvert Thanks for explanation.
Those of us who follow you through RSS links (I use feedly) have not got the updated link to this.
I only found it after watching your next video.
@@KevinStratvert UA-cam has gone to extremes when it comes to content moderation. I have had comments deleted that contained nothing threatening, profane, illegal, discriminatory, etc. However, with comments, I receive no notice that they were deleted and certainly no reason for why they were removed.
Many content creators have resorted to using code words when discussing certain topics in order not to trigger demonetization or worse. For example, UA-cam does not appear to like the "s" word when it comes to the action of a person taking their own life. Some have resorted to using the term, "self deletion," in its place. This occurs when "self deletion" is not encouraged, but just when stated as a fact or discussed as a social issue.
In addition, online censorship by large tech companies has become a class issue. For example, expensive Hollywood movies often depict massive amounts of violence, s?xual situations, obscene language, acts of discrimination, inappropriate behavior, etc. However, not only does UA-cam allow such Hollywood movies on their site, they permit ads on them as well. But if a smaller content creator uploads a video that insinuates someone has shared personally identifiable information of a fictitious character, then that video is removed, but the Hollywood movie that shows people being killed, often in graphic and horrible ways, is considered perfectly acceptable.
It would be nice if there was a suitable alternative to UA-cam that did not believe that _1984_ is a guidebook that should be followed.
1st comment sir
calendly and google calendar just got out of business
it still lacks a lot of functionality that Calendly has, so not just yet ;)
Hi kevin, i was watching the video where you created the kevincookiecompany website. I wanted to ask you if I need a website host or anything else after publishing it
I use google sites to host that website, which is free to use 👍
@@KevinStratvert thank you so much