DayScheduler Blog

Usually when you think of a calendar, people associate it to their personal schedules. What am I going to be doing do on that day kind of thought!
The thing is, people’s schedule is not the only thing that calendars are used for.

Let’s look at some other use cases:

• A vacation property that you share with your friends and family. It is not an AirB&B, but it is used year-round.
• An expensive piece of equipment that is shared by its different construction crews.
• A shared car among friends that live in the city
• A large zoom lens used by the photographers students
• A small recording studio you share with your fellow musicians.
• The conference room with the big whiteboard in your office

With any of the use cases above mentioned, there is a person in charge of receiving request, checking availability, communicating and negotiating the booking.

Managing a schedule can be time consuming for anyone. Even at a daily level, the back-and-forth negotiation of the requests can take a lot of effort.

There are several commercial calendar and booking systems out there ranging from reservation systems to online calendars. Many of them contain features to monetize the process and have complex workflows which can be difficult to setup and manage.
DayScheduler was designed to be simple and quickly provide the user a month-at-a glace of the resource schedule, and then make it easy to view available days, and request them.

List of Actual Use Cases (Updated as they are published) "Series: Using DayScheduler" follow:

• Traveling SME
• Motivational Speaker
• Babysitter
• Lawyer

- Specialty Lecturer

There are 3 different modes:

• Open
• Blocked
• Private
• Password Protected

You can choose the way your public calendar view settings display by going into settings and selecting your Privacy from the pull-down:

Open View Mode

In this view, everyone visiting the site can view the requested location, requester name and the notes.

Blocked View Mode

In this mode view each day that has been requested will be listed as RESERVED. No details will be listed.

Private View Mode

This mode shows only which days are blocked (in grey). Available days show in white. No details are shown.

Password Protected Mode

This is the most restrictive mode. Users that visit the site are prompted to enter a password to view your calendar.

Hope this helps!

Created this quick 3 minute demo of the product so visitors can view the product before going into the demo site

The video has a walk-through with up-beat music

Enjoy!

http://dayscheduler.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgrUzdK3MFg&list=PLTYV8twpsavs7McSQhj-wir5R_U0i9RmP&index=1

A new Private View Demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbV_zXMFJg0&list=PLTYV8twpsavs7McSQhj-wir5R_U0i9RmP&index=3

Like most of you know, it travel a bit! :-)

My schedule is always changing and it is a but challenging to manage. Even my wife can't keep track of where I am... So a while back I created a web-app to help me and, my family/friends and customers have visibility over my schedule and have the ability to book available days at anytime. Some people found it useful, and several of them asked me if I would make it available for them to use it.

The result: https://dayscheduler.com

It is a silly simple web-app, but it has been fun to develop it. Best part of all? It is already helping others save time!

If you know of anyone that can use it - feel free to forward to them, so they can take it for a spin. I am looking for a few brave beta users to help me test and improve it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GVmcswxVII&list=PLTYV8twpsavs7McSQhj-wir5R_U0i9RmP&index=2

With so many calendar applications, the question often comes up as to why we needed another one. Why is this one different?

After searching a for a while, I could not find a simple, easy to use and inexpensive application that covered my requirements.

I needed to present a calendar to my customers, where they can quickly see my availability, and allowed them to quickly request a day that is convenient to them. The request comes to me via email, and if I accept it, it then adds it to my calendar. I then inform them that I have accepted, and we are confirmed (did not want to do that automatically).

I have been using it for about a year, and it has worked really well for me, and it has been a great time-saver for me and my customers. No more back and forth emails to try to find “a day that works”. I have my travel and daily bookings calendar in an easy to view day format . Even my family can see where I will be and where have I been.

Originally it was my own application, but as others used it, they asked about it, and I started to develop it a bit further. Got the domain, create some branding about it, then create the sales page ( Dayscheduler.com ). As those initial few and brave users started to use it, I got feedback and improved it. (Thank you!)

Side note: The 360-feedback loop has been greatly satisfying. Someone recommends a feature or improvement (or finds a bug), it gets evaluated, and if feasible queue. If not, then goes into parked items, for “disposition”.

As part of the improvement process, I added some administration and back-office management pages, and now we have a web-application that can scale.

We (my father and I) started a Facebook page (and corresponding blog) about a week ago, and started to fill it in with content and a few demo videos, so we can begin to extend the invitation to friends and family.

It is a bit nerve-racking, to put something “out there”, but it is always fun to do this, and really enjoy the process.

Hope you give DayScheduler a try!

https://dayscheduler.com

DayScheduler is an intuitive and easy-to-use day-based Scheduling / Booking System

DayScheduler was developed as a way to provide visibility of daily availability of a resource (person or thing) and offer users the ability to request bookings. Specifically designed for solopreneurs on the go, it can be used in a variety of use cases. From scheduling people, or other resources (conference rooms, cars, offices)

DayScheduler is an intuitive web-based application to help individuals or teams provide visibility of daily availability of a resource (person or thing) and offer users the ability to request booking.

• NO MORE EXCEL SPREADSHEETS
• NO MORE PAPER-BASED SYSTEMS YOU CAN NOT SHARE
• NO MORE BACK AND FORTH ON EMAILS

Just point to your customers to your personalized URL, so they can know your availability in an easy to see calendar format, and let them request a day!

Key Features include:

• Monthly view of booked and available days.
• Easy to use. Touch Friendly. Use Anywhere
• Ability to display data. Private or public
• Click on available date to request booking
• Emails requests, and allows owner to confirm / decline
• Three stages of booking: On hold, Tentative, Confirmed
• Provides ability to export data
• Admin Interface to enter date notes, comments, status changes, block days,and more!

• History Logs of activities made

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