What is Dotcal?
Dotcal is a new appointment booking platform for creators, entrepreneurs and freelancers that allows you to create an appointment page to send to customers to make an appointment with you. This gives customers the freedom to choose when to book an appointment.
You can also use it for your internal team meetings. You no longer need to call or email to set up an appointment. It is also said that Dotcal is a web design for the reservation service.
Dotcal allows you to easily integrate an existing calendar (for example Google Calendar) that shows the times when you are available. Customers can easily match their availability to yours and book the meeting.
You won't be able to manage your calendar with Dotcal. The idea behind Dotcal is that customers can book time with you on your external calendars like Google Calendar.
Features
1. Dotlinks
Dotcal creates a link that you can paste directly into your email and allows your customers to book appointments without problems. Both receive confirmation, which is how automation works.
The best part is that you can customize your dotlinks. You can give full access to your calendar if the schedules don't work by selecting specific dates and times.
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2. Integration
Do you want people to book a schedule without ever leaving your website?
Dotcal has a solution for that. You can easily integrate your booking page on the website.
Go to Settings>Integration> choose a standard frame or a responsive fullscreen iframe, copy the code and paste it onto your web page.
3. Customizable appointment
Appointments are cancelled and rescheduled all the time.
You have the option of letting customers cancel/replace their appointments or not letting customers change the schedule at all, depending on the situation.
Beautiful booking pages
There's already a solution for schedule booking pages, but they're lackluster and uninspiring.
Not all pages are optimized, they look good and create a lasting impression. Visuals matter today, Dotcal promises users high quality booking pages.
Color palettes
You can choose default color palettes or create your own based on your brand needs. It's easy to choose and easy to implement.
Pricing
Dotcal has a free plan. There you can create a booking page, synchronize it with a calendar, use Dotlinks and widgets for the site.
Paid plans start at $8 per month. The professional rate allows you to create an unlimited number of pages, work with two calendars, add the availability of colleagues, remove the Dotcal brand, and set up invitations.
Enterprise (in addition to all of the above features) will allow you to work with six calendars and add transfers.
How do I make an appointment with Dotcal?
I love how simple and easy it is to create a booking page with Dotcal.
Let's get started.
- On the home page, click on the New Booking page.
- Choose the model of your choice.
- Fill out the form
- You can change the duration of the calls, the description, and the name of the meeting.
- You also have the option of making the reservation page private.
- Choose a meeting format. Remember that if you don't have your calendar integrated, you won't be able to choose the Zoom and Google Meet option. Integrate your calendar and Zoom. The advantage of Dotcal is that you can choose the format of the meeting: in person, by phone, by video, by Google Meet, by Zoom, and by other applications.
- Choose a ready-to-use color palette or customize it by clicking the plus sign to the right of the color palette menu.
- Click on continue customizing.
- You can add co-organizers if needed.
- In the advanced section of the form, you can change the redirect URL after booking a meeting.
- You can also allow the invitee to reschedule or cancel a meeting after booking. This option is editable.
- Add buffer time before or after the meeting.
- Add a custom field if you want to provide additional information.
- Once you have completed the setup, you can save and copy the link to send to your customer at the top right. Before that, you can view the booking page from the option at the top right next to the link option.
It's easy and no hassle with email replies.
Final Verdict
In my practice, using these services is great, that's another Alternative to Calendly which have a free, high-quality offer and an astonishing level of personalization.
But I want to point out that the service is easy to use.
You will be able to use it in less than 5 minutes.
After that, you immediately get a ready-to-use booking page with a beautiful design. In general, I recommend
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