Microsoft Bookings Tutorial - Get started in 20 minutes (Fully updated for late 2023)

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Are you looking to get started with Microsoft Bookings? In this short tutorial, we'll show you how to set up your account, add customers, and schedule appointments.
If you're new to Microsoft Bookings, this tutorial will show you the basics you need to get started. We'll walk you through the steps of activating your account and then we'll show you how to schedule appointments. By the end of this video, you'll be ready to start booking appointments with your clients!
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Chapters:
0:01 Introduction
0:48 First time in Bookings
1:31 Your Bookings Page
2:10 Bookings with Me
8:36 Shared Bookings pages and calendars
16:03 Virtual Appointments app in Teams
17:37 Understand anonymous Teams links
18:29 Other help
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@marcdoliveira4906 8 күн бұрын

Outstanding! Thank you much.

@brightideasagency 3 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching

@ce9916 3 ай бұрын

EXCELLENT demo, thank you so much!

@brightideasagency 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

@PhilCrombieMTB 7 ай бұрын

Great thanks for making! Now to check out more videos:))

@brightideasagency 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@wanaylavens7447 8 ай бұрын

Appreciate the tips thank you! How do you delete a shared bookings page? I am struggling to delete a shared booking space that's not used anymore.

@brightideasagency 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. Check this out: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/bookings/delete-calendar?view=o365-worldwide

@chanansiegel834 6 ай бұрын

Is it possible to automate setting availability hours ?

@nicolebrown9743 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for this video! I've watched a few videos on Bookings now to better understand it and you mentioned things I hadn't heard before - thank you! I love when things can be automated and was so happy to see the follow-up email feature in Bookings. In testing it out, I've noticed that in the email the customer receives it reads "You have an upcoming booking" after their name and then "Appointment reminder". I'm confused as this seems out of place for a follow-up email that is sent after the booking has taken place and I can't see where I can edit either of these. You obviously have a much more comprehensive understanding of Microsoft products and IT than me! Do you know where I can change this or have any suggestions as to what might be happening, please?

@brightideasagency 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. For shared bookings calendars you edit these emails under the edit service and then notifications page. You can add either reminders or after visit follow-ups. It sounds like perhaps the reminder template got edited rather than the follow-up email.

@BigBlazin88 5 ай бұрын

Hello, thank you for creating the video. It’s very informative. I have just begun your use Bookings and have a question. Can Bookings be tied to a shared calendar in a way that it is not tied to a persons calendar? For instance, we are trying to use it so that our employees can schedule time to meet with a guest we have invited to our company. When I setup a shared booking page it is always tied to my personal calendar. Is there a way around this? Thank you!

@brightideasagency 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. A shared booking page can include multiple team members and you can set it up to either require one, some, or all of them to attend the appointment. Only the personal booking page should be automatically tied to your own calendar.

@pietrog6619 5 ай бұрын

Great video. Why when a organizational user try to book an appointment throuth the shared booking page, the current user is not catch and the meeting does not appear into the calendar user that are booking?

@brightideasagency 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. Unfortunately, this is just the capability of this platform and similar platforms. You might consider scheduling assistant in outlook for a similar experience that would work as you describe.

@Ludwig.KameraSpiel 4 ай бұрын

Hey, such a great tutorial, thank you! I am missing the function for an invited person to cancel the appointment through the email. Do you where to set that up?

@brightideasagency 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. If they added the booking themselves, they can return to the bookings page to manage their appointment from the reschedule link in the email. If you make the booking for them, there is an option under the service settings to let the attendee manage their appointment, you need to turn this on ahead of making the appointment to enable self-service management.

@Ludwig.KameraSpiel 4 ай бұрын

@@brightideasagency thanks a lot!!! I would it, so good!

@lyssadaud 5 ай бұрын

Hi, this is very informative l. May i know how to delete the booking page? Because when we click the ellipsis, the only option is clone.

@brightideasagency 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. You’re going to want to delete the associated account for that bookings calendar.

@mateootterstedt4300 5 ай бұрын

Great Video! I get the same problem when I want to delete a shared bookingpage. I don't know how. What do you mean when you're talking about deleting the associated account? I would appreciate it if you could be more precise, because I don't find the way to delete some team booking calendars.@@brightideasagency

@DMobley232 5 ай бұрын

I like, but what I need is for the external vendor to be able to book at time that works for multiple internal employees. All I see is they can select one employee. Am I wrong?

@brightideasagency 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. It depends on what you’re trying to achieve. If you want a group of a few internal contacts to be bookable all together, you can do that. But if you want the external vendor to just be able to choose multiple users to book with from a list of your staff, you cannot. If you can predefined the groupings, bookings can handle it.

@kevinleon7772 Ай бұрын

Hi there. I have a question on the Region and time zone settings. I changed this to my current time zone and checked the box, "always show time slots in business time zone" We do business nationally, so should I leave off that checked item? I would love for the user to view times available in there time zone wherever they are booking.

@brightideasagency 26 күн бұрын

Yes, you generally want the guests to be able to view the time slots in their local time zone. Bookings will make sure they get on your calendar at the right time.

@kevinleon7772 26 күн бұрын

@@brightideasagency perfect! I got it thank you sir. I passed on your video to a few people in my organization.

@willametteviewresidents5391 14 күн бұрын

I have a shared bookings calendar that I am experimenting with. I have the general evaluability scheduled for one day a week between 9:00 am and 2:00 pm, however when I test it it gives me booking options at 5:00 am etc. why is this?

@brightideasagency 11 күн бұрын

The most likely reason for what you're describing is a time zone issue. There are multiple places that impact what timeslots are offered to guests though, including the business schedule, calendar schedule, and the availability on your own calendar (or that of the person/people being booked on the calendar).

@lloyddefrance 5 ай бұрын

I want my staff to choose an appointment time for a group meeting. I tried using Scheduling Assistant, but it doesn't provide an opportunity for attendees to adjust their appointments to accommodate my schedule. It's not clear to me in your video if this is possible.

@brightideasagency 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. No, this kind of scenario with two or more independent set of variables is not really a good fit for Bookings. I would recommend you look into the Scheduling Poll feature which is designed for this kind of scenario.

@UncleF115 8 ай бұрын

i still dont get how much of diff this make compare to just book meeting from the outlook/team calendar. this looks like for doctor or some kind of consultant ppl to use with their client.

@brightideasagency 8 ай бұрын

It’s definitely not a fit for everyone, but for anyone who spends time “negotiating” available calendar slots for meetings with others, this tool will probably save time. But, like most things in M365, it’s there, but if it doesn’t work for you there no reason to feel compelled to use it, there are lots of other ways of setting appointments.

@Francisx10x 5 ай бұрын

I can not add the "teams Meeting" to my bookings. Do you know how i could fix that?

@brightideasagency 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. If an online meeting, Bookings should send you a Teams invite.

@rogerp1477 11 күн бұрын

We embedded the microsoft booking page as an iFrame on our website page. Now to track the visitor interaction, we want to add Google tag manager code to the bookings page. But I don't know how? Any suggestions? Thanks.

@brightideasagency 11 күн бұрын

I don't think there's any way to do this directly with Bookings. This is an area where options that exist in products like Calendly simply aren't present in Bookings.

@rogerp1477 11 күн бұрын

@@brightideasagency Thank you.

@WaveBag_Packaging 2 күн бұрын

Hi! I wanted to use a booking page shared with the team to be able to organise appointments with customers during a trade fair. So I would need the only available days and times to be those of the event. Unfortunately, even if I set the exact days (date, month and day of the week) it gives me the possibility to book at all times and days. Could you help me?

@brightideasagency 3 сағат бұрын

It seems like you probably do not have your custom availability period set-up correctly. This is the main way to constrain a service to a particular period of time from the service management screen. If you are still running into problems with this, feel free to book a short call with me to review the set-up process: calendly.com/nickdc1/

@teovinmont 8 ай бұрын

I'm having trouble with Bookings because it is not sending the meeting link for clients at the time of the appointment, and I can only send reminders 15 minutes before the meeting, and it doesn't help much. Do you know if there is a way to solve this?

@brightideasagency 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. This is not a general issue I’m aware of so without looking at your specific setup I have no advice other than to ensure you’ve gone through the setup process as described.

@truthpls 5 ай бұрын

Hello, great tutorial but I found the background music a bit distracting.

@brightideasagency 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for your feedback.

@erniesulovic4734 4 ай бұрын

I am a shiftworker so my availability changes daily and so i need a calendar where i can add my available times for each specific day....is that possible using MS Bookings

@brightideasagency 4 ай бұрын

You already have that calendar in Outlook. Bookings only exposes the availability in your existing calendar, the foundation of making Bookings work for you is always having an up to date Outlook calendar. Ensure the times you are unavailable are booked out as busy or out of office. Then set up the service info you want in Bookings, it will only show availability that both matches your Outlook calendar availability and the availability settings you assigned to your service.

@erniesulovic4734 4 ай бұрын

@@brightideasagency Ok perfect. Thanks very much for that :-) Hugely appreciated 🙂

@lubnahameed3826 8 ай бұрын

I want to offer two meetings on one day, for an 1.5hrs long. One in the morning and one in the afternoon. Is that possible? I can’t seem to set it up?

@brightideasagency 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. Not out of the box. I’d probably turn to Power Automate to do this, there are a few approaches of varying complexity you could take. How complicated it would need to be would really depend on factors like how fixed the appointment schedule would be and how complex the availability on the underlying calendars was.

@lubnahameed3826 8 ай бұрын

@@brightideasagency ok I’m not sure how to use power automate, I have managed to get it to show three times options by altering the increments etc but I wanted it to show just two time options rather than 3 🤔

@brightideasagency 8 ай бұрын

You could just have a meeting option for morning and afternoon and apply different availability schedules to each option if the two meetings don’t need to be connected in any way