These apps for product based businesses are time savers that will help you automate your sales. If you don’t have an assistant, or you’re looking to cut down on time spent on administrative tasks, these apps will help you.
Business Scheduling Apps
When you’re choosing a scheduling app, there are many things you’ll need to consider:
- Does the app allow for custom buffer times?
- Does your business offer different appointment types for different purposes?
- Should your potential client access your complete schedule or only schedules reserved for certain services?
- Does your app connect to your personal calendar and alert you when new appointments are scheduled?
- To get a text alert will you need to connect third party software like Zapier?
- In addition, does your calendar allow people to double book appointments?
- Do you need to add code to your website to allow customers to book different services with custom buttons?
- Does the payment software integrate with the theme of your website?
If you’re using a platform like WordPress, additional scheduling software can help you connect with clients. However, even if you’re using a platform like Shopify, you might need to connect an app for complex scheduling, especially if you’re selling services as products in Shopify.
Zapiet
Zapiet is a tool designed to help you take more control over your schedule and design a calendar for product pickup times and delivery systems.
Zapiet is a powerful tool for product-based businesses. The tool allows shop owners to restrict pick up times in Shopify which gives business owners more control over availability. (You can see the tutorial about adding product date restrictions here).
The software can easily assist with calculating delivery rates based on zip codes. With Zapiet, you can also:
- Block off sections of your calendar to prevent customers from scheduling during certain times
- Create custom buffer times on your calendar to prevent scheduling miscommunications
- Create area-based boundaries for product delivery (you can set up a delivery zone, and if customers fall outside of the zone, delivery will not be available)
Zapier
While you might be wondering how Zapier can help you with your product-based business, this is a powerful automation tool. You can use Zapier to trigger an email with a link to your calendar that allows someone to schedule a discovery call, service, or product pickup.
If you don’t have a website to support complex scheduling software, you can use an automation system like Zapier to sent clients links to your schedule or offer after signing up for a free guide. If you’re using a separate scheduling app, for example, you could send a welcome email with a Candely link for a discovery call so your client can get to know you.
This would be for specific types of businesses balancing multiple platforms and looking for a way to connect everything into one cohesive system.
Helpful Zapier Automation Guides:
Acuity
Acuity is a scheduling system designed by SquareSpace that works with Zapier to create business-specific automations.
The app can connect to your personal or business calendar and offers many options to customize the scheduling process. If you’d like customers to answer questions or provide specific information before scheduling, Acuity makes it easy to add forms and custom fields to the scheduler.
Other Apps For Product-Based Businesses
Depending on the platform you’re using to host your website, you’ll need apps to elevate your email marketing strategy, financial tracking, coupons, discounts, and more.
If you run a smaller businesses, consider a membership platform like MemberPress. MemberPress not only integrates with WooCommerce so you can sell services as products and create coaching subscriptions. The software also allows you to set up custom discount codes, sales, member-only downloads, and protected membership areas for certain clients.
