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Lana O'Brien
Jul 20, 2016Former Employee
Announcement: Bring in business 24/7 with Microsoft Bookings
To help make appointment scheduling simpler and more efficient for you, your staff and your customers, Microsoft is introducing a new Office 365 service called Microsoft Bookings!
Customers can schedule your business directly online
Reduce missed appointments with confirmations and reminders
Make it easy for your customers to reschedule or cancel bookings
Manage bookings and customer information from anywhere
Automatically add bookings on staff calendars
Bookings is now rolling out in First Release to customers who subscribe to the Office 365 Business Premium plan and will roll out to all Business Premium customers worldwide in the coming months. Read more of Office Blogs.
- arcsectorCopper Contributor
Is there any plan to role this out to GCC tenants?
- balkonhotelCopper Contributor
Lana O'BrienAwesome. Great stuff
- balkonhotelCopper Contributor
Very Good!! We are waiting for it to come to E3 and E5
- William HardwickIron ContributorI have a small business, cleaning services, and have been using SharePoint Calendars for years now. I have workflows that trigger when a employee clicks custom fields off on relations to the job.
My question is, will there be anyway that this service will work with SharePoint? I have Office 365 Business Premium tenant but I can find Microsoft Booking on the Office 365 Launch Bar.
Does anybody know when Micrisift Bookings sitll be available?
- C_the_SBronze Contributor
Tomislav Bronzin wrote:I have Office 365 Business Premium tenant but I can find Microsoft Booking on the Office 365 Launch Bar.
Does anybody know when Micrisift Bookings sitll be available?
Are you on First Release? Those will be the ones to get it first.
After that no one really knows how long it will take to roll out to the rest, it could be many months unfortunately.
- Yes, we have First Release turned on on several tenants that we administrate, but we can't see Bookings :-(
- Lana O'Brien could you please share the question about where bookings data is stored with the team?
- Alistair TriggBrass ContributorHi
For UK users will the data be stored within the EU (Dublin or Amsterdam) or will it be US based?- This is something I would like also to know :-)
- Simon KiddCopper Contributor
is there a way to preview this without having to subscribe to a new SBP tenant ?
- No there is not, at least for now
- Bookings will be released first to Business and Business Premium Plans...after that, I expect an announce from Microsoft saying they will start to roll out to Enterprise plans
- Chris MoonBrass Contributor
Has any one recieved access to Bookings yet? We're on E5 so we're not going to get it for a while, but we have some questions. For example, can appointments be sent by SMS?
- LizP1Iron Contributor
I'm on biz premium and I expect an icon will turn up in my apps, just as sway, planner and delve did - so no, nothing yet.
If I'm looking in the wrong place, can someone let me know :)
- fabien zizekBrass Contributor
Your admin must put you on : First Release. After you match :)