The solution is easy. Google calendar. You can share your calendar with others (so they can see your availability, add appointments) and you can schedule reminders, etc. As far as requesting an appointment you can create one and invite someone else (your barber). Then you get to see if he approved your invite.
Not all customers might be savy enough to use this, so your barber (or you) can manually add appointments for people that schedule offline. This way everyone can check the calendar online to get an idea about availability.
alright, I figured it out.
Set up a gmail account for the barber.
Set up a standard email request on his site.
They click the button sending him the request.
gmail is smart enough to recognize key words (like event) and tag them.
Right click to add them to his calendar.
gives him "approval" rights
allows anyone to email a request for a specific time.
shared calendar can limit everyone to free / busy to keep privacy clean.
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The solution is easy. Google calendar. You can share your calendar with others (so they can see your availability, add appointments) and you can schedule reminders, etc. As far as requesting an appointment you can create one and invite someone else (your barber). Then you get to see if he approved your invite.
Not all customers might be savy enough to use this, so your barber (or you) can manually add appointments for people that schedule offline. This way everyone can check the calendar online to get an idea about availability.
thanks for the thoughts.
Does anyone know if Google Calendar supports invites from other systems? Outlook for instance.
Lots of lawyers with black berries as clients, but few tech savy ones.
Getting closer to an answer http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=...
Looks like I can invite anyone, but still not sure if anyone can invite the google calendar.
alright, I figured it out. Set up a gmail account for the barber. Set up a standard email request on his site. They click the button sending him the request. gmail is smart enough to recognize key words (like event) and tag them. Right click to add them to his calendar. gives him "approval" rights allows anyone to email a request for a specific time. shared calendar can limit everyone to free / busy to keep privacy clean.
good suggestion. I'm going to give it a go.