APPJETTY

In this blog, you will learn how to create a follow-up appointment in the Dynamics 365 Calendar.

Suppose you want to create a follow-up appointment (especially when you want to see which follow-up appointment was created towards which account at some point later). In that case, you need to set up a relationship between individual appointments.

Follow the below-mentioned steps to create a follow-up appointment in Calendar 365.

Step 1: Navigate to the AppJetty Calendar 365.

Click on “Calendar 365” from the apps list and navigate to the custom calendar of Calendar 365.

You will navigate to the custom calendar of Calendar 365. Here, you will see the three types of calendars:

> Resource Calendar

> Customer Calendar 

> Entity Calendar

Step 2: Navigate to The Resource Calendar

Click on Resource Calendar, and it will show all the Appointments. Click on any Appointment.

Step 3: Click The Follow Up Meeting

On clicking the Follow Up Meeting, the Create Follow Up popup will show up.

Enter The Subject Name, Regarding, Start Date, End Date, Required, Location, Attachment, Priority, and Description. Click on the Create button.

Step 4: Create a Follow-up Meeting that will open after clicking on the icon.

Click on the icon shown in the above image, and a popup of All Appointments will open. You can see all the appointments and follow-up meetings in the list view.

Select the Start Date And End Data, and Search for follow-up appointments.

Step 5: Directly Create a Follow-Up Appointment 

Click the Plus icon in the list of appointments to directly create a new follow-up appointment. Enter all the information, then click the create button.

In this way, you can create a follow-up appointments in the resource calendar.

 All product and company names are trademarks™, registered® or copyright© trademarks of their respective holders. Use of them does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.

The Article is originally published on: 

https://www.appjetty.com/blog/followup-appointment-resource-calendar/

Appointments are a medium for businesses to work smoothly. An online appointment tool can actually help you uplift your business by providing a smooth customer experience.

Microsoft Bookings can help you with that!

It is one of the most talked about appointment scheduling tools. So let’s find out what the buzz is all about!

Microsoft Bookings – Gist of it

MS Bookings is an online appointment scheduling software for MS 365 users. The software targets small businesses to help them simplify the appointment booking process.

The software comes with unique appointment booking web pages, which would allow customers to select their preferred service, date & time of the appointment, and the staff member, if specific.

Talking about what happens in the backend, the admin can set staff availability, set working hours, buffer time, types of services, and much more.

MS Bookings gives customization at almost every step to make it compatible with your specific requirements.

Let’s learn more about who can use MS Bookings, why they use it, and how to make the most out of it!

Who can use MS Bookings?

MS Bookings is not a standalone application. So, if you want to use it, you need a Microsoft 365 subscription. MS Bookings is a part of the MS 365 bundle. You don’t have to pay extra to use it.

But if you don’t have an MS 365 subscription, you have to subscribe to at least one of the MS 365 plans in order to use MS Bookings.

Why are businesses using MS Bookings?

• MS Bookings simplifies the appointment booking process for both customers and businesses. Customers can book an appointment from a unique appointment scheduling page and request the desired service. They can also choose the date and time of the appointment and the type of service.
• Once the booking is confirmed, an email is automatically sent to the customers. You can also set a reminder email that is sent just before the meeting.
• There is an option to cancel or reschedule the appointment. It is optional whether you want this functionality for your customers or not. If you enable it, customers can modify the appointment time within the given time frame. Thus, you can make more efficient use of your time, as the canceled slot will now be available for other customers.
• Whenever a new customer adds an appointment, MS Bookings automatically adds the customer’s contact details to the customer list.

Features that make you choose MS Bookings

We know that MS Bookings lets you customize the whole appointment scheduling page from the backend. There are some features that make it worth the investment:

• Define roles for your staff members and give customers an option to choose the staff members based on their requirements. For example, you are using MS Bookings for your salon business. Now, you have two staff members, one who does the haircut and the other one who does the hair coloring. You can add their names and their designation, so it becomes easier for customers to choose and for you to manage the schedules of your staff.
• Staff can view the calendar of everyone but cannot edit it. They can edit their personal calendar only.
• You can customize your scheduling page with your logo and brand colors.
• The admin has a full calendar view of all staff member appointments.
• Add contact information of new customers, so your client database is always updated.
• The app is responsive to mobile devices.

Schedule appointments using MS Bookings

Let’s have a brief of what you need to get started!

1. Enter Basic Business Details

Source Microsoft

As you start creating a calendar, the first step is to enter your business information. The basic information like business name, business type, website, and contact details.

You will add an email address if you want to receive customer replies. Add your business logo and operational business hours. You can add different hour ranges for different days of the week and also show days off.

2. Add your services

MS Bookings allows you to add different types of services and their details to differentiate them easily later on.

Let’s continue this explanation with our salon example. So if you have a salon business and you offer different services, you can add all those services and their details like service name, description, location, pricing, and the maximum number of customers you can service in a day.

You can keep buffer time between two appointments, so your staff has enough time to prepare for the next appointment.

Assign different services to your staff members, so it is easy to differentiate and utilize time.

3. Set default scheduling policy

Source Microsoft

Schedule your availability to have control over the bookings happenings. For example, you can set upto when customers can cancel the appointment, the maximum days you want to take advance bookings for, and more.

Once all the details are in, it is time to publish the booking page. You can also share the meeting link with your customers so that they can easily book appointments in future.

How much does MS Bookings cost?

If you already have a Microsoft 365 subscription, you don’t have to pay extra bucks to use MS Bookings. It is part of the Microsoft 365 package.

But if you don’t have Microsoft 365 subscription, then its basic plan starts at $6/month for one user.

Is there any better alternative?

The above discussion makes it obvious that you need a Microsoft 365 subscription to use MS Bookings. Other than that, MS Bookings is not fully customizable. There are limitations to it. For example, if you want to integrate appointment bookings with CRM, there is no direct way.

Calendar 365 – The Best Alternative to MS Bookings

Calendar 365 is an appointment scheduling Dynamics plugin specially designed for Dynamics 365 CRM users.

If you already use Dynamics 365 CRM, you don’t have to worry about appointment scheduling, resource management, activity management, etc.

Moreover, as the plugins integrate with the CRM directly, you don’t need to integrate using a third party tool.

The plugin has all the features that you would require for appointment scheduling. It is fully configurable, which is best for your business branding.

Calendar 365 is worth a try if you are a Dynamics 365 user.

We also have a blog on Calendar 365 vs. MS Bookings if you want more insights.

For more information about Calendar 365, contact us at sales@appjetty.com or click here to explore Calendar 365.

All product and company names are trademarks™, registered® or copyright© trademarks of their respective holders. Use of them does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.

The Article is originally published on: 

https://www.appjetty.com/blog/appointment-scheduling-ms-bookings/

Before visiting multiple clients, you need to plan a visiting route. Mappy Field provides functionality to plan your visiting route according to Start Location, Time, Start Date, End Date, Visiting Duration, and more.

The visit planning feature is helpful when you are not able to decide what is the best route according to time. The visit planning feature saves you time and gives you the best route. Here is how you can decide the route in Dynamics 365 Map.

Step 1: In MappyField’s navigation bar, click on the Visit Planner Button.

After clicking on the Visit Planner button, the side panel will open up.

Step 2: Fill in the Details of the Side Panel.

Once you fill in all the details, Mappyfield will show a Visit Planner.

Step 3: Based on the start location, you see a list of all customers.

Step 4: Next step is select the customer whom you want to visit.

Once you fill in all the details, click on the arrow.

Step 5: After processing the data, you can see the result.

MappyField processes data and gives results based on Start location, Time, Start Date, End Date, and Visiting Duration.

In the above screenshot, you can see the route connecting all locations.

After plotting the route, MappyField saves the Visiting planner route as an Event.

Step 6: To see the saved visiting planner route Click on Today’s Schedule Button.

In Today’s Schedule section, you can see the schedule in the upcoming event tab.

You can also see the route by clicking on the Go to Route button.

All product and company names are trademarks™, registered® or copyright© trademarks of their respective holders. Use of them does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.

The Article is originally published on: 

https://www.appjetty.com/blog/visit-planner-dynamics365-map/

Delivery date plays an important role in an ecommerce business. Due to this reason, businesses have started integrating Delivery Date plugins to allow customers to choose their preferred delivery date and time.

These features bring a huge difference in the quality of customer service you offer. Apart from customer satisfaction, this plugin brings a huge difference in how businesses manage orders.

To simplify delivery date management, we have added a few more features to our Shopify Delivery Date Manager plugin.

Let’s find out how our plugin can benefit Shopify Store owners.

Updated Dashboard

A dashboard can simplify the whole order management process. There are minor changes we have made in our Dashboard.

As you all know, we offer three different types of delivery options, namely, Shipping, Store pickup, and Local Delivery.

You might want to offer only one type of delivery service, or two, or maybe all. You can simply enable those delivery options from your Shopify store using our plugin.

If you add Store pickup, it will ask you to add store locations of all your offline store. If you want to offer local delivery options to your customers, you would add zip codes of all those areas.

You get a listing of all the orders and the required information like:

• Order number
• Number of items
• Delivery date
• Delivery slot
• Comments/Remarks
• Order placed on date
• Status of order
• Type of delivery
• Current delivery status

There are a lot of filters to use from so that you get a list of orders you are looking for. Filters will give better visualization. You will have only the required information in hand.

You not only have viewing rights, but you can export the order list as well. You can export the list after using filters so that you have a list of specific orders only.

Email Notifications

Keeping customers updated about the current status of their orders will surely reduce tickets, and your support team can focus more on handling complex situations that need personal attention.

When it comes to offering the best customer service, email plays an important role. It is an authentic medium to share required information with your customers.

Considering this fact, our Shopify Order Delivery Date Manager allows you to enable/disable email notifications. The emails are fully customizable. You can keep different email bodies for shipping and store pickup.

Similarly, you can change the email title and background color, add images, logo, etc. What refers to logos and visuals, you can create them with the logo maker or other design alternatives. Thus, every email sent using our plugin is customizable.

Cancel/Reschedule Delivery

Even when you ask customers for their preferred delivery date and time, there are chances that they might not be available to receive the order. In such cases, you have to make multiple delivery attempts.

This is a clear waste of time and effort for your delivery person. To reduce such incidents, allow customers to reschedule delivery times and dates.

Now, you might think that if customers change the delivery dates and times last moment, it will mess up your schedule. If the delivery guy is already out for delivery, there is no point in rescheduling.

As a solution to this, what you can do is set a time frame. Customers will be allowed to reschedule delivery only up to a configured time period. Admin can configure the time as per your workflow. Customers can only schedule in the given time frame.

You can add a “Reschedule Delivery” link on the thank you page. This will inform customers that they can reschedule the delivery in case anything important comes up.

Shipping Profiles

To make the lives of admins a little easier, we have introduced shipping profiles. Shipping profile is a set of rules for specific locations and products. You can create a general shipping profile to use as a default for all the locations/products or create a custom profile for specific locations/products.

Shipping profiles work best for discounts, sales, and offers. You can add all your calculations, and it will show the result that fulfills the logic you have added.

You can set unique rates for certain cart amounts, weekdays, delivery dates, etc., by creating unique profiles for all.

Try Shopify Order Delivery Manager Plugin

If you have a Shopify store, our ODDM is a must-have plugin. It will simplify delivery management, and you will have more control over the small things that matter the most when it comes to personalization.

Get in touch with our support team and get details of all the other features.

All product and company names are trademarks™, registered® or copyright© trademarks of their respective holders. Use of them does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.

The Article is originally published on: 

https://www.appjetty.com/blog/simplify-delivery-date-manager/

Theme Scita is your one-stop solution for sophisticated themes on the Odoo Theme store. It is designed keeping in mind more than 35 industries like ecommerce, fashion, IT service, finance, healthcare, and more. So with the release of Odoo 16, we upgraded our Theme Scita and made it v16 compatible. So, if you are a v15 user, you can easily upgrade to v16 without any hassle.

Giving us more insights on this new release, Amit Shah, the owner of AppJetty, said, “We developed the Scita theme keeping in mind the demands of continuously changing industries. We always ensure that our themes include the latest features and are compatible with new versions. That is why as soon as Oddo 16 was released, our team started working on the new changes. Today, we are happy to announce that your favorite Scita theme is now compatible with Odoo v16. ”

The new Oddo version focuses on performance boost, effortless communication, seamless user experience, and has new features in modules. Backend pages are at least 3.7 times faster than the previous version. All these features are worth integrating, and that is why the Scita theme has been upgraded soon after the v16 release.

Amit Shah further added that “New version releases come with additional features and bug fixes of the older version. We want our customers to have a smooth experience with our themes. So, keeping all this in mind, we have updated our Scita theme. We will keep updating our theme every year after Odoo releases its new version so that our customers can use the best.”

Check out the theme Scita  https://apps.odoo.com/apps/themes/16.0/theme_scita/

All product and company names are trademarks™, registered® or copyright© trademarks of their respective holders. Use of them does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.

The Article is originally published on: 

https://www.appjetty.com/blog/odoo-theme-v16-scita/

Over a decade of experience in developing plugins, apps, and extensions, we always tend to find solutions for our customers, especially eCommerce business.

Ever-changing market trends keep store owners thinking about how they are going to integrate new changes in their store.

The development of individual features for your store is expensive and time-consuming.

To avoid this long, expensive route, we developed apps that offer exact features you are looking for at a very affordable price.

The apps we are going to discuss are made keeping in mind the high customer demand. Let’s start.

1. Delivery Dates and Shipping Rates

One of the most loved apps by Shopify store owners is Delivery Date and Shipping Rates. The app comes with multiple delivery options and date/time selections.

Our app gives you three different types of delivery methods:

1. Standard Shipping

2. Store Pickup

3. Local Delivery

Whether you use one, two, or all three types of delivery, we offer delivery date and time pickers for all three.

The delivery calendar is totally customizable. From restricting the preparation time to restricting the order number, everything is covered.

If you don’t deliver on some days, configure the non-working days, and the app will block those days to restrict users from choosing those. Thus, enjoy your vacation with no pending orders.

Every business has a certain limit of orders that they can fulfill in a day. So, simply set how many orders you would want in a day, and once the counter hits, the date will be restricted, and no other customer can choose that day for delivery.

The next step is shipping rates. Whether you have a fixed shipping rate or a dynamic, you can configure both these on our app. Based on delivery location and delivery date, customize different shipping rates for your customer.

Feature Highlights:

• Multiple delivery options: Store Pickup, Local Delivery, and Shipping
• Delivery date and time picker with rescheduling feature
• Default and dynamics shipping rates
• Restrict preparation time and non-working days from the calendar

2. CommerceXpand

Using multiple apps to manage multiple business aspects often leads to a slowdown of your Shopify store.

You need apps that can fulfill your purpose without affecting the loading of your store. CommerceXpand is your one-stop solution, as you will find apps related to boosting sales, store management, and marketing.

CommerceXpand is a bundle of 28+ apps and is free of cost. You can simply install the app and use it over the most helpful apps like Bulk Editor, Image Optimizer, SEO Alt tags, Product reviews, Geo Redirection, and many more.

These apps can help you increase conversion rate, boost revenue, reduce abandonment rate, capture more leads, and build customer trust.

Feature Highlight

• Improve customer engagement with apps like Volume Discounts, Back-in-Stock Alerts, Quick Buys, and more
• User-centric apps like Facebook Chat, Sticky Cart, Geo IP Redirect
• Sale booster apps like Countdown FOMO, Pre-order
• SEO Optimization of the store with Image Optimizer app
• Strengthen your marketing strategy with apps like Customer Reviews, Announcement Bars, and more.

3. Zipcode Validator

Our Shopify Zipcode Validator enables your customers to check the availability of products at their location using a zip code.

Your customers can check whether the product is available at their location or not on the product page rather than finding it out later during checkout.

If you have dynamic shipping rates and you charge based on zip code, our app can help you calculate the shipping rates as well.

Feature Highlight

• Embed the Zipcode Validator in the header or on the product detail page
• Create different delivery rules for the whole catalog, individual products, or collections
• Prepare a whitelist and blacklist of zipcodes
• Customize the text and color of the zip code label to match your Shopify store theme
• Display estimated delivery date on entering zipcode

4. Language Translator

Online stores in a language that customers best understand can encourage them to buy. Translating the store to visitors’ native language will not just better customer experience but also makes it SEO friendly.

Our Shopify Language Translator app helps you translate the store without changing the backend theme.

You can host all the translations within your store database. Thus, translation will not impact your store’s loading speed.

As there will be no third-party translator overlays and the high loading speed of the store, the Language Translator app makes it SEO friendly.

Feature Highlight

• Supports bulk translation
• Edit auto-translated content if required
• Manual and auto-translation of store components
• Facility to create a language-specific domain for SEO
• Translate SMS and emails to elevate customer experience

5. Australia Post Shipping

An app made for Australia’s Shopify store owners, the Australia Post Shipping app lets you manage and calculate shipping rates with ease.

Using this app, Shopify store owners can automate the live calculation and contract shipping rates. Thus, managing shipments becomes hassle-free.

The app has multiple options to assign dimensions to products. If you have already enrolled in multiple services of Australia Post, you will be able to enable the services you want and disable the rest.

Feature Highlight

• Assign product dimension with multiple options like bulk, manual, or default
• Re-sync option to auto-update shipping services
• Fetch live shipping rates from Australia Post
• Avail concessional rates offered by Australia Post for high volume orders
• Enable/disable shipping services of Australia Post

6. Geolocation + Currency Converter

When you serve customers all over the world, you will use multiple domains to serve your customers better. But it is important to redirect visitors to the right domain, which is in their regional language.

Our Geolocation and Currency Converter app lets you redirect site visitors to their country/state-specific domain. Thus, you can offer your personalized experience to your customers.

There are two ways to redirect your customers to their region-specific website:

1. Auto-detect

2. Custom pop-ups

Choose any of the above features so that customers can comfortably shop in their local currency and language.

Feature Highlight

• Auto geo redirection feature to redirect site visitors to state or country-specific domain
• Block malicious visitors and IPs
• Currency conversion feature as per customers’ location
• Custom pop-up with text to redirect visitors to their state/country specific domain
• Parameter to track the number of redirects

7. Dropshipping Manager

Struggling while shipping orders on time?

Well, simplify shipping management with our Shopify Dropshipping manager app. The app lets you find the order using the vendor’s name or by date.

So you can easily find out when your order is due and never miss any order date. If you have bulk orders, there is no need to manually add entries, directly import the XLSX, CSV, or ODS files sent by the vendors.

In the same way, export the order list in your preferred formats and share it with your vendors. With a few clicks, you can import/export order lists and save a lot of time to avoid manual entries.

Feature List

• Filter orders using vendor’s details and dates
• Import/export order details with CSV file
• Update vendors about order status via emails

Final Thought

These apps are a must for Shopify store owners in an ecommerce business. These apps will not affect the loading speed of your store and enhance the user experience. If you want to serve your customers better, try out our Shopify apps now!

 All product and company names are trademarks™, registered® or copyright© trademarks of their respective holders. Use of them does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.

The Article is originally published on: 

https://www.appjetty.com/blog/shopify-apps-ecommerce-business/

Appointments are a medium for businesses to work smoothly. An online appointment tool can actually help you uplift your business by providing a smooth customer experience.

Microsoft Bookings can help you with that!

It is one of the most talked about appointment scheduling tools. So let’s find out what the buzz is all about!

Microsoft Bookings – Gist of it

MS Bookings is an online appointment scheduling software for MS 365 users. The software targets small businesses to help them simplify the appointment booking process.

The software comes with unique appointment booking web pages, which would allow customers to select their preferred service, date & time of the appointment, and the staff member, if specific.

Talking about what happens in the backend, the admin can set staff availability, set working hours, buffer time, types of services, and much more.

MS Bookings gives customization at almost every step to make it compatible with your specific requirements.

Let’s learn more about who can use MS Bookings, why they use it, and how to make the most out of it!

Who can use MS Bookings?

MS Bookings is not a standalone application. So, if you want to use it, you need a Microsoft 365 subscription. MS Bookings is a part of the MS 365 bundle. You don’t have to pay extra to use it.

But if you don’t have an MS 365 subscription, you have to subscribe to at least one of the MS 365 plans in order to use MS Bookings.

Why are businesses using MS Bookings?

• MS Bookings simplifies the appointment booking process for both customers and businesses. Customers can book an appointment from a unique appointment scheduling page and request the desired service. They can also choose the date and time of the appointment and the type of service.
• Once the booking is confirmed, an email is automatically sent to the customers. You can also set a reminder email that is sent just before the meeting.
• There is an option to cancel or reschedule the appointment. It is optional whether you want this functionality for your customers or not. If you enable it, customers can modify the appointment time within the given time frame. Thus, you can make more efficient use of your time, as the canceled slot will now be available for other customers.
• Whenever a new customer adds an appointment, MS Bookings automatically adds the customer’s contact details to the customer list.

Features that make you choose MS Bookings

We know that MS Bookings lets you customize the whole appointment scheduling page from the backend. There are some features that make it worth the investment:

• Define roles for your staff members and give customers an option to choose the staff members based on their requirements. For example, you are using MS Bookings for your salon business. Now, you have two staff members, one who does the haircut and the other one who does the hair coloring. You can add their names and their designation, so it becomes easier for customers to choose and for you to manage the schedules of your staff.
• Staff can view the calendar of everyone but cannot edit it. They can edit their personal calendar only.
• You can customize your scheduling page with your logo and brand colors.
• The admin has a full calendar view of all staff member appointments.
• Add contact information of new customers, so your client database is always updated.
• The app is responsive to mobile devices.

Schedule appointments using MS Bookings

Let’s have a brief of what you need to get started!

1. Enter Basic Business Details

Source Microsoft

As you start creating a calendar, the first step is to enter your business information. The basic information like business name, business type, website, and contact details.

You will add an email address if you want to receive customer replies. Add your business logo and operational business hours. You can add different hour ranges for different days of the week and also show days off.

2. Add your services

MS Bookings allows you to add different types of services and their details to differentiate them easily later on.

Let’s continue this explanation with our salon example. So if you have a salon business and you offer different services, you can add all those services and their details like service name, description, location, pricing, and the maximum number of customers you can service in a day.

You can keep buffer time between two appointments, so your staff has enough time to prepare for the next appointment.

Assign different services to your staff members, so it is easy to differentiate and utilize time.

3. Set default scheduling policy

Source Microsoft

Schedule your availability to have control over the bookings happenings. For example, you can set upto when customers can cancel the appointment, the maximum days you want to take advance bookings for, and more.

Once all the details are in, it is time to publish the booking page. You can also share the meeting link with your customers so that they can easily book appointments in future.

How much does MS Bookings cost?

If you already have a Microsoft 365 subscription, you don’t have to pay extra bucks to use MS Bookings. It is part of the Microsoft 365 package.

But if you don’t have Microsoft 365 subscription, then its basic plan starts at $6/month for one user.

Is there any better alternative?

The above discussion makes it obvious that you need a Microsoft 365 subscription to use MS Bookings. Other than that, MS Bookings is not fully customizable. There are limitations to it. For example, if you want to integrate appointment bookings with CRM, there is no direct way.

Calendar 365 – The Best Alternative to MS Bookings

Calendar 365 is an appointment scheduling Dynamics plugin specially designed for Dynamics 365 CRM users.

If you already use Dynamics 365 CRM, you don’t have to worry about appointment scheduling, resource management, activity management, etc.

Moreover, as the plugins integrate with the CRM directly, you don’t need to integrate using a third party tool.

The plugin has all the features that you would require for appointment scheduling. It is fully configurable, which is best for your business branding.

Calendar 365 is worth a try if you are a Dynamics 365 user.

We also have a blog on Calendar 365 vs. MS Bookings if you want more insights.

For more information about Calendar 365, contact us at sales@appjetty.com or click here to explore Calendar 365.

All product and company names are trademarks™, registered® or copyright© trademarks of their respective holders. Use of them does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.

The Article is originally published on: 

https://www.appjetty.com/blog/appointment-scheduling-ms-bookings/

Before visiting multiple clients, you need to plan a visiting route. Mappy Field provides functionality to plan your visiting route according to Start Location, Time, Start Date, End Date, Visiting Duration, and more.

The visit planning feature is helpful when you are not able to decide what is the best route according to time. The visit planning feature saves you time and gives you the best route. Here is how you can decide the route in Dynamics 365 Map.

Step 1: In MappyField’s navigation bar, click on the Visit Planner Button.

After clicking on the Visit Planner button, the side panel will open up.

Step 2: Fill in the Details of the Side Panel.

Once you fill in all the details, Mappyfield will show a Visit Planner.

Step 3: Based on the start location, you see a list of all customers.

Step 4: Next step is select the customer whom you want to visit.

Once you fill in all the details, click on the arrow.

Step 5: After processing the data, you can see the result.

MappyField processes data and gives results based on Start location, Time, Start Date, End Date, and Visiting Duration.

In the above screenshot, you can see the route connecting all locations.

After plotting the route, MappyField saves the Visiting planner route as an Event.

Step 6: To see the saved visiting planner route Click on Today’s Schedule Button.

In Today’s Schedule section, you can see the schedule in the upcoming event tab.

You can also see the route by clicking on the Go to Route button.

All product and company names are trademarks™, registered® or copyright© trademarks of their respective holders. Use of them does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.

The Article is originally published on: 

https://www.appjetty.com/blog/visit-planner-dynamics365-map/

Theme Scita is your one-stop solution for sophisticated themes on the Odoo Theme store. It is designed keeping in mind more than 35 industries like ecommerce, fashion, IT service, finance, healthcare, and more. So with the release of Odoo 16, we upgraded our Theme Scita and made it v16 compatible. So, if you are a v15 user, you can easily upgrade to v16 without any hassle.

Giving us more insights on this new release, Amit Shah, the owner of AppJetty, said, “We developed the Scita theme keeping in mind the demands of continuously changing industries. We always ensure that our themes include the latest features and are compatible with new versions. That is why as soon as Oddo 16 was released, our team started working on the new changes. Today, we are happy to announce that your favorite Scita theme is now compatible with Odoo v16. ”

The new Oddo version focuses on performance boost, effortless communication, seamless user experience, and has new features in modules. Backend pages are at least 3.7 times faster than the previous version. All these features are worth integrating, and that is why the Scita theme has been upgraded soon after the v16 release.

Amit Shah further added that “New version releases come with additional features and bug fixes of the older version. We want our customers to have a smooth experience with our themes. So, keeping all this in mind, we have updated our Scita theme. We will keep updating our theme every year after Odoo releases its new version so that our customers can use the best.”

Check out the theme Scita  https://apps.odoo.com/apps/themes/16.0/theme_scita/

All product and company names are trademarks™, registered® or copyright© trademarks of their respective holders. Use of them does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.

The Article is originally published on: 

https://www.appjetty.com/blog/odoo-theme-v16-scita/

Over a decade of experience in developing plugins, apps, and extensions, we always tend to find solutions for our customers, especially eCommerce business.

Ever-changing market trends keep store owners thinking about how they are going to integrate new changes in their store.

The development of individual features for your store is expensive and time-consuming.

To avoid this long, expensive route, we developed apps that offer exact features you are looking for at a very affordable price.

The apps we are going to discuss are made keeping in mind the high customer demand. Let’s start.

1. Delivery Dates and Shipping Rates

One of the most loved apps by Shopify store owners is Delivery Date and Shipping Rates. The app comes with multiple delivery options and date/time selections.

Our app gives you three different types of delivery methods:

1. Standard Shipping

2. Store Pickup

3. Local Delivery

Whether you use one, two, or all three types of delivery, we offer delivery date and time pickers for all three.

The delivery calendar is totally customizable. From restricting the preparation time to restricting the order number, everything is covered.

If you don’t deliver on some days, configure the non-working days, and the app will block those days to restrict users from choosing those. Thus, enjoy your vacation with no pending orders.

Every business has a certain limit of orders that they can fulfill in a day. So, simply set how many orders you would want in a day, and once the counter hits, the date will be restricted, and no other customer can choose that day for delivery.

The next step is shipping rates. Whether you have a fixed shipping rate or a dynamic, you can configure both these on our app. Based on delivery location and delivery date, customize different shipping rates for your customer.

Feature Highlights:

• Multiple delivery options: Store Pickup, Local Delivery, and Shipping
• Delivery date and time picker with rescheduling feature
• Default and dynamics shipping rates
• Restrict preparation time and non-working days from the calendar

2. CommerceXpand

Using multiple apps to manage multiple business aspects often leads to a slowdown of your Shopify store.

You need apps that can fulfill your purpose without affecting the loading of your store. CommerceXpand is your one-stop solution, as you will find apps related to boosting sales, store management, and marketing.

CommerceXpand is a bundle of 28+ apps and is free of cost. You can simply install the app and use it over the most helpful apps like Bulk Editor, Image Optimizer, SEO Alt tags, Product reviews, Geo Redirection, and many more.

These apps can help you increase conversion rate, boost revenue, reduce abandonment rate, capture more leads, and build customer trust.

Feature Highlight

• Improve customer engagement with apps like Volume Discounts, Back-in-Stock Alerts, Quick Buys, and more
• User-centric apps like Facebook Chat, Sticky Cart, Geo IP Redirect
• Sale booster apps like Countdown FOMO, Pre-order
• SEO Optimization of the store with Image Optimizer app
• Strengthen your marketing strategy with apps like Customer Reviews, Announcement Bars, and more.

3. Zipcode Validator

Our Shopify Zipcode Validator enables your customers to check the availability of products at their location using a zip code.

Your customers can check whether the product is available at their location or not on the product page rather than finding it out later during checkout.

If you have dynamic shipping rates and you charge based on zip code, our app can help you calculate the shipping rates as well.

Feature Highlight

• Embed the Zipcode Validator in the header or on the product detail page
• Create different delivery rules for the whole catalog, individual products, or collections
• Prepare a whitelist and blacklist of zipcodes
• Customize the text and color of the zip code label to match your Shopify store theme
• Display estimated delivery date on entering zipcode

4. Language Translator

Online stores in a language that customers best understand can encourage them to buy. Translating the store to visitors’ native language will not just better customer experience but also makes it SEO friendly.

Our Shopify Language Translator app helps you translate the store without changing the backend theme.

You can host all the translations within your store database. Thus, translation will not impact your store’s loading speed.

As there will be no third-party translator overlays and the high loading speed of the store, the Language Translator app makes it SEO friendly.

Feature Highlight

• Supports bulk translation
• Edit auto-translated content if required
• Manual and auto-translation of store components
• Facility to create a language-specific domain for SEO
• Translate SMS and emails to elevate customer experience

5. Australia Post Shipping

An app made for Australia’s Shopify store owners, the Australia Post Shipping app lets you manage and calculate shipping rates with ease.

Using this app, Shopify store owners can automate the live calculation and contract shipping rates. Thus, managing shipments becomes hassle-free.

The app has multiple options to assign dimensions to products. If you have already enrolled in multiple services of Australia Post, you will be able to enable the services you want and disable the rest.

Feature Highlight

• Assign product dimension with multiple options like bulk, manual, or default
• Re-sync option to auto-update shipping services
• Fetch live shipping rates from Australia Post
• Avail concessional rates offered by Australia Post for high volume orders
• Enable/disable shipping services of Australia Post

6. Geolocation + Currency Converter

When you serve customers all over the world, you will use multiple domains to serve your customers better. But it is important to redirect visitors to the right domain, which is in their regional language.

Our Geolocation and Currency Converter app lets you redirect site visitors to their country/state-specific domain. Thus, you can offer your personalized experience to your customers.

There are two ways to redirect your customers to their region-specific website:

1. Auto-detect

2. Custom pop-ups

Choose any of the above features so that customers can comfortably shop in their local currency and language.

Feature Highlight

• Auto geo redirection feature to redirect site visitors to state or country-specific domain
• Block malicious visitors and IPs
• Currency conversion feature as per customers’ location
• Custom pop-up with text to redirect visitors to their state/country specific domain
• Parameter to track the number of redirects

7. Dropshipping Manager

Struggling while shipping orders on time?

Well, simplify shipping management with our Shopify Dropshipping manager app. The app lets you find the order using the vendor’s name or by date.

So you can easily find out when your order is due and never miss any order date. If you have bulk orders, there is no need to manually add entries, directly import the XLSX, CSV, or ODS files sent by the vendors.

In the same way, export the order list in your preferred formats and share it with your vendors. With a few clicks, you can import/export order lists and save a lot of time to avoid manual entries.

Feature List

• Filter orders using vendor’s details and dates
• Import/export order details with CSV file
• Update vendors about order status via emails

Final Thought

These apps are a must for Shopify store owners in an ecommerce business. These apps will not affect the loading speed of your store and enhance the user experience. If you want to serve your customers better, try out our Shopify apps now!

 All product and company names are trademarks™, registered® or copyright© trademarks of their respective holders. Use of them does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.

The Article is originally published on: 

https://www.appjetty.com/blog/shopify-apps-ecommerce-business/

Appointments are a medium for businesses to work smoothly. An online appointment tool can actually help you uplift your business by providing a smooth customer experience.

Microsoft Bookings can help you with that!

It is one of the most talked about appointment scheduling tools. So let’s find out what the buzz is all about!

Microsoft Bookings – Gist of it

MS Bookings is an online appointment scheduling software for MS 365 users. The software targets small businesses to help them simplify the appointment booking process.

The software comes with unique appointment booking web pages, which would allow customers to select their preferred service, date & time of the appointment, and the staff member, if specific.

Talking about what happens in the backend, the admin can set staff availability, set working hours, buffer time, types of services, and much more.

MS Bookings gives customization at almost every step to make it compatible with your specific requirements.

Let’s learn more about who can use MS Bookings, why they use it, and how to make the most out of it!

Who can use MS Bookings?

MS Bookings is not a standalone application. So, if you want to use it, you need a Microsoft 365 subscription. MS Bookings is a part of the MS 365 bundle. You don’t have to pay extra to use it.

But if you don’t have an MS 365 subscription, you have to subscribe to at least one of the MS 365 plans in order to use MS Bookings.

Why are businesses using MS Bookings?

• MS Bookings simplifies the appointment booking process for both customers and businesses. Customers can book an appointment from a unique appointment scheduling page and request the desired service. They can also choose the date and time of the appointment and the type of service.
• Once the booking is confirmed, an email is automatically sent to the customers. You can also set a reminder email that is sent just before the meeting.
• There is an option to cancel or reschedule the appointment. It is optional whether you want this functionality for your customers or not. If you enable it, customers can modify the appointment time within the given time frame. Thus, you can make more efficient use of your time, as the canceled slot will now be available for other customers.
• Whenever a new customer adds an appointment, MS Bookings automatically adds the customer’s contact details to the customer list.

Features that make you choose MS Bookings

We know that MS Bookings lets you customize the whole appointment scheduling page from the backend. There are some features that make it worth the investment:

• Define roles for your staff members and give customers an option to choose the staff members based on their requirements. For example, you are using MS Bookings for your salon business. Now, you have two staff members, one who does the haircut and the other one who does the hair coloring. You can add their names and their designation, so it becomes easier for customers to choose and for you to manage the schedules of your staff.
• Staff can view the calendar of everyone but cannot edit it. They can edit their personal calendar only.
• You can customize your scheduling page with your logo and brand colors.
• The admin has a full calendar view of all staff member appointments.
• Add contact information of new customers, so your client database is always updated.
• The app is responsive to mobile devices.

Schedule appointments using MS Bookings

Let’s have a brief of what you need to get started!

1. Enter Basic Business Details

Source Microsoft

As you start creating a calendar, the first step is to enter your business information. The basic information like business name, business type, website, and contact details.

You will add an email address if you want to receive customer replies. Add your business logo and operational business hours. You can add different hour ranges for different days of the week and also show days off.

2. Add your services

MS Bookings allows you to add different types of services and their details to differentiate them easily later on.

Let’s continue this explanation with our salon example. So if you have a salon business and you offer different services, you can add all those services and their details like service name, description, location, pricing, and the maximum number of customers you can service in a day.

You can keep buffer time between two appointments, so your staff has enough time to prepare for the next appointment.

Assign different services to your staff members, so it is easy to differentiate and utilize time.

3. Set default scheduling policy

Source Microsoft

Schedule your availability to have control over the bookings happenings. For example, you can set upto when customers can cancel the appointment, the maximum days you want to take advance bookings for, and more.

Once all the details are in, it is time to publish the booking page. You can also share the meeting link with your customers so that they can easily book appointments in future.

How much does MS Bookings cost?

If you already have a Microsoft 365 subscription, you don’t have to pay extra bucks to use MS Bookings. It is part of the Microsoft 365 package.

But if you don’t have Microsoft 365 subscription, then its basic plan starts at $6/month for one user.

Is there any better alternative?

The above discussion makes it obvious that you need a Microsoft 365 subscription to use MS Bookings. Other than that, MS Bookings is not fully customizable. There are limitations to it. For example, if you want to integrate appointment bookings with CRM, there is no direct way.

Calendar 365 – The Best Alternative to MS Bookings

Calendar 365 is an appointment scheduling Dynamics plugin specially designed for Dynamics 365 CRM users.

If you already use Dynamics 365 CRM, you don’t have to worry about appointment scheduling, resource management, activity management, etc.

Moreover, as the plugins integrate with the CRM directly, you don’t need to integrate using a third party tool.

The plugin has all the features that you would require for appointment scheduling. It is fully configurable, which is best for your business branding.

Calendar 365 is worth a try if you are a Dynamics 365 user.

We also have a blog on Calendar 365 vs. MS Bookings if you want more insights.

For more information about Calendar 365, contact us at sales@appjetty.com or click here to explore Calendar 365.

All product and company names are trademarks™, registered® or copyright© trademarks of their respective holders. Use of them does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.

The Article is originally published on: 

https://www.appjetty.com/blog/appointment-scheduling-ms-bookings/

Before visiting multiple clients, you need to plan a visiting route. Mappy Field provides functionality to plan your visiting route according to Start Location, Time, Start Date, End Date, Visiting Duration, and more.

The visit planning feature is helpful when you are not able to decide what is the best route according to time. The visit planning feature saves you time and gives you the best route. Here is how you can decide the route in Dynamics 365 Map.

Step 1: In MappyField’s navigation bar, click on the Visit Planner Button.

After clicking on the Visit Planner button, the side panel will open up.

Step 2: Fill in the Details of the Side Panel.

Once you fill in all the details, Mappyfield will show a Visit Planner.

Step 3: Based on the start location, you see a list of all customers.

Step 4: Next step is select the customer whom you want to visit.

Once you fill in all the details, click on the arrow.

Step 5: After processing the data, you can see the result.

MappyField processes data and gives results based on Start location, Time, Start Date, End Date, and Visiting Duration.

In the above screenshot, you can see the route connecting all locations.

After plotting the route, MappyField saves the Visiting planner route as an Event.

Step 6: To see the saved visiting planner route Click on Today’s Schedule Button.

In Today’s Schedule section, you can see the schedule in the upcoming event tab.

You can also see the route by clicking on the Go to Route button.

All product and company names are trademarks™, registered® or copyright© trademarks of their respective holders. Use of them does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.

The Article is originally published on: 

https://www.appjetty.com/blog/visit-planner-dynamics365-map/