Google Calendar has launched a brand new characteristic that permits professionals or freelancers to permit their clients to ebook paid appointments.
This may very well be helpful for individuals resembling therapists or academics offering time-based companies.
The corporate has partnered with Stripe for the ability, so customers might want to join their Stripe account to Google Calendar to begin accepting funds. Particular person customers or admins of a workspace account will be capable to kind their very own cancellation and refund insurance policies, however Google may have no function in that course of.
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Google additionally specified that it isn’t charging any platform charges. Plus, the corporate doesn’t retailer or course of any fee data — all that workload is dealt with by Stripe in the intervening time.
“Requiring fee upfront may also help small enterprise house owners scale back no-shows and develop their enterprise additional. Moreover, this characteristic allows you to handle your time and funds in a easy and seamless method,” Google mentioned in a blog post.
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The corporate mentioned the brand new characteristic is rolling out to individuals subscribing to Enterprise Commonplace, Enterprise Plus, Enterprise Commonplace, Enterprise Plus, Schooling Fundamentals, Schooling Commonplace, Schooling Plus, the Educating and Studying Improve version, Nonprofits and Workspace Particular person plans over the subsequent few days.
Notably, the schedule administration app Calendly presents an analogous paid assembly characteristic by means of Stripe and PayPal integrations.
Final week, Google additionally rolled out a new feature for hybrid workers to indicate their working locations — like Workplace or Dwelling — throughout the day to assist others select an appropriate slot for a gathering.
