6 ways to automate Acuity Scheduling

Gone are the days of playing phone tag to book appointments with your clients. When you use Acuity Scheduling, it’s easier than ever to wrangle a busy calendar.

Allowing your customers to book their own appointments based on your calendar availability is already a massive time-saver, but imagine taking that a step further. What if all of your scheduling needs—from task management to email marketing—could be automatically handled from one place? When you pair Acuity Scheduling with Zapier, it can!

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Connect Acuity Scheduling with your favorite apps

By pairing Acuity Scheduling with Zapier, you can automatically pass data between Acuity Scheduling and the other apps you use, such as Google Contacts, HubSpot, ActiveCampaign, Mailchimp, and more. This gives you a clear picture of your schedule without toggling between a dozen different apps.

To get started automating Acuity Scheduling with Zapier, you’ll need:

Zapier works by combining triggers and actions. For example, you can create a Zap—our word for automated workflow—that looks for a new scheduled Acuity Scheduling appointment (your trigger) then automatically creates a new event in Google Calendar (your action). 

Don’t sweat the technical details too much—Zapier will handle all the communication between the apps. All you have to do is connect your accounts and decide which info you want shared between the apps, then your to-do list will be fully automated! Let’s get started.

Integrate your eCommerce platform

Using an eCommerce platform is a great way to manage sales and track your customer’s purchases. By making purchasing easy and offering discounts, you’ll get many repeat customers. But when you’re running a business, creating discounts can fall by the wayside.

Offer appointment gift cards

If you charge money for your appointments and consultations, it’s a good idea to offer gift cards on your website so that customers can pay right away—even if they’re not quite ready to book an appointment yet. With Zapier, you can automatically generate package codes in Shopify for your customers to use in Acuity Scheduling.

Give discounts to repeat customers

Repeat customers are the best kind of customers. You can set up a Zap that automatically sends customers who schedule an appointment a coupon for their next booking. It’s a great way to keep your best clients coming back!

Update your CRM

Using a customer relationship manager (CRM) is a great way to track everything you need to know about your customers, from contact information to order data. Occasionally, new clients will schedule an appointment with you who don’t have contact information already logged in your CRM—and you don’t want to miss out on that data. With Zapier, you can automatically send new customer information to your CRM whenever someone schedules a meeting with you.

Track your tasks

Like to plan your day based on your to-do list? If so, you probably want to add all of your Acuity Scheduling appointments to your task management platform. But doing that work by hand can lead to mistakes—like losing key info in the transfer process or accidentally missing appointments. 

You can set up a Zap that creates a new task in your favorite task app anytime a new appointment is made. The best part? It’s easy to bring all relevant info from the appointment into your task card.

Manage your calendar

Acuity Scheduling works best when you use it in tandem with your calendar app. That way, you can track events and tasks outside of client meetings and appointments. Make sure your calendar shows all your events (so you don’t miss anything) by automatically sharing data between Acuity Scheduling and your calendar app of choice.

Add calendar events for scheduled appointments

Any time a client schedules a new appointment with you, Zapier can automatically add a new calendar event to your calendar. When creating your calendar event, you can share details from the Acuity Scheduling appointment, like attendee info and location.

Block off time in Acuity Scheduling

On the flip side, when new events are scheduled on your calendar, they need to be reflected in Acuity Scheduling. That way, you don’t get double booked. With Zapier, you can automatically block off time in Acuity Scheduling for the duration of a new calendar event.

You can even fine-tune your Zap so it only adds blocks based on certain criteria, like selected calendar, location, or attendees.

Manage multiple calendars in Acuity Scheduling

If you manage or follow along with more than one calendar within Acuity Scheduling, it can be a real headache to get all of that information in one place. With Zapier, you can create a workflow that automatically blocks off times in one Acuity Scheduling calendar from another—including someone else’s calendar.

Keep your team in the loop

If you work with a team, they need to be in-the-loop on your schedule. Keep everyone up to date by automatically sending coworkers emails, Slack messages, and even text messages when a new Acuity Scheduling appointment is created. 

Alternatively, you can also set these Zaps up to send messages to your personal email or texts to your phone. That way, you get regular updates on what’s next in your day.

Make scheduling a breeze

Using Acuity Scheduling is a great way to streamline scheduling. And by automating it, you can save even more time. No more manually copying over appointments to your calendar, messaging your teammates, or updating your contacts in your CRM.

Instead, let Zapier do all the heavy lifting for you so you can focus on what truly matters: your clients.