Bookings is a web-based booking calendar that integrates with Outlook to optimize your staff’s calendar and give your students and coworkers flexibility to book a time that works best for them to make an appointment. Automated notification emails reduce no-shows and organizations save time with a reduction in repetitive scheduling tasks. With built in flexibility and ability to customize, Bookings can be designed to fit the situation and needs of many different parts of an organization. The Bookings calendar is a mailbox in Exchange Online.
Bookings provides you the ability to make your organization’s meetings virtual with online meetings via Microsoft Teams. Each appointment booked as an online meeting creates a unique meeting link that is sent to attendees so they can join via a web browser, phone dial-in, or the Teams app. Bookings is also available as an app within Teams, which allows you to create Bookings calendars, assign staff, and both schedule new and manage existing appointments without ever leaving Teams.
Bookings has three primary components: