Goal: Enable 20+ Shopify store employees who sell services to manage their own availability via external calendars (e.g., Calendly) so customers can book and checkout without the store owner manually entering schedules.
Proposed solutions: Suggestions include Acuity Scheduling, Book That App, Sesami, and Appointo. These can integrate with external calendars (e.g., Google Calendar, Calendly) and into Shopify via embedded schedulers or automation tools like Zapier (a no-code integration platform).
Setup example (Acuity): Employees manage availability in their own Acuity accounts, provide a link/embedded scheduler, and customers book directly on the Shopify site.
Concerns/constraints: Reported limits on staff counts (~20–30) and booking caps on many apps; Appointo charges per employee. The requester seeks options with no employee limit.
Open questions: Are there other apps or approaches without staff limits? Can Acuity handle scheduling while Shopify processes booking payments?
Status: Unresolved; awaiting recommendations and confirmation on payment workflow with Acuity + Shopify.
Summarized with AI on December 24.
AI used: gpt-5.
I’m running a Shopify store with numerous employees selling their services. Customers book appointments with my employees according to their schedules, and currently, I use an app where I have to manually set the schedules of my employees. How do I make it so that 20+ employees can set their own schedules without me asking for their schedule and then me manually inputting it in? Is there an app for this?
For example, if employees could give me the link to an external calendar like Calendly, then customers could just book appointments (and then checkout) without me having to manually enter in employee schedules, which change frequently.
There are several apps and solutions that can allow your employees to set their own schedules without requiring manual input from you (even Calendly). These apps integrate with external calendars like Google Calendar or Calendly, enabling employees to manage their own availability. Here are some options for your reference like Acuity Scheduling, Book That App, Sesami or Appointo. For example with Acuity Scheduling, it allows employees to manage their own schedules and integrates well with Shopify. Employees can provide a link to their Acuity calendar, and customers can book appointments directly from your Shopify site. To set this up:
Set Up Acuity Account: Employees create and manage their availability on their own Acuity accounts.
Embed Scheduler: Generate an embeddable code from Acuity and add it to your Shopify site, allowing customers to book appointments directly.
You can integrate Acuity Scheduling with Shopify using tools like Zapier or by embedding the scheduler directly into your Shopify pages. Same with other mentioned apps.
Hope this will help!
It seems like none of the apps you listed allow for more than ~20 or ~30 employees and have restrictions on the number of bookings as well besides appointo, which charges per employee. Ideally there is no limitation on the number of employees. Are there any other options?