Sched vs Zen Planner
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Sir Richard BransonMost popular feedback for Sched
My first experience with Sched was as a speaker on a conference event being organized by our foreign collaborators. As my first foreign speaking engagement, I was naturally extremely nervous, but Sched made collaborating with the organizers so easy and that I felt very much at ease and ended up delivering an exceptional session. After that experience, I recommended trying Sched for our own subsequent conference events.
Mohammed S.
About Sched
The flexible schedule manager for your unique event. Build, customize, and manage your event schedule in one organized place. Teams can collaborate and work together remotely and in real-time. Engage your attendees and empower your speakers with an interactive experience and tools. Market and grow your event via our web and native apps, or embed it directly in your own website.
Most popular feedback for Zen Planner
I was really impressed on how well they understand how martial art schools work. The software takes into account everything you need to keep your school running - from scheduling out classes students reserve for, to taking payments and setting up merchant accounts, to desk check-in software, to students having their own portal to track their membership and status. Customer support was very helpful during the onboarding.
Itzak L.
About Zen Planner
Zen Planner is the #1 martial arts software in the world designed to meet martial arts schools' unique needs. Our custom software features billing, automations, attendance and belt tracking, reporting, retail, simplified family management & more. We also offer lead-generating Integrated Websites specifically designed to help grow your school.
Sched reviews
Communication is the main problem that Sched solves. It's an at-a-glance snapshot of an entire evening that easily drills down into specifics. It invites interaction, so that's another communication problem solved/helped. I couldn't be more thrilled to have Sched working on my event's behalf. Thank you!
- Heather B. Producer, Lit Crawl Portland
We used to publish our own website with conference info; it had the basic info, but it was hard to keep the pieces consistent. Now we link to the Sched site from our event page and attendees find everything there. Speakers can post their pix and handouts and complete/update their profiles and send e-mail blasts to all who signed up for their workshop. We got good reporting and from it (and Google Analytics) see a high engagement rate (not just page views; over half set up accounts and created a personal schedule). This is all from their lowest service level/tier; higher levels integrate more with registration/payment etc., but we already have an online store and used it for front-end registration.
- James C. Technical Evangelist
It wasn't too difficult to get everything set up, but we needed a human to help us select the right package to purchase. It was way too difficult reaching someone and we were actually told that no one could assist us for at least another week because that department was going to a conference.
- Lane S. Director
Zen Planner reviews
Zen Planner software has enabled our company to introduce a program to our customers in a seamless fashion. Their customer service was vital in helping us with this process.
- Jody B. Head Teaching Professional
The best feature is the Zenplanners calendar can be embedded on our website along with the ability for new prospects to reserve a trial class
- Michael R. director and founder
Anytime you need something they provide support zoom, call email, chat, etc. Service is huge for me and the software works great. The integrations with other softwares is also a huge bonus.
- Justin W.
Pros & cons
Sched
| Pros |
|---|
| Love the easiness of selecting which sessions I wanted to attend |
| It then stored it and made it super easy for me to know exactly where to go |
| My district uses Sched to schedule our entire district professional training |
| This is fabulous I love that it emails me my schedule and I can access it all day as I attend trainings |
| I also love the ability to email attendees from the platform and how they also get a daily reminder |
| It is also wonderful how we can personalize the system with our own branding and images |
| This was a perfect option for our needs this year, and now that we know more about how it can be used, it will be used more often for our future conference needs." |
| Cons |
|---|
| We have received many complaints within 24 hours of launching the service |
| The lack of Spanish interface, because we are in Peru |
| It is difficult to find your meeting sometimes |
| There are so many meetings scheduled |
| Small landing/home page with limited customization." |
Zen Planner
| Pros |
|---|
| I also use it to bill my customers and record all my expenses |
| It is a perfect solution for a gym of sport facility, we are a fencing club with over 100 active members |
| It is not only about issues but also about functionality questions |
| They are super friendly and useful |
| I like the having the chat for help |
| They were patient and solved my issues |
| I truly have been very excited with this software and I enjoy interacting with it in a daily basis." |
| Cons |
|---|
| I use ZP on my laptop in a web browser and I've found it confusing to try the staff app on my phone or tablet |
| This old dog struggles with learning new tricks So we can't blame ZP for that |
| This comes at a particularly bad time for us because we are building a new website and our web designer needed to have a phone conversation with a "live" staff member |
| Overall we would not recommend this software |
| It seems as if the team behind it has lost heart for the program and isn't keeping up with the competition |
| I could do just about anything from my admin account, but my fellow coaches who spent less time in it had a harder time working with it |
| Customers also struggled a lot." |
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