[ale] Looking for application software for a small business

[Greg Freemyer]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Jim Lynch
<ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
> Greg Freemyer wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Jim Lynch
>> <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
<snip>
>>
>> Jim,
>>
>> With gmail you can create multiple calendars, one per employee.
>>
>> They are even color coded.  If you click on Agenda in the upper right
>> corner you get a nice text listing the shows everyone if you know what
>> color is whom.
>>
>> There is a print button, but I've never used it on the calendar.  You
>> would have to experiment to see if that worked for you.
>>
>> Greg
>>
> Hi, Greg,
>
> Can one person edit another's calendar?  In a spa, you usually have one
> person answering the phone and scheduling for everyone.  It would be
> frustrating to have to log in as another person to change her calendar.
> Even more so, if the client wanted multiple procedures. (Is that the
> right word?)
>
> Thanks,
> Jim.

You can go any of 3 ways.

1) Have one account that everybody uses, then create several calendars
and name the calendars as employee1, etc.  Works fine for the
calendar, but you only have one email account total if you also want
to use that.

2) Create a normal gmail account for each person, then share the
calendars with write permission between them.  I would NOT do this in
your case.  You can't control anything, the employees do.  What
happens if they leave on bad terms etc.

3) Create a Google Domain (Joan's Hair Cutters) for the company (free
for up to 25 users).  Then within that create user accounts that you
as admin control.  Each user can have email and multiple calendars of
their own.   Then set each employees scheduling calendar to be shared
with write access to everyone in the Google Domain  (Joan's Hair
Cutters).

To setup a Google Domain, go to
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/editions.html and get the
standard edition.  Make yourself the only admin, so when things go
wrong you can fix them.  (I forgot my password, can you reset it?
Thanks.  Let's do it again tomorrow.)

You can see my Google Domain login at http://start.norcrossgroup.com

You can also create a whole site it you want, but I have not done
that.  Overkill for me. They have a fancy sample at
http://sites.google.com/a/organic-city.com/intranet/Home

Greg
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