Can anyone recommend a cheap, effective Calendar program?

Question

This is a small office with about 5 users. Scheduling appointments and meetings is critical to business operations. However, being such a small, family-owned business, budget is also a huge factor. Can you recommend an inexpensive, yet reliable and effective calendar program to be SHARED by the users? We need various people to be able to add, modify, and remove various appointments from one central calendar.

Answer 1

For on your needs, I would recommend Google Calendar (calendar.google.com)

Answer 2

One possibility is, yes, it's web-based, but fetch a cheap domain name ($5-$7 per year, not much, eh?) and fetch a free gmail userid, and set up a Google Apps for Your Domain account. There you can set up a shared calendar. You can control WHO CAN SEE IT and WHO CAN USE IT. Google calendar is about as flexible as you can get, add events, view month/day/year, add several userids (one per employee). You'd have a url like calendar.domain.com (where "domain" is the domain name you purchase for $5-$7 per year). That domain COULD but wouldn't have to let you share documents, web files, a common home page, a shared email setup (different from the one that was used to "set up" the GAfYD account...you'll understand when you do it) other stuff.



You might also check into the free packages Kplan and the free Thunderbird add-on Lightning...but I don't know whether these two have provisions for SHARED calendaring.

Answer 3

I heavily recommend you use google calendar. It is free, easy to use and you can share calendars with whoever else has google calendar



However, it is web based i'm not sure if that works for you.