SETSTER AND INTUIT ANNOUNCE ALLIANCE TO DELIVER INDUSTRY'S MOST INNOVATIVE ONLINE APPOINTMENT CALENDAR ON INTUIT PARTNER PLATFORM
Alliance with Intuit will make Setster's online appointment calendar application available to millions of Intuit small business customers
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - JUNE 03, 2009 -Setster, today announced an alliance with Intuit Inc. to make its industry's leading online calendar and appointment management solution available to Intuit's 4 million small business customers through the Intuit Partner Platform. "We are excited and honored to be one of the handful of products chosen by Intuit to be a part of the launch of the Intuit Partner Platform," said Edward Lujan, Founder and CEO of Setster.
"Effectively managing appointments and calendars is an important task for service providers, especially as they work to stay competitive in this economic environment," said Alex Chriss, Business Leader of the Intuit Partner Platform. "Our goal is to help small businesses find quality products that help them save them time and money and help grow their practices. We are excited Setster will now be available to millions of businesses in our ecosystem."
Alliance
This alliance will allow Setster to deploy its online appointment setting software within the Intuit Workplace, making it available to the25 millionÊemployees in businesses that use QuickBooks¨ and promote its appointments facilitation application to service providers and consumers who are already confident with the Intuit family of products.
Setster
Setster is a web-based application that gives service providers and teams of professionals the ability to accept appointments online using an application widget that can be embedded on any website. Service providers can manage their own online calendars and appointment books in a very simple and intuitive user interface, while allowing clients access to their availability.
Target Market
Setster has been designed for the 40 million US professional service providers that set appointments with their clients as an everyday part of their business.
The application helps service providers:
- Facilitate the appointment booking process online
- Present a professional image of their business
- Book unused time slots within a schedule
- Optimize client base to handle more clients
- Increase effectiveness of online marketing
- Improve business performance i.e. make more money
About The Intuit Partner Platform
The Intuit Partner Platform enables any Software-as-a-Service developer to easily offer their Web applications to millions of Intuit's small business customers. Unlike other Platforms-as-a-Service, the Intuit Partner Platform gives developers the flexibility to build applications using any available technology, including rapid application development tools provided by Intuit, and offer them to small businesses in a seamlessly connected environment. With the Intuit Partner Platform, small businesses have one place to find and use Web applications that truly work together and are connected by common data, common billing, common sign-in and a common marketplace.
Pricing
Setster is offering a 30 day free trial, after which users can sign up as a single user for $9.95 per month or as group users with up to 5 users for $29.95 per month giving them unlimited usage. For more information check out www.setster.com.
About Setster
Launched in March of 2009, Setster's smart user interface and flexible platform looks to become the premier provider of online appointment and bookings for professional services providers. More information can be found at www.setster.com.