Another week and another integration that we think you are going to love. Tungle is a very cool service that eases the problems caused by trying to scheduling meetings on busy calendars. Coordinating meetings with others, as well a letting others know your availability, has never been easier thanks to Tungle.
BatchBook is excited to launch the first step in our integration with Tungle via the Tungle scheduling widget. After you turn it on via the Sync and Integrations page, you will see a Tungle link at the bottom of the contact information section:
Just click the ‘Schedule a meeting with me via Tungle’ and we use the primary address to look up the contacts calendar on Tungle. If we find a match, you’ll be able to schedule a meeting when that contact has free time. If they are not already a user, they will be invited to join Tungle and can accept your meeting via email. Really quick and easy to create meetings with anyone in your BatchBook account.
This integration is off by default but just head into your Sync & Integrations section to turn it on for all contacts.
This is just the first step in our relationship with Tungle. Currently, we’re not saving the meeting to BatchBook but are working with Tungle to find the best way to make that happen. Look for this feature to be added soon.
We’re really happy with this integration and we hope our users love it as well. Tungle is a great product and we are pleased to bring them into the BatchBook partner family.
Last week, Stephanie and I presented the first BatchBook webinar specifically about integration with our partners from The Small Business Web. The webinar, The Small Business Webinar: Using BatchBook’s integration partners to achieve contact management bliss, was a hit and we received many requests for an archived version. We’re pleased to announce it has been added to our Screencasts page (and is also embedded below).
Screencast: The Small Business Webinar: Using BatchBook’s integration partners to achieve contact management bliss
We’ve been busy these past few weeks hooking up on the backend with many of our favorite web services for small businesses. One of our favorites is FreshBooks, the professional invoicing and time tracking tool.
Since a picture is worth a thousand words, then a screencast must be worth at least a thousand and six. Here’s Adam’s latest screencast explaining how the integration works. HINT: It’s way cool.
We’ve been long-time customers of FreshBooks and really love both the product and the company. We hope this integration will make it easier for you to manage all of your contacts and view their invoices from one place. Here’s a post on the FreshBooks blog talking about the integration as well.
As we’ve mentioned before, one of the things we think you should be able to do with your contacts is use them in other places. As such, we’re pleased to announce our first official BatchBook integration: with MailChimp email services.
You told us that you wanted to be able to send emails to your contact lists. With MailChimp, you can build, manage and send email to a contact list you’ve created in BatchBook. And BatchBook will keep track of when you’ve sent a list to MailChimp. Read more on our shiny new integration web page or in the FAQs.
This is just the first of many cool things you’ll be able to do with your BatchBook contacts as we integrate with other, equally customer-centric web applications. If you have favorite web apps that you’d like to see integration with, please let us know. Let’s start hooking these Internet tubes up!
UPDATED: We also did a whole bunch of other stuff. Read the details on our Forum – we’ll have another blog post up next week with more info!
