Resource Guru Reviews - Page 3

Our use of Resource Guru is sort of out of the box. We use it for scheduling barn space in the Agriculture Industry. The support team has always stepped up to find ways to enable Resource Guru to fit with our unique needs. If it works this well for our out of the box use, imagine how well it works for it's intended purpose. For us, the reasonable price has been worth the gamble of using a software not meant for our intended use.

In our out of the box use, the biggest con - is the speed at which the software moves from page to page. However, this might not be Resource Guru's fault. It could be our internet capabilities, or the amount of data we plug in for our purpose. For our use, I'm looking a 15-17 week time frame, like most people look at a 8-10 hour work day. If you use the software as it's intended, this probably wouldn't be a problem.

Software is easy to use and provides easy scheduling.

Feature set is very basic and does not integrate with other applications being used.

Hi Adriel Thanks for sharing your feedback with us :) I just wanted to let you know, that there are a couple of ways you can try to possibly integrate Resource Guru with other tools you use to run your business. The first is to use our Zapier integration, and this requires no programming capabilities. You can read about using the Zapier integration here: https://help.resourceguruapp.com/en/articles/2942116-using-the-resource-guru-zapier-app The second is to use our API if you have some programming capabilities at your end. You can find all of the API documentation via our Developer Center here: https://app.resourceguruapp.com/developers/ I hope this helps, but please let me know if there's anything else I can do for you. I'm always happy to help! Thanks, Michelle

How easy and intuitive it is to use, makes planning and reporting of daily tasks very simple.

Availability scheduling is in 30 minute increments, which makes it tricky for adjusting. The option for a custom setting (perhaps to account for 15 minute intervals or custom) would be helpful, though I appreciate this may be difficult!

Hi Tom - thanks for the positive review. Just FYI if you want to add increments other than 30 minutes, you can do this but you just need to type in the values. Hope that helps :)

This Resource Guru platform has an intuitive design which makes it easy to use from both the administration end right through to the user. We have found it easy to implement across our external subcontractor workforce.

Compatibility to sync RG with other calendars

Hi Tom Thanks for sharing your feedback with us :) Resource Guru currently offers a one way calendar sync feature which lets you send your Resource Guru bookings to an external calendar. It's not currently possible to send your external calendar events into Resource Guru, but we do have plans to offer 2 way syncing in future. I'll be sure to keep you updated as soon as there is any news on it! Please don't be a stranger if there's anything else we can do to help :) Happy scheduling! Michelle

Ease of use. Simplicity and transparency.

Calendar integration would be great (two-way for mac). Filters show all people booked on a job/project but don't show just those bookings.

Easy to add projects, easy to add customers, easy to add team members. The email summary sent out to everyone is great and easy for users to gain access to be able to see their work for the day/week/months coming. The reporting functionality allows us to export the information cleanly and easily for internal reporting needs

Unable to track timesheets and then be able to compare how accurate bookings vs actuals will be. Would love to be able to have Project Manager's be able to book their times through the site and then have it approved by Resource Manager.

Since the last update Guru has become a faster online resource that I can't be without. I know where I should be and where my equipment is at anytime of day, where the spare car is and when my training is without wasting time on phone calls to my manager who becomes busier by the day.

Would be great to see the whole month in one go instead of having to keep scrolling.

The ease of scheduling and usability. Keeps me organised and on top of my workload. Couldn't go a day without it!

We need an app version asap! I'm always on the go, so this would help a lot.

Hi Tom Thanks for sharing your review of Resource Guru! I wanted to let you know that the schedule is mobile optimised, so it's easy to use in browser on your mobile device. We do have firm plans to offer dedicated mobile apps in future, but in the meantime you might find this walkthrough on creating a Resource Guru shortcut on your mobile handy: https://help.resourceguruapp.com/en/articles/5466509-create-a-resource-guru-shortcut-on-your-mobile-device Hope this helps! Thanks again, Kat

I like how my dashboard, and my schedule section are organized. I love the daily quotes.

Integration with our business was great. I think I'm missing the possibility to attach documents to tasks.

Thanks for sharing your feedback :) All links you enter are clickable, so I'd recommend hosting your documents somewhere online like Google Drive, then add the direct link for the document in the Details section of your booking. I hope this helps!

The product is Easy to use and frendly. The display is clear.

The working hours for each resources seam to be link whit overtime and reports wich i dont need

Easy of use Clear and simple interface Reports

Extensions to third party software Only classic planning view, it could be useful to have a capacity view

Hi Regis! I wanted to follow up on your review to mention we do have an availability bar that you can toggle on or off, which shows capacity. You can find some more information about that here: https://help.resourceguruapp.com/en/articles/2942098-using-the-availability-bar This is hidden by default to de-clutter the schedule, but might be useful to you! Cheers, Kayla

I really like the fact I can clearly see what projects I have booked in and when and how much time I have free each day, week and month. It's great that I can use colour coding too to get more clarity.

I'd really like to be able to search projects to bring the right one up quickly. And I'd like there to be an app for Mac and/or iPhone.

It allows my team to update resource use on their own schedule, and eliminates hours of my time in schedule and team management. I also love that I can archive resources when they are temporarily inactive, therefore saving money.

What I would like to see in the future: 1. Ability to get daily "Meeting Room" email or report of usage. (Ability to set the time that this occurs would also be helpful) 2. For events that an administrator assigns to a booker, it would be great if the booker could also edit the event. 3. Allow for same-day event schedule changes to notify the resource.

It helps to keep track of what you are doing everyday as well as being able to see everyone else's schedule. Like the fact you can drag appointments to another employee on the same date and/or another date.

Do not like the fact a user can delete previous appointments, such as prior week, month, year, etc. If an appointment needs to be deleted from previous week, month, year, etc., the administrator needs to be the only one that can delete it. Only the week of and future days will the user be allowed to delete or change appointments.

Resource Guru has been fantastic to work with. They have always had excellent customer service, their product is easy to use, and the bills are on-time and consistent. At this point, Resource Guru is a staple program for our college TV station.

The only thing that I would change would be allowing for custom fields on resource checkouts as a standard. There is currently a large text box for any comments, but it would be great to have the ability to name and create one line text options if you use them for every checkout.

Our teams really enjoy the ability to visualize our projects and move them at ease. Our schedules are continuously changing and being able to adjust our schedule just as fast make our jobs more efficient.

I think it would be great if the dashboard view for a person who doesn't have access to view the entire schedule could view more than a week at a time. Having access to view their month would be better. Additionally, the reports don't work for our team when we pull them. (This could be due to how we are using the software but I'm not sure at this point.)

Easy overview of daily and weekly tasks.

As just auser it's impossible to move (or remove) my own scheduled events

Hi Mats Thanks for sharing your review of Resource Guru :) I wanted to let you know that you can edit or delete bookings which have been made for you if you have sufficient permissions. I'd recommend speaking to an administrator in your account to request increased permissions if required. If there's anything else we can do for you at any point, please just let us know! Thanks, Kat

Simple and easy to use, with a friendly user experience that also works on mobile

Would be great to have Outlook, OpenAir, or Workday integration which we also use

Hi Jason, thanks for sharing your feedback! We actually offer a one way calendar sync which lets you send your Resource Guru bookings to an external calendar such as Outlook, Google Calendar or Apple Calendar - you can find a walkthrough here: https://help.resourceguruapp.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2439382-syncing-resource-guru-events-with-your-calendar I hope this helps to clarify things for you, but please let me know if you have any further questions and I'll be more than happy to help. Thanks, Michelle

It is easy to use and I can readily associate hours worked with a particular project as well as drag hours around on the schedule across different days. It easily allows multiple users and multiple projects.

We are not quite using it as intended. Some of our team are using it to document hours worked, rather than book hours to be worked. Hence, we don't need reminders about overbooking. These are a little irritating.

Automates a lot of manual stuff and gives you insightful reports

Reporting could be more detailed, but can be overcome

Makes our scheduling process a lot more streamlined as we were previously using a spreadsheet for our gang availability previously. It also now means that our Operations Team also have visability & can book dates in directly while they are on site with customers

There isn't anything I dislike about this software.

Super easy capacity planning - Who does what in which time ... Drag & Drop Colorcodes Get all at one glance Filter for views

In our case ... its not compatible to EasyJob

I love how easy and simple Guru is to use. We spent so many years searching for a tool to fit our needs and only Guru could do what we needed - and better yet, it is so reasonably priced!

I can't think of anything about the tool that I don't love!