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[Jill]

Hi zimbop,
You do understand correctly, and your situation is one of the most common one we hear about -- that is, a couple who wants to share their calendar and each just wants to log in to the same account.

I really appreciate that you gave us such a good summary, so that I can copy it verbatim to send to business development. I'm sorry I can't offer you more helpful information or solutions at this time, but if anything changes in the future, we'll post the new info here on the forums.

Jill / Trumba UA

[Anne]

andrewconrad, on Sep 14 2005, 05:07 PM, said:

for $80 a month, i'll continue to call my wife to make sure a particular night is free instead!  i was willing to pay some (read: $40, not $80) for enhanced features and a nicer interface, but yahoo is doing essentially the same thing for free.

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Hi andrewconrad,

Thanks for trying out Trumba OneCalendar and for visiting our forum.

It's probably just a typo and you meant $80/year rather than $80/month for 2 accounts. Because others are likely reading along, I want to mention that our subscription price is $39.95/year per account.

I think what we offer is a great value. But, I do understand the quandary faced by families. We don't have a "calendar sharing" only type account to offer. Right now, for $39.95, there's a lot one can do including publish a calendar of events on the web, send out scheduled email digests to a distribution list etc.

You can be sure that the feedback is getting to the right people. I'm sorry we don't have a solution that would address your pricing concerns at this time.

Sincerely,

Anne / Trumba Support

[Anne]

Hi andrewconrad, zimbop and anyone else reading along.

We've had a couple scenarios where a family is able to use just one Trumba OneCalendar account and be able to see their family schedule. Of course, if two people are going to be using Trumba OneCalendar to edit and maintain their daily schedules then two accounts would be necessary. But, if one spouse is using Outlook, there might be a comfortable workable workflow using just one Trumba OneCalendar Account.

Here are some scenarios:

a) The husband uses Outlook at work. The wife uses the family Trumba OneCalendar Account. His Outlook schedule is synced to a calendar in the family account. Further, because the wife's work schedule varies day to day sometimes quite radically, she simply has a work schedule calendar in Trumba that she maintains for herself, so they have the information readily available to both of them. Her husband has two easy ways he can see her schedule: 1) He can sync the information to a second Outlook calendar so he has the data available in Outlook or 2) she can publish her calendar (or all three of the calendars they maintain in their Trumba family account) on the web with a password. I'm not sure which path they've chosen. They have a third family calendar, where they put shared events and also have those events show on their individual calendars.

b) Both spouses use Outlook to maintain their schedule. They use the family Trumba OneCalendar account to have a place where they can see each other's information. For technical and licensing reasons, we do not recommend more than one person logging in to the same account (same email and password) to edit calendars at the same time. Publishing the shared calendars with a password is one way to address this.

c) A couple who is divorced uses their Trumba OneCalendar account to simply to manage their children's schedule rather than share their actual schedules. They have the option to sync their kids' schedule with individual Outlook Calendars (making a separate calendar in Outlook). For them the shared calendar is a type of family log. They have a typical schedule that occasionally changes due to travel etc. The intent eventually is to have the kids have a place where they can view their schedule...and publishing with a password might prove to be a workable answer.

d) One spouse uses Outlook at a small business but doesn't have a lot of meetings and appointments, and the other spouse uses Trumba OneCalendar. Their preferred approach is to not have multiple calendars, but to have just a single calendar in which both their events and the kids’ events appear. The spouse who uses Outlook wishes to see the entire family’s events on their Outlook calendar.

Hope this information helps.

Anne / Trumba Support