AEVI and Edinburgh-based online scheduling specialist, Appointedd, have today announced a partnership to bring Appointedd’s industry leading online booking system to AEVI’s Global Marketplace. The rapidly growing appointment booking start-up, founded by chief executive Leah Hutcheon, is one of over 50 software developers currently working across AEVI’s open ecosystem.

This strategic partnership will see Appointedd’s scheduling software made available globally across all AEVI-enabled devices, ensuring that time sensitive SME’s can manage their online bookings, on multiple devices, anywhere in the world. Appointedd, already used by over 500,000 small merchants worldwide, is the ideal solution for appointment based businesses such as salon owners, personal trainers and health care professionals, as well as service providers and enterprise organisations.

Appointedd’s easy-to-use platform gives businesses a fully integrated online booking suite that enables 24/7 bookings, instant and secure online payments, as well as a range of employee management tools.

AEVI’s Global Marketplace offers merchant banks and acquirers a complete cloud-based suite of value-added B2B apps and services. This enables them to provide their SME customers with an all-in-one business solution that goes beyond simply making payments.

“At Appointedd we are passionate about enabling businesses and being one of the selected partners for AEVI’s innovative Global Marketplace is a fantastic platform,” said Leah Hutcheon, founder & CEO of Appointedd. “We like to work with businesses that care about their customers and we know that we will build a strong working partnership with AEVI as they care so much about the security and efficiency of small businesses.”

“We are really excited to be bringing Appointedd’s dynamic online booking software to all our merchant banks and acquirers,” said Mike Camerling, Chief Product Officer, AEVI. "This latest edition to our Global Marketplace displays our ongoing desire to collaborate with some of the world’s top developers to transform the payments industry."

AEVI continues to pioneer and lead the payments community towards an open ecosystem championed by collaboration. They bring banks closer to their merchants, and merchants closer to their customers by offering greater choice and flexibility. To find out more about how AEVI continues to grow its choice of value-added apps and services they offer their customers please visit www.aevi.com.