Synchro or Team2Book for your FMG schedule.

The differences, line by line

	Synchro	Team2Book + Teamup
Built for	FMGs, clinics and hospital departments in Quebec	Assigning shared resources to teams, any sector, with a healthcare line for medical clinics
Publisher	Synchro, in Quebec	Team2Book is published by 3ALogic Inc., which describes itself as a Canadian software company. Teamup Calendar is published by Teamup Solutions AG, of Zurich, founded in 2014 and acquired by Banyan Software in July 2025
Billing basis	Per user who takes part in the schedule	Team2Book on the number of shared resources to assign (office, equipment, vehicle). Teamup on the number of sub-calendars
Published price	$10 CAD per user per month billed annually, $15 month to month	Team2Book: free up to 3 resources, then $149, $219, $349 and $479 CAD per month by tier, 15% off annually. Teamup: free up to 5 sub-calendars, then $12, $30, $70 and $125 USD per month billed annually
Shared-office assignment	Yes	Yes, it is the product's central function
Walk-ins	We build all your on-call lists, in an FMG or in a hospital	Walk-in clinic shift assignment
On-call, evenings and weekends	Yes, weighted per your rules	Yes, handled as special event types
Fairness	You set your own targets, for example the same number of Fridays for everyone, and the running counter is visible to the whole team	Statistics on the number of unfavourable shifts per physician. Weighting inside the assignment itself is not documented
Constraint capture	Each physician writes their own in plain language, the AI converts them into structured constraints they validate	Availability entry by the physician and constraint configuration in the tool. Natural-language entry is not documented
Shift swaps and transfers	Yes, you offer several shifts in exchange, the eligible colleague picks the one that suits them and the schedule updates immediately	Yes, direct request to a colleague or posting on a billboard, with administrator approval
Modules to configure	A single product to set up, and we do it with you from A to Z	Twelve modules, including Constraints, Special Events, Client Managers and Viewers, Client Details, Advanced and Notifications, on top of the sub-calendars to build in Teamup
Onboarding	About 45 minutes for a team of 30 users	A minimum of four two-hour Zoom sessions, so eight hours
Trial	First month free	A 5-day trial, plus a free tier up to 3 resources
Published hosting	Mostly North American regions, detailed on the Security and compliance page	Teamup publishes AWS, US West (Oregon) and EU West (Ireland) regions. Team2Book does not publish its regions

Both products collect availability, build the schedule automatically, show it on a phone and support shift swaps. Those functions separate no one, they just frame what follows.

"Not documented" means the function does not appear in Team2Book's public pages as of 2026-09-07, not that it would be impossible. If it exists, write to us and the row changes.

Two subscriptions for one schedule

Team2Book does not run on its own. Two separate memberships are required, one with Teamup and one with Team2Book, and both companies state that they are not affiliated with each other. Teamup Calendar provides the calendar, the colour-coded sub-calendars and the views. Team2Book adds the layer that assigns resources to available people on top.

For a clinic, that means two contracts, two invoices, two price grids calculated on different units, in two currencies, and two vendors to call when something breaks. Nothing blocking, and clinics live with it perfectly well. It is administrative work that does not exist when the calendar and the assignment come out of the same product.

Synchro is one product. The team calendar, office assignment, the on-call list and walk-ins all sit in the same interface, behind the same password.

What you configure before the first schedule

This is the widest gap between the two products, and it is enough to set the two setup procedures side by side.

Team2Book's setup runs to six steps, including two subscriptions to buy in order, Teamup first and Team2Book second, then a configuration wizard that requires a Teamup share link with admin rights. Twelve modules follow, among them Constraints, Special Events, Client Managers and Viewers, Client Details, Advanced and Notifications. The vocabulary to learn before starting runs to at least nine distinct objects, between the consumer, the client manager, the assistant, the resource, the activity type, the special event, the linked event, the sub-calendar and the constraint. On top of that comes a minimum of four two-hour Zoom training sessions, so eight hours before the first schedule.

Configuring a team of 30 users in Synchro takes about 45 minutes, onboarded, on a single product. The objects to learn are the ones the clinic already names every day: the physician, the office, the slot, the on-call shift and the walk-in block.

What those figures mean depends on who will do the configuration. A team with someone comfortable in tooling, and needs that fall outside an FMG's, may get real value out of the twelve modules. A coordinator who has to publish a schedule next Monday will look at the eight hours of training instead.

What Team2Book does well

Team2Book assigns offices, walk-in clinic shifts, evening and weekend on-call. It tracks statistics on the number of unfavourable shifts per physician, and it lets colleagues swap a shift directly or post it on a billboard. A physician enters availability and sees their office on their phone. On paper, the feature list covers most of what an FMG is shopping for.

Its notion of a resource also goes further than Synchro's, since it is not limited to offices. A piece of lab equipment, a vehicle, a treatment room, anything shared can be assigned. An organization that has to distribute something other than rooms will find a broader model there.

The calendar it rests on is no toy either. Teamup Calendar has existed since 2014, serves roughly five million monthly unique users according to the company, offers eleven calendar views and iCal feeds into other calendars.

On compliance, neither holds a published external audited certification, and neither offers Canadian hosting by default. Teamup publishes its AWS regions, in Oregon and Ireland. Synchro's providers operate mostly in American regions, which is stated on the Security and compliance page. The question is worth putting to both.

Where the two products genuinely diverge

Three gaps hold up once you strip out everything the two do identically.

1. Who translates the physicians' constraints

Team2Book documents availability entry by the physician and constraint configuration done inside the tool. Across thirty physicians who each arrive with three or four personal rules in different shapes, a recurrence, a dated period, a cap, a temporary time window, that translation work lands on the coordinator. Synchro lets each physician write theirs in plain language in their profile and converts them into structured constraints that they then validate. Entry takes about two minutes per physician, and it is done by the right person.

2. Counting on-call shifts or weighting them

Counting unfavourable shifts and weighting the assignment are not the same operation. Team2Book publishes the counter. Synchro also weights the calculation, a Friday evening or long-weekend shift carrying more than a Tuesday afternoon per your rules, then shows everyone's running total to the whole team in the on-call list. The difference shows up the day someone disputes a shift: there is a weighted figure to show rather than a raw count that lets everyone claim they are right.

3. Assigning the walk-in shift or distributing the slots

Assigning the shift means deciding who covers walk-ins on Tuesday morning. Distributing the slots means deciding how the patients who show up that Tuesday morning get split among the four physicians on site, per your clinic's own rules. Team2Book documents the first operation. Synchro does both, and the distribution runs in under 20 seconds.

The numbers, with both totals

The two grids do not compare line by line, because they do not measure the same thing. Team2Book writes that its price depends only on the number of resources to assign, so on your offices, and not on the number of physicians. Teamup bills on the number of sub-calendars. Synchro bills per user who takes part in the schedule.

Here are three realistic configurations, counting one sub-calendar per person and one per office to establish the Teamup tier, and taking annual billing on all three sides. The two amounts in the middle column stay separate because they are not in the same currency.

Configuration	Team2Book + Teamup	Synchro
8 physicians, 3 shared offices	Team2Book free tier, plus Teamup Plus at $12 USD, so $0 CAD and $12 USD per month	8 × $10 CAD, so $80 CAD per month
30 users, 7 shared offices	Team2Book Pro at $219 CAD, plus Teamup Business at $70 USD, so $219 CAD and $70 USD per month	30 × $10 CAD, so $300 CAD per month
45 users, 18 shared offices	Team2Book Business at $349 CAD, plus Teamup Business at $70 USD, so $349 CAD and $70 USD per month	45 × $10 CAD, so $450 CAD per month

The small clinic is the clearest case, and it does not go Synchro's way. Eight physicians sharing three offices land in Team2Book's free tier and pay about twelve dollars a month for the calendar, against $80 CAD. There is no matching that.

The other two configurations tighten up once the US portion is converted, and they land close enough that price should not be what decides. The crossover point depends on the ratio between offices and physicians. Since Team2Book's price does not move when a physician is added, the larger the team grows at a fixed number of offices, the wider the gap in its favour. Conversely, a small team with a lot of rooms to assign pays less with Synchro. Team2Book publishes a subscription calculator on its site, and that is what will give the exact figure for a given configuration.

What the sticker price does not measure is the coordinator's time. In Synchro's pilot FMG, building the schedule went from about 30 hours a month to one, which at $30 an hour loaded works out to a gap of about $870 a month. Each physician went from more than 12 hours a year to about ten minutes to enter their schedule. A difference of a hundred dollars or so on the subscription weighs little next to that, in either direction. What really settles the bill is which of the two products produces a publishable schedule without a detour through Excel. Test both on a real schedule period, that is the only way to know.

The questions to ask both vendors

Six questions surface the differences no brochure and no comparison page will show. Ask them of both vendors, Synchro included, and compare the answers.

What to check	The question to ask
Configuration time	How many hours between signing and the first published schedule, and who does the work, you or us?
Email volume	Open a physician's inbox in front of me after an ordinary week. How many emails, which ones go out automatically, and which can be turned off?
Number of screens	How many interfaces do I open to add a physician who starts in August?
A real withdrawal	During the trial, trigger a pull-out at 4 p.m. on a Friday and follow the replacement through to the end, notifications included.
The real price	Write me the monthly total for my exact configuration, currencies and modules included.
References	Put me in touch with a clinic the size of mine. I want to ask them what went wrong in the first three months.

The last one is the most useful of the six, as long as you do not stop at the clinic's name. Ask what went wrong, how long configuration actually took, and what the team did on the first Friday the schedule broke. That is where the two products stop resembling each other.

Synchro is the right choice if…

• You want a product built specifically for FMGs rather than an all-sector resource-assignment tool.
• You want one product and one vendor, with no third-party calendar to subscribe to alongside.
• Your physicians have many constraints in varied shapes, and you want them to write them out themselves rather than fit them into a template.
• On-call fairness keeps coming up and you want weighting, not just a count.
• You need to distribute walk-in slots among the physicians on site, not just decide who covers the shift.
• You prefer a per-person price, in a single currency, predictable when you add or drop an office.
• You want to be running next week rather than after eight hours of training and twelve modules to tune.

Team2Book is the right choice if…

• You have few shared resources and many people, the configuration where its billing works in your favour.
• You need to assign something other than offices, such as lab equipment, treatment rooms or vehicles.
• You already use Teamup Calendar and want to add an assignment layer without changing calendars.
• You have someone to own the configuration, time for the twelve modules, and needs that fall outside an FMG's.

Further reading

• FMG scheduling software
• Office assignment for physicians
• Clinic team calendar
• Synchro vs Mesh AI comparison
• Best scheduling software for a Quebec FMG in 2026
• Pricing
• All Synchro comparisons