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1 category · Named, not ranked

Square Appointments

12Judge labels

0First choices

0Negative labels

8 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

6 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Square Appointments was named 6 times in Workforce scheduling, where Deputy led with 26%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business8 of 85

under the label threshold

Mid-market19 of 94

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In workforce scheduling · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Square Appointments for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Workforce scheduling	Core HR and payroll	0%	19 of 94	0%	6	under 10 labels · led by Deputy at 26%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Square Appointments yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Square Appointments across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0
Mistral Small	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	1	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative8 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative4 labels2not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative12 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 2 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Choose Square if you have a brick-and-mortar shop and process credit cards in person.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Workforce scheduling · comparative prompt · alternative

“Strong for businesses that need integrated payment processing and appointment booking” Mistral Small · Workforce scheduling · comparative prompt · alternative

“shines when you need tight integration with a Point‑of‑Sale system” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Workforce scheduling · comparative prompt · alternative

“Run a service business with payments? → Square Appointments” MiniMax M2.5 · Workforce scheduling · comparative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Square Appointments, over the 12 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Square Appointments was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Calendly12 of 126Not in the top three

Acuity Scheduling10 of 120Not in the top three

Setmore7 of 120Not in the top three

Cal.com6 of 120Not in the top three

Homebase4 of 122Not in the top three

When I Work4 of 122Not in the top three

Google Calendar4 of 120Not in the top three

SimplyBook.me4 of 120Not in the top three

Sling3 of 122Not in the top three

Doodle3 of 120Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Square Appointments. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 11 of the 12 answers that named Square Appointments and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

capterra.com8

cal.com4

calendly.com4

toolradar.com4

youcanbook.me4

zapier.com4

connecteam.com3

emailtooltester.com3

forbes.com3

learn.g2.com3

Forty of the forty domain citations in answers naming Square Appointments came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

capterra.com/resources/best-scheduling-software-reviews-analysis7

cal.com/blog/best-scheduling-apps4

youcanbook.me/blog/best-scheduling-apps4

capterra.com/scheduling-software3

emailtooltester.com/en/blog/best-scheduling-app3

forbes.com/advisor/business/software/best-scheduling-apps3

lunacal.ai/blogs/best-appointment-booking-software3

smallbusinesstools.org/guides/best-appointment-scheduling-software3

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

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