Calendly vs Calendbook — Calendly Cheaper Alternative
1. Much cheaper
Calendbook helps you save money we are Much Cheaper…actually we want be the most affordable solution on the market! So we price beat any competitor!
Calendbook is at only $2 USD a month (when paid Yearly) on various platforms:
- Wix https://www.wix.com/app-market/calendbook
- Gumroad Gumroad (price will go up soon)
2. Make $$$ with Calendbook via stripe
New July 2023! Charge for your time via Stripe even for FREE users!
Calendbook will not add any transaction fees (Stripe fees will still apply).
Calendly forces you to upgrade to a premium plan starting at $10 a month paid yearly or $12 paid monthly as you can see from the screenshot (Nov 2023).
3. Make $$$ via our affiliate program
You can also earn revenue via our affiliate program at: affiliates.calendbook.com
4. Save time (= $$$) with less clicks
Calendbook saves you time, which is money, with a Simpler UX and less clicks to get anything done in Less time.
5. Shape the product voting on our public roadmap
Calendbook is truly cares about your feedback with our Public roadmap where hundreds of our members vote their most important features.
6. Calendbook cares about your eyesight and health
Calendbook cares about your health and eyes with our Dark mode :)
7. Calendbook app is available on Website Builders like Wix.com
So that you can easily add a way to get booked and paid for your time with Calendbook.com app on Wix.com
https://www.wix.com/app-market/calendbook
8. Live Chat support even for Free users
Calendly only offers live chat support to premium customers while Calendbook offers live chat support even to free users.
8. Unique features like Accept / Reject meetings
If you share your calendbook.com link you might get booked from people that you actually might not want to talk to.
By upgrading to professional you get the ability to accept or reject booking, which is amazing especially if you share your calendbook link publicly.
Here is a video about it:
9. Whatsapp and Telegram integrations
We integrated whatsapp and Telegram into Calendbook to make it easier to send reminders for calls and reduce no shows.
We believe we can integrate even more deeply to make it easier to chat with people who booked your calendbook.
10. Connect multiple calendars from multiple emails to multiple event types
Sept 2024 — This is a crazy decision by our tech team who is too generous IMHO :)
On Calendly you would need to create 10 different accounts in order to do this.
On Calendbook.com with one premium account you can basically create 10 (or more) different event types tied to 10 different email accounts so that you don’t need to login and logout.
— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — -
FAQ
Q: Everyone knows about calendly, isn’t it too late for anyone to enter the market?
A: Calendly has 20 million users, there are 2 billion people with a credit card and an internet connection. That gives you a 1% market penetration. When you get out of the silicon valley and tech bubble most people have no idea what calendly is. Also calendly is way too expensive when you think about their server costs, which are minimal as they are not dealing with live video streaming or some heavy traffic.
—
Q: why would a team at a large Company switch from calendly?
A: we are not focused on making large companies switch from calendly we are focused on providing a service to professionals and SMEs (small and medium enterprises). If you think that it’s too small of a market think twice since wix.com crossed 1bn ARR only with professionals and small companies. We don’t believe many medium companies use Wix.
—
Q & A with Marylin: Do you have the following features?
- Q: a reporting/analytics dashboard with how many calls booked in the month, team members with the most bookings etc. A: we are thinking of doing this first via partners such as Google Analytics, eventually we will add it to Calendbook. Thoughs welcome.
- Q: Multi-calendar scheduling allowing for 1 link to connect to a full teams availability. A: on our roadmap
- Q: Options to add customisable reminder texts and emails to a workflow — to remind the potential client about their call. A: yes we have it and we plan to expand it further
- Q: Integrations with CRMS such as Click-up. A: yes we have thousands of integrations via Zapier or Webhooks
- Q: Weebook and API ability. A: Webhooks yes, APIs not yet. Why would you need APIs?
- Q: Integration with Make? A: Yes see below
Q: automatically generated code to embed the booking page onto other websites. A: yes
Q: UTM reporting on each booking — to allow us to track out marketing. A: not yet but it’s on the roadmap, we like the feature and it shouldn’t be too hard to implement
Q: Ability to make phone number collection mandatory on the booking form. A: Yes, for each event type.
Q: Ability to fully customise the booking form. A: Yes, how exactly?
Q: Ability to white label. A: It’s on the roadmap, but it’s expensive to implement and manage. How much would be willing to pay?
Other topics to discuss
While calendly has webhooks support we believe we have a better implementation as we link different webhook solution providers straight in Calendbook making it easier to implement for first time users
