Calendly alternative
Calendly is built for scheduling meetings, and it does that very well. Plan-it-now is built for businesses where customers book a service with a price — at a practice, a studio, a class or a garage. Here is where each one is stronger.
Try free for 14 daysTry free for 14 days, without payment details. No commission on bookings, and booking is free for your customers.
Your services with duration and price — what Calendly calls event types.
Opening hours, minimum notice, how far ahead customers may book, buffers and a cancellation deadline.
Replace your Calendly link or embed code with your Plan-it-now booking page or embed code.
The honest answer depends on what your appointments are.
What each tool offers, Calendly by its own description. Where Calendly is ahead, the table says so.
| Topic | Calendly | Plan-it-now |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Scheduling meetings: Calendly presents itself as a scheduling platform for meetings and teams. | Service businesses whose customers book a service: practices, studios, trainers, tradespeople. |
| Your calendar | Connects Google, Microsoft 365/Outlook.com and Exchange calendars, checks them for conflicts and adds bookings to them. | No sync with your own calendar: bookings live in the Plan-it-now calendar. Customers add their appointment to their own calendar with one click. |
| Video meetings | Creates links for Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex and GoTo Meeting automatically. | You store your own meeting link per service, and it is sent with the confirmation. Links are not created automatically. |
| Website embed | Inline embed, pop-up text and pop-up widget, on every plan. | Embedded frame, pop-up or button, on every plan, plus a QR code. |
| Reminders | Email and SMS reminders through workflows, on paid plans. | Email confirmation and reminders on every plan. No SMS. |
| Payment at booking | Payment through Stripe or PayPal at booking, on paid plans. | Not as a general offer yet: customers pay as agreed with you, usually on site. |
| Staff, rooms, locations | Team scheduling with round robin and routing forms on its team plans. Rooms only as a workaround: each room is added as a user and takes a paid seat. | A calendar per staff member and several locations (Team plan); rooms and devices that a booking reserves (from Solo Plus). |
| Classes and groups | Group events with a limit of invitees per time slot, on paid plans. | Classes with a seat limit and a waiting list, on every plan. |
| Where customers find you | Your own booking link. A directory where customers find businesses by trade is not among Calendly's features. | A booking page on plan-it-now.com where customers also find you by trade and place; from Solo Plus, a website of your own. |
| Languages | Booking pages in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian and Ukrainian; the account in English, German, French, Spanish and Portuguese. | Booking page in German, English, French, Dutch, Polish, Spanish, Italian or Turkish; the account in the same eight languages. |
| Where data is stored | In data centres in the USA (Google Cloud, AWS); transfers from the EU rely on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and standard contractual clauses. | In a data centre in Frankfurt am Main, Germany; data processing agreement in your account. |
| Free plan and billing | A permanent free plan with one event type; paid plans are charged per seat, monthly or yearly. | A 14-day free trial without payment details, then one fixed price per plan, monthly or yearly, with no commission; the Team plan has no charge per person. No permanent free plan. |
Calendly's own pages, read on 11 November 2026: home page · pricing · calendar connections · video conferencing · embed options · text reminders · Stripe payments · group events · routing forms · conference rooms · booking page languages · account languages · data storage · privacy notice
Every plan can be tried free for 14 days, without payment details. Your trade decides the starting setup and the wording; the plan decides how much the software does.
Booking is free for your customers: no account, and nothing is added to their appointment. You try every plan free for 14 days, without payment details. After that you pay a fixed monthly or yearly price with no commission, however many bookings come in. A subscription only starts when you take it out yourself, and the prices above are the current ones.
You can try every plan free for 14 days, without payment details. After that you pay a fixed price with no commission, and the Team plan has no charge per person. Calendly also has a permanent free plan with one event type; Plan-it-now does not.
Not as a sync: bookings live in the Plan-it-now calendar, and your own calendar is not checked for conflicts. Customers can add their appointment to Google Calendar, Outlook or any calendar that opens .ics files. If you depend on calendar sync, Calendly is the better choice.
No. You store your own meeting link per service, and customers receive it with their confirmation.
Enter your services with duration and price, set your hours and booking rules, and replace the Calendly link or embed code on your website with the one from Plan-it-now. Bookings already made in Calendly stay there; Plan-it-now does not import them.
Plan-it-now stores it in a data centre in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. According to its own help centre, Calendly stores data in data centres in the USA.
With Calendly, on paid plans, through Stripe or PayPal. With Plan-it-now, not as a general offer yet: customers pay as agreed with you.
Running a salon, a studio or a garage? Our specialist products are built for you: Salon software · Garage software