Appointlet vs. Bookafy

Appointlet is a fantastic tool. It allows you to easily send a link to people to book meetings with you. I put it in my email signature so my clients know they can book a meeting with me anytime they need to. It eliminates the "when can you meet" back and forth emails, and is an incredible tool.

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In my experience, Bookafy has pretty much the same features as the other well-known scheduling apps. In terms of functionality, the two obstacles I experience were setting up a hidden (not shown on the main booking page) meeting for special bonus calls you don't want anyone to have access to. Yes, you can set up a paid meeting and give someone a coupon to access it free but that seems like an extra unnecessary step. The other limitation was how ugly it looks to embed meetings on a website. The scheduler looks fine inside Bookafy, but when embedded, it doesn't flow as well. For everything else, it works well. If you want to sync the scheduler with email marketing systems, most of the integrations work through Zapier so that can be an additional cost. Bookafy focuses on the meeting schedules.

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• Allows you to create multiple different meeting types
• Has a scheduling page for all meeting lengths or for specific meetings
• Easily allows you to connect multiple calendars to check schedules

Incentivized

• Easy to embed the appointment form to websites
• You can show off professionalism while booking meetings
• You can sync the appointments with Google Calendar
• Easy to use interface, so you don't waste time trying to figure out things around.

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• They don't seem to have a default schedule available ,meaning you have to customize your availability for each meeting
• I'm unsure if they offer time zone support when you are the one travelling (ie. can you easily change your time zone if you are going away)
• Reminder emails are only sent out if you purchase their premium plan

Incentivized

• Lack of calendar customization.
• Tracking data.
• Configuration is confusing.

Appointlet's closest competitor is Calendly. Calendly is certainly more well known but Appointlet is just as good. Ultimately, Appointlet's free plan allows you to have multiple different kinds of meetings. This is different than Calendly's free plan and is ultimately why I chose to go with Appointlet.

Incentivized

Bookafy is more advanced and has more features that I need comparing to these other brands. Calendly is very basic while Bookfy offers more robust features.

Incentivized

• It has saved me hours of time going back and forth to try and get a meeting scheduled
• I don't charge through Appointlet but tack meetings onto client invoices. The ease for them being able to book has upped the number of client meetings I have.

Incentivized

• Saves a lot of time
• Streamlines the process
• Eliminates unnecessary back and forth calling and emailing

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