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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Bookafy

    Score9 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Bookafy is an online appointment scheduling solution targeted at a variety of industries. The vendor’s value proposition is that their solution is simple to use, fully customizable, has an elegant user interface and can be embedded into the business user’s website. Support is available via phone, email or chat.

    $9

    per month

    Calendly

    Score8.6 out of 10
    N/ACalendly helps organizations globally automate the meeting lifecycle by removing the scheduling back and forth, with the goal of enabling companies to close deals, hire candidates faster, and build relationships.

    $12

    per month per seat

    NiCE CXone

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ANICE CXone is a cloud-based contact center platform that manages customer interactions across multiple communication channels. It includes features such as automatic call distribution (ACD), interactive voice response (IVR), omnichannel routing, workforce optimization, feedback management, and interaction analytics.

    $110

    per month per user

    Pricing
    BookafyCalendlyNiCE CXone
    Editions & Modules
    Pro
    $9
    per month
    Pro+
    $13
    per month
    Enterprise
    Contact sales team
    Standard
    $10
    per month (billed annually) per seat
    Teams
    $16
    per month (billed annually) per seat
    Enterprise
    Starts at $15k
    per year
    CXone Omnichannel Agent
    $110
    per month per user
    CXone Essential Suite
    $135
    per month per user
    Cxone Core Suite
    $169
    per month per user
    CXone Complete Suite
    $209
    per month per user
    CXone Ultimate Suite
    $249
    per month per user
    CXone Mpower Ultimate Suite
    $249
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    BookafyCalendlyNiCE CXone
    Free Trial
    YesYesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details30% discount available for annual pricing.Monthly billing also available.—
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    Community Pulse
    BookafyCalendlyNiCE CXone
    Considered Multiple Products
    Bookafy
    Chose Bookafy
    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
    Chose Bookafy
    I used Calendly before and I like the Bookafy UI better... Also, we like the price structure more for what we get with Bookafy.
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    Calendly
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    NICE Systems
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    Key User Insights
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    98%
    Would buy again
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    94%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    284 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    90%
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    Implementation went as expected
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    98%
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    89%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    BookafyCalendlyNiCE CXone
    Contact Center Software
    Comparison of Contact Center Software features of Bookafy and Calendly and NiCE CXone
    Feature
    Bookafy
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    Ratings
    Calendly
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    NiCE CXone
    9.4
    581 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Agent dashboard00 Ratings00 Ratings9.2559 Ratings
    Validate callers00 Ratings00 Ratings9.6471 Ratings
    Outbound response00 Ratings00 Ratings9.5490 Ratings
    Call forwarding00 Ratings00 Ratings9.3443 Ratings
    Click-to-call (CTC)00 Ratings00 Ratings9.2403 Ratings
    Warm transfer00 Ratings00 Ratings9.8531 Ratings
    Predictive dialing00 Ratings00 Ratings9.6317 Ratings
    Interactive voice response00 Ratings00 Ratings9.5376 Ratings
    REST APIs00 Ratings00 Ratings9.3301 Ratings
    Call scripts00 Ratings00 Ratings9.2322 Ratings
    Call tracking00 Ratings00 Ratings9.5510 Ratings
    Multichannel integration00 Ratings00 Ratings9.3364 Ratings
    CRM software integration00 Ratings00 Ratings9.0365 Ratings
    Workforce Optimization (WFO)
    Comparison of Workforce Optimization (WFO) features of Bookafy and Calendly and NiCE CXone
    Feature
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    -
    Ratings
    Calendly
    -
    Ratings
    NiCE CXone
    9.4
    556 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Inbound call routing00 Ratings00 Ratings9.5511 Ratings
    Omnichannel inbound routing00 Ratings00 Ratings9.1373 Ratings
    Recording00 Ratings00 Ratings9.6495 Ratings
    Quality management00 Ratings00 Ratings9.1480 Ratings
    Call analytics00 Ratings00 Ratings9.2486 Ratings
    Historical reporting00 Ratings00 Ratings9.4479 Ratings
    Live reporting00 Ratings00 Ratings9.4465 Ratings
    Customer surveys00 Ratings00 Ratings9.5299 Ratings
    Customer interaction analytics00 Ratings00 Ratings9.6319 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Chili Piper
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    Score8.8 out of 10
    Genesys Multicloud CX (discontinued)
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Doodle
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Doodle
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    BookafyCalendlyNiCE CXone
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (5 ratings)
    9.5
    (90 ratings)
    9.7
    (613 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (28 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.3
    (587 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (9 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.7
    (9 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.7
    (32 ratings)
    9.1
    (6 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (7 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    7.5
    (11 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    6.8
    (6 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
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    7.3
    (9 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
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    -
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    7.5
    (8 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
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    7.5
    (8 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    BookafyCalendlyNiCE CXone
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Bookafy
    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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    Calendly
    It's well suited for music students' lessons. It's well suited for online coaching, primarily through places like Zoom and more. It helps simplify things for your clients, lets you program your schedule, and allows it all to go automatically! If you are working with a senior population, it may be a little tricky for them to sign up and then really hard for them to cancel lessons. There isn't a way to go to the site and cancel. You have to pull up the confirmed email and cancel from there, but people can lose emails.
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    NICE Systems
    NICE CXone Mpower offers a great suite of products and tools appropriate for contact centers. It is a one stop shop for all of the monitoring, scheduling, reporting, and quality tools a large or small contact center may need. It is very feature rich and has many components, some of which we haven't even grown to adopt yet but may in the near future.
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    Pros
    Bookafy
    • 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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    Calendly
    • Sync with multiple calendar types so my schedule is always current.
    • Integration with Zoom to schedule meetings, send invites, and populate my Zoom app accordingly.
    • Automatic email communication to all parties with all relevant details in a clear format.
    • Allowing team members to do the same in a way that I'm also notified of what meetings are taking place saves a lot of time in terms of coordinating to find out what other people are doing.
    • Well-designed interface that simplifies everything down to its clearest expression. Language instruction and interaction are wonderfully simple and clear.
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    NICE Systems
    • Organizes everyone's interactions within the platform
    • Shows interactions real time with productivity stats
    • Makes Chat/Call quality a breeze with customizable quality forms
    • Easy to share an interaction within the company for others to review
    • Keeps everyone on track with scheduled lunches/breaks/meetings so you don't have to remember yourself and never miss another event again!
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    Cons
    Bookafy
    • Lack of calendar customization.
    • Tracking data.
    • Configuration is confusing.
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    Calendly
    • After a meeting is booked, having the ability to change the location without canceling the entire booking.
    • Being able to offer 2 different locked in locations for certain time periods of the day within the same event. So you're not having to create 2 events for the same thing, only different locations.
    • Giving users permission to create their own routing forms. We run an independent business model where our users like to have control over their subscriptions.
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    NICE Systems
    • There can be changes in interface of the app, however it's still very good
    • I would appreciete detailed web page with all necessary information, but when I need anything, the customer support is very quick and provide all the information
    • Hardly to find any other :)
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Bookafy
    No answers on this topic
    Calendly
    For all reasons like workflows, UI, and the way Calendly keeps all of us engaged through the Collective forum. It's indeed undeniable that no other product covers all business needs like Calendly does. On the other side, this has also reduced the workload by enabling us to focus more on other tasks for the day
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    NICE Systems
    Nice made it possible for employees to work from anywhere with access to the internet, it made it possible to extract data from contacts in a very thorough way. In addition, the meticaes can be fully customized and the day-to-day monitoring of the operation is more visible.With nice, contacts with clients abroad became easier.
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    Usability
    Bookafy
    No answers on this topic
    Calendly
    Calendly is extremely easy to use for selecting times and days for meetings. From my end, it's very easy to indicate the days and times that I am available for meetings. I have used other scheduling products, but Calendly has the smoothest way of operating. I highly recommend it for scheduling meetings
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    NICE Systems
    The lack of written SOPs makes some features (WFM / Performance management) very difficult to use. The training provided by NICE is extensive, but it's hard to remember everything shared in the hour. We spend so much time on the platform just trying to figure out how to use the features; it would be much easier with written instructions and screenshots.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Bookafy
    No answers on this topic
    Calendly
    No answers on this topic
    NICE Systems
    NICE inContact CXone is available when you need it. I have been using it for about a year and I have never suffered any issues that caused my not to have access to the product. If there are updates, they must be downloaded and install in the background because I do not see them
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    Performance
    Bookafy
    No answers on this topic
    Calendly
    No answers on this topic
    NICE Systems
    NICE inContact CXone performs very well even on old computers that are limited in resources. I use a older computer with limited memory and it seems to handle NICE inContact CXone very well in most cases. There will be times when it acts up for whatever reason bust over ninety percent of the time.
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    Support Rating
    Bookafy
    No answers on this topic
    Calendly
    There is a lot of support for Calendly. Whenever I have had issues navigating through it, especially as a new user, I found multiple support on the web addressing my questions or concerns. There is a lot of in app informative notes accessible to users to navigate through Calendly when needed.
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    NICE Systems
    inContact only allows specific users to contact them for support. Even though I use the product daily and it accounts for a large amount of my workload, I still have to contact an authorized user to create an incident. These users are managers and their schedules are very busy. This can result in delays in incidents being opened and resolved.
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    In-Person Training
    Bookafy
    No answers on this topic
    Calendly
    No answers on this topic
    NICE Systems
    The In-person training was fine for a general overview. I think it would have been really helpful to have a review of pre-built reports and how to use them as tools.
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    Online Training
    Bookafy
    No answers on this topic
    Calendly
    No answers on this topic
    NICE Systems
    I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.I would rate 10, since the explanations were far enough to catch all the usabilities.
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    Implementation Rating
    Bookafy
    No answers on this topic
    Calendly
    No answers on this topic
    NICE Systems
    We love the use of our new tools. However, NICE staff turnover was frustrating. We lost ground each time a new team took over. Some people were good some were not as much. Some people did great training while others were not as helpful
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    Alternatives Considered
    Bookafy
    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.
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    Calendly
    When I started using it, there were not many competitors in this space. I've seen some like Mixmax that seem to work well for solopreneurs or where free version might be better than Calendly's free version. I use the paid version of Calendly and it's just kept serving us well so why change?
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    NICE Systems
    When it comes to this specific situation (cell centers) NICE definitely has an ADP beat. The analytics, scheduling, and forecasts are extremely well-tailored for this situation. ADP has a more comprehensive solution in my opinion - I feel their UI and mobile app are also more user-friendly. But in terms of performance management functionality, NICE has a more robust system and is able to create additional metrics if we need them When I used ADP there were no custom options available.
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    Scalability
    Bookafy
    No answers on this topic
    Calendly
    No answers on this topic
    NICE Systems
    I rated 10, because Nice CX one is very much functional. You can simply acess it by website Nice, in any navigator, desktop, notebook or mobile, so you can in a fast way run on every departament of the company.
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    Return on Investment
    Bookafy
    • Saves a lot of time
    • Streamlines the process
    • Eliminates unnecessary back and forth calling and emailing
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    Calendly
    • Positive: When people want to meet, I can simply send my Calendly link and it takes less than 5 seconds to do.
    • Positive: It integrates well with Zoom, which means that by default all my appointments include Zoom information for a remote call.
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    NICE Systems
    • NICE CXone has allowed us the ability to, on specific teams, not have to back fill positions due to attrition.
    • NICE CXone has provided us insight into data metrics that we did not have before.
    • NICE CXone provides us with visibility into the productivity of our offshore agents which we did NOT have prior to our partnership.
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    ScreenShots

    Bookafy Screenshots

    Screenshot of Online appointment scheduling made easy, with a beautiful user interface, simplicity for the customer and powerful customization and integrations.Screenshot of Business settings allow unlimited services, unlimited staff members and many other custom settings.Screenshot of Custom automation... decide when your reminders go out, if you want review requests sent, and much more.Screenshot of Customize staff schedules, availability, services and allow your staff to sync with Google or Outlook calendarsScreenshot of Match your brand design with custom colors on your own online scheduling tool.

    Calendly Screenshots

    Screenshot of how to share a scheduling linkScreenshot of automated workflowsScreenshot of browser extensionsScreenshot of routing formsScreenshot of round robin & collective eventsScreenshot of admin management

    NiCE CXone Screenshots

    Screenshot of CXone Copilot is a partner for every conversation — bringing knowledge, next steps, and smart suggestions before agents even have to ask.Screenshot of CXone Orchestrator is a visual yet tool that does not require programming skills, but instead empowers everyone—from business user to routing flow programmer—to build and manage routing flows for all channels.Screenshot of CXone Interaction Analytics, used to get actionable insights from every voice, digital, and self-service customer interaction.Screenshot of CXone Performance Management aligns employee performance, contact center goals, and customer expectations with continuous improvement.