Calendly vs. Consensus

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Calendly
Score 8.9 out of 10
N/A
Calendly 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
Consensus
Score 9.8 out of 10
N/A
Consensus improves the software buying process with interactive demos on demand. A digital product experience, it aims to delight buyers and deliver detailed intent data back to revenue teams, to shorten cycle times, increase close rates, and drive resource efficiency.
$600
per month
Pricing
CalendlyConsensus
Editions & Modules
Standard
$10
per month (billed annually) per seat
Teams
$16
per month (billed annually) per seat
Enterprise
Starts at $15k
per year
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CalendlyConsensus
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsMonthly billing also available.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
CalendlyConsensus
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Small Businesses
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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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Score 8.1 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 8.5 out of 10
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Score 8.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
CalendlyConsensus
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(90 ratings)
9.8
(48 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(2 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(4 ratings)
9.7
(30 ratings)
Support Rating
8.7
(32 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CalendlyConsensus
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Consensus Sales, Inc
Within the last 6 months, I've run a personal A/B test on opportunities with and without Consensus videos being sent after every meeting. Those opportunities where I sent Consensus videos after every meeting had a >50% likelihood of closing and/or progressed past the Proposal phase. Those opportunities where I did not send Consensus video, I was left unanswered more often than not
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Pros
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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Consensus Sales, Inc
  • The ability to tailor demos and demoboards to show various functionality of the product.
  • We appreciate the features Consensus has to customize demos in various forms.
  • The customer service and post-sales trainings the Consensus team has held for our company have been extremely beneficial. I personally appreciated learning how demos are better received when they're not 'perfect'
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Cons
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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Consensus Sales, Inc
  • The front-end UX could be improved to look and feel more like a mature SaaS solution
  • There's a limited amount of help resources to assist throughout the video building process
  • I'd like to see more integrations with broader SaaS solutions to unlock more use cases (i.e. Engaging in group formats, long-form webinars, etc)
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Likelihood to Renew
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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Consensus Sales, Inc
Consensus has been a valuable and vital sales tool at every stage of our sales cycle. In the very early stages of prospect education, you can send videos to get them familiar and up to speed with our product without a solution consultant's involvement. It is also a very powerful tool at the later stages of the sales cycle, with the ability to tailor demos and intro videos and record exec alignment itro videos, which we have had great success with
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Usability
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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Consensus Sales, Inc
It only took me a matter of minutes to onboard myself to Consensus and start utilizing it with my clients. The platform is very simple to set up and straight forward to use. Most platforms take time to learn how to use and navigate but Consensus was very easy to pick up and use as a first time user.
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Support Rating
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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Consensus Sales, Inc
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Alternatives Considered
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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Consensus Sales, Inc
We did not find a similar solution that could provide the prospect experience Consensus provides. We did not seriously evaluate any other platform like we did with Consensus. Consensus allows your prospects to select their interests and only show them the relevant parts of your product. No other software we evaluated could do it like Consensus
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Return on Investment
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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Consensus Sales, Inc
  • I closed 3 deals last year by prospects using Consensus and finding additional modules they wanted to purchase.
  • Consensus speed up the buying process in 6 of my deals last year to close in quarter.
  • Consensus saved me time from doing additional live demos.
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ScreenShots

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

Consensus Screenshots

Screenshot of the Consensus demo player, which is the heart of the product. Buyers tailor their demo and receive relevant messaging via interactive video demos.Screenshot of the Chrome extension, which enables sales reps to record and sens demos instantly without leaving their inbox.Screenshot of Demolytics, a feature used to dive deeper into stakeholder engagement by showing how buyers ranked features, what they watched, and who they shared the demo with.Screenshot of an example of an Interactive Product Tour, used to give buyers a multimedia experience as a supplement to interactive videos that let buyers click through stories and key product areas with text and video explainers.Screenshot of the demo library that helps manage content across teams and gives revenue operations teams a centralized place to create and share demos instantly.