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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Doodle

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ADoodle is appointment scheduling software from the Swiss company of the same name.

    $15

    per month per seat

    SignUpGenius

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ASignUpGenius in Charlotte offers an event sign up and registration site and service for entities organizing small groups, with payment processing, email and text reminding, forms with visual design themes and templates, among other features.N/A
    Pricing
    CalendlyDoodleSignUpGenius
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $10
    per month (billed annually) per seat
    Teams
    $16
    per month (billed annually) per seat
    Enterprise
    Starts at $15k
    per year
    Free
    $0
    1 user
    Pro
    $15
    per month per user
    Team
    $19.95
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
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    Pricing Offerings
    CalendlyDoodleSignUpGenius
    Free Trial
    YesNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    CalendlyDoodleSignUpGenius
    Considered Multiple Products
    Calendly
    Chose Calendly
    Before making the switch to Calendly, we used Doodle polls a ton for big meetings to avoid the constant back and forth and long email chain messages between external partners, stakeholders, donors, funders, and other clients. Doodle poll is fairly informal compared to the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Calendly
    Calendly was the first product to the market we were aware of. New copycat tools have since popped up. Previously we were using Doodle on a one-off basis to coordinate available times, or utilizing executive assistants to help coordinate scheduling. Doodle is great for …
    Incentivized
    Chose Calendly
    With Calendly, it syncs with your Outlook calendar so you never have to worry about over-scheduling yourself. When I used to use Doodle you had to set everything up and manage it in Doodle's program. You had to block off times and put in a lot more work for the same result. D…
    Incentivized
    Chose Calendly
    Calendly is much more user-friendly with respect to setting aside a series of meetings in one day that are 15 minutes or such throughout the day. Doodle made you manually calculate the different time slots with buffers, Calendly sets it all up automatically with buffers in …
    Incentivized
    Chose Calendly
    Great customer support and ease of use. Will probably never switch.
    Incentivized
    Chose Calendly
    Calendly is a better option because it integrates with both our work calendars and our interview screening program, Zoom. The company seems to put a lot of time and effort making sure that it is useful and seamless across multiple platforms. We have never hand any major issue …
    Incentivized
    Chose Calendly
    Calendly worked from the very start. The others all had some startup woes so I stopped using them and waited for something better to come along. Once I saw Calendly in action, I knew right away this would be a useful scheduling tool for me to be using in my daily life for both …
    Incentivized
    Doodle AG
    Chose Doodle
    Doodle is far superior to Calendly. It's more intuitive, easier to log in and understand the interface, and has a dynamic dashboard where you can do everything yourself and see history. I selected Doodle because it isn't just a chrome extension. It has so much more to it than …
    Incentivized
    Chose Doodle
    I think Doodle is like Calendly on steroids. I have used Calendly for a pretty long time and I really like it but I feel Doodle's added functionality definitely makes it the more attractive option. Also, their pricing isn't that different so you just get more bang for your buck …
    Incentivized
    Chose Doodle
    Doodle allows you to view more options simultaneously than Calendly, but Calendly offers more private interaction. Calendly is helpful for scheduling one on one meetings, but Doodle is much more effective with groups.
    Incentivized
    Chose Doodle
    For the same reasons noted previously, Doodle allows for the organizer to ultimately select/accept the time that works for them. Many competitors only allow you to show available times and the appointment goes directly into the organizer's calendar. I typically prefer to have a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Doodle
    Doodle is a platform that allows you to see others' availability, while Calendly and YCBM require respondents to actually make a booking at one of the times you offer. Doodle allows more flexibility in that you can see if there are multiple times when multiple people are …
    Incentivized
    SignUpGenius
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    98%
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    Score10 out of 10
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    Score10 out of 10
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    Chili Piper
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    User Ratings
    CalendlyDoodleSignUpGenius
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.5
    (90 ratings)
    9.0
    (31 ratings)
    9.0
    (20 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    8.7
    (32 ratings)
    8.3
    (17 ratings)
    7.5
    (9 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CalendlyDoodleSignUpGenius
    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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    Doodle AG
    Doodle is great when you need to coordinate dates among a group and don't want to send a bunch of group emails or texts. It allows a number of dates to be proposed and the group can easily see those dates that are most preferred. If you need to do something more complex than that it may not be your tool.
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    SignUpGenius
    If you are planning large events and you need an accurate headcount, the SignUpGenius is for you! Additionally, if you are trying to get a variety of volunteers to meet various needs, then you should really check out SignUpGenius! One specific way that we have used SignUpGenius is by getting the parents of our youth ministry students to bring refreshments to youth groups on Sunday mornings. We set up a SignUpGenius sign-up sheet where they can all sign up for various Sundays to bring refreshments, which really helps our students focus on Sundays.
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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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    Doodle AG
    • Doodle allows you to view multiple meeting times simultaneously. I may never have 100% of my team available, but I can see that I have three other options with 90% availability.
    • Doodle is a free resource that doesn't require users to create an account or exist in a network. I simply send the link and see the responses.
    • Doodle notifies you as people respond, making the scheduling process quick and easy. Also, you can confirm a time through the software!
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    SignUpGenius
    • Easy to access. No login or registration is required for people to sign up for slots--just click the link and go.
    • No real technical expertise or knowledge is necessary to successfully use the tool.
    • Several different options/styles of signups are available.
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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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    Doodle AG
    • I wish that it offered more options in backgrounds, characters and props without having an additional cost, but that is to be expected.
    • I would like an easier way to add my own fonts, characters , props etc, because I am a new learner this may not be an issue as I get more familiar with the software.
    • I don't like all the sales emails I received trying to upgrade or add to my purchase.
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    SignUpGenius
    • Some of the layout and terminology are a little confusing and could be more user-friendly. It took me some time and playing around to figure out that the days and times you put in are a step which just produces a grid of possible times, and that choosing which slots to activate is a second step required. It later made sense why it was set up this was (allows you to input a large block of times at once and then select the particular ones you need, and makes it possible to add a second person with a different schedule on the same sign up, giving the appointment setters more options overall to choose from)
    • Wish it would intuitively (or add an option to...) replicate location for any additional days and times you add to the same sign up. Has to be manually added (or copied and pasted).
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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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    Doodle AG
    Easy to use and basically free.
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    SignUpGenius
    It is a great product that works efficiently for our needs
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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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    Doodle AG
    Very simple journey with the few important questions/fields
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    SignUpGenius
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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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    Doodle AG
    Doodle has customer service support available as needed, but honestly, it is so easy to use that I have rarely had to seek support. They are always a click away and responsive to resolving any need or to clarify the next best step to using Doodle to meet my needs.
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    SignUpGenius
    I don't have any feedback for support because I have not had to use support (if referring to IT support). If this question is in referral to support from other staff/company, then it has been received well in that sense.
    Incentivized
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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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    Doodle AG
    For the same reasons noted previously, Doodle allows for the organizer to ultimately select/accept the time that works for them. Many competitors only allow you to show available times and the appointment goes directly into the organizer's calendar. I typically prefer to have a bit more control over that. Also, visually Doodle is more intuitive in how you schedule appointments than Calendly. I think Calendly tries to get a bit too cute with their interface instead of sticking to a more standard, familiar calendar interface when setting an appointment.
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    SignUpGenius
    I prefer the use of SignUpGenius as it is more user-friendly. I am not limited to 10 questions and then have to pay for additional features. While I do not like the additional feature payment, as we are a nonprofit, I will continue using the free services.
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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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    Doodle AG
    • Improved efficiency by avoiding the slow and inefficient process of emailing back and forth to set meeting dates and times.
    • Allows for more informed decisions regarding meetings or making decisions, as all options can be laid out visually in a way that isn't possible in an email.
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    SignUpGenius
    • Being able to share the form with people inside and outside your organization allows less back and forth via email when scheduling meetings - saving time and money
    • The free version is available as long as you'd like - it's not a trial version - a lot of companies can get away with only using the free version
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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