Calendly vs. Groove, a Clari company

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Calendly
Score 9.2 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
Groove, a Clari company
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Groove is a sales engagement platform that enables sales leaders to execute their strategy in a smarter and more adaptive way. With Groove, revenue leaders can use automation to do more with less, with the goal of driving greater efficiency and effectiveness across the customer lifecycle. Groove states they enable more than 75,000 users at ADP, Google, Uber, iHeartMedia, Capital One, and other large enterprises.N/A
Pricing
CalendlyGroove, a Clari company
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
CalendlyGroove, a Clari company
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
Additional DetailsMonthly billing also available.
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Community Pulse
CalendlyGroove, a Clari company
Considered Both Products
Calendly
Chose Calendly
Assistant.to is a great tool, but Calendly's UI is much simpler and more powerful. With Assistant.to, you only have the ability to embed availability into an email, but with Calendly you actually have your own link to send people. They also have a Chrome extension and more …
Groove, a Clari company
Chose Groove, a Clari company
I hesitate to even compare these two products because my prior experience with Calendly was limited and so long ago that my memory is likely compromised. What I remember most was that, at the time (circa 2016-2017), Calendly was almost exclusively used to set appointments as …
Chose Groove, a Clari company
Groove has a lot more features than what Calendly offered, it's easier to use and provides a friendly environment to keep on learning and improving your tech skills in the app itself.
Chose Groove, a Clari company
Groove is a way better scheduling tool than Calendly in my opinion. There are more settings and personalization.
Chose Groove, a Clari company
I used a mass emailing tool through Google and used Calendly for scheduling. Having one solution has made life much easier.
Chose Groove, a Clari company
Calendly is too restricted and limited unless I use the paid version. Groove has so much more features on top of the calendar/meeting scheduler.
I do wish both had an automatic Google Meets when a calendar event gets made, though, but it's OK because I have to edit the calendar …
Chose Groove, a Clari company
Groove's integration with Salesforce is its primary differentiator. Outreach/Salesloft cater to all CRMs and their sync with SFDC has a delay, requires additional configuration, and is often frustrating for admins.

Salesforce Sales Engagement (formerly High Velocity Sales) also …
Chose Groove, a Clari company
Groove integrates seamlessly with all the systems I use, and that makes it easier for me and my daily tasks as a salesperson. The other systems did not have as seamless integrations when I used them. Things could be different, and they may have upgraded. Also, Groove has some …
Chose Groove, a Clari company
I unfortunately haven't had similar situations with similar products, in the past I manually created customer messages.
Chose Groove, a Clari company
Groove is better simply because it's integrated right into my Outlook with better automated features
Chose Groove, a Clari company
They are both great platforms! I do really enjoy Groove's connections. I think they are more seamless than others. Very easy to use.
Chose Groove, a Clari company
Eloqua might be the best marketing and emailing technology that 2005 had to offer, but it's incredibly outdated, inelegant, and challenging to use.
Chose Groove, a Clari company
My workplace trained me in Groove when I started, so it wasn't so much of a choice for me. But compared to anything that I've used before, Groove is definitely the easiest to use and has changed my workflow immensely! I wish I'd known about it sooner because I would have …
Chose Groove, a Clari company
The UI is cleaner, it seems to not put too much strain on Gmail as an addon.
Chose Groove, a Clari company
I did not select Groove for the department, however, I have a lot more flexibility and customization with Groove re: scheduling. I would use the mentioned products occasionally however I largely worked on Outlook, which is a nightmare for students re: scheduling, and …
Chose Groove, a Clari company
Groove is inexpensive and is a greater fit for early-stage startups. Outreach is a more sophisticated tool and a better fit for mid-large size firms. Groove is a perfect fit for our business and our pockets as well.
Chose Groove, a Clari company
We first utilized Salesforce Inbox, which we loved for its capability of capturing part of the conversation (though sometimes manually), as well as the ability to add calendar invitations inline in the email. However, when we found that Groove captured and imported ALL of the …
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User Ratings
CalendlyGroove, a Clari company
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(89 ratings)
9.0
(706 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(2 ratings)
8.9
(33 ratings)
Usability
8.1
(3 ratings)
8.7
(542 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(5 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(5 ratings)
Support Rating
8.7
(32 ratings)
5.3
(145 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
4.9
(2 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(13 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
7.5
(6 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(2 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(5 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
CalendlyGroove, a Clari company
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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Groove.co
  • Groove is excellent for the use case of improving sales representative and customer success representative productivity and data quality when used alongside Salesforce. It is a Salesforce focused tool. You should definitely consider Groove if you are a current Salesloft / Outreach user and you also use Salesforce.
  • Groove would not be a good fit for an organization not using Salesforce.
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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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Groove.co
  • Groove lets us know real-time when a client has checked an email we sent them.
  • Groove helps us streamline our day-to-day events, meetings, and tasks with the help of the Calendar Booking feature.
  • Groove helps us save a lot of time on typing long letters when we explain our products to our customers with the help of their Templates feature.
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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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Groove.co
  • The footprint of the person who lasts touches the information.
  • The footprint of the person who edited the information.
  • Date and time of the modification of the account owner.
  • Date and time of the modification of the last person touching the account.
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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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Groove.co
I actually don't have any complaint regarding groove. It's just that I will give 9 since I confidently believe that there'd be updates in the future which would be more optimal not just for us users but for the business as well. The only regret I have with groove is I was not able to use it before the current company that I'm employed
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Usability
Calendly
I gave Calendly an 8 because overall I think it is very much user friendly even for someone who has never used anything similar. The only issue I have had with usability is what I already stated about how the settings are in sub categories making some things difficult to find at first.
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Groove.co
Groove has been an awesome platform to use for sales pipeline management. I really enjoy how it integrates with my Salesforce, Gmail, and Google Calendar. It makes my job easier by helping me keep track of the progress of each sales contact that I have. Leads are able to reply and notify us using Groove.
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Reliability and Availability
Calendly
No answers on this topic
Groove.co
Our organization has not experienced any availability issues with Groove
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Performance
Calendly
No answers on this topic
Groove.co
Everything is good
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Support Rating
Calendly
I only reached out to Support once but they were very prompt and easy to work with. I had some questions about setting up the follow-up emails for after people would do the interview. They were very helpful and gave assistance and we solved the issue very fast. I would definitely recommend.
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Groove.co
My company has a team dedicated to supporting our implementation of operative tools and business systems such as Groove. For this reason, I feel that we have ample support for Groove, although I have not personally contacted Groove for any support issues.
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In-Person Training
Calendly
No answers on this topic
Groove.co
It was okay. But, just the once. I had to figure it out with help of others on my team.
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Online Training
Calendly
No answers on this topic
Groove.co
Easy to use
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Implementation Rating
Calendly
No answers on this topic
Groove.co
At Nearpod, I have been impressed with the internal expertise and support around Groove as a key tool for the Sales and Customer Success business systems and operations.
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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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Groove.co
I have used Dialpad. Dialpad is great, and Groove in my opinion does everything Dialpad does. Dialpad lacks the automation, which makes me feel that Groove is much better. I have not used any other CRMS besides these two, but I do believe Groove is light years ahead of Dialpad.
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Scalability
Calendly
No answers on this topic
Groove.co
Our organization was able to quickly scale Groove from a pilot group of a few users to a department-wide solution
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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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Groove.co
  • Reduced several hours a week of logging time in Salesforce that either wouldn't get done or would have been done to the detriment of more value add activities.
  • Saves hours per week by delivering actionable/useful info from Salesforce into Gmail
  • Gives me valuable insight on what emails are being opened and read. This helps plan targeting.
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