Calendly vs. PhoneBurner

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Calendly
Score 8.8 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
PhoneBurner
Score 5.8 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
PhoneBurner is an automatic phone dialing system. It provides the ability to load a list of contacts and includes a built-in contact manager. It allows users to record a voicemail message and to choose which contacts to call.
$165
per month per user
Pricing
CalendlyPhoneBurner
Editions & Modules
Standard
$10
per month (billed annually) per seat
Teams
$16
per month (billed annually) per seat
Enterprise
Starts at $15k
per year
Standard
$165
per month per user
Professional
$195
per month per user
Premium
$215
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CalendlyPhoneBurner
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsMonthly billing also available.15% discount available with an annual contract. No setup fees. No per minutes fees. No credit card free trial. Admin account is free unless engaged in dialing.
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Community Pulse
CalendlyPhoneBurner
Features
CalendlyPhoneBurner
Preview Dialer
Comparison of Preview Dialer features of Product A and Product B
Calendly
-
Ratings
PhoneBurner
7.4
8 Ratings
1% above category average
Contact preview00 Ratings8.68 Ratings
Dialer-CRM integration00 Ratings6.77 Ratings
Call notes & tags00 Ratings5.87 Ratings
Automatic call logging00 Ratings8.78 Ratings
Core Dialer
Comparison of Core Dialer features of Product A and Product B
Calendly
-
Ratings
PhoneBurner
9.2
8 Ratings
18% above category average
Outbound dialing00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
Inbound routing00 Ratings8.94 Ratings
Custom caller ID00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
Click-to-call00 Ratings9.36 Ratings
Recorded voicemail drop00 Ratings9.87 Ratings
Dialer contact import00 Ratings9.47 Ratings
Campaign & list management00 Ratings9.47 Ratings
Call Follow-up and Quality Assurance
Comparison of Call Follow-up and Quality Assurance features of Product A and Product B
Calendly
-
Ratings
PhoneBurner
9.2
8 Ratings
18% above category average
Follow-up calls00 Ratings9.47 Ratings
Dialer reporting & analytics00 Ratings8.78 Ratings
Dialer compliance00 Ratings9.47 Ratings
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User Ratings
CalendlyPhoneBurner
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(90 ratings)
6.5
(8 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(4 ratings)
9.3
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
8.7
(32 ratings)
8.6
(5 ratings)
User Testimonials
CalendlyPhoneBurner
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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PhoneBurner
I like that you can dial out so many leads and double the efficiency of the agent. The only thing that bothers me is sometimes, system down issue.
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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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PhoneBurner
  • PhoneBurner connects to Hubspot so that my team doesn't have to go back and forth.
  • The amount of time it takes to get through a list of calls has almost been cut in half.
  • The opportunity to do leave a voicemail without having to leave it on each call is a huge time saver.
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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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PhoneBurner
  • Could be a little better on the pricing.
  • Could offer a better central administrative function.
  • Could provide more updates to the app.
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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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PhoneBurner
No answers on this topic
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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PhoneBurner
PhoneBurner as I said before, has an excellent graphical interface, super friendly, with menus that the user can easily find and program the calls. The layout is good, fast, and has little delay and errors. I really like the tool and from the beginning, I had no difficulty with the usability.
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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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PhoneBurner
Every interaction I have had with any member of their support team has been pleasant. Issues are quickly addressed and their response time is excellent through the chat service.
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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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PhoneBurner
We selected PhoneBurner because it is very easy to integrate with Zoho CRM and if you have a silver plan, you can do a lot such as Sending SMS and unlimited calling, you can also record and drop voicemail, timezone calling is automatic. It is a good dialer to use if you are part of sales.
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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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PhoneBurner
  • [I believe] it has cost me a fortune in wasted time trying to make the Hubspot integration [work] (to no avail).
  • [I believe] if the Hubspot integration actually worked, we would probably get decent ROI from the speedier calling.
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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

PhoneBurner Screenshots

Screenshot of the dialing interfaceScreenshot of PhoneBurner's spam flag and answer rate solutionScreenshot of an overview of PhoneBurner's lead routingScreenshot of an illustration of a call workflowScreenshot of PhoneBurner's inbuilt analyticsScreenshot of Connect Scores pickup probability