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
Acuity Scheduling, a Squarespace company
Score8.3 out of 10
N/A
Acuity Scheduling is an appointment management platform developed by the company of the same name in New York and acquired by Squarespace in 2019.
Vice President of Consulting in Professional Services at Urgensee, Inc. (Non-profit Organization Management, 1-10 employees)
Chose Calendly
Calendly is also very affordable, starting at free! The Salesforce integration is beneficial for those that would like some record-keeping of their appointments, or integrate it with other processes. I don't charge per appointments (clients are billed differently), so an …
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CFE Certified Financial Educator® in Marketing at Tribundant Financial Wellness Solutions (Financial Services, 11-50 employees)
Chose Calendly
Although Acuity offers a cheaper solution when you are using teams and has the ability to add pictures to appointments with a nice interface. It pales in comparison to Calendly when integrating calendars, especially multiple calendar integrations.
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Owner at Dignified Hedonist (Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1-10 employees)
Chose Acuity Scheduling, a Squarespace company
Calendly and Acuity Scheduling have a similar feature set and both are user friendly. The reason I selected Acuity Scheduling, ultimately, is that it offers an always free plan that has a robust enough feature set to make the software practical and usable, whereas the free tier …
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Verified User
Chose Acuity Scheduling, a Squarespace company
I prefer Acuity Scheduling to Calendly mainly for the customization capabilities. It fits many different business models. Calendly is more basic.
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Verified User
Chose Acuity Scheduling, a Squarespace company
Calendly did not allow clients to make multiple appts at once so it was too much of a hassle for clients who wanted to schedule 5 appts. I like that Acuity allows them to do it in one form.
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Digital Strategist at Sherpa Design Co. (Design, 1-10 employees)
Chose Acuity Scheduling, a Squarespace company
I liked Calendly, but Acuity seemed to be the industry leader and it works with SquareSpace, which is a huge plus. I want whatever app I use to be around for the long haul.
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Verified User
Chose Acuity Scheduling, a Squarespace company
The Acuity embedded calendar loads. Fast. That's KEY to everything. I don't like a slow load time because it's representative of my brand. The UI design, while not 100% yet, or as beautiful as Calendly's, is just what I need. They come up with all sorts of new, innovative ways …
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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
Verified User
Chose Acuity Scheduling, a Squarespace company
Acuity's user interface was much cleaner and easier to use when scheduling meetings. We love that you can embed it within your own website and it shows the calendar right there instead of redirecting you. Acuity gave us the ability to customize our meeting types and the …
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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
Verified User
Chose Acuity Scheduling, a Squarespace company
Overall, the cost, ease of use, and setup were all above average with Acuity. I tried many different programs (some not listed as a comparison) but I was very happy with Acuity and am glad we stuck with it.
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Embodiment Coach and Workshop Facilitator at Allyson Woodrooffe Coaching (Professional Training & Coaching, 1-10 employees)
Chose Acuity Scheduling, a Squarespace company
When I was first looking for a booking system, I tried many such as Satori, the Coaches Console, Calendly and several other free and paid services, but none were as easy to use, as full of fabulous features or offered as fantastic customer service support as Acuity. It's hand's …
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Calendly users have found that the product is vastly used for scheduling appointments and meetings across different time zones. A common use case for Calendly, as highlighted by numerous users, is in the corporate world where scheduling meetings can be a hassle due to disparate schedules and availability. In particular, users have praised its ability to integrate with multiple calendars, making it easy for attendees to pick and choose convenient meeting times.
Acuity Scheduling, on the other hand, has been favorably used by health professionals, consultants, and professionals providing individual services. According to customers, it proves beneficial in managing and organizing appointment slots, giving clients the autonomy to book their appointments. The customizability and ability to send automatic reminders about appointments were aspects of the tool that many users found particularly helpful. Another key point users mentioned about Acuity Scheduling is its flexibility in integrating with several payment systems.
While both products serve the main purpose of managing and organizing meetings or appointments, they differ in their primary user base. Where Calendly might be more commonly used in a corporate environment for scheduling team meetings or one-on-ones, Acuity Scheduling seems to have found its niche in facilitating client bookings for individual service providers. However, users of both Calendly and Acuity Scheduling expressed appreciation for the apps’ user-friendly interface, ease of setup, and integration capabilities.
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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I think any business can benefit from Acuity Scheduling. In my experience, however, and maybe I just haven’t found the correct settings yet, it’s been difficult to manage 4 business schedules with multiple employees and varying hours that change day-to-day and week-to-week. So I definitely would recommend it to more simple business models with set hours, as it seems like it would have all the functions one might need. I still would recommend to more complex businesses like mine as well, but also include discussion of some of the potential drawbacks.
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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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Clicking on the link opens up my calendar, which has an uncluttered look, making it easy for my prospects and clients to review their options and make their choice.
I am able to customize my schedule, the types of appointments I want to offer, and even decide how many appointments I want in a day. There are so many details that I can customize.
I can customize how my calendar and emails look for my prospects and clients so that I come across professional and coordinated. I want the look of my business, website, etc. to have a polished, cohesive, and interesting presence.
I love that there is a workshop/class/series option for my workshops. My attendees reserve their place and pay upfront. I can duplicate these events or add future dates. It's wonderful. This saves us a lot of time and is so convenient.
I haven't had any trouble with my scheduler. It works flawlessly, so I don't have to take time out of my day to fix, troubleshoot or call customer service.
I love that I can add questions for my prospects to answer right away before booking a call. This means 3 fewer steps for me. 1. They answer these questions without an email from me. 2. They make their reservation and get a follow-up email, right away. 3. I customized the follow-up email with more details and actions to take to prepare for our call.
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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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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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Acuity Scheduling has been very reliable. If you don't believe me, check out their status page here. They do a pretty decent job maintaining their app. To be fair, it's a pretty simple tool so they shouldn't run into too many hiccups given it doesn't feature near as many options as other applications on the market run.
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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
It is very easy to use once you get to know the program but with years of working with the program I am still finding new things that I had wished I knew about earlier. I feel like aspects of the website become hidden that would help productivity a lot if I knew they existed beforehand.
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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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Every time I had a question on how to do something or had any issues with Acuity Scheduling, mainly in the very beginning, when I was learning the platform, customer service was excellent. They were prompt to respond, friendly, and very helpful until I had the right solution.
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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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In the case of Schedulicity, the system was awesome (very easy to set up and had some nice features) but did not offer the functionality and flexibility that AcuityScheduling does. In the case of SimplyBook.me, they offer lots of functionality but the interface is extremely complex and you pay a la carte for features so you're going to pay exponentially more for the same set of features as compared to AcuityScheduling. Their customer service was also lacking, in my opinion.
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A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
A de minimis incentive was given to thank the reviewer for their time. The incentive was not used to bias or drive a particular response, nor was the incentive contingent on a positive endorsement. More Info
