Best Calendly alternatives for large sales teams
9. Chili Piper
While Calendly allows customers to book a meeting before adding them to the CRM, Chili Piper adds leads to the CRM first and then sends them through the scheduling workflow. In other words, Calendly follows a schedule-first, sales-second approach, whereas Chili Piper follows a sales-first, scheduling-second approach.
Chili Piper's features allow you to schedule meetings from your email, calendar, chat, and CRM. Because the app always captures the lead in the CRM first, the booking forms are prefilled; this makes most meetings a one-click experience for clients. Chili Piper also has routing rules to make sure that leads are assigned based on a team member's availability, experience, and other custom rules. In short, their aim is to connect a salesperson to customer as fast as possible.
10. OnceHub (formerly ScheduleOnce)
OnceHub (formerly ScheduleOnce) was one of the first apps to focus on sales teams and their scheduling needs. They have all the essential features of an appointment scheduling app.
OnceHub emphasizes compliance, security, customization, and control more than any other app that we reviewed. However, as a sales scheduling tool, OnceHub is a bit behind Calendly and Chili Piper in terms of integrations, routing algorithms, sales-focused reporting, plug-ins, and AI features that reduce administrative work.
The user interface is clean and offers clear help documentation. Keep in mind that OnceHub can be a little complex if you don't enjoy fine-grained control, flexibility, and a user interface crowded with help text.
11. Drift
While Drift is not primarily a scheduling solution, it offers a meeting scheduler and has several tools for sales teams. The main tool is a chatbot for your website that enables you to hold live conversations with visitors. The bot takes care of the conversations when your team isn't online. Drift extends this bot's functionality with emails, audience insights, and sales team routing. It also provides available site visitor information from your CRM, so you can have more personalized conversations.
12. Salesloft and 13. Outreach
These sales engagement platforms automate email and calls, personalize messaging, and provide real-time analytics. They also automatically update CRMs and other software in your sales tech stack, improving overall productivity. Sales managers can keep tabs on their team's performance with the dashboards. SDRs and BDRs will be able to start their day with their tasks already lined up.
The strength of both platforms is in the sales cadences. Sales cadences maintain uniformity and predictability for experienced sales team members while also reducing the ramp-up time for newbies. The platforms also help sales teams manage their email sequences without waiting for the marketing teams.
Many sales teams began using Calendly before these two sales engagement platforms hit the market. Maybe it is time for them to look beyond Calendly.