Five things you won't have to compromise on when choosing Zoho Bookings over Calendly
Personalization
Your website, store, and staff represent your brand. Make your booking page reflect the same feeling. Choose from over 20 themes and layouts for your page and map it to your website. Create webpages about your staff and ride on their popularity.
Key performance metrics
View daily and monthly appointments on your calendar dashboard. Identify growth opportunities from revenue and appointment reports.
Working style
Run one-time classes or a series of sessions over a specific period. Alternatively, collect bookings on a day-to-day basis for your recurring classes. You'll never have to configure the sessions repeatedly.
Revenue growth
Qualify your leads by using custom fields in your booking form. Collect full or partial payments in advance to eliminate no-shows. Reduce cancellations and unexpected revenue dips by setting a cut-off date for people to reschedule and cancel their appointment.
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*Comparing yearly prices for Zoho Bookings premium plan with Calendly's professional plan
Key features of Zoho Bookings
Two-way calendar sync
Connect your team's calendars to Zoho Bookings. Avoid double-booking and increase efficiency. See your schedule for the day, week, and month on our calendar dashboard.
Team scheduling
Share pooled availability with customers on the booking page. Allow customers to choose a staff member or opt for using our round-robin algorithm to allocate appointments. Enhance collaboration with collective booking for effortless panel meetings.
Update your CRM
Keep track of your appointments, mark customers as a lead or contact, and plan for follow-up from your CRM. Use our built-in integration with Zoho CRM or connect to another CRM with Zapier or Zoho Flow.
Notifications and reminders
Confirm appointments and send reminders with email and SMS. Personalize these emails with the customer’s name, the sender’s address, and the online meeting link.
Use Booking Variables to automatically customize these emails for each appointment. Edit emails as text, or design them as HTML.
Workspaces
Do you run a business chain spread across several cities? Use workspaces to streamline services across multiple locations. Allow customers to view multiple services offered and book their preferred service effortlessly. Alternatively, you can harness workspaces for seamless multi-department management.
Connect to your domain
Shape your brand perception the way you want to. Map your booking page to your domain and stay in line with your brand identity. Choose from three types of booking pages: staff, service, and workspace.
Customize your booking pages in three steps
Upload a background image and your logo, set a theme that resonates with your brand, and update the page content. There are millions of booking page designs that you can start working with in minutes. No need to learn CSS or HTML.
Embed your booking page
Zoho Bookings offers multiple ways to share availability with customers. You can use the customizable booking page, or embed it on your website. Either way, you'll be able to show your customers your best self.
Qualify appointments
Ask questions on the appointment booking form. Multi-line fields and checkboxes make it quick and easy to ask customers about their preferences and expectations.
Online payment
Collect payments ahead of your appointment and minimize losses due to no-shows. Avoid awkward payment follow-ups. You can collect a deposit or partial payment, too. To facilitate your customers across the globe, we offer integrations with more than five payment platforms.
Meet online
Meet customers online using Zoho Meeting, MS Teams, Google Meet, or Zoom. Every time a customer books an appointment, they'll get a link to join the meeting online.
Rent resources
Whether you want to lease sports equipment or rent out office space, Zoho Bookings has you covered. Charge clients on an hourly basis or any custom duration within 24 hours based on your preferences.
Mobile app with native features
Our apps for iOS and Android devices update you about changes to your schedule in real time. Look up customer details, previous bookings, and even share your booking page—all from your phone.
Flexible payment plans
To subscribe for Zoho Bookings, you can make payments monthly or annually. You can also add users one by one. This makes it easier for smaller teams and businesses to automate their scheduling in an affordable way.
Enterprise scheduling
We offer enterprise level security, SSO, 99.9% SLA, and APIs for organizations with a large number of users. We're GDPR and CCPA certified, and we take our customer's privacy seriously.
Best of all? Zoho's got your back.
We're known for our commitment to customer privacy, transparency in pricing, and our integrated suite of products. We listen to our customers and continuously provide feature updates, while keeping our prices affordable and our support top-notch.
Zoho Bookings vs Calendly pricing 2024
This compares Calendly's Standard and Teams pricing plans with Zoho Bookings' Premium pricing plan. Zoho Bookings also has a Basic plan, which you can check out here.
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- (Premium) Billed annually (Standard) Billed annually (Teams) Billed annually
- Cost
/user/month 3 workspaces included
$10per user per month
$16per user per month
- Add staff at: $10 $16
- Add workspaces at: Not applicable Not applicable
- Services and appointments Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
- Workspaces / locations / departments Unlimited
Virtual space dedicated to a service or group of services. Learn more
- Online meeting tool integration
- Appointment types One-on-one
- Group bookings
- Recurring group bookings
We offer two types of recurring group events: Series and Drop-in Learn more
- Collective bookings
- Paid appointments
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In Zoho Bookings, you can create recurring group appointments like a class. You can customize them to be a drop-in or a series booking based on your needs. - Two-way calendar sync Zoho, Google, Office 365 Google, Office 365 Google, Office 365
- Calendar connections per user Six Six Six
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Both Zoho Bookings and Calendly allow you to integrate and check availability from six calendar connections. - Scheduling Online bookings for clients
- Manual self-bookings
- Rescheduling
- Cancelling
- Invite guests
- Round robin algorithm
- Custom pricing, duration, and buffer times for services
- Team scheduling
- Custom workflows
- Notes for appointments
- Master control to admin/user events
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Both apps perform well on basic scheduling needs. However, Zoho Bookings has features like round robin algorithms at a reasonable price, giving you a bang for your buck. - Notifications and reminders Automatic confirmation, reminder and cancellation emails
- Customize email notifications
- Import HTML email templates
Use your own HTML templates for email notifications. Learn more
- Change sender email address
Choose your preferred email address for email communications.
- SMS reminders
- In product notification
Get web app notifications for appointments, payments, and other important events. Learn more
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Both Zoho Bookings and Calendly have notifications and reminders to give updates about an appointment. However, with Zoho Bookings you can brand your emails by importing your email templates for communication with clients. You can also personalize your emails further by changing the default sender address to that of your business, admin, or staff. - Booking page Customize booking links for staff and services
- Display logo, image, custom message - branding
- Customize booking page colors (For website embed only)
- Remove brand logos from booking page
- Booking page themes (Layout)
Showcase your booking page to customers in multiple ways. Learn more
- Automatic time zone conversion
- Enable/disable services/booking page
- Add custom fields to booking form
- Embed booking page in your website
- Customer sign up page (customer portal)
A portal for customers to keep track of their appointments
- Connect to your domain
Attach the booking page to your domain.
- Customers select staff
Allow customers to choose a preferred staff member for the appointment.
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Zoho Bookings allows you to map the booking page to your domain which keeps customers in your website. The design customization options available in Zoho Bookings are better allowing you to match your brand colors on the standalone booking page or when you embed it on your website. - Integrations Built-in CRM integration Zoho CRM Hubspot Salesforce, Hubspot
- Built-in online meeting scheduler Zoho Meeting, Zoom, MS Teams, Google Meet, others via Zoho Flow/Zapier Google Meet, GoToMeeting, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and Zoom, others via Zapier Google Meet, GoToMeeting, Microsoft Teams, Webex, and Zoom, others via Zapier
- Browser extension
- Integrations via APIs and Webhooks
- Other integrations via third-parties Zoho Flow, Zapier Zapier Zapier
- Payment gateways
- SMS gateways (Only with zapier)
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Both apps have integrations necessary for a sales team: CRM and Online meeting. - Reports Reports for appointments and revenue
- Appointment history
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Zoho Bookings' reporting module is better compared to Calendly because of its unique ability to generate reports on both appointments and revenue. This helps you stay on top of your finances. - Others Mobile app (iOS and Android)
- Resource scheduling
Simplify resource rentals (rooms, halls, equipment internally/externally).
- Customize in-app text
- Priority support
- HIPAA compliant
Protect customer health information with HIPAA.Learn more
- Live chat support
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You can also use Zoho Bookings to schedule resources like office spaces and sports facilities. Unlike Calendly, Zoho Bookings is HIPAA-compliant.
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Comments:
Zoho Bookings has a workspace feature which allows you to create departments or locations that reflect your organization structure. Both Zoho Bookings and Calendly allow you to start even with one user in their plans.