Both Calendly and YouCanBookMe have powerful scheduling features that will meet the needs of most businesses… Yet their design philosophy, pricing structure, and supporting features are what make them better for different audiences.

We've compared the tools in five dimensions, crucial for scheduling software:

1. Ease of use
2. Scheduling features
3. Customization options
4. Integrations
5. Pricing

Here's how they measure up: Calendly vs YouCanBookMe.

 

Comparison Summary: Calendly vs YouCanBookMe

Calendly is a scheduling tool with enough features to satisfy varied and complex scheduling requirements. It’s made for enterprises that schedule a lot of external and internal meetings between departments. Funnily enough, the pricing system also makes Calendly ideal for individuals that want to connect more calendars.

YouCanBookMe, on the other hand, is a customer-focused scheduling platform for small-to-medium businesses. Its mission is to help small business owners create a better scheduling experience for their clients—and it has recently released new features to back that up. Not only is it super convenient to use, but it packs a lot of powerful features into a hassle-free scheduling solution for creating booking pages quickly and easily. Plus, users LOVE YouCanBookMe. See for yourself. 👇

Calendly vs. YCBM

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Pricing

Offers a free plan. Paid plans are $12/mo and $20/mo per user. Enterprise plans start at $15K/year.

Offers a free plan. Paid plans are $9/mo for 2 calendar connections and $13/mo for 6 calendars. Teams plan starts at $18/mo per user.

Internal Set up and Collaboration

Great for managing many large departments. Offers reporting and analytics.

Fast setup, all tools easily available within the booking page editor.

External Scheduling and Workflow

Offers routing forms to optimize client bookings.

Form prefilling and conditional statements; configurable confirmation, email reminders and follow-up notifications for no-shows across both SMS & Email.

Integrations

Offers 125 native integrations, including CRM software, Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, iCloud, and Zapier.

Can connect to 7,000+ tools with Zapier, as well as 9 native integrations including Google calendar, Microsoft outlook, Zoom, MS teams and Stripe.

Customization

Decent customization on higher plans.

Rich customization options for booking and confirmation pages, including custom colors, branding and messaging. Booking pages can be translated into 44 languages, including right-to-left scripts.

Best For

Complex and varied meeting scheduling needs for enterprises.

Hassle-free scheduling for small-to-medium and international teams.

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What is Calendly?

"Simple scheduling for complex workflows" 😵‍➡️😎

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Calendly started out as a simple scheduling link in 2013.

Today, it has grown into a comprehensive scheduling platform that manages scheduling for over 10 million businesses. Calendly places focus on teamwork, with features like pooled availability and the ability to create booking pages for team meetings, webinars, and online classes. It also offers 125 native integrations, which once again highlights its focus on large teams and complex workflows. Of course, these powerful features come at a cost: making Calendly a relatively expensive scheduling tool.

Calendly’s latest feature is Analytics, and it seems the company is now focusing on helping teams turn online scheduling into a precise, data-driven art.

 

What is YouCanBookMe?

"Reliable booking on steroids" 💪😉

YCBM screenshot

YouCanBookMe was born in 2011 with the main goal of being customer-focused.

Given its attention to customer experience and a user-friendly interface, it has been meeting this goal ever since. It offers a simple pricing structure, with a free option and 3 tiered paid plans. YouCanBookMe is ideal for small-to medium-sized businesses looking to create booking pages on the fly, offering powerful features that small businesses appreciate, like different appointment types on the same booking link, payment options like Apple & Google Pay, plus promo codes.

YouCanBookMe also offers first-class support to all paid users, regardless of size, and extensive customer success and onboarding help for large teams. In addition, you get flexible customization options, such as creating booking pages in more than 40 different languages (including right-to-left scripts), custom colors to match your branding, and a fully-customizable footer for your booking page that can display your company information.

YouCanBookMe also powers over 1 million bookings per month globally, helping small and medium-sized businesses thrive.

Listening to your users always pays off

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YouCanBookMe vs Calendly: Pricing

Both tools offer 3 pricing tiers with YouCanBookMe coming in at 20% of the cost across each tier.

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Both Calendly and YouCanBookMe have free plans.

Calendly and YouCanBookMe offer one booking page, one calendar integration, and basic scheduling features on their free plans. If you're new to scheduling and have very light scheduling needs, either of the free plans will serve your needs.

Calendly charges per team member, YouCanBookMe per linked calendar. In practice, these things are the same.

Before we explore the paid plans, one of the biggest differences is that Calendly charges per user seat, while YouCanBookMe per linked calendar.

In practice, there is very little difference.

Every person in a company who needs to book meetings will only use one calendar anyway, making one user seat equal to one linked calendar. In case you need to connect multiple calendars (like one calendar for work, one calendar for home, one calendar for the kung-fu club, etc.) then you'll have to buy multiple calendars connections with YouCanBookMe, while you'll be able to connect multiple calendars on one Calendly plan.

So whenever I mention that a plan is $9 or $12/month, I mean it's $10/month per user for Calendly and approximately $2-4.50 per linked Calendar for YouCanBookMe (depending on the plan you select).

Note: a calendar connection is NOT a booking page!

A calendar is an app for managing your appointments, events, and tasks (like Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook Calendar, FastMail Calendar, etc.)

A booking page is a page provided by your online scheduling tool that lets users add appointments to your calendar, based on the rules you've defined (meeting length, time slots, and descriptions). Most scheduling software requires you to link your calendar and booking page together so they can automatically add new appointments to your calendar, although YouCanBookMe offers a full calendar-free version as well.

Calendar connection screenshot

Across all plans, YouCanBookMe is about 20% cheaper than Calendly.

YouCanBookMe has tiered pricing starting at $9/month. This plan comes with a lot of customization abilities included, such as customizing your booking page, email and SMS notifications, and scheduling preferences (buffers, notice periods, etc). Plus, all paid customers get first-class customer support. Larger teams also get dedicated customer success reps while Calendly reserves that service level to enterprise-only clients. 

Calendly’s basic plan, on the other hand, starts at $12 per month per user. While you get all of the core scheduling tool features you'd expect, you'll have less access to customer support (versus when you're on the enterprise plan) and limited customization abilities when compared to YouCanBookMe.

Calendly
YouCanBookMe
Free Plan

1 booking page, 1 linked calendar integration

1 booking page, 1 linked calendar integration

Starter Plan

$12/seat/mo, connect multiple calendars, Advanced features locked

$9/mo, 2 linked calendars, 2 booking pages, and customization features

Professional

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$13/mo, 6 linked calendars, 10 booking pages, and all advanced features
Teams

$20/seat/mo, All features unlocked

$18/seat/mo, multiple calendar connections and booking pages per team member, all features unlocked
Annual Discount
20%
10%
2 Year Discount
20%
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If you're an individual that only needs basic scheduling features, both YouCanBookMe and Calendly will give you the same value. But if you're a team, YouCanBookMe unlocks all the features that Calendly offers in its more expensive plans, all for just $18 per team member. Calendly can be up to two times as expensive as YouCanBookMe depending on which plan you pick.

YCBM vs Calendly pricing per user

Winner: YouCanBookMe

Individuals who just need one linked calendar will unlock more customization abilities at just $9/month. Also, small-to-medium businesses will find YouCanBookMe up to 100% cheaper than Calendly Team plans with the same set of features.


Calendly vs YouCanBookMe: Internal Setup and Collaboration

YouCanBookMe is easier to use, while Calendly offers more enterprise value with its analytics and internal management.

 

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YouCanBookMe’s booking page editor makes it easier to set up and manage booking pages, while Calendly uses different tools for managing events, workflows, and routing.

When creating booking pages in YouCanBookMe, all workflows and routing tools are in the left menu (1). It also has a live preview of what the booking page will look like (3), which Calendly doesn’t have.

Booking page screenshot

You can add team members and assign them to the booking page (2). Notification flows, forms, availability, and customization are also accessible in each page-specific editor (1).

In YouCanBookMe, every booking page is completely separate so different pages can have different images, booking links and team information as needed.

Meanwhile, Calendly has a completely decentralized system:

Calendly booking page screenshot

You can create new events in the dashboard (2). But notifications (they call them workflows) and forms are accessible in separate tabs (1). So setting everything up the way you want isn’t as straightforward and takes some tinkering. Things like branding and your booking link are set at the top level so you have less flexibility between booking pages.  

You'll love Calendly's structure if you're an enterprise company working on a massive scale and would benefit from rigorous "module-to-module" work. But if you're a small-to-medium-sized team and you want to quickly configure what you need and spin up new booking pages, you'll love YouCanBookMe's workflow.

Calendly has booking analytics, YouCanBookMe has booking data that you can export.

Analytics is the latest addition to Calendly's feature set. They'll help you find out the most popular meeting days as well as top-performing meeting types and team members. YouCanBookMe, on the other hand, also has booking data that you can export as CSV and analyze in Google Sheets or any other data processing tool to slice and dice the data just how you need it.

Winner: YouCanBookMe

If you’re a small-to-medium businesses the all-in-one booking page editor will make your life considerably easier. If you’re an enterprise company, Calendly's analytics and decentralized system will come in handy at scale.

Calendly vs YouCanBookMe: External Scheduling Workflow

Calendly has a straightforward scheduling workflow, while YouCanBookMe is more flexible with its form pre-filling and coding features.

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Calendly

YouCanBookMe uses appointment types, while Calendly has event types.

If you offer multiple services, you can create different online appointment types on the same booking page with YouCanBookMe. Meanwhile, Calendly offers different event types, where you can create different booking pages for one-on-one, group, collective, and round robin meetings.

Calendly event type screenshot

Both tools offer pooled availability on booking pages but approach it differently.

Pooled availability allows clients to schedule with multiple assigned team members on a single booking page.

With YouCanBookMe, you can have multiple team members show up on a booking page and bookers can choose one according to their availability and specialization. You can also set the page up so the client gets automatically assigned to a user based on priority or a round robin system.

This is valuable for teams that route a lot of clients to a booking page for customer service or sales demos since they don’t need to worry about overlaps and availability.

YCBM booking page

On the other hand, Calendly uses "shared event types". You can create:

  • Group events, useful for webinars and classes with one host and multiple invitees.
  • Collective events, useful for group sales calls with multiple hosts and one invitee.
  • Round robin events, useful for distributing incoming leads with rotating hosts and one invitee.

Calendly’s round robin system works the same as YouCanBookMe's, but there’s no way to let clients pick who they want to talk to: you only have the round robin option.

Calendly uses “routing forms” for simple routing.

You can use them to automatically prequalify clients and route them to specific calendars or other resources like help pages. In Calendly, the forms aren’t booking page specific. Instead, you can link calendars to their outcomes and share them with links.

Calendly routing form

If you want a booking form before your calendar, simply set it up so the calendar is one of the route options and share it on your page like you would a calendar.

YouCanBookMe lets you prefill forms and "code" events with form data.

You can create links that pass customer data to YouCanBookMe, or even direct clients straight to certain users using form prefilling. It’s useful if you already have customer data because you can decrease booking friction.

YouCanBookMe also has simple conditional statements for the automation of personalized notifications and calendar events, based on the form data.

Additionally, YouCanBookMe offers similar functionality to Calendly to handle group (such as webinars) and collective events.

Winner: YouCanBookMe

Because of the advanced client data management features that help businesses automate workflows and decrease booking resistance, such as pre-filling form data through URL parameters, setting up conditionals based on form data, and forwarding it to other systems.

Calendly vs YouCanBookMe: Integrations

Calendly has 125 native integrations, while YouCanBookMe has 9 native and 1,500+ Zapier integrations.

YouCanBookMe
Calendly

Calendly offers 125 native integrations, while YouCanBookMe has 9.

Calendly is more flexible if your team uses an elaborate tech stack. But YouCanBookMe won’t feel restrictive either thanks to its 1,500+ Zapier integrations.

Google Calendar
Outlook
Gmail
Zoom
Google Meet
Jazz HR
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Calendly has a native Salesforce integration, while YouCanBookMe offers it via Zapier.

You can save time and directly connect Calendly with Salesforce to update client information in real time as clients book appointments.

Meanwhile, YouCanBookMe does this via Zapier because its native Salesforce integration is still in beta. You can apply for the beta if you manage more than 100 calendars.

Both Calendly and YouCanBookMe offer Stripe for customers to take payments for bookings.

YouCanBookMe has optimized its Stripe integration to include features like offering promo codes and sending receipts for payments. Bookers can also pay using Apple Pay & Google Pay, and a number of other international payment providers.

Calendly allows you to connect Paypal, but YouCanBookMe offers more flexibility relating to the messaging and workflows you can set up with regards taking payments for bookings and specific services.

Winner: Calendly

Calendly takes the lead here because it offers more native integrations than YouCanBookMe. Though small- to medium-sized teams won't feel constrained even with YouCanBookMe as it can be integrated with Zapier.

YouCanBookMe vs Calendly: Customization

YouCanBookMe is much more customizable than Calendly when comparing entry level paid plans - Calendly customization is reserved for higher tier plans.

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Calendly

YouCanBookMe lets you create booking pages in 44 languages and the dialects of 100 countries. Calendly offers 9 options for invitee language.

Customization is where YouCanBookMe really stands apart, with the emphasis being able to create a unique and excellent scheduling experience.  

There are three options for how to display your availability, so you can choose the one that most suits how your clients book. And almost all the text an invitee sees can be edited to match your business brand, including 44 languages (including right-to-left scripts). Calendly offers 9 options for invitee language.

YouCanBookMe also offers the option for invitees to overlay their own availability to yours. This means only the times that both of you are free will show, making scheduling much faster and easier.

YouCanBookMe Calendar Overlay Ability Feature

YouCanBookMe offers custom colors for booking pages, Calendly does not.

Both tools offer basic customization features, which include the ability to customize the booking page URL, booking page color, the message your customers see, and even the follow-ups. But YouCanBookMe also offers custom colors, while Calendly has limited options.

Add your own branding to the booking page with YouCanBookMe.

You can take booking page personalization up a notch by adding a footer to the page. It can have your contact details, website URL, or social media accounts.

YouCanBookMe Customization options
💡 See how 9 YouCanBookMe power users have customized their booking page to feel like an extension of their brand.

Calendly has more customization options when it comes to embedding booking pages.

Calendly has inline embeds, popup widgets, and popup hyperlink options, while YouCanBookMe only has inline embeds out of the box, although modals and hyperlink options are something you can configure yourself on your website. On top of that, when copying the embed code, Calendly gives you options to hide event type and cookie banner, as well as text color and button color changes without having to tinker with the code.

Calendly embed

Winner: YouCanBookMe

Although you can customize the look of your booking page with both YouCanBookMe and Calendly, YouCanBookMe takes the win here because of its emphasis on the booking experience, the variety of language options, and the extensive customization options.

YouCanBookMe vs Calendly: Pros & Cons

Calendly Pros
Calendly Cons
Multiple calendars for the same price
Tiered-based support based on your plan
Integrates with iCloud calendar
Tier-based pricing with locked features
Wide range of native integrations
Decentralized system for creating booking pages "module-by-module"
Can remove branding on booking pages
No custom colors for booking pages
Integrates with PayPal
Pooled availability only on advanced plan
YouCanBookMe Pros
YouCanBookMe Cons
Emphasis on creating an excellent booking experience
Doesn't integrate with iCloud calendar
Rich customization features allow you to showcase your brand
Data export but no analytics dashboard
Custom languages, colors and footer
Most integrations rely on Zapier
All features unlocked at $12/cal/mo
Centralized system for creating booking pages "as you go"
Pooled availability for teams
Admin controls
Enterprise-grade security (SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001, GDPR Compliance)

Final Verdict: YouCanBookMe vs Calendly

Small to medium businesses will love YouCanBookMe, while enterprise departments with complex internal structures will love Calendly.

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Best For:
Small to medium businesses that want accessible, automatable, and customizable scheduling 

Best For:
Enterprise businesses that need to manage many departments and integrate with their tech stack hassle-free

As you might have realized by now, YouCanBookMe and Calendly are very similar platforms, especially when it comes to scheduling features. But there’s a fundamental difference between the two that make them ideal for teams of different sizes.

Use Calendly if:

  • You are an enterprise with many big departments each needing its own booking page
  • You want to natively connect your appointment scheduling software with a wide range of other software

Use YouCanBookMe if:

  • You want to ensure your clients' scheduling experience is top-notch.
  • You care about customization and personalization to highlight your brand
    You are a small or medium-sized business that needs an easy-to-manage online booking tool
  • You're looking for advanced scheduling features at an affordable price

If you're looking for a more comprehensive comparison of scheduling tools, take a look at: Calendly vs Google Calendar.

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Best for
Enterprise businesses that need to manage many departments and integrate with their tech stack hassle-free.
Small to medium businesses that want accessible, automatable, and customizable scheduling.
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