5 Best Appointment Scheduling Tools (We Tested Them All)

If you’re looking to streamline your company, you need scheduling software. Whether it’s for a sales team, customer support, or even for a barber shop, scheduling software can have a major impact on your business. 

In order to streamline your decision making, we've signed up for 5 of the most popular scheduling app and ranked them below.
Let’s dive in! 

1) Calendly‍

Calendly is the original scheduling software. It’s intuitive, easy to use, and looks great. This limits your ability to customize it but it’s hard to argue with ease of use.

Another important factor of Calendly is that everyone knows Calendly. When you open it up, the white background and the design are immediately recognizable. It’s even common to hear someone ask for a “Calendly Link”. 

If you’re looking for a tried and true scheduling software, Calendly is software for you. 

Pricing

• Free tier
• $10/user/month

Pros

• Clean interface
• Trusted reputation
• Chrome extension

Cons

• Limited Customer Support
• Limited Feature Set for Marketing & Sales Teams

2) YouCanBookMe

YouCanBookMe (YCBM) is a clear second when it comes to scheduling software. It’s not as well known as Calendly but where calendly falls short, YCBM thrives. Any marketing and sales team should take a look at YCBM for its improvements. It’s easy to set up, easy to navigate, but best of all - it feels like it was designed for marketing minded people. 

Pricing

• Free tier
• $10/user/month

Pros

• Clean interface
• Nice Design
• Powerful Feature for Marketing
• Great SMS Reminders

Cons

• UI Learning Curve

3) Chili Piper

Chili Piper entered the market with the sole focus of becoming the scheduling tool for sales teams and their feature set backs this up. Things like CRM integrations and CRM based lead routing allows Chili Piper to work seamlessly with their current sales stack. They’ve even built features like email scheduling that allows the sales team to book calls more effectively. 

Another great aspect of Chili Piper is that it has extensive user permissions and security certifications, making it a great option for enterprise sales teams.  

Pricing

• $22.50/user/month

Pros

• Extensive CRM Integrations
• Prevents double booking
• SOC II & ISO 27001 Certified
• Powerful Feature for Sales Teams

Cons

• No free tier
• Load times can be slow
• Limited customer support
• Complex Feature Set

4) Acuity Scheduling

Acuity is built for businesses and operates as your personal scheduling assistant. It integrates with your payment provider so you can allow clients to see your availability in real time, book a time, and pay in advance. This is great for barbers, salons, and any other kind of scheduling business that may have multiple locations. 

Pricing

• $15/user/month

Pros

• Designed for Business
• Squarespace website integration

Cons

• No free tier
• Outdated interface
• No text reminders in starting plan

5) Doodle

Doodle is what you would call an enterprise solution. It’s not super intuitive, not very pretty, but it checks off the boxes for the enterprise team. If you require extensive permissions, security certifications, and have a team of 100+, you may want to look at Doodle. 

Pricing

• Free tier
• $84/user/year

Pros

• Enterprise Features
• SOC II & ISO 27001 Certified

Cons

• Outdated UI
• Limited Support

Wrapping Up

There are tons of different scheduling tools, just be sure to test them out and to select the one that fits your needs best.