Shlomi Lavi /
Jul 13, 2022
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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Calendly or HotSchedules?
HotSchedules is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Calendly, and HotSchedules is rated higher (88/100) than Calendly (87/100). HotSchedules offers users more features (16) than Calendly (0). There is a clear winner in this case and it is HotSchedules!
Looking for the right Booking and scheduling solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:
Calendly Vs. HotSchedules
Calendly: Calendly makes life easy for business professionals and their customers by streamlining appointment scheduling through simple, beautiful software.
We want to change the way people spend their time. We used to waste hours of each workday, stuck in endless games of phone and email tag to set up meetings. We then tried tool after clunky tool to sp...
HotSchedules: Our Co-Founders, Ray Pawlikowski and David Cantu came up with the idea for HotSchedules while working at PF Chang’s together. Ray was the bartender and David was the manager. When a college project had Ray building a web site, he decided to use it to address one of the restaurant’s primary pain points – communicating the employee schedule. Manager...
Who is more expensive? Calendly or HotSchedules?
The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Booking and scheduling software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for Calendly and HotSchedules.
Calendly price starts at $8 per seat/month , On a scale between 1 to 10 Calendly is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of Booking and scheduling software. HotSchedules price starts at $49 per month , When comparing HotSchedules to its competitors, the software is rated 2 - much lower than the average Booking and scheduling software cost.
Bottom line: Calendly cost is around the same cost of HotSchedules.
Which software includes more/better features?
We've compared Calendly Vs. HotSchedules based on some of the most important and required Booking and scheduling features.
Calendly: We are still working to collect the list of features for Calendly.
HotSchedules: Benefits Administration, Employee Self-Service, HR Management, Timesheet, Automated Scheduling.
Target customer size
Calendly's typical customers include: Small businesses and start ups, The product is focused on the restaurant industry addressing both large franchises as well as single restaurants.