https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/ Independent pricing and capability data on appointment scheduling and online booking software — per-seat and flat plans, free tiers, and what each tier really includes, normalized. en-us Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/ https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/ Online Booking · index Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Independent pricing and capability data on appointment scheduling and online booking software — per-seat and flat plans, free tiers, and what each tier really includes, normalized. https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/compare/ https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/compare/ Online Booking · comparison Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Full capability matrix for online booking: entry pricing, billing model, compliance and named integrations, each with per-row provenance. https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/state-of/ https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/state-of/ Online Booking · report Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Data-driven report on online booking pricing in 2026, computed from the underlying dataset. https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/methodology/ https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/methodology/ Online Booking · methodology Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 How online booking figures are captured, dated, verified and normalized across billing models. https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/answers/how-much-does-online-booking-software-cost/ https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/answers/how-much-does-online-booking-software-cost/ Online Booking · answer Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Across 15 of 17 tracked booking & scheduling tools that publish a price, the lowest paid entry is Bookeo at $14.95/mo, and 10 offer a genuine $0 free tier. 2 price per staff seat and 13 charge a flat monthly fee, so a multi-staff front desk should multiply per-seat rates by headcount before comparing them to flat plans. https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/answers/free-online-booking-software/ https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/answers/free-online-booking-software/ Online Booking · answer Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 10 of 17 tracked booking & scheduling tools publish a genuine $0 plan: Appointlet, Cal.com, Calendly, Doodle, GReminders, Picktime, Setmore, Square Appointments, TidyCal, YouCanBookMe. Free tiers always cap something — staff seats, connected calendars, booking pages, or appointments per month — so they fit a solo professional or a pilot, and most growing front desks move to a paid tier for unlimited use, removed branding and SMS reminders. https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/answers/cheapest-online-booking-under-20/ https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/answers/cheapest-online-booking-under-20/ Online Booking · answer Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 11 of 17 tracked booking & scheduling tools publish an entry plan under $20/mo, including 10 with a genuine $0 free tier. The cheapest paid entry is Bookeo at $14.95/mo. Watch the billing model: a per-seat sticker under $20 is per user, so it multiplies by the number of staff who need a calendar. https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/answers/per-seat-online-booking-cost/ https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/answers/per-seat-online-booking-cost/ Online Booking · answer Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 9 of 17 tracked booking & scheduling tools price per staff seat: Picktime, Calendly, GReminders, Appointlet, Setmore, Cal.com, Doodle, Booksy, vcita. At 3 staff the cheapest is Picktime at $6.75/mo ($2.25/user × 3). Per-seat pricing scales directly with headcount, so the monthly bill is the per-user rate multiplied by the number of staff who need a bookable calendar — confirm whether the rate is the monthly-billed or the cheaper annual-billed figure. https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/answers/flat-rate-online-booking-software/ https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/answers/flat-rate-online-booking-software/ Online Booking · answer Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 5 of 17 tracked booking & scheduling tools charge a flat monthly fee that does not multiply by staff count: TidyCal, Bookeo, Acuity Scheduling, GlossGenius, Square Appointments. The cheapest flat paid entry is TidyCal at $12/mo. Flat pricing is predictable for a multi-staff front desk because adding a team member does not add a per-user charge — though some flat tools still cap staff logins or bookings per tier. https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/answers/online-booking-annual-discount/ https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/answers/online-booking-annual-discount/ Online Booking · answer Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 11 of 17 tracked booking & scheduling tools publish an explicit annual-billing discount. The largest stated saving is 55% (Doodle), and most cluster between 10% and 25%. Annual prepay lowers the per-month rate but locks in a year, so weigh the saving against the commitment — and note that some vendors advertise the discounted annual rate as the headline price, which understates the true month-to-month cost. https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/answers/hipaa-compliant-online-booking-software/ https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/answers/hipaa-compliant-online-booking-software/ Online Booking · answer Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Of 17 tracked booking & scheduling tools, 7 publicly state HIPAA support and 5 also offer a signed BAA (Acuity Scheduling, Setmore, vcita, GReminders, Vagaro). For a medical, dental or therapy front desk collecting patient details at booking, the signed BAA is the document that matters — the rest say nothing about HIPAA publicly, which we record as "not published," not as "no." Some gate the BAA behind a higher tier (e.g. Acuity Premium). https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/answers/online-booking-with-google-calendar-sync/ https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/answers/online-booking-with-google-calendar-sync/ Online Booking · answer Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 14 of 17 tracked booking & scheduling tools publicly name Google Calendar as a supported integration — i.e. syncs appointments two-way with Google Calendar so double-bookings are blocked: Calendly, Acuity Scheduling, Square Appointments, Setmore, vcita, GReminders, Appointlet, YouCanBookMe, Cal.com, Picktime, TidyCal, Bookeo, Doodle, Vagaro. Each row links to the vendor page where the integration is listed and the date we verified it. https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/answers/online-booking-that-takes-payments-stripe/ https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/answers/online-booking-that-takes-payments-stripe/ Online Booking · answer Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 11 of 17 tracked booking & scheduling tools publicly name Stripe as a supported integration — i.e. collects deposits or full payment at booking through Stripe: Calendly, Acuity Scheduling, Setmore, GReminders, Appointlet, YouCanBookMe, Cal.com, Picktime, TidyCal, Bookeo, Doodle. Each row links to the vendor page where the integration is listed and the date we verified it. https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/answers/online-booking-with-zapier-integration/ https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/answers/online-booking-with-zapier-integration/ Online Booking · answer Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 13 of 17 tracked booking & scheduling tools publicly name Zapier as a supported integration — i.e. automates bookings into other apps through Zapier: Calendly, Acuity Scheduling, Setmore, vcita, GReminders, Appointlet, YouCanBookMe, Cal.com, Picktime, TidyCal, Bookeo, Doodle, Vagaro. Each row links to the vendor page where the integration is listed and the date we verified it. https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/answers/quote-only-online-booking-tools/ https://frontdeskreview.com/online-booking/answers/quote-only-online-booking-tools/ Online Booking · answer Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 2 of 17 tracked booking & scheduling tools publish no confirmable USD price on their live pages — they are quote-only, or render prices client-side, or list them only in a non-USD currency: Fresha, Vagaro. We record each with where pricing was sought, never a fabricated or imported third-party figure, so the gap is explicit rather than papered over with an estimate.