Can I move my existing booking links across?

You can recreate your booking types in Bookaiq and redirect your old links. Existing customers keep booking without noticing the change.

Does Bookaiq handle multiple staff members?

Yes. Each staff member has their own availability and their own service list, while customers see a single business booking page.

Can I take payment or a deposit at booking?

Yes. Each service sets its own rule — no payment, a deposit, or full payment at booking — so you can protect just the appointments that need it.

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Bookaiq vs Calendly

A Calendly alternative for businesses that book customers, not meetings

Owners of salons, clinics and studios who started with a meeting scheduler and hit its edges — multiple staff with different service menus, deposits on long appointments, and a front desk that needs one shared view of the day.

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Where Calendly is genuinely strong

Calendly is excellent at what it was designed for: letting one professional share their availability and get meetings on the calendar with minimal setup.

What Bookaiq does differently

A service menu, not just a meeting length

Bookaiq bookings carry a price, a duration, a deposit rule and which staff can perform them. Customers choose a service, not a time slot length.

Staff rotas and per-person service menus

Each staff member has their own working pattern and their own list of services they can be booked for, all under one shared business booking page.

Deposits and no-show protection

Choose per service whether to take nothing, a deposit, or full payment at booking — so short bookings stay frictionless while expensive chair time is protected.

Reminders aimed at consumer no-shows

Email and SMS reminders, self-service rescheduling for customers, and a waitlist that automatically offers a cancelled slot to the next person in line.

When to stay with Calendly

We would rather you pick the right tool than churn in three months. Stay where you are if any of these describe you:

Calendly is faster to set up if you genuinely only need to share your own availability for meetings.
Its integration catalogue is larger and more mature, particularly across sales and recruiting tooling.
For internal team scheduling inside a corporate stack, it is the more natural fit.

Pricing

Calendly has a free plan limited to one event type. Paid plans on annual billing are Standard at US$10 per seat/month and Teams at US$16 per seat/month (monthly billing costs more); Enterprise starts at US$15,000 per year. Paid plans carry a 14-day free trial.

Calendly pricing verified 2026-08-01. Check their site for current rates.

Switching questions

Can I move my existing booking links across?: You can recreate your booking types in Bookaiq and redirect your old links. Existing customers keep booking without noticing the change.
Does Bookaiq handle multiple staff members?: Yes. Each staff member has their own availability and their own service list, while customers see a single business booking page.
Can I take payment or a deposit at booking?: Yes. Each service sets its own rule — no payment, a deposit, or full payment at booking — so you can protect just the appointments that need it.

Try it before you move anything

Set up a Bookaiq booking page alongside Calendly and run both for a week. Nothing to uninstall if you change your mind.

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