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Calendly alternatives for coaches: Acuity, TidyCal, SavvyCal, Cal.com, Practice Better and WithMe compared

Calendly vs Acuity, TidyCal, SavvyCal, Cal.com, Practice Better and WithMe for coaches who take payment at booking. Prices checked 11 Nov 2026.

WithMe Team·11 November 2026

The best Calendly alternative for a coach depends on what you sell. If you only need a booking link for free calls, Calendly's free plan, Cal.com's free plan or TidyCal is enough. If clients pay when they book, look at what each tool charges to take payment, whether it adds its own fee, and whether it can sell packages or a monthly plan. Acuity is the most complete scheduler for paid sessions. WithMe puts paid booking on the same checkout as your programmes, courses and membership.

WithMe is $25 per month billed annually (UK £25), with a 14-day trial and 0% WithMe commission. Stripe and PayPal fees still apply. More than 8,000 creators use it. All other prices below are in US dollars, from each vendor's own pricing page, checked on 11 November 2026.

What does a coach need from a booking tool?

Payment at booking, so nobody books a paid slot and forgets to pay.
A way to sell more than one session: a package, a payment plan or a monthly retainer.
Calendar sync and a video link created for each booking, with reminders and easy rescheduling.
Intake questions before the call, and somewhere to send the client afterwards: a programme, a course or a community.

What does Calendly cost for a coach?

Calendly's Free plan has one event type and one connected calendar, and cannot take payment. Standard is $10 a seat a month billed annually ($12 monthly) and collects payment at booking through Stripe or PayPal, with coupon codes, payment links and invoices. Teams is $16 a seat a month billed annually ($20 monthly) and adds round-robin, team scheduling and routing forms.

Calendly is the most polished booking link around, and the obvious choice for a coaching team that routes leads between coaches. What it does not do is sell the rest of your business: there is no course, membership or community to send a client to after the call.

What are the main Calendly alternatives?

These are the tools coaches most often compare, with the plan you need to take payment:

Acuity Scheduling: Starter is $16 a month billed annually ($20 monthly) for one calendar, and every plan takes payments and deposits through Stripe, Square or PayPal, with intake forms. Standard, $27 ($34 monthly), adds text reminders, packages with payment plans, subscriptions, memberships and gift certificates. Premium is $55 ($69 monthly). There is no free plan.
TidyCal: a free plan, an Individual lifetime plan at $29 one time through AppSumo, and Pro at $12 a month or $99 a year. Every plan takes Stripe and PayPal payments and can sell packages and Stripe subscriptions, but TidyCal adds a 1% fee on Stripe payments on every plan except Pro.
SavvyCal: Basic is $10 a user a month billed annually ($12 monthly) and includes round-robin. Taking payment needs Premium, $17 billed annually ($20 monthly), and works with Stripe only. SavvyCal adds no fee on top of Stripe, but it has no packages, subscriptions or payment plans, and reminders are email only.
Cal.com: the Free plan takes Stripe and PayPal payments and includes booking questions and email and SMS notifications. Teams, $12 a user a month billed yearly, adds round-robin, collective events and routing forms. Cal.com's own Cal Pay processor charges its own fees, so check which payment option you connect.
Practice Better: Sprout is free for 3 clients. Starter is $25 a month billed annually ($35 monthly) for 10 clients, with booking, telehealth video, billing, forms and a client portal. Professional, $59 ($69 monthly) for 300 clients, adds group sessions, programmes, deposits and payment plans.
WithMe: $25 per month billed annually (UK £25), with 0% WithMe commission. Paid and free coaching calls, group calls, payment plans and Google Meet links, plus 1:1 coaching programmes, courses, memberships, a community, digital products and email on the same plan.

Which ones take payment and booking in one step?

All six can take payment at booking, on different plans. Calendly needs Standard, SavvyCal needs Premium, and Acuity, TidyCal, Cal.com and WithMe can take payment on their entry plan. On top of the card processor's fee, TidyCal adds 1% on Stripe payments below Pro. Calendly, Acuity and SavvyCal do not mention a fee of their own on their pricing pages, and WithMe takes 0%.

The bigger difference is what a client can buy. A single paid session works almost everywhere. A package, a payment plan or a monthly retainer needs Acuity Standard, TidyCal, Practice Better Professional or WithMe, and a programme, course or community after the call needs a platform built for that.

How does booking work on WithMe?

On WithMe, a Coaching Call product sells a session and books it in one step. You set your availability, the client pays and picks a time in their own time zone, and a Google Meet link is created. You can also:

Set weekly hours, one-off dates and Date Overrides, a session length from 15 minutes to 4 hours, and a minimum booking notice of 0 to 168 hours.
Connect Google Calendar, so your busy events block those times and each booking is added to your calendar. Zoom is available on some accounts.
Offer a payment plan of 2 to 24 weekly or monthly payments on a high-priced call, or a Free Session for discovery calls.
Run group calls by setting Maximum attendees per time slot above one, and ask intake questions with Checkout Fields: name, address, phone and up to five custom questions.
Include the call in a membership tier or a 1:1 Coaching programme with Bundle Coaching Call, so those clients book without paying for each session. Clients reschedule or cancel from their order page.

Where does WithMe fall short of a dedicated scheduler?

WithMe's booking is built for a solo coach selling sessions. Compared with Calendly Teams, Acuity or Cal.com, it does not have:

Round-robin, team scheduling, collective events or routing forms. Each Coaching Call belongs to one creator's calendar.
Outlook or iCloud calendar sync. Only Google Calendar connects.
Buffer times between calls, or session packages that count down. Each paid purchase books one session, and a client can have one upcoming session at a time.
SMS reminders or a reminder the day before. Reminder emails go out about 10 minutes before the call and as it starts.
Automatic refunds. Cancelling a booking does not refund it, so refunds are done in Stripe.

Which should you choose?

Calendly Teams or Cal.com Teams if several coaches share leads and you need round-robin or routing forms.
Acuity if booking is your whole business and you want packages, gift certificates, text reminders and deposits in one scheduler.
Practice Better if you are a nutrition or wellness practitioner who needs session notes, health forms and telehealth.
WithMe if calls are one part of what you sell, alongside a programme, a course, a community or digital products, and you want one checkout and one monthly bill for all of it.

How do you move your bookings from Calendly to WithMe?

Start the 14-day trial and connect Stripe, so you can take payments into your own Stripe account.
In Settings, open Integrations and the Meetings tab, and connect Google Calendar.
Add a Coaching Call. Choose Paid Session and enter the amount, or Free Session for a discovery call, and turn on Payment plan if you want one.
On the Availability tab, choose Google Meet / Calendar, set your session duration, time zone, weekly hours and minimum booking notice, then publish.
Replace your Calendly link in your bio and emails with the call's link. If you would rather keep Calendly, choose External Booking Link: WithMe takes the payment and then sends the buyer to your booking page.

What is not included?

WithMe has no round-robin, team scheduling, routing forms, buffer times, SMS reminders, Outlook or iCloud sync, or session packages that count down, and cancelling does not refund automatically. There are no deposits followed by a different balance amount: payment plan instalments are all the same.

How much does WithMe cost?

WithMe is $25 per month billed annually (UK £25), with a 14-day trial and 0% WithMe commission. Stripe and PayPal fees still apply. Free migration of up to 10 GB of your courses and members comes with the yearly plan. One plan covers courses, memberships, community, coaching, webinars and digital products.

Calendly alternative questions

What is the best free alternative to Calendly?

For free calls, Cal.com's Free plan is the most generous we checked, and it can even take Stripe and PayPal payments. TidyCal also has a free plan that takes payments, with a 1% fee on Stripe payments. Calendly's own Free plan has one event type and no payments.

Can Calendly take payments?

Yes, on Standard and above, from $10 a seat a month billed annually. It collects payment at booking through Stripe or PayPal. The Free plan cannot take payments.

Which booking tool lets coaches sell session packages?

Acuity Standard ($27 a month billed annually) sells packages with payment plans, and TidyCal sells package bookings on every plan. Calendly lists meeting packages on paid plans. WithMe has no countdown package; use a payment plan, a 1:1 Coaching programme or a membership tier with the call bundled in.

Does WithMe have round-robin or team scheduling?

No. Each Coaching Call books into one creator's Google Calendar. If several coaches need to share bookings, use Calendly Teams, Cal.com Teams or Acuity, and link to it from WithMe with External Booking Link.

What does WithMe cost for coaches?

$25 per month billed annually (UK £25), with a 14-day trial. WithMe takes 0% commission. Stripe and PayPal fees still apply.

Start your 14-day trial at https://www.withme.so/become-a-creator.