Calemander Calemander as a Calendly alternative
Last checked 2026-09-10.
Calemander is a booking page that also takes the money and holds the slot. If Calendly puts the meeting on your calendar and stops there, this page is the honest account of what is different here, what is not, and what Calendly’s own help pages say about the parts we compare against.
Who this is for
Coaches, consultants, financial advisers, tutors and music teachers — people who sell time, often take money for it, and sometimes need something signed or approved before the session is real. That is the shape our research kept finding behind a Calendly link, and it is the shape this product fits.
It is not for barbershops and salons. That trade runs on Booksy, Square Appointments, Fresha and Vagaro, and expects a marketplace listing, a staff commission model and a client app that we do not have and do not claim. It is also not for therapists or anyone who needs a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement: we do not offer one.
Five things that are different here
The importer brings more than event types
It imports your Calendly event types with their questions, your weekly hours, your upcoming and past bookings without emailing anyone, your contacts and your routing-form questions, and it names what Calendly’s API would not let us bring.
Payments on every plan, including the free one
Connect Stripe or Square and charge the full price or a deposit at booking, sell prepaid packages and apply discount codes, on Free as well as Pro; Calendly’s help pages put payments on Standard and above and charge the full amount at booking.
A booking can wait for your approval, and the slot waits with it
A requirement holds the time while a booking waits for your approval, a signed acknowledgement, a form, or a payment taken on your own site, and releases the slot if it is never met.
One parent, several children, one account
A guardian books for each of their children under a single contact, picks the child at booking time, and the roster shows the child rather than the parent.
Classes with a roster and a door
Group sessions have seats and a roster, staff tap people in on a phone or tablet, standby offers a freed seat on a timer, and a paired door screen runs check-in at the entrance.
The row-by-row version, with a source URL and a date against every Calendly cell, is on Calemander compared with Calendly.
Made for a trade: coaches and tutors.
What the free plans hold
Calendly’s pricing page puts one event type on its Free plan, and lists payments under Standard and above (calendly.com/pricing, read 2026-09-10). Calemander’s Free plan is 1 member with 3 active event types, and Stripe or Square payments, deposits, prepaid packages, the theme engine and email reminders are on it. Automation rules, SMS reminders, meeting polls, card on file and no-show fees, monthly tuition billing, standby and removing our branding are Pro, at $12/seat/mo. Door screens are the one thing above Pro, on the per-location tier described on the pricing page.
Calemander takes no cut of what your clients pay you, on any plan. The processing fee is Stripe’s or Square’s.
Moving your Calendly account across
Connect Calendly or paste a personal access token, fetch, review everything the preview found, then import. The guide covers what comes across, what Calendly’s API has no way to hand over, how long it takes for your account shape, and what to do about the links already in your email signature.
What we do not do
The import is not one click: it is connect, fetch, review, import, and then a short list of settings you enter here by hand. Nothing lets us bring your buffers, minimum notice, booking window, booking limits, start-time increments, workflows, branding, cancellation policy or session prices, because Calendly’s API does not expose them — so those are re-entered, and the import report says so rather than leaving you to notice.
Your existing calendly.com links cannot be redirected here; Calendly offers no redirect, and only the event slug survives, so the links themselves have to be replaced. One token is one Calendly user, so a team moves one login at a time. Nothing watches Calendly afterwards: a re-sync is a button you press. Attendees who already booked still hold emails with Calendly’s cancel and reschedule links, and those act on Calendly.
A no-show or late-cancel fee on a card we hold is charged when the host presses Charge, not automatically. We hold no SOC 2 report, offer no Data Processing Agreement yet and make no HIPAA claim — the security page lists the rest of those gaps. There is no native mobile app, and no marketplace that sends you new clients. Your booking pages can run on your own subdomain, such as book.yourdomain.com, on Pro and Studio — adding a booking domain takes one CNAME record.
Where the Calendly facts on this page came from
Every Calendly statement above was read from Calendly’s own pricing and help pages on 2026-09-10 and is quoted with that date on the comparison page, which carries the URL for each one. Calendly changes its product and its plans; if you find one of these out of date, tell us at support@calemander.com and we will correct it.