Calemander as a Clio Scheduler alternative

Last checked 2026-09-19.

Clio Scheduler is part of Clio Grow, and its paid appointments run on Clio Payments. If your firm is on Clio Manage without Grow, or takes card payments somewhere other than Clio Payments, this page is what a booking page from us looks like beside it — with the Clio article or the Clio price table behind every Clio sentence, and the date Clio last changed each one.

What this page is arguing

Two gates, both in Clio’s own words. The first is packaging: Clio sells the scheduler as part of Clio Grow, “included in Elite and Elite Work” and “available as an add-on for Core and Signature”, and its own comparison table marks online appointment booking “No” on the Starter plan². The second is payment: taking a fee at booking needs Clio Payments enabled in Clio Manage with a linked bank account, and only by someone “located in North America” holding administrator, accounts or billing permission¹. Put those together and there is a firm they both miss: one running Clio Manage on its own, or one that takes card payments through a processor that is not Clio Payments. That firm has no native way to publish a booking page and charge a consultation fee on it.

There is a second thing worth knowing before you ask what that costs. Clio publishes a starting price for Clio Manage, “$49 USD per user per month”, but publishes no price at all for Clio Grow: on Clio’s own table, every Grow row under Core and Signature reads “contact your sales representative for pricing”². So the price of adding booking to a Clio Manage firm is not a number you can look up. We have not tried to guess it, and there is no savings table on this page.

There are also more of those firms than there were a month ago. Clio’s help centre states that “the LawPay integration ended on August 31, 2026”, leaving a firm that has not migrated with a read-only view of its old LawPay transactions³, while LawPay carries on selling to firms directly at a published $19 a month plus 2.99% and $0.30 a card transaction⁷. A firm that kept LawPay now has a card rail its practice-management system no longer speaks to.

Calemander answers the first half of that today: a booking page with approval holds, branching intake questions, round robin across attorneys and a fee taken at booking through the firm’s own Stripe or Square, with no cut taken by us. The rail that would close the LawPay half — depositing a consultation fee into a trust or an operating account your firm picks per event type — is built and deployed, and waits on 8am’s partnerships team, which has our application. It is not available, it has no date, and it is not a reason to choose us this week.

Row by row

A superscript in the Clio column is a source; the list underneath gives the URL and the date. Where we have not read a Clio source, the cell says so rather than turning into a tick in our column.

	Calemander	Clio Scheduler
What the booking page itself costs	Free is 1 member and 3 active event types, with no card to start. Pro is $12/seat/mo, billed per seat. Both prices are on our pricing page.	Clio publishes a starting price for Clio Manage — “Clio’s plans start at $49 USD per user per month” — but publishes no price for Clio Grow, which is the product the scheduler belongs to. Every Clio Grow line on the Core and Signature columns of Clio’s own comparison table reads “Contact your sales representative for pricing.”²
What you have to be paying for before you can publish a booking page	Any Calemander plan. A booking page is the thing Free gives you.	Clio Grow, which Clio lists as “Included in Elite and Elite Work. Available as an add-on for Core and Signature.” On the Starter plan, Clio’s comparison table marks online appointment booking “No”. Clio’s Scheduler article adds that “all settings and appointment setups are done in Clio Grow”.^2, 1
Where the booking lives	In Calemander. Availability is read from Google Calendar, Outlook or any CalDAV calendar, so a firm with no practice-management system at all can use it.	In Clio. Booked appointments “appear in your Clio Manage calendar according to your settings configured for event sharing between Clio Grow and Clio Manage”, and unpaid bookings land in the Lead inbox while paid ones go to the Pipeline.¹
Taking a fee at booking	Your own Stripe or Square account, on every plan including Free. Calemander adds no platform fee and takes no percentage; the processing fee is Stripe’s or Square’s, paid to them.	Clio Payments, enabled in Clio Manage with a linked bank account. Clio publishes the rate on the same table for all four plans: 2.95% for credit and debit cards, 3.75% for American Express, and 1% for eCheck and ACH.^1, 2
Who inside the firm can switch paid booking on	Any signed-in member of the workspace connects their own Stripe or Square account, and no Calemander role is required to do it. We impose no geographic restriction; Stripe and Square have their own.	“You can only collect payments if you have Clio Payments enabled, are located in North America, and have at least one of the following permissions: administrator, accounts, or billing.”¹
Where the money lands	The Stripe or Square account you connected — an ordinary merchant account, not a trust account. A LawPay rail that deposits into a trust or an operating account chosen per event type, with nothing preselected, is built but waits on 8am’s partnerships team, which has our application, and is not available yet.	A bank account you select per appointment type. “If you select a trust account as the bank account, you only have the option to keep the payment as a credit for future billing.”¹
Paying through LawPay	Built, and waiting on 8am, the company behind LawPay, whose partnerships team has our application; not available yet. Today the rails that work are Stripe and Square.	Not available. Clio’s own help centre states that “the LawPay integration ended on August 31, 2026”, and that a firm which has not migrated can still see its historical LawPay transactions in a read-only view. LawPay continues to sell directly to firms at a published $19 per month plus 2.99% and $0.30 per card transaction.^3, 7
Holding a consultation until someone approves it	An approval requirement makes the booking arrive held: the slot comes off public availability while the request waits, and is released if nobody approves it. Every plan.	We have not verified this. Clio’s Scheduler article documents a confirmation email sent to both sides at the moment an appointment is booked, and describes no approval step, but Clio does not publish a statement either way.¹
If the client needs a different time	The client reschedules from their confirmation email. The firm cannot move a client’s booking over their head, but it can propose a new time for the client to accept or decline. Either way the booking is updated, not cancelled and rebuilt.	“Only clients can reschedule appointments that they booked … If you need to reschedule an appointment that your client booked, cancel the appointment and create a new one.”¹
Intake questions on the booking form	Eight types — short text, long text, email, phone, yes/no, dropdown, radio, checkbox — each optional or required, and any question can be shown only when an earlier answer calls for it. We have no file upload and no date question; Clio does.	Eight types too — single-line text, paragraph text, multiple choice, multi-select, dropdown, file attachment, date and yes/no checkbox — plus section breaks, and questions can be linked to custom fields. Conditional follow-ups are narrower than ours: they attach only to yes/no checkbox and multiple choice questions, and the follow-up may be one of three question types.⁴
Routing one link across several attorneys	Round robin weighted by shares you set and balanced over the last 30 days, or a collective event that only offers times everyone named on it can make. Pro, which is a workspace with more than one member.	We have not verified this. Clio documents a firm booking page that shows several appointment types under one link, which is a menu rather than routing. We found nothing published either way about spreading one appointment type across attorneys.¹
A standing series booked in one go	Every week through to every eight weeks, or the same weekday each month, two to fifty-two occurrences, with any clashing date skipped rather than double-booked. An event type that charges at booking cannot also be recurring.	We have not verified this. The Scheduler’s “recurring availability” setting is the weekly pattern of times the firm offers, not a series a client books.¹
Booking pages on the firm’s own hostname	One custom booking domain on Pro ($12/seat/mo, billed per seat) and three on Studio, set up with one CNAME record. None on Free.	Clio documents connecting a custom domain by A record to a Clio Grow website, and its comparison table lists the website builder on Elite only. Whether the Scheduler booking page itself can be served on that hostname is not something Clio publishes, and we have not verified it.^6, 2
Who the confirmation email comes from	Your own sender name, or the host’s name, on the message, and replies go to your contact address.	“Appointment emails are sent from notifications@grow.clio.com. You cannot change this to your firm email.”¹
Bookings written to the Clio calendar	A Clio Manage connection that writes the confirmed booking to the responsible attorney’s Clio calendar and adds a new client to Clio contacts is built but waits on Clio’s approval of our developer account and is not available yet. It is a one-way write; Clio is never read on the availability path.	Native, because Clio Scheduler is a Clio product.¹
Conflict checking, trust accounting, matters, documents and billing	None of it. Calemander does not check conflicts, does not hold client funds, keeps no trust ledger, and has no matters, documents or time entries.	Clio’s own product area. This page compares booking flows and makes no claim about it.

Where these facts came from

All seven were read on 2026-09-19. The five Clio help articles came from Clio’s own help centre, which serves the full text of each article to anyone, and each one reports the date Clio last changed it — shown beside it above, so you can see how fresh Clio’s own statement is rather than only when we looked. LawPay’s pricing page was read directly.

The pricing figures are the one exception, and it is worth being plain about it. www.clio.com refuses automated requests, so we could not read Clio’s pricing page ourselves. The figures above come from the copy the Wayback Machine took on 2026-09-06, which is Clio’s page with a date attached; the link in the list opens that snapshot rather than the live page. If Clio has changed a price in the days since, the snapshot will not know it, and the live page is the one to trust.

Only two Clio figures appear anywhere here: the $49 Clio publishes as its Clio Manage starting price, and the fact that Clio publishes no Clio Grow price at all. Nothing on this page multiplies either one out into a saving. If you want the comparison in money, put your own Clio invoice next to our pricing page, where Free is 1 member with 3 active event types and Pro is $12/seat/mo per seat.

What Clio does that we do not

Clio Scheduler is one feature of a practice-management suite, and the suite is the point of it. Calemander has no matters, no documents, no engagement letters, no e-signature, no court deadlines, no time entries and no billing. It runs no conflict check of any kind, holds no client funds, keeps no trust ledger and produces no reconciliation. A booking that lands here carries a contact and some answers to questions, and that is the whole of it.

There is also no room or resource entity, so you cannot book an attorney and a conference room as one thing and have both checked for availability. And we hold no SOC 2 report, offer no Data Processing Agreement, and make no claim that this product satisfies any bar’s rules — the security page lists the rest of those gaps. If your firm needs the suite, keep the suite; this page is for the booking slice of it.

If one of these facts has moved

Clio changes its product and its packaging, and this page is a snapshot dated 2026-09-19. If you are a Clio customer and one of the rows above no longer matches what you see in your own account, tell us at support@calemander.com and we will correct it.

The version of this written for a firm rather than against a product is scheduling for law firms.

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