Calemander Calemander compared with Calendly
Last checked 2026-09-10.
Every statement in the Calendly column was read from Calendly’s own pricing, help or developer pages on 2026-09-10, and carries the marker of the page it came from. Where we have no source, the cell says so rather than guessing. Every statement in the Calemander column is true of the product today.
| Calemander | Calendly | |
|---|---|---|
| Plans and what a seat costs | Free for one member. Pro is $12/seat/mo, billed per seat. A per-location tier is described on the pricing page and carries no figure while it cannot yet be bought. | Free $0. Standard $10/seat/mo and Teams $16/seat/mo on the yearly toggle (the monthly prices are $12 and $20). Enterprise from $15k/yr. Seats are needed to host, not to book. [1, checked 2026-09-10] |
| What the free plan holds | 1 member, 3 active event types, with payments, deposits, packages, the theme engine and email reminders included. | One event type. Payments are listed under Standard and above. [1, 3, checked 2026-09-10] |
| Custom questions on a booking form | Eight question types, including yes/no and dropdown, with follow-up questions that appear based on an earlier answer. No per-event cap in the schema. | Up to 10 custom questions for each event type, in six types: one line, multiple lines, radio, checkboxes, dropdown and phone. All plans. [2, checked 2026-09-10] |
| Taking money at booking | Stripe or Square on every plan, including Free. Calemander takes no cut of what your client pays you. | Stripe or PayPal on Professional, Standard, Standard Plus, Teams, Teams Plus and Enterprise. The invitee is charged during booking and the meeting is confirmed once the payment goes through. Calendly does not hold the money, and refunds are given through Stripe or PayPal. [3, 4, checked 2026-09-10] |
| Deposits, packages and cards on file | Charge the full price or a deposit at booking with the balance settled later, sell prepaid packages, apply discount codes. Keeping a card on file and charging a no-show or late-cancel fee is Pro, and the host presses Charge; nothing charges by itself. | Nothing about deposits, partial payments, cards on file or no-show fees appears on the payments pages. [3, 4, checked 2026-09-10] |
| Approving a booking before it confirms | A requirement can hold the slot until you approve it, until an acknowledgement is signed, or until a payment is taken on your own site; unmet holds release the time on a clock you set. | A Calendly community answer dated 2024-02-19 says Calendly does not currently support manual confirmations. [6, checked 2026-09-10] |
| Enforcing a cancellation or reschedule policy | Per event type: whether attendees may cancel at all, a minimum cancellation notice in hours, a cap on reschedules per booking, and whether a cancellation refunds, issues a credit or neither. | Calendly displays your cancellation policy but does not restrict cancellations or reschedules based on it. Paid plans. [5, checked 2026-09-10] |
| Routing forms | Routing forms with question conditions and a fallback destination, on every plan. | Professional, Teams, Teams Plus and Enterprise — that is, Standard and above. [8, 1, checked 2026-09-10] |
| Automations and workflows | Automation rules on Pro and above, on nine triggers: a booking created, confirmed, canceled, rescheduled, marked a no-show, checked in, or its answers updated, plus a standby seat offered and promoted. | Paid plans, seven triggers (booked, before start, at start, rescheduled, at end, canceled, no-show marked), up to 50 automations across all event types. [7, checked 2026-09-10] |
| Round robin and collective events | Both, with per-member weighting. They need more than one member, so in practice Pro. | We have not verified how Calendly gates these. |
| One parent booking for several children | A guardian contact holds students; the booker picks the child, and the roster and door screen show the child. No terms, make-up ledger or sibling pricing yet. | We have not verified whether Calendly has an equivalent. |
| Class check-in and door screens | Seats and a roster, tap check-in on a phone, standby with a timed offer, and a paired tablet at the door. Standby and automatic close-out are Pro; pairing a door screen is the per-location tier. | We have not verified whether Calendly has an equivalent. |
| Moving an account between the two | A self-serve importer brings Calendly event types with their questions, weekly hours, upcoming and past bookings, contacts and routing-form questions, and names what could not come. There is no exporter that writes into Calendly. | Calendly’s API is readable on every plan including Free, which is what makes the import possible; buffers, minimum notice, booking window, booking limits, start-time increments, cancellation policy, workflows, branding and event prices are not in the API at all, so nobody can move them. [9, checked 2026-09-10] |
| Getting your data out | Bookings and contacts export to CSV on every plan. | We have not verified what Calendly’s own export offers; its API reads scheduled events, invitees, contacts and event types on every plan. [9, checked 2026-09-10] |
| Meeting polls | Pro. | Listed under the Free plan, together with one-off meetings. [1, checked 2026-09-10] |
| Removing the vendor’s branding | Pro. Free booking pages carry Calemander branding. | A paid toggle; a free account’s booking page carries Calendly branding. [1, checked 2026-09-10] |
| Integrations we have | Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar, CalDAV calendars such as iCloud and Fastmail, Zoom through the Zoom Marketplace app, and Stripe and Square for payments. Outgoing webhooks, including a Calendly-shaped payload format. | We have not counted or verified Calendly’s integration catalogue. |
Where Calendly is stronger
Calendly is the category’s default, and a comparison page written by the challenger should say where that is deserved. Two things we can source: Calendly’s API is open on every plan including Free, which is unusual and is the only reason a switch away from it can be self-serve at all; and its Enterprise tier, from $15k a year, is evidence of a buying process and an account-management operation that we do not have.
Beyond those we have not verified the usual claims made for it — the size of its integration catalogue, its mobile apps, the maturity of its team routing, or its brand recognition inside a company that already uses it. They are probably real advantages. We have not measured them, so we are not putting numbers on them here, and neither should anyone quoting this page.
Calemander also has gaps a Calendly customer would notice: no native mobile app, no SOC 2 report or Data Processing Agreement (the security page lists these), and no marketplace that brings you clients. Booking on a domain you own is not one of them: a subdomain such as book.yourdomain.com is included on Pro and Studio, and takes one CNAME record.
Sources
- Calendly pricing page — https://calendly.com/pricing, read 2026-09-10.
- Calendly help: invitee questions — https://calendly.com/help/how-to-add-or-remove-invitee-questions, read 2026-09-10.
- Calendly help: Stripe payments — https://calendly.com/help/calendly-stripe, read 2026-09-10.
- Calendly help: payments FAQ — https://calendly.com/help/payments-faq, read 2026-09-10.
- Calendly help: cancellation policy — https://calendly.com/help/how-to-add-a-cancellation-policy, read 2026-09-10.
- Calendly community answer, dated 2024-02-19 — https://community.calendly.com/how-do-i-40/does-calendly-support-manual-confirmations-reconfirmations-of-bookings-908, read 2026-09-10.
- Calendly help: automations overview — https://calendly.com/help/automations-overview, read 2026-09-10.
- Calendly help: routing forms — https://calendly.com/help/how-to-create-a-routing-form, read 2026-09-10.
- Calendly API v2 specification and developer FAQ — https://developer.calendly.com/frequently-asked-questions, read 2026-09-10.
Calendly changes its product and its plans. If a row here is out of date, write to support@calemander.com and we will correct it.