One of the keys to showing up and sharing your brand is about networking and building connections – and to do that, you gotta book in calls with the right people and with the right scheduling tool!
I am a huge fan of scheduling tools for calls – these are apps that connect your calendar, your zoom, your email and easily offer you a way to arrange calls with prospective clients, podcast guests, collaborators and more.
My clients and colleagues are always commenting on how easy it was to book a call with me, and how professional the system was. It’s like having my very own personal assistant for a fraction of the cost of a staff member! But if you’re not ready to invest, there are a range of great free apps on offer that can provide this service.
Free up your time, give your clients a professional experience and get organised. Why? So, you can focus on showing up, sharing your brand and making connections to build your brand!
Here are some of the free scheduling tools that I have found:
1. HubSpot Meetings Tool
Price: FreeHubSpot Meetings Tool Free Scheduling App
The HubSpot Meetings Tool is a scheduling tool that lets you sync your Google Calendar or Office 365 calendar, set your availability, and have prospects and customers book time with you.
2. Calendar
Price: Free for one calendar (Basic), $6/month for three calendars (Standard), $8/month for 10 calendars (Pro)Calendar Meeting App Example of Analytics
Calendar is an AI-enabled digital calendar, scheduling tool, and time management solution for individuals and teams. It brings together your Google Calendar, iCal (Apple Calendar), and Outlook Calendar into one dashboard view that you can customize and share.
3. Setmore
Price: Free
Setmore is a free appointment scheduling tool and payments platform that allows you to create a public-facing booking page. The free account supports up to 20 staff calendars and logins so your team can begin booking meetings. And you can send automatic appointment notifications to people who book time with you.
4. SimplyBook
Price: Free, $9.90/month (Basic), $29.90/month (Standard), and $59.90/month (Premium)
SimplyBook is an online booking system specifically designed for service-based companies. You can integrate SimplyBook with your existing website, or you can create a custom booking page within the platform. They also have social media integrations that allow you to accept bookings directly from Facebook and Instagram.
5. Square Appointments
Price: Free for individuals, $50 + 2.5% + $0.10/month for 3-5 calendars, $90 + 2.5% + $0.10/month for teams of 6-10 calendars, contact for pricing of 11 or more calendars.
Through Square Appointments, you can set up a free customer booking website, activate automated text and email reminders, charge cancellation fees for no-shows, and accept integrated payments from within one platform.
6. Appointlet
Price: Free, $8/month (Premium)
This appointment booking software allows salespeople to customise their availability, create booking pages, and send them to prospects and customers.
7. Doodle
Price: Free (Basic), $6.95 one user/month (Starter), $44.75 for 5 users/month (Team), contact for enterprise pricing.
Doodle scheduling app homepage featuring animated characters managing time and meetings. Create meeting polls to send to clients and prospects, suggest meeting dates and times, and allow voting on dates that work all with Doodle’s free version.
8. Calendly
Price: Free (Basic), $8 per user/month (Premium), $12 per user/month (Pro)
The free version of Calendly allows you to connect one calendar, book unlimited meetings, create a custom Calendly link, and send out automatic email notifications and reminders to invitees who book with you.
9. Arrangr
Price: Free (Basic), $10/month (Pro), $29.99/month (Pro Plus)
Arrangr is an intelligent scheduling tool that allows users to book a meeting in under 30 seconds. In addition to helping users find the best agreed upon time to meet, Arrangr seeks to prevent all meeting miscommunication by letting contacts determine places and ways to meet all within the platform.
10. Rallly
Price: Free
Rallly (with three Ls) is an appointment scheduler with classic polling functionality where the members of your group can vote on the best times for the meeting or event. It also supports chat and messaging within the interface so that meeting attendees can discuss the best time to connect.
11. Woven
Price: Free (Basic), $15/month (Premium)
Woven allows you to sync all of your calendars to get a complete picture of your availability. It’s scheduling features are extensive, including a poller, scheduling links, and availability sharing.
12. CalendarHero
Price: Free (Basic), $8/mo (Pro), $12/mo (Team)
CalendarHero offers all the common meeting scheduler features, such as scheduling links and internal group scheduling. However, its advantage is the powerful connections it has with your tech stack and its notification system and smart time settings for meeting buffers, so you never run late to another meeting.
13. ScheduleOnce
Price: $0/month (Solo), $9 per user/month (Teams), contact for enterprise pricing.
Schedule Once schedulign app interface featuring a calendar, time table, and contact information
ScheduleOnce is a comprehensive tool that allows you to create nearly any scheduling scenario you can think of. Everything from group sessions to one-on-one calls, to in-person meetings, can be booked through ScheduleOnce. You can also directly connect ScheduleOnce with your website, email provider, and payment system.
14. Chili Piper
Price: $0/month (Free), $15 per user/month (Spicy), $25 per user/month (Hot).
Chili Piper scheduling tool homepage featuring images of calendars and individuals in a virtual meeting
15. Appointy
Price: $0/month (Free), $19.99 per user/month (Growth), $49.99 per user/month (Professional), $79.99 per user/month (Enterprise).
If you’re running a brick-and-mortar business that needs to maintain social distancing, Appointy is the app for you. Appointy goes beyond scheduling meetings as it manages occupancy, too. Whether you need to schedule consultations, classes, or appointments, Appointy will ensure your business meets regulations with every appointment.
16. Visibook
Price: $0/month (Free), $6.99/month (Basic), $13.99/month (Standard), $19.99/month (Unlimited).
Appointment reminders and calendar synchronisation are among the basic must-haves Visibook offers in their scheduling app, but their platform offers much more.
There you have it, my top 16 free scheduling tools that you can integrate into your business today!
As I said earlier, there are so many more that I haven’t even had the chance to use. If you have any that you would like to share, please get in touch.
What are you waiting for?
Get a system, get organised, and get connected!