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A Calendly alternative for booking on your own website
Calendly is a scheduling link: free for one event type, $10 a seat a month for unlimited event types, with Stripe and PayPal payments and calendar connections. OneCraft writes booking into the business's own website or app instead, with services, slots and deposits stored in the site's database.
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Indunil Asanka · Co-founder
2 min read · Published
The short verdict
Calendly is the better pick for a person or sales team whose meetings live in Google or Outlook calendars, who want round-robin routing, CRM integrations and meeting links that drop into an email. OneCraft suits a service business that wants appointments booked on its own website or app, around its own services, with deposits paid to its own Stripe account.
| Feature | Calendly | OneCraft |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free; Standard $10 a seat a month; Teams $16 a seat a month; Enterprise starts at $15k a year checked 2026-10-21 | Free $0 with 100 credits a month (about 3 AI projects), Starter $8 with 500, Pro $25 with 1,500, Pro+ $125 with 7,500 |
| Free plan | One event type, one calendar connection, customizable booking page checked 2026-10-21 | The free plan cannot publish, connect a domain, take payments or run Expo builds |
| Calendars | Connect multiple calendars on Standard checked 2026-10-21 | No SMS and no live calendar feed |
| Payments | Collect payments at booking via Stripe and PayPal checked 2026-10-21 | Stripe only: no PayPal and no cash on delivery flow |
| Reminders | Automations and reminders on Standard checked 2026-10-21 | An admin can send a newsletter to confirmed subscribers, at most 500 per send and 5 sends an hour, from OneCraft's address with the site's name |
| Teams | Round-robin and team scheduling; route leads on Teams checked 2026-10-21 | A site_admins table and an /admin area, or Admin tab in an app, shown only to admins |
| Integrations | HubSpot, Mailchimp, Zapier, Salesforce; webhooks for meeting data checked 2026-10-21 | 65 capability guides the agent builds from scratch into the site's own database, nothing pre-made |
| Where booking lives | Customizable booking page; custom branding on the booking page checked 2026-10-21 | An agent plans the pages, builds them in steps with a green build each time, then a fresh agent reviews screenshots at 375, 768 and 1280 and sends up to 12 fixes |
| Analytics | Google Analytics and Meta Pixel for tracking bookings checked 2026-10-21 | Visits per day, estimated visitors, top pages and referrers over 7, 30 or 90 days, counted with no cookies |
Where Calendly is better
Calendar first
Calendly reads free time from connected calendars and books around it. OneCraft has no live calendar feed, so availability is held in the site's own database.
Sales team routing
Round-robin, lead routing and Salesforce updates are part of Calendly's Teams plan. OneCraft does not integrate with CRMs.
PayPal and payment links
Calendly takes Stripe or PayPal at booking and makes payment links for one-off fees. OneCraft takes payments through Stripe Checkout only.
Meeting tools
Calendly adds a notetaker and an email scheduling assistant. OneCraft has nothing like them.
Where OneCraft is different
Booking as part of the website
The services page, prices, booking form and a client area are one website written for the business, not a link to an outside booking page.
Data in a database you control
Bookings, clients and uploaded documents sit in the site's own Supabase database and private file bucket, with row level security on every table.
One price for the whole site
Starter at $8 a month covers up to 3 sites with the booking feature inside, rather than a price per person who takes bookings.
A link or a website
Calendly gives each person a booking page and a link to share. Many service businesses put that link on their website, which sends clients to a second site to finish booking. OneCraft writes the booking into the website itself: a bookkeeper's discovery call and paid review, a deposit through Stripe Checkout, and a signed in area where clients see their bookings and upload documents to a private bucket.
Availability without a calendar sync
Because OneCraft has no live calendar feed, opening hours, staff and slots are held in the site's database, and the brief should say plainly that two bookings may not take the same slot. A business that books around a busy personal calendar will find Calendly easier; one with set hours and services will not miss the sync.
Seats against sites
Calendly charges per seat: three people on Standard pay $30 a month. OneCraft charges per account, with Starter at $8 for 3 sites and Pro at $25 for 10, and card deposits add Stripe's fees and a 2% or 1% platform fee by plan.
Who should stay with Calendly
Stay with Calendly if your availability lives in your calendar, you book meetings for a sales team, or you rely on its CRM and notetaker integrations. Move if you run a service business that wants clients to book and pay a deposit on its own website, with the bookings stored alongside the rest of the site's data.
Questions people ask
Can clients upload documents with their booking?
Yes, when the agent builds a client area with the files guide. Each site has a private bucket that allows files up to 25 MB, readable only through the site's own access rule, so one client never sees another's documents.
Does OneCraft create Zoom or Google Meet links?
No meeting link integration is listed for OneCraft sites. The booking can hold a meeting address you add yourself, or the site can show your standing video link to clients after they book. Calendly's notetaker joins Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams calls.
Can a booking take a deposit?
Yes, through Stripe Checkout as a direct charge on your own connected Stripe account, on a paid plan. Prices come from the site's database, never from the browser, and a webhook marks the booking paid when Stripe confirms. OneCraft keeps 2% on Starter or 1% on Pro.
Can I embed the booking form on another site?
The booking form is a page of your OneCraft site, at its own address or your custom domain. Linking to that page is simplest; no embed widget for other websites is listed for OneCraft. A link also keeps the client on your own domain from start to finish.
Will clients get a confirmation email?
The mail broker lets a site send mail only to the signed in visitor's own address or to the owner, at most 20 an hour, from OneCraft's address with the site's name. Ask the agent for a confirmation email and test it in the preview.
Try the website side of OneCraft
The button opens the generator with a starting prompt already filled in. Change the wording to match your own work before you run it.
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