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A Setmore alternative: booking built into your own website
Setmore is appointment scheduling with a free plan for up to 4 users and a Pro plan at $5 a user a month billed yearly, adding SMS reminders and two-way calendar sync. OneCraft writes the booking pages into your own website or app, with bookings and deposits stored in the site's own database.
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Indunil Asanka · Co-founder
2 min read · Published
The short verdict
Setmore is the better pick for a business that wants a free, ready made booking page and app with email reminders for a small team, SMS reminders and two-way calendar sync on Pro, and a live receptionist option in the US. OneCraft suits a business that wants booking to be part of its own website, written around its services, with deposits through its own Stripe account and the data in a database it controls.
| Feature | Setmore | OneCraft |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free up to 4 users $0; Pro $5 a user a month billed annually, $12 monthly 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 | Unlimited appointments, accept payments, branded booking page, branded mobile app, email reminders checked 2026-10-21 | The free plan cannot publish, connect a domain, take payments or run Expo builds |
| SMS reminders | Pro team members get 500 SMS credits monthly; availability varies by country checked 2026-10-21 | No SMS and no live calendar feed |
| Calendar sync | 2-way calendar sync on Pro checked 2026-10-21 | No SMS and no live calendar feed |
| Deposits | Deposits on Pro, not on Free checked 2026-10-21 | Deposits charged through Stripe Checkout; card holds are not offered |
| Staff | Setmore charges per user: each staff calendar counts as a user checked 2026-10-21 | Free has no cap on sites (build and preview with its credits); Starter 3, Pro 10, Pro+ no cap |
| Where booking lives | Booking page, website widget and class booking 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 |
| Branding | Remove Setmore branding on Pro checked 2026-10-21 | Custom domains: Free 0, Starter 1, Pro 5, Pro+ no cap, verified with a TXT record and a CNAME, with a managed certificate |
| Phone answering | Live Receptionist add for $99 a month, US only checked 2026-10-21 | 65 capability guides the agent builds from scratch into the site's own database, nothing pre-made |
Where Setmore is better
Free for a small team
Setmore's free plan covers up to 4 users with unlimited appointments and payments. OneCraft's free plan can build and preview a booking site but cannot publish it or take payments.
SMS and calendar sync
Setmore Pro sends SMS reminders and syncs two ways with staff calendars. OneCraft has no SMS and no live calendar feed.
Ready on day one
Setmore's booking page, widget and mobile apps are ready to configure. OneCraft's booking feature is written by the agent for each site, which takes a generation and a review.
Where OneCraft is different
Booking inside your own site
Services, staff and time slots live on pages of your website, in its own database, rather than on a third party booking page or widget.
Access rules that are tested
The agent writes the bookings tables with row level security and checks each one as an anonymous visitor and as a signed in person. Ask in the brief for overlapping bookings to be refused, and check it in the preview.
Deposits to your Stripe account
Deposits are charged through Stripe Checkout on your own connected Stripe account, and a webhook marks each booking paid.
Booking page or booking website
Setmore gives each business a booking page, a website widget and staff apps, all on Setmore's platform. OneCraft writes a website whose service pages, staff profiles and booking form are part of the site itself. A customer booking an air conditioning regas never leaves the business's own address, and the booking sits in a table the business can see in its admin area.
Reminders and calendars
This is the clearest gap. Setmore Pro sends SMS reminders with 500 credits a month per team member and syncs with staff calendars both ways. OneCraft has no SMS and no live calendar feed, so staff check bookings in the site's admin area. Businesses whose day runs from a shared calendar should weigh that before moving.
Cost for a team of three
Setmore is free for a team of three, or $15 a month on Pro billed yearly. OneCraft Starter is $8 a month and Pro $25, and card deposits add Stripe's fees plus a 2% or 1% platform fee. The OneCraft cost buys the whole website, not only the booking page.
Who should stay with Setmore
Stay with Setmore if a free booking page is enough, your staff live in Google or Outlook calendars, or SMS reminders keep your no-shows down. Move if you want booking to be part of a website written for your business, with deposits paid into your own Stripe account and the bookings in a database you own.
Questions people ask
Can customers pick a staff member and time?
Yes, when the agent builds bookings from its guide with staff and time slots. The brief should name the services, durations, staff and opening hours, and the agent turns them into tables, a booking form and an admin view. Staff are then managed from the admin area.
Can I take a deposit but not the full price?
Yes. Deposits are charged through Stripe Checkout on your own connected Stripe account, on a paid plan. A card authorisation hold is not offered, so a deposit is a real charge that you refund from Stripe if needed. OneCraft keeps 2% on Starter or 1% on Pro.
Can customers cancel or reschedule online?
Only if the agent builds it. Ask for a manage booking page for signed in customers, and the agent writes it with access rules so each customer sees only their own bookings. Check the flow in the preview before publishing.
Does the booking work on phones?
Every website build runs a layout check at 375, 768 and 1280 pixels wide that fails on sideways overflow, and a review agent reads screenshots at those widths before generation finishes. A phone view that scrolls sideways or throws an error fails the build, and the change is not kept until it passes.
What happens to my bookings if I stop paying?
The bookings live in Supabase, either in OneCraft's pool or on your own Supabase account. With your own account the data stays with you; the site's code also downloads as a zip with its migrations. A hosted pool database is part of every plan.
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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