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Solo-fit verdictSolo-ReadyA booking website and system for $0 to start or $13.90/month with payments — the catch is the monthly booking cap that meters your growth.
True solo cost · low$0/mo$0/month on Free for 1 provider taking up to 50 bookings a month
True solo cost · typical$14/mo$13.90/month billed monthly for 1 account (Basic) — 100 bookings, payments and POS; annual billing saves 17% (corroborated equivalent 11.90/month). Scenario maths: 1 account x the published flat rate; providers inside the allowance are not billed per seat.
Rank #26 of 26 in Admin & SchedulingFree start Free plan availableSetup Under 1 hourControl Acts + logs everythingNo-code 5/5Checked · prices checked 2026-11-08
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The short version
SimplyBook.me gives a solo a complete booking website at $0 for 50 bookings a month, with the payments tier at $13.90 a month flat — priced by how much you book, never by seats.
Buy it if
You want a branded booking website rather than a link, sell services with deposits, memberships or gift cards, and your monthly volume fits a published cap you can watch.
Skip it if
Your booking volume is spiky or already well past 100 a month — the cap, top-ups and feature allowances become the product you are managing — or you only need a simple meeting link.
What SimplyBook.me does — the jobs it finishes
Workflows are built only from verified capabilities in our listing research — no vendor copy, nothing invented.
A booking website live without building one
Starts You need clients to book online but have no booking site
- SimplyBook.me generates your booking website with services, providers and prices
- You add the widget to your own site and list on Booking.page and your Facebook Page
- Clients book, reschedule and cancel in their own time zone
You get A complete public booking presence
A web presence and a diary in one setup
Paid bookings with deposits and a till (Basic and above)
Starts Services should be paid or secured at booking
- Payments, deposits and tips are switched on
- The point-of-sale feature handles in-person sales alongside online bookings
- Automatic confirmation, reminder and cancellation emails run throughout
You get Secured, paid appointments with fewer no-shows
Money and booking stop being separate admin jobs
Memberships, gift cards and classes as features, not tiers
Starts Your offer grows beyond one-to-one appointments
- Switch on the custom features you need — memberships, gift cards, intake forms, coupons, classes
- Free custom features are unlimited; premium ones count against your plan allowance (1 Free, 3 Basic, 8 Standard, unlimited Premium)
- Recurring appointments and event bookings run from the same calendar
You get A service menu that matches how you actually sell
Capability grows feature by feature inside one system
A busy month handled without a tier jump
Starts Bookings spike past your plan cap
- Buy a 100-booking block for $4 instead of upgrading mid-month
- Top up SMS or WhatsApp credits at $8 per 100 if reminders are the bottleneck
- Upgrade only when the higher cap is your new normal
You get Peak volume absorbed at top-up prices
Seasonal spikes do not force a permanent tier change
Where it stops
- Monthly booking caps on every plan — 50 Free, 100 Basic, 500 Standard, 2,000 Premium — with paid top-up blocks
- Free plan must be renewed monthly and allows only 1 provider and 1 premium custom feature
- Does not plan your day, manage tasks or produce meeting notes
- SMS, WhatsApp and AI voice booking run on separately bought credit packs, not included allowances
Getting started
Before you start
- No credit card is needed to start — new accounts begin with a 14-day trial of premium features
- Your services, durations, prices and provider list
The ongoing admin
- Watch the monthly booking count against your cap — top-ups are cheap, surprises are not
- Renew the free plan monthly if you stay on it, and track messaging credit balances
Step 1Run the 14-day premium trial on a real week
Test the features you would actually switch on — payments, intake forms, memberships — before the trial ends and the plan allowances apply.
Step 2Count your bookings honestly
The plan choice is arithmetic: under 50 a month is Free, around 100 is Basic. Pick by volume, not by feature envy.
Step 3Publish the website and widget together
Put the booking website link everywhere and the widget on your own site, so both doors read the same diary.
Time to first useful result: Under 1 hour · no-code 5/5
Full pricing — checked 2026-11-08
Flat per plan, priced by bookings/providers/custom features. Free $0 — 50 bookings/mo, 1 provider, 1 custom feature (renews monthly). Basic $13.90/mo billed monthly — 100 bookings, 5 providers, 3 features, payments/POS. Standard $29.90/mo — 500 bookings, 15 providers, 8 features, HIPAA/SSO options. Premium $59.90/mo — 2,000 bookings, 30 providers, unlimited features, Payments PRO, accounting integrations. Annual billing saves 17% (corroborated annual equivalents: Basic 11.90, Standard 24.90, Premium 49.90 per month — the vendor renders these in EUR on its EU pages and USD on US pages; see price history). Enterprise is custom-priced. 14-day trial of premium features, no card required.
Free
$0/month
Flat / month · $0/mo for one person
- 50 bookings per month
- 1 provider
- 1 premium custom feature (all free custom features unlimited)
- Booking website and booking widget
- Admin app
- Basic email reminders
Allowance 50 bookings/month; 1 provider; 1 premium custom feature
Limit Free plan must be renewed monthly
Limit No payments or deposits — those start on Basic
Solo pickBasic
$13.90/mo billed monthly; annual billing saves 17% (corroborated annual equivalent 11.90/mo)
Flat / month · $13.9/mo for one person
- 100 bookings per month
- 5 providers
- 3 premium custom features
- Client app
- Payments, deposits and tips
- Sales (POS)
Allowance 100 bookings/month; 5 providers; 3 premium custom features
Limit Booking cap is the binding constraint — extra 100-booking blocks cost $4
Limit Footer white-label requires Premium
Standard
$29.90/mo billed monthly; annual billing saves 17% (corroborated annual equivalent 24.90/mo)
Flat / month · $29.9/mo for one person
- 500 bookings per month
- 15 providers
- 8 premium custom features
- Branded client app
- HIPAA and SAML SSO custom features available
Allowance 500 bookings/month; 15 providers; 8 premium custom features
Limit Priced for multi-provider businesses — a solo pays for provider headroom
Premium
$59.90/mo billed monthly; annual billing saves 17% (corroborated annual equivalent 49.90/mo)
Flat / month · $59.9/mo for one person
- 2,000 bookings per month
- 30 providers
- Unlimited premium custom features
- Payments PRO — refunds, payment links, vaulted cards
- QuickBooks, FreshBooks and Xero integrations
- White label (page footer)
Allowance 2,000 bookings/month; 30 providers; unlimited custom features
Limit Top self-serve tier — beyond it, Enterprise is custom-priced
Enterprise
Custom pricing (discovery call)
Custom / quoted · $null/mo for one person
- Custom booking volume and provider count
- Cluster interface for multi-location access
- Dedicated account manager and queue manager
- High Load API, customised contracts, full white label
- Choice of data location
Allowance Custom by agreement
Limit Sales-led — not a solo purchase
Add-onExtra bookings — 100 additional bookings for $4. The top-up route when a month outgrows the plan cap
Add-onSMS / WhatsApp / AI voice credits — 100 credits for $8 each (SMS packages, WhatsApp credits, AI Voice Booking). Messaging and AI voice booking are credit-metered, not included
Add-onCustom domain + 3 years SSL — $119 one-time. For running the booking website on your own domain
What could make the bill jump?
Volume, not seats: crossing 100 bookings a month pushes Basic users to Standard ($29.90) unless they buy $4 top-up blocks, and premium custom features are rationed per tier (3 / 8 / unlimited), so switching on one feature too many can force a tier jump. Messaging is a separate credit meter on top.
Billing unitper account per month (flat, by booking volume)
Free tier / trialYes — Free covers 50 bookings a month for 1 provider at $0, renewed monthly, with a booking website and widget.
Pricing clarityClear flat price
Price record · 2026-11-08: Checked 2026-11-08 on simplybook.me/en/pricing: the plan quotas extract as text directly this run (Free 50 bookings / 1 provider / 1 custom feature; Basic 100 / 5 / 3; Standard 500 / 15 / 8; Premium 2,000 / 30 / unlimited; Enterprise custom), the page banner states annual billing saves 17%, and the page's own body and FAQ text state the monthly-billing dollar figures directly (Free $0; Basic $13.9 per month; Standard $29.9; Premium $59.9; paid plans start at $13.9; 14-day trial with no credit card; free plan renews monthly; extra bookings, SMS/WhatsApp/AI-voice credit packs at $8 per 100 and 100 extra bookings for $4 all shown on the page). The annual-billing monthly equivalents do not render as figures in the extracted header cards; the equivalents recorded in the tier notes (Basic 11.90, Standard 24.90, Premium 49.90) are corroborated by multiple dated October-November 2026 reads of the same official pricing page and are consistent with the page's stated 17% annual saving. Currency variant disclosed: the vendor renders those annual equivalents in EUR on its EU pricing pages and in USD on its US pages (one dated US read shows Basic at $11.50) — the monthly USD figures above are the ones read directly on the official page this run and are the basis of the True Solo Cost. No price is guessed.
At a glance — the standard checklist
The same fields on every deep listing in this job, so agents compare field by field. “Not verified” means our research has not confirmed it yet — it never means “doesn't have it.”
- Platforms✓ IncludedWeb booking website and widget, iOS and Android admin app, client app and WordPress widget
- Key integrations✓ IncludedTwo-way Google Calendar sync and Zapier; payments via processors such as Stripe, PayPal and Square; QuickBooks, FreshBooks and Xero on Premium
- Languages✓ IncludedBooking website languages listed on the pricing page include English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Japanese and many more
- Support channels? Not verified
- Help centre / documentation? Not verified
- Free plan✓ IncludedFree: 50 bookings/month, 1 provider, 1 premium custom feature, renewed monthly
- Free trial✓ Included14-day free trial of premium features, no credit card required
- Human control model✓ IncludedYou set services, providers, durations, buffers and feature switches; clients book inside them
- Approval controls? Not verified
- Data export / exit route? Not verified
- Setup model✓ IncludedNo-code self-serve; optional paid full-setup service is offered separately
- Inbox management— Not includedNo inbox triage — booking notifications and client messages around appointments only
- Calendar management✓ IncludedCore product: booking calendar with filtered views, provider and resource schedules, easy cancelling and rescheduling
- Meeting notes— Not includedBooking notes on appointments exist, but there is no meeting recording, transcription or notes product
- Task reshuffling— Not includedIt books appointments and classes; it does not schedule or move your tasks
- Follow-up drafts✓ IncludedAutomatic feedback request after the service and reminder/cancellation emails are built in — templated follow-ups, not drafts written from meeting content
- Daily briefs & nudges— Not includedNo daily brief or planning digest is offered
Best for
- Solo practitioners who want a booking website, not just a link
- Service businesses selling memberships, gift cards, classes and packages
- Multi-provider small businesses avoiding per-seat pricing
Not for
- High-volume bookers who will live against the 100-booking Basic cap
- Anyone needing meeting links and internal meeting scheduling as the main job
- Buyers who want messaging included rather than bought as credit packs
Our assessment of SimplyBook.me
SimplyBook.me takes a different route from the booking-link tools: every account gets a full booking website — not just a link — plus a widget for your own site, an admin app and a client app, and pricing scales with how much you book rather than how many seats you hold. The free plan covers 50 bookings a month for one provider with one premium custom feature, and must be renewed monthly. Basic at $13.90 a month billed monthly covers 100 bookings, five providers and three custom features, and unlocks payments, deposits, tips and point of sale. Standard at $29.90 covers 500 bookings and fifteen providers and opens the door to HIPAA, SAML SSO and a branded client app. Premium at $59.90 covers 2,000 bookings and thirty providers with unlimited custom features, Payments PRO and QuickBooks, FreshBooks and Xero integrations. The custom-feature system is the product's character: more than sixty optional features — memberships, gift cards, intake forms, coupons, classes — that you switch on as needed, with premium ones counting against your plan's allowance. There are no per-user charges and no transaction fees of SimplyBook.me's own; the meters to watch are bookings (extra blocks of 100 cost $4) and messaging credits (100 SMS or WhatsApp credits for $8). For a solo, Free is a real starting point and Basic is the realistic paid tier — the booking cap, not features, is what will eventually push you up.
Pros — our take
- A full booking website on every plan, not just a link — plus widget, admin app and client app
- No per-seat pricing and no vendor transaction fees: five providers sit inside Basic's flat fee
- 60+ switchable custom features let the system grow feature by feature instead of tier by tier
Cons — our take
- Every plan caps monthly bookings — a busy month means top-up blocks or a tier jump
- Free plan renews monthly and allows a single provider and one premium feature
- Messaging and AI voice booking are extra credit packs, and annual prices render in different currencies by region
Solo Fit input · no-code5/5 — can a non-technical owner run it?
Solo Fit input · setupUnder 1 hour to the first useful result
Solo Fit input · human controlActs + logs everything
Solo Fit input · pricing clarityClear flat price
Solo Fit stays the public score: the qualitative roll-up of these four published inputs under the How We Rank method. Flat per-account pricing with a real free tier carries it; the booking-volume meter is the honest trade, recorded in the bill-jump risk.
Three to compare before you decide
The difference: Calendly is the per-seat meeting link with unlimited bookings on paid tiers; SimplyBook.me is a flat-fee booking website metered by monthly bookings — the catch is the cap Calendly does not impose.
The difference: TidyCal gives unlimited bookings free or for $29 once on a simple page; SimplyBook.me gives a full booking website with memberships and POS, but meters bookings every month.
The difference: Cal.com is the open-source scheduler with unlimited free event types for one user; SimplyBook.me is the managed service-business system — booking website, client app and 60+ features without self-hosting.
Questions buyers ask about SimplyBook.me
What does SimplyBook.me cost for one person?
Free is $0 for one provider taking up to 50 bookings a month, renewed monthly. Basic — the realistic solo tier, with payments, deposits and point of sale across 100 bookings and five providers — is $13.90 a month billed monthly, with annual billing saving 17%. The directory's True Solo Cost is $0 low and $13.90 typical, read on the official pricing page on 2026-11-08.
Does SimplyBook.me charge per user?
No. Each plan is one flat fee covering a set number of providers — 1 on Free, 5 on Basic, 15 on Standard, 30 on Premium — and a set number of bookings per month. Adding a provider inside your allowance does not change the bill; outgrowing the booking cap does.
What happens when I hit my booking limit?
You can buy 100 additional bookings for $4 or move up a plan. Upgrades and downgrades are instant with prorated billing, and there are no cancellation fees or long-term contracts, per the vendor's pricing FAQ.
Are there extra costs beyond the subscription?
Yes, optional ones: SMS, WhatsApp and AI voice booking credits at $8 per 100, extra booking blocks at $4 per 100, a custom domain with SSL at $119, and payment-processor fees charged by Stripe, PayPal or Square themselves. SimplyBook.me charges no transaction fee of its own.
Stacks & next steps
SimplyBook.me is not in a published stack yet — stacks are edited buying guides, and memberships are added only when the combination has been worked through.
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