Colara vs Online Wedding Planner

Colara is a shared wedding workspace for planners, photographers, vendors, and couples, organized around a live timeline. Its planner workspace brings together timelines, vendors, contracts, couples, and floor plans. A free CRM includes a lead and client pipeline, proposals, e-signature contracts, invoices, payment reminders, scheduling, questionnaires, an inbox, email templates, finances, a calendar, and a task board. The free CRM allows unlimited clients, leads, jobs, proposals, contracts, and invoices, but vendors do not receive an owned wedding workspace. Free-plan online payments carry a 1% platform fee on cards or 1.5% total on bank payments, capped at $30 per payment including Stripe’s fee; manual payments have no platform or Stripe fee. Colara offers an AI timeline builder and assistant, and connects with QuickBooks Online, Google Calendar, Zapier, Make, and webhooks. Its free iPhone and iPad app is available on the App Store. Paid plans start at $29 a month.

Online Wedding Planner is a free set of browser-based tools for organizing wedding plans, available on Android, iOS, and the web. Its budget calculator estimates costs across 14 categories using guest count, region, and wedding style; users can change the figures and track payments. The guest list tool handles households, RSVP status, meals, dietary requirements, plus-ones, and tags, with CSV import and export. Seating charts provide drag-and-drop room layouts, multiple table shapes, conflict warnings, and printable escort cards, table cards, and catering sheets. Other listed tools cover timelines, venue visits, stationery, and style. No signup is required, and there is no premium tier. Planning entries are saved in the browser's local storage on the user's device, not uploaded to the maker's servers. This means saved work may be unavailable after clearing browser data, switching devices or browsers, or using a private window. The site says analytics and advertising cookies are opt-in.