Colara vs WedSetGo

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.

WedSetGo is a free wedding-planning platform tailored to Indian weddings, available on Android and the web. It combines guest management, RSVP tracking, budgets, vendors, seating, tasks, and multi-event timelines. The guest manager imports contacts, groups families, and tracks RSVPs in real time for lists of 1,000 or more guests. Couples can invite partners and family members to manage tasks and RSVPs, with updates synchronized across devices. Budget tracking can scan vendor QR codes, support payments through GPay or PhonePe, and record transactions in budget history. The drag-and-drop seating planner handles assignments, dietary preferences, and VIP tables without requiring login. Timelines cover occasions such as Sangeet, Mehendi, and the wedding. A pre-built 2026 checklist runs from venue booking through honeymoon planning. The site describes an AI assistant for entering details and checking timelines. Its privacy policy says Gemini interactions may use de-identified data to improve Google AI models and advises against entering highly sensitive or personally identifiable information into AI features.