Schedly vs SMS Meeting

Schedly is an appointment scheduling platform for individuals, teams, and service businesses. Customers can book through online pages and forms, including a form embedded on a website. The service can send reminders by email, SMS, or WhatsApp, and collect payment when an appointment is booked. For teams, it supports staff calendars, workflows, round-robin meetings, and routing logic. Calendar connections include Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, and Apple Calendar; Google Calendar and Outlook support two-way sync. Other listed integrations include Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, HubSpot, Salesforce, Zapier, and Mailchimp. Schedly is available on Android, iOS, web, through an API, and as a Chrome extension. Its mobile app can manage bookings, staff schedules, availability, customer details, and payments. The free plan costs nothing and allows unlimited bookings, but is limited to one seat, service or event type, location, and calendar connection. Pro costs $7.50 a month and adds unlimited services, locations, and calendar connections, plus team management and API access. Enterprise pricing is custom.

SMS Meeting sends appointment confirmations and reminders by text from Microsoft Outlook, Google Calendar, or connected business software. Its Microsoft-certified Outlook add-in supports appointments, ordinary meetings, and Microsoft Teams meetings. The Google-certified extension handles Google Meet events and can include meeting links in reminders. Message templates can insert a recipient’s name, appointment date, time, and place. The JSON REST API uses API-key authentication and supports immediate or scheduled sends plus delivery-receipt webhooks. It can connect to management systems, ERPs, patient portals, citizen portals, and in-house applications. STOP replies are reported so connected systems can stop non-essential messages to that recipient. Customer and recipient data are hosted within the European Union, with stated data-minimisation and retention controls. SMS Meeting recommends excluding detailed medical, legal, or financial information from texts. Essential costs €7.50 a month per user and Pro costs €9.50 a month per user, both excluding VAT; SMS credits are separate. A 14-day trial is available, but unused credits are not refunded.