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Appointy
Appointment scheduling with payments, reminders, staff coordination, and marketing features for service businesses.
Appointy is an appointment scheduling platform aimed at service businesses — salons, spas, fitness studios, medical practices, tutors, professional services, and even government offices. Unlike Calendly's meeting-scheduling focus, it bundles front-desk operations: staff management with separate logins, resource scheduling, recurring and class-capacity bookings, gift certificates, and payments through Square, Stripe, PayPal, and Authorize.NET.
Bookings can be taken through a business website, Google, Facebook, and Instagram, with calendar sync to Google Calendar, iCal, and Office 365, automated email and SMS reminders, and Zapier connections to 1,000+ apps. Higher tiers add multi-location management, SMS customization, a private API, and a custom booking portal.
Appointy offers a free-forever plan (one staff member, five services, up to 100 appointments per month, including Square payments) plus paid tiers with a 14-day no-credit-card trial. It runs on the web with an iOS app for managing the business on the go, making it a fit for local service businesses that need front-desk software rather than a personal booking link.
Salons, fitness studios, medical practices, and local service businesses that need staff coordination and front-desk features.