One platform for booking, getting paid, and following up

CalenQ is an all-in-one scheduling platform and Calendly alternative for coaches, consultants, and small service teams. It white-labels the booking experience and emails under your brand, and is available for a one-time lifetime price instead of a monthly subscription. It accepts payments at booking through Stripe, PayPal, and Razorpay (including UPI), issues GST and VAT tax invoices, and includes a built-in CRM with pipelines, lead forms, email sequences, and an AI assistant, plus Google and Outlook calendar sync with automatic Google Meet, Teams, and Zoom links. It supports 1:1, group, event, recurring, and package bookings, team round-robin routing, and flexible payment timing where the host can collect payment upfront, at booking, or after approving the request. Coming from Calendly? A one-click importer moves your event types, availability, and booking history over for you.

The rest of this page walks through each area in detail, grouped the way you’d actually use it: scheduling first, then money, then everything that happens around the booking.

• Every booking shape you need. One-on-one, group, event, workshop, recurring, and package bookings, all from the same editor.
• A booking page that fits your week. Reusable named schedules, per-type availability, date-specific hours, blocked dates, and your own holidays.
• Group events that fill up cleanly. Seat limits per slot and an automatic waitlist that notifies the next person when a seat opens.
• Self-serve reschedule and cancel. Bookers manage their own time through your link, within the rules you set, with reminders sent automatically.
• Buffers, notice windows, and daily caps so a busy day never turns into back-to-back overload.
• Single-use links that stop working after one booking, for invites you don’t want forwarded.
• Files on the confirmation. Attach intake forms, prep docs, or resource links to a booking type and every booker receives them with the confirmation email. Calendly has no native attachments.

Get paid the moment someone books, on the rails your clients already use, and keep full control of when the money is collected.

• Three processors, your accounts. Connect Stripe, PayPal, or Razorpay (UPI, cards, net banking). Bookings settle to you; CalenQ never holds the funds.
• Choose when you collect. Charge upfront before the booking is made, charge at the time of booking, or approve the request first and then charge. Pick what fits the work.
• Payment-first and request-to-book. Require payment before a slot is confirmed, or have bookings come in as requests you approve before any money moves. If you work on deposits, set the booking price to the deposit amount and invoice the balance later.
• Refund policies that match your terms. Flexible, moderate, or strict cancellation rules, with refunds handled for you.
• Discount codes and tax invoices. Run promotions, and issue proper GST and VAT invoices to clients who need them.

• Your brand on the page and the emails. Logo, name, and accent colour carry through the booking experience and every confirmation, reminder, and reschedule message.
• No CalenQ badge. The booking page reads as yours, end to end.
• Every client email in your voice. Confirmation, reminder, reschedule, and cancellation templates are fully rewritable, not just re-skinned.

Custom domains (book.yourbrand.com) are still rolling out; white-label branding is live today on the standard calenq.ai link.

Every booking and lead lands in a contact record, so the relationship doesn’t stop when the meeting ends.

• Contacts that build themselves. Bookers become contacts automatically, with lifetime value, history, and timeline already filled in.
• Pipelines, segments, tasks, and companies to track where each relationship stands and what to do next.
• Lead capture forms that qualify people before they reach your calendar.
• Email sequences and workflows for follow-ups and reminders that run on their own.
• Import and reporting. Bring contacts in from CSV or Excel, and forecast revenue and measure marketing attribution across the book.

• Write for you. Generate booking type descriptions and draft follow-up messages in your voice.
• Summarize and score. Get a quick read on a contact’s history and a sense of which leads are worth your time.
• Ask your CRM questions in plain language and get grounded answers with links back to the records.
• Bring your own key. Connect your OpenAI, Gemini, or Anthropic key once and the CRM AI runs on it. The built-in helpers that write descriptions and availability are included in the price.

• Two-way sync with Google and Outlook so your real availability is always reflected and new bookings land on your calendar.
• Meeting links generated automatically. Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom links are created per booking, or paste a fixed room.
• Reminders and clean invites that come from CalenQ on your behalf, so they land in the inbox rather than the spam folder.

• Meeting polls. Propose several times, let the group vote yes/no/maybe, and book the winner as a normal confirmed booking with invites and reminders handled.
• An AI notetaker. Pull the transcript from Zoom, Teams, or Google Meet after the call (or connect a Recall.ai bot that joins for you) and land a summary with action items on the contact’s timeline.
• Post-meeting feedback. Ask attendees for a quick rating after a session and keep the answers with the booking.

• Calendar and video. Google Calendar, Outlook, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom.
• Embed it on your site. Inline widget, popup, or floating badge, with prefill support and a React package. The same embed set Calendly offers.
• SMS, WhatsApp, and calls through your own Twilio account for reminders and outreach.
• A real REST API and signed webhooks to wire CalenQ into the rest of your stack.

• Shared booking types a team can deliver together.
• Round-robin, collective, and managed routing so the right person takes each booking.
• Roles and a shared contact book that keep a growing team organized without losing track of who owns what.

You don’t rebuild anything. Paste a Calendly personal access token and CalenQ imports your event types, availability schedules, booking history, and contacts in one pass, with a full undo. The step-by-step switching guide walks through it.

• CalenQ vs CalendlyA per-seat subscription vs a one-time $39, side by side.
• CalenQ vs Acuity SchedulingA lighter, lifetime-priced alternative to Acuity.
• The best Calendly alternativesHow CalenQ compares against the whole field.
• CalenQ vs TidyCalTwo lifetime deals compared on payments, CRM, and depth.
• CalenQ vs Cal.comOpen-source flexibility vs pay-once simplicity.

By use case

• Switch from Calendly (one-click import)
• Best free scheduling tools
• Lifetime pricing, explained
• Scheduling with payments
• Upfront payments and card holds
• For coaches
• For consultants
• For therapists
• For hiring teams
• Group classes and workshops
• For tutors in India
• Take UPI at booking
• Collect the advance at booking
• Calendly alternative for India