Bookwhen

RATING:

4.9

(176)

About Bookwhen

Bookwhen is a cloud-based scheduling application suitable for small to midsize businesses. It offers online scheduling and booking features, waitlist features and integrations with payment portals. It is designed to work on desktop and mobile devices. Along with standard online booking features, Bookwhen allows users to select and pay for multiple bookings at once. Users can set the amount of time potential customers have to claim a booking once it becomes available and restrict when open bookings appear to customers. Users can attach documents to events, configure various field types such as drop-down menus and validation fields, and automatic reminders are sent to attendees. Payment can be required upon confirming a booking or at a later date, and services s...

Awards and Recognition

FrontRunner 2022
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Bookwhen Pricing

Lite: €9/month with 300 bookings/month, 1 admin user and 1 booking page. Standard: €19/month with 800 bookings/month, 5 admin users and 3 booking pages. Plus: €39/month with 1800 bookings/month, 10 admin users and 6 booking pages. Gold: €69/month with 4000 bookings/month, 25 admin users and 15 booking pages. Annual subscriptions receive a two-month discount. Bookwhen also offers a free plan, with 150 bookings/month, 1 admin user and 1 booking page.

Starting price: 

$15.00 per month

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Available

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Bookwhen Reviews

Overall Rating

4.9

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

5

Value for money

5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Bookwhen

1 - 5 of 176 Reviews

User Profile

James

Verified reviewer

Telecommunications

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed May 2018

Best point of sale for educational programs.

PROS

Ease of use, user interface, fees, notifications, registration forms, discounting, customer service, payment interface

CONS

Filtering events. It is difficult to create a link to filter to only a specific category of events. A lot of learnings on URLs needed.

Vendor Response

Thanks for taking the time to provide your feedback, James! We agree that a proper interface for filtering on events would be a good addition. However, we think the ability to use Markdown to create very customisable options/layouts for filtering is a good substitute in the meantime. We appreciate some of this can feel a bit advanced, so if our help articles aren't enough then we're always here to help you with the code! Thanks very much for using the system :) Cheers, Bookwhen

Replied September 2018

Andrea

Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1 employee

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed November 2019

Great for a small business!

My overall experience is positive. Bookings have increased, admin time has decreased and the chat support provided by BookWhen has been quick to resolve issues.

PROS

For me the greatest advantage is that it has given me more time. Doing all the bookings myself and the emails back and forth and trying to workout payment methods was very time consuming. Now I receive fewer emails to respond to with most customers just booking on and choosing to pay online. I feel that bookings have also increased since having the BookWhen system.

CONS

I'm not very good with using technology and it's taken me a bit of time to get my head around how to set up the BookWhen features and use them. I find that for me it's often a lot of trial and error. However, I do frequently go to the support section to read the articles which are most often quite helpful. I do wish that the forms section was more sophisticated. I tried using attachments for my forms - however customers rarely print them off and bring them to class. Paper forms is something I'd really like to get rid of.

Reason for choosing Bookwhen

Mindbody had more features than I needed and is expensive - seemed more suitable for larger business. I really liked the forms feature of Vagaro - and that nearly swayed me; but it also had a cost that I felt I couldn't justify for my very small business. Bookwhen covered everything I needed for my small business and at a reasonable cost.

Vendor Response

Hi Andrea, thank you so much for leaving us such an honest review! It's nice to learn you've got less admin and more bookings since using Bookwhen :-) We're sorry to hear it took you a while to get up to speed - do make the most of our support team, as we're always happy to help out! Regarding your forms, we'd love to chat further to see if it would be a possibility to recreate your form file as booking fields instead. Please do get in touch if this is still an issue. Best wishes, Jenny

Replied December 2019

kate

Sports, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

2

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

1

Reviewed December 2022

Bookwhen

PROS

Easy and quick to use, inexpensive. Looked nice

CONS

No monthly calendar view, long lists get too confusing for customers

Reasons for switching to Bookwhen

calendar view

Marina

Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2022

Love Bookwhen

Booking system - brilliant Customer Service - exceptional!

PROS

It's simple but effective to use and saves me a whole heap of time with client bookings!

CONS

I'd like to see an option to have client notes on there, eg stiff low back etc

Reason for choosing Bookwhen

Better value for money and less hassle setting up!

Claire

Arts and Crafts, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed February 2021

Great functionality

PROS

I love how they have thought of everything I might need, and even included things that I didn't realise that I needed - like the waiting list with a time limit. I tried another booking site and it didn't have anything close to the functionality of Bookwhen. I soon learnt my way around and found it very easy to use and really could not be running my business without it now. It has taken away so much of my stress.

CONS

I haven't found anything yet that I don't like.

Reasons for switching to Bookwhen

Calendly did not have the functionality I needed and even though lots of people were requesting they add new functionality, they simply weren't bothering.