Cal.com

Cal.com is open scheduling infrastructure for individuals, teams, and developers. Create booking links and event types, connect calendars to check conflicts, define availability, route bookings to teammates, and embed scheduling into a website or product. It also offers APIs, workflows, payments, and self-hosting options.

✨ Key Features

• Booking links and event types — Create a bookable event with its duration, availability, location, and other rules, then share the resulting link.
• Calendar conflict checking — Connect calendars so Cal.com can cross-reference existing events before showing available times and reduce double bookings.
• Availability, limits, and buffers — Set working hours, minimum notice, daily or weekly booking limits, and buffer time around events.
• Team scheduling — Use shared availability, round-robin distribution, collective events, and dynamic group links to coordinate several hosts.
• Routing forms — Collect information from a booker and route the request to a suitable person based on submitted details.
• Workflow automation — Pair triggers such as cancellation, rescheduling, or a time offset with actions such as sending a prepared reminder.
• Embedded scheduling — Add inline, floating-button, click-triggered pop-up, or email embeds so people can book inside a website, landing page, app, or portal.
• Payments and integrations — Accept payments through Stripe or PayPal and connect calendars, video tools, CRM systems, Slack, and other apps through the app store and APIs.
• Open-source and self-hosted deployment — Use the hosted service or follow the official documentation for self-hosting when an organization needs more control over its instance.

💳 Pricing

• Free — Free forever for one user. Includes unlimited event types and calendars, email and SMS notifications, 100+ integrations, mobile app, browser extension, Stripe and PayPal payments, two-way Salesforce and HubSpot sync, and one-click Calendly event import.
• Teams — $12 per user/month when billed yearly, with a 14-day free trial. Adds one team, shared availability, round-robin and collective scheduling, recurring events, custom notifications, branding removal, routing forms, booking analytics, and custom APIs.
• Organizations — $28 per user/month when billed yearly, with a 14-day free trial. Adds unlimited sub-teams, custom-variable routing, a company subdomain, SAML SSO, SCIM, stated SOC 2/HIPAA/ISO 27001 compliance, instant meetings, role-based permissions, and additional APIs.
• Enterprise — Custom annual pricing. Adds the Organizations features plus dedicated onboarding and engineering, SLA/availability commitments, HRIS and directory integrations, and priority support.

Pricing note — The reviewed pricing page labels the public paid prices as yearly billing and displays a 25% saving; confirm current taxes, billing terms, trial conditions, and feature availability at checkout.

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🎯 Use Cases

• Consultants and freelancers — Publish an availability link so clients can choose a time without a scheduling email loop.
• Sales teams — Route inbound leads to the right representative and distribute meetings through round-robin rules.
• Recruiters — Offer interview event types, check multiple calendars, and add buffers between interviews.
• Healthcare and service businesses — Embed a booking flow in a website or portal and collect the information needed before an appointment.
• Paid consultations and classes — Connect Stripe or PayPal so invitees can pay as they book an eligible event.
• Operations teams — Add reminders, follow-ups, and other actions to cancellation, rescheduling, or time-based workflow triggers.
• Product developers — Embed scheduling into an application and extend it through APIs or the Cal.com app store.
• Organizations with deployment requirements — Evaluate self-hosting documentation when calendar data, branding, or infrastructure control is important.