Flowlyup vs SimplyBook.me: plans and limits compared

The two services in brief

SimplyBook.me is an international booking system with a booking website, a widget and a set of optional custom features. According to its official pricing page on the date we checked: the Free plan is 50 bookings a month, one provider and one custom feature; Basic is EUR 13.9 per month or 11.9 billed annually with 100 bookings and 5 providers; Standard is EUR 29.9 or 24.9 with 500 bookings and 15 providers; Premium is EUR 59.9 or 49.9 with 2,000 bookings and 30 providers.

Flowlyup is booking with no limits on bookings or staff plus a business card page, a store and chat. Plan facts:

• The Start plan is free with no time limit: online booking, a business card page, a team with no staff limit.
• The Plus plan is 990 ₽ per month, billed in Russian rubles: reminders, online payments through YooKassa, a product store, chat, a widget, branding, up to three branches.
• For the first 14 days Plus is enabled free of charge, no card required.
• The price does not depend on the number of staff or the number of bookings.
• Push and email reminders with nothing to pay for SMS: clients sign in with their email, so notifications always arrive.
• Discounted service packages: a session is deducted from the package automatically at every booking.
• Products and services sell each other: products are offered while picking a service, a service can be attached to a product, products form bundles, and only real buyers can leave reviews.
• Client money goes straight to your YooKassa account, bypassing the platform; you pay the service fee later yourself from your account.
• Chat on the business card page and inside the widget, with the whole team able to answer.
• Works without a public page too: a calendar, manual bookings and client notes - private or shared with the team.

Side by side

When SimplyBook.me is the better fit

• You have few bookings and 50 free ones a month are enough.
• You need specific custom features: memberships, gift cards, intake forms.
• You need payments through international providers such as Stripe or PayPal.

When to choose Flowlyup

• You take more than 50 bookings a month and do not want to pay per hundred.
• Your team is growing and the provider limit gets in the way.
• You need a page with a portfolio, products and chat at one link.

Online payments in Flowlyup run through YooKassa: this suits businesses that can open a YooKassa merchant account. Booking, reminders, the business card page, the widget and chat work in any country, and the interface is available in nine languages.