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Calendly alternative, pay what you use


I am thinking of an app similar to Calendly, but you don't have to pay it monthly. Why?

it becomes too expensive for many users maybe you don't use it for 2 weeks because you are in a holiday you don't use it in weekends you have only 2-3 meetings per day Why not to pay only for booked meetings? Let's say you pay 10$ for 100 (just an example) meetings (credits) for unlimited period. If you are a company you just pay for a number of meetings(credits) and you can add unlimited users. Every time a meeting is booked within your company, credits are used.

What do you think? I am targeting people that would like to use Calendly or an alternative, but it is very expensive to pay every month or they don't need to use the tool too often.

Thank you, Vlad


  👤 tomcam Accepted Answer ✓
You might be onto something. Keep in mind, though, that you will need to come up with a policy for quiescent data. You will be responsible for storing people’s data and security for it, even when they aren’t paying. I think that may run afoul of GDPR requirements that you dispose of data within a certain amount of time (I could be wrong there, since I’m not European and don’t follow that too closely).