Cadence gives your business its own booking site — payments, deposits and no-show fees built in, your calendar as the single source of truth, and setup measured in minutes, not evenings. One flat price. No per-seat math.
Have an invite? Get set upCadence is in an invite-only beta — signup needs a code from us or a current member.
A booking type needs a name, a length, and a price — sensible defaults carry everything else, and it's all editable later. Calendly's twelve-screen event editor is the anti-pattern.
Google and Outlook, live. Put anything in your calendar and slots close; drag a synced booking and cadence reschedules everyone, invites and reminders included.
Charge in full, take a deposit, or hold the card and capture when your cancellation window closes. Late cancels and no-shows can actually cost something.
Minimum notice and reschedule limits are enforced by the system — not displayed politely and ignored, which is how the big names do it.
Book a whole block, hand out one link, and watch the roster fill. Drag to reorder, shift everyone with one tap, import a pasted list.
Intake questions on any booking type — dropdowns, checkboxes, party size, long answers, required or optional. Answers ride the booking into your rosters, exports, and calendar notes.
Set a window like "90 minutes before sunset" once — cadence reads the actual sun times for your location on every date, all season, and only offers slots inside them.
Against the tools you'd otherwise duct-tape together.
| cadence | Calendly | Acuity | SignUpGenius | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Flat per business | Per seat | Flat, tiered by calendars | Flat per org |
| Price | $15/mo or $144/yr | $10–16/seat/mo | $16–49/mo | Free–$59.99/mo |
| Payments & deposits | ✓ built in | Full payment only (paid) | ✓ all plans | ✓ +5% & 50¢/txn fee |
| Card-on-file no-show fees | ✓ | — | ✓ | — |
| Enforced cancel/reschedule policy | ✓ enforced | Time limits only | ✓ | — |
| Sign-up sheets / block bookings | ✓ rosters & slates | Group events (paid) | Group classes | ✓ (ads on free) |
| Intake forms at booking | ✓ per booking type | Basic questions | ✓ | Basic questions |
| Website embed & theme control | ✓ full theming (Pro) | ✓ limited theming | CSS on Premium | Widgets only |
| Email reminders, editable templates | ✓ | Paid tiers | ✓ | ✓ (monthly caps) |
| Google + Outlook sync | ✓ calendar-as-truth | ✓ | ✓ | Add-to-calendar links |
| Golden-hour booking windows (sun-anchored) | ✓ (Pro) | — | — | — |
| Ad-free booking pages | ✓ every plan | ✓ | ✓ (no free tier) | Ads on free tier |
Competitor plans and prices as published on their pricing pages; each changes its tiers now and then — check theirs for the current fine print.
Flat, per business. Your whole team rides along — we don't count seats.
$150/yr
annual commitment · rate locked for life
$144/yr
≈ $12/mo, billed annually
$199/yr
annual only — it lives on your website, so it's a yearly thing