A HoneyBook alternative for coaches who don’t need a full CRM

HoneyBook’s Starter plan, at $36 a month, includes contracts with e‑signatures, forms and questionnaires, invoices, a client portal and one scheduler session. Essentials, at $59 a month, adds unlimited scheduling. A client can book, sign and pay from a single link.

HoneyBook processes card and bank payments itself: 2.9% + 25¢ per card payment and 1.5% for bank transfers. Payments taken another way, such as by PayPal or check, can be marked as paid by hand, but you can’t connect a Stripe account of your own.

It supports businesses in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia, the UK and Australia since 21 May 2026. The free trial is 30 days, with no card needed.

• You want client payments to go to your own Stripe account, where you already see your payouts and disputes.
• You use only part of it. If you already book on Calendly and don’t send invoices, a full client-management system is more to set up and pay for than the onboarding you use it for.
• You work outside the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.
• You’d rather organise your work by coaching packages and sessions than by projects.

• A full client-management system with other ways to take payment: Dubsado, from $35 a month, works with its own Stripe-powered payments, Square or PayPal. Bonsai is $25 per user a month.
• A platform built for coaching, paid into your own Stripe or PayPal: Paperbell, $97 a month, with everything included.
• A coaching platform priced by how many clients you coach: CoachAccountable, from $20 a month for two clients, or Simply.Coach, from US$19 a month for three coachees.
• Booking and payment only, with no terms to sign: Calendly with Stripe, from $12 per seat a month.
• Intake, signed terms and a deposit, with the calendar you already use: IntakePay.

IntakePay does the first part of what HoneyBook does. After a call, you send the client a private link. They answer your questions, sign your terms with a typed name and pay the deposit, straight into your own Stripe account, then book a time on your Calendly or Cal.com.

It doesn’t send invoices, keep a calendar of its own, run a client portal or manage projects. If you need those in one place, HoneyBook or one of the platforms above is the better choice.

It’s free until your first client pays you, then $19 a month, and it takes none of the deposit; Stripe’s standard fees apply. See how the payment link works.