An Acuity alternative shaped around real appointment businesses.
Dropinly is built for shops with staff and chairs — per-staff calendars, real service durations, deposits, and a waitlist that refills cancellations — not a general scheduling form.
Reasons people switch.
Owners who want booking designed for a service business, not generic appointments or calls.
Owners who need a calendar per staff member with service eligibility and real hours.
Owners who want freed slots offered to a waitlist automatically.
What you get instead.
Bookings happen on your page and your domain — never a directory listing next to other businesses.
You pay a flat plan; payments run through your own Stripe account and your clients stay yours.
Month-to-month with no contract — the features small shops need are in every plan, not paywalled add-ons.
Free import help to move in, and free CSV/JSON export so you can always take your data back out.
Acuity may be the better fit if you mostly book one-on-one consultations or meetings and value its deep form/intake customization and integrations. Dropinly leans toward multi-staff, chair-based service businesses with deposits, waitlist, and reminders.
Free migration from Acuity
We import your clients, services, and appointment history from Acuity for free and preview it with you before anything goes live.
Switching questions.
Yes, and it also scales to multi-staff shops with a calendar per person — which is where it's especially strong.
Yes — importing your clients, services, and history is free and guided.