The Calendly alternative with an actual website around it
Calendly answers when. A first time client is asking who, where and how much.
A real Clay site, built from a Google listing
Calendly is excellent at the thing it does, which is turning a diary into a link. The trouble starts when that link is the only address a business has: somebody who has never met you is asked to pick a time before they know what you charge, where you are or whether you do the thing they need. Clay builds the page around the booking, from your Google listing, and the button is on it.
Clay vs Calendly
Your photographs, already sorted
Clay reads the pictures on your Google listing, grades them, crops them for the shape each band needs and puts the best one at the top. Nothing to upload, nothing to resize.
What it looks like when it is live
Drawn rather than described, the page, the address, and what it can switch on.
How it works
Search your business
Type your name, Clay pulls your photos, hours, reviews and contact details straight from your Google listing.
Pick a style
Choose a look and Clay builds a full site around your content. Change anything with a tap, no code, no templates to wrestle.
You're online
Publish to your own name.clay.site in minutes. Add a custom domain and connect your own tools whenever you're ready.
Real sites, made with Clay
Open one. It is the live site in a frame, not a screenshot, so what you see is what it looks like right now.
Questions
How long does it really take?
Most people are live in two to three minutes, search your business, pick a style, publish. There is nothing to install and no signup needed to see your site first, because it is built from your Google listing rather than from a blank page.
Is it free?
Yes. You get a live site on your own name.clay.site address with a small badge in the footer, and nothing expires. The paid plan is your own domain, the badge removed and the pro features.
Do I need any tech skills?
None. If you can type your business name, you can build a Clay site: the live page is the editor, so you tap the thing you want to change. There is no code anywhere, and nothing to install or keep updated, see the WordPress comparison for what that saves.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes, buy it wherever you like and point it at Clay on a paid plan; the certificate is issued for you. Until then the free name.clay.site address is a real one you can print, and it keeps working afterwards.
Is Clay's booking as good as Calendly's?
For one person taking appointments, yes. For a sales team with round robin routing and six calendar integrations, no, and it is not trying to be.
Can I keep using Calendly?
Yes, and plenty do: the Clay page carries the link as its booking button. What changes is that the link is no longer your whole website.
How do the times work?
You set your hours and the slots come from them: how the booking works.
Try it with your business
Search your business and see your site in seconds, free, no signup.