The SimplyBook alternative that is finished before you start
A hundred settings is a feature for a clinic with nine rooms and a wall for anybody smaller.
A real Clay site, built from a Google listing
SimplyBook is genuinely powerful and will model almost any booking rule you can describe, which is why a large clinic runs on it. A single practitioner with four appointment lengths and a Tuesday off does not have a configuration problem, they have a website problem, and an afternoon spent in a settings tree is an afternoon not spent working. Clay builds the site from your Google listing, with the treatments, the prices and the times on it.
Clay vs SimplyBook.me
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 too simple?
For one or two practitioners with set treatment lengths, it is exactly enough. For rooms, equipment and staff routing rules, SimplyBook is the better tool and it is not close.
How long does setup take?
The site exists before you configure anything, because it comes from your Google listing. What is left is your hours and your treatment list.
What about reminders?
Confirmation and reminder emails go out with every booking: how the booking works.
Try it with your business
Search your business and see your site in seconds, free, no signup.