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Calendly or SoloBase? It depends on the shape of your work.
Calendly is a scheduling tool: it gets a meeting on the calendar. SoloBase is a Studio under your own name, for the clients who stay longer than one call. Which one you need depends on what happens after the booking.
Which one are you?
Three shapes of work.
Your work is one conversation
A client books an hour, you talk, and it is done. Getting the time on the calendar is most of the job.
Your work runs for weeks with one client
The call is where it starts. Then come the brief, the notes, the files and the questions in between, and they need somewhere to live.
A referral asks for your link
Someone was told your name and wants to know who you are before they book anything. You find yourself sending three links and an explanation.
What SoloBase does
Headquarters for a company of one.
When a client stays longer than one call, the work needs a home under your name. A Studio is built around you and each of them.
A front door under your own name
When a referral looks you up, they find your card and the Studio Site behind it: what you do, whether you are taking clients, and one way to start. Your own domain on Pro.
From inquiry to paid
An inquiry from your card lands in your Requests. You accept it and send a proposal in their Client Hub; they sign by typing their name and pay the deposit, and numbered invoices follow.
A Client Hub per client that outlives the project
The brief, your notes, the files and each question, attached to the note it is about, in a private Client Hub only you and your client can open.
Money into your own Stripe, at 0%
Deposits, invoices and paid access go from your client straight to your own Stripe account, and SoloBase never holds the money.
Honestly
When Calendly fits you better.
It is a question of the shape of your work and what you need this week.
Booking time is the whole job
If a client books, talks and is done, a scheduling tool fits the shape of that work.
You need booking this week
Booking in SoloBase is one part of a Studio: your open times, free or paid, with reminders. If booking is the whole job, with routing, round robins and team calendars, use the tool built for it.
Calendly or SoloBase, answered.
Does SoloBase do scheduling?
Yes: a client books at your open times, free or paid, with reminders 12 hours and 1 hour before, and the call happens inside their Client Hub.
Can I use both?
Yes. Many people will keep a scheduling link for the call and use their Studio for what comes before and after it.
Does SoloBase take a cut of what my clients pay?
No. 0% on every plan. Money goes straight to your own Stripe account; Stripe’s standard processing fees apply.
What is live today?
Live: the card and Studio Site, the Content Hub, Client Hubs, proposals with e-signature and a deposit, numbered invoices, Community Hubs with channels and support, payments to your own Stripe, calls for up to 25 people, and booking at your open times.
Are you affiliated with Calendly?
No. Product names are trademarks of their owners.
Keep the call. Give the client somewhere to stay.
Make your card in a minute. Open a Client Hub the first time a client says yes.