Choose Zoho Bookings if
You already live in Zoho, you need it working this week, or you want a free tier from a company that has kept one for a very long time. This is a good product and choosing it is defensible.
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Looking for a Zoho Bookings alternative? This is the fairest fight on the shelf.
Zoho Bookings is free for one user, then Basic and Premium per user per month billed annually, with a Flex plan for custom needs. It is the closest competitor in spirit: another suite, another "it is already next to your CRM" argument, and it works today while ours does not. The difference is the meter — theirs is the user, ours is the business.
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Product design preview · Book has not shipped. All plans, integrations and screens are proposals.
Book has not shipped yet.
Book is not available yet. These are proposed screens, features and prices—not a beta or a live booking service. The interactive diary uses fictional data; no appointment, message, deposit or customer record leaves this page.
Side by side
Centilio Book and Zoho Bookings, honestly.
List prices as published on the vendor's public pages on 7 September 2026. Check their page for today's figure and tell us if we are out of date.
Historical comparison imported from Fable’s 7 September 2026 research. Vendor plans and billing periods differ; these figures are not a current quote. Confirm the provider’s pricing before deciding.
| Centilio Book | Zoho Bookings | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free, then $19 a month for the whole business; Business $39 | Forever Free (1 user); Basic and Premium per user, billed annually; Flex on request |
| The meter | The business. Every staff calendar included | The user |
| Free plan | 1 staff calendar, unlimited bookings, calendar sync | 1 user, online meetings, reminders, two-way calendar sync |
| Workspaces or locations | Unlimited locations on Business | Limited to 1 on Basic; 3 on Premium, more as add-ons |
| Resources: rooms, chairs, bays | Included on Business | A premium add-on, purchased separately |
| The booking becomes a customer record | In Relate, on every plan | Zoho CRM and Bigin, on Premium |
| Suite depth | Nine tools live, the rest in waves | Fifty-plus applications, for twenty years |
| Available today | No. Not built | Yes, and it is a good product |
If you switch, later
What moving from Zoho Bookings will take.
Choose Centilio Book if
Your staff count is what is driving the bill, you need rooms and chairs without an add-on, or you want several locations on one price rather than workspaces bought one at a time.
- Export the future appointments first. They are the only irreplaceable thing in a booking tool. Get them out of Zoho Bookings before the subscription lapses, with the customer's name, email and phone on each one.
- Rebuild the services before the diary. Durations, buffers, who can do what and which need a deposit. Get those right and the appointments import cleanly.
- Run both for a fortnight , with the old booking link redirecting to the new page, so nothing is taken in a diary you have stopped looking at.
- Disconnect the calendars deliberately. Revoke the old tool's calendar access on each account rather than only cancelling the plan, or it keeps writing to a diary nobody is watching.
Questions
About switching.
Are these comparisons fair?
They are meant to be. Every price was read from the vendor's own pricing page on 7 September 2026 and each page says plainly when the other tool is the better buy — which for a single user is most of them.
Which is the closest competitor?
Zoho Bookings, on logic: another suite, another "it is already next to your CRM" argument. It is priced per user and it works today; Book is priced per business and does not exist yet.
Which one would you use today?
Cal.com if you are one person, Setmore if you are up to four, Acuity if you want one polished thing and do not mind the calendar bands, Square if you are a salon that already takes card payments on Square.
Next for you
What people add after Book.
What the booking touches on its way through: the record, the deposit, the reminder and the room.
The proposed shared record connects these products as they launch. Follow each product page for its current stage.
Be told when Book opens.
Wave 2 is the next build after the live tools. Leave your name and you will hear before the announcement — and tell us what your no-show rate is today, because that is the number we intend to move.