Chili Piper vs. Timely Booking and Client Management Software

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Chili Piper
Score 8.7 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Chili Piper is scheduling and routing software for B2B revenue teams. Its products help revenue teams increase their inbound conversion rates, increase customer satisfaction, and reach new levels of productivity. The vendor states Companies like Twilio, Forrester, Spotify, and Gong use Chili Piper with the goal of increasing their inbound conversion rates, eliminating manual lead routing, and streamlining critical processes around meetings. Chili Piper…
$15
per month per user
Timely Booking and Client Management Software
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Timely is appointment scheduling and business management software for spas and salons from the New Zealand company of the same name.
$25
per month per user
Pricing
Chili PiperTimely Booking and Client Management Software
Editions & Modules
Instant Booker
$15
per month per user
Handoff
$25
per month per user
Concierge Inbound Scheduling
$30
per month per user
Distro
Starting at $20
per month per user
Build
$25
per month per user
Elevate
$35
per month per user
Innovate
$40
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Chili PiperTimely Booking and Client Management Software
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsOnboarding and Support are included at no additional charge.All plans available through a simple monthly plan, with no long-term contract.
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Community Pulse
Chili PiperTimely Booking and Client Management Software
Considered Both Products
Chili Piper
Chose Chili Piper
I have only used the free version of Calendly so it is not exactly a fair comparison. With both of my experiences with this software Chili Piper feels more robust, especially with integrations. Chili Piper integrates with Outlook, Salesforce, and Zoom. These are the 3 …
Chose Chili Piper
This is only comparing the meeting scheduling functions of which Outreach was easier for our reps to learn and use. Otherwise they cannot really be compared.
Chose Chili Piper
Calendly was being used at the company by some other departments and still is to some extent. However adding Chili Piper fore the marketing and sales departments was a no brainer once we saw the demo. It's Calendly on steroids and the company is just getting started using it. …
Chose Chili Piper
I've used Drift and Salesloft scheduling tools. They all connect to google calendars, but Chili Piper is the only that I'm aware of that can insert time suggestions without actually blocking the time off as well as Round Robin assignment of meetings. Chili Piper has been the …
Chose Chili Piper
I prefer using Chili Piper as compared to Calendly. Both are great tools but Chili Piper seems to align better with our team needs.
Chose Chili Piper
In the past I have booked with Calendly, but were unable to set up a true salesforce integration, and were not able to set up a marketo integration. Calendly is great for a simpler flow or for a 1:1 scheduling app, but for our team that is made up of different regions and uses …
Chose Chili Piper
The end result was more in line with what we were looking for. Our main objective was to allow people to go to the website and explore our content, and then easily schedule a demo without having to wait for someone to call them and set something up. Chili Piper created the …
Chose Chili Piper
Way better tool and far easier to use than Calendly. This is the full bundle from rev/sales ops to daily use across AE's and SDR's
Chose Chili Piper
I personally have never had experience with a platform similar to Chili Piper prior to this year.
Chose Chili Piper
When we were vetting we didn't find a tool that would match Chili Piper in functionality.
Few Sales Enablement tools work with Events and can match some of its functionality, but that wasn't good enough for our needs:)
Chose Chili Piper
ChiliPiper is far easier to use for scheduling on someone else’s calendar. The ability to add a link in emails for people to schedule onto our calendars is nice as well. Neither of these things is possible in Outlook by itself, so it’s nice that it helps with those things.
Chose Chili Piper
As a startup Google calendars were adequate. But as the company grew, the ability to schedule multiple teams and even multiple sales team we had to have a way to allow a logical way to see and schedule the appropriate team. Also giving customers to schedule with certain …
Chose Chili Piper
Chili Piper meeting booking is superior to Outreach
Chose Chili Piper
The end result was more in line with what we were looking for. Our main objective was to allow people to go to the website and explore our content, and then easily schedule a demo without having to wait for someone to call them and set something up. Chili Piper created the …
Chose Chili Piper
It stacks up well. Much more logic and ability to customize workflows and logic than Calendly, for example. The integration with Salesforce is also very strong. If you need advance scheduling logic, this is one of the strongest options in the market in my opinion. The ability …
Chose Chili Piper
We actually have not used any products like Chili Piper as of yet here at PitchBook. In my last role at Onerent I also did not use Chili Piper... the closest thing that we used was part of outlook/salesforce capability.
Chose Chili Piper
It's not even close. Chili Piper is way more robust and effective. The support time is world class and promptly fixes issues.
Chose Chili Piper
We started with Calendly, but were unable to set up a true salesforce integration, and were not able to set up a marketo integration. Calendly is great for a simpler flow or for a 1:1 scheduling app, but for our team that is made up of different regions and use marketing …
Timely Booking and Client Management Software
Chose Timely Booking and Client Management Software
Harvest has been a very competitive software when compared to timely software, but both the software has their own pros and cons, which I really find interesting. Harvest has a better cloud-based system, but when it comes to discounts and customer service timely based software …
Chose Timely Booking and Client Management Software
Timely is by far the most user-friendly and fun to use. It's got a great interface, works on iPads, and training is super easy for the team. Other software is clunky and takes too long to set up and train the team to use.
Chose Timely Booking and Client Management Software
  • Calendly does not have Xero integration (was a deal killer for us), Timely Does.
  • Calendly does have much nicer booking process, compared to Timely.
  • Calendly does not have Google Calendar Integration (was a deal killer for us), Timely Does.
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User Ratings
Chili PiperTimely Booking and Client Management Software
Likelihood to Recommend
6.3
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9.0
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Support Rating
8.2
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User Testimonials
Chili PiperTimely Booking and Client Management Software
Likelihood to Recommend
It is very well suited for anyone looking for a scheduling tool that integrates directly with Salesforce and/or Marketo, or other marketing automation platforms. Especially if you need to route to teams based on different regions or other criteria.There are other simpler scheduling tools out there, but this makes routing and tracking on the back end much easier with the best integration with other tools.
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Hairdressers or massage salons, the places where they are too busy to take an appointment via the phone effectively. Places with high pace client walkthrough and multiple staff members. Timely is perfect for environments like that as it would assist in automating a huge part of the admin processes. In my experience using it for high-value services, [it has] proven to be a sales killer due to two main reasons: 1) Booking process taking so long, that a lot of clients change their mind or just call, as for the money that they are saying they are expecting better service. 2) Shows price only at the end of the process, which clients don't like, they want to know price upfront.
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Pros
  • The Google Calendar integration is seamless, a unique zoom link is also automatically created when a meeting is booked on my calendar.
  • The booking link is simple for my prospects and customers to find time on my calendar.
  • The chrome plug in is useful to use no matter what tab or page im sitting on.
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  • Scheduling appointments
  • Online bookings
  • Rebooking emails and texts
  • Friendly interface
  • Great tech
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Cons
  • The ux interface could be easier to navigate for admins
  • The set up or meeting types could be more intuitive, as an admin I have had to help our reps set this up a lot as they have gotten confused
  • Chili Piper can have certain words they use like booker assignee which could be better defined in the onboarding process for reps
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  • Support is slow and not very knowledgeable. Taking into account that they work only UK time, makes it almost useless.
  • Users are taken through a very lengthy booking process that required a lot of information from them and gives a price only at the very end. Because of that, we have got only 5 bookings in 5 years. Majority of people preferred to book over the phone as it was too difficult.
  • Event/Class booking does not allow you to book more than 1 ticket at the time
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Support Rating
  • Support was very responsive during our integration phase, and after that too.
  • They have the whole infrastructure built to notify customers about bug/outages, which is excellent. Entire System outage only happened once, but being updated on fix progress helped a lot to keep our team calm.
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Alternatives Considered
I've used Drift and Salesloft scheduling tools. They all connect to google calendars, but Chili Piper is the only that I'm aware of that can insert time suggestions without actually blocking the time off as well as Round Robin assignment of meetings. Chili Piper has been the easiest to use as a sales rep.
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Timely is by far the most user-friendly and fun to use. It's got a great interface, works on iPads, and training is super easy for the team. Other software is clunky and takes too long to set up and train the team to use.
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Return on Investment
  • More qualified opps
  • Increased efficiency. Much less time spent trying to line up availability etc. No more back and forth email chains trying to find times to meet.
  • Increased transparency. All meetings and Chili Piper events are logged directly in Salesforce for us.
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  • Cost efficient because of discounts
  • Regular customers gets a lot of concessions
  • A little higher for non-regular customers
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Timely Booking and Client Management Software Screenshots

Screenshot of a view of the Timely calendar.Screenshot of an example of Timely's administrative automation.Screenshot of Timely's automated re-booking feature.Screenshot of TimelyPayScreenshot of Timely's customizable client communications.Screenshot of Timely's analytics, on a mobile app.