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An Acuity alternative with a free plan you can launch on
Acuity has no free tier, and its branding stays on your booking pages until the third plan up. Sorraia has a free plan you can run a live site on, and the badge comes off on the first paid tier at $19 a month.
Free plan, no card. Paid plans start at $19 a month.
Why people look for a Acuity alternative
Acuity has no free tier at all, and its lowest plan still shows Acuity’s own branding on the pages your customers see — “Powered by Acuity Scheduling” persists until the Premium plan at $49 a month, roughly three times the $16-a-month Starter entry price (both as of September 2026, billed annually). So the two things a small business usually wants first, a way to try it before committing and a booking page that looks like theirs, sit at opposite ends of the ladder. Sorraia’s free plan is a real plan you can run a live site on, and it carries our badge too — we are not pretending otherwise — but the badge comes off at Starter, $19 a month, which is the first paid tier rather than the third. The practical version: with Acuity you decide before you have seen it working on your own site, and you pay a plan jump to make it yours.
The differences that are structural, not marketing
Every claim below was read from Acuity Scheduling’s own pricing or documentation on 3 September 2026, and each one links the page it came from. If one of them has gone stale since, the linked page wins and we would rather you found out there than took our word for it.
Acuity Scheduling’s prices below were read in US dollars on 3 September 2026. Prices change and vary by region, so treat their pricing page as the authority rather than this one.
There is no free tier to start on
Acuity’s entry plan is Starter at $16 a month billed annually (as of September 2026), and there is no free plan underneath it, so evaluating it on a real site means subscribing first. Sorraia’s Free plan is a working plan — one verified website, one form or calendar on it, real bookings, no card — which is enough to put a booking calendar on a live page and see whether it earns its place.
Source: acuityscheduling.com · checked 3 September 2026
The vendor badge stays until the third tier
“Powered by Acuity Scheduling” persists on the client-facing scheduler until the Premium plan at $49 a month (as of September 2026). That is the pricing shape worth noticing: removing someone else’s branding from your own booking page costs a jump of roughly three times the entry price. Sorraia’s “Powered by Sorraia” link is removed at Starter, $19 a month — the first paid tier.
Source: acuityscheduling.com · checked 3 September 2026
Your availability lives in a widget on your site, not on a scheduling page
A Sorraia calendar renders into your own page — same document, your fonts, your section width — and the visitor books without leaving the site or landing on a scheduler wearing someone else’s name. Availability is a list of up to four working windows per day, so a real lunch break is one calendar rather than a compromise, and every slot is shown in the visitor’s own detected timezone, with the zone named and changeable.
Source: help.acuityscheduling.com · checked 3 September 2026
There is an Acuity importer
Sorraia’s calendar importer has a first-class Acuity adapter alongside Calendly, Cal.com, SavvyCal, Square, Microsoft Bookings and a CSV fallback. It reads your appointment types and previews them as Sorraia calendars before creating anything, and an undo removes exactly what the import created. Moving is not a retyping exercise.
Source: developers.acuityscheduling.com · checked 3 September 2026
See it working
This is a real Sorraia booking calendar — the one we use for product demos, running here the same way it would run on your site. Pick a slot and it books, and the times are shown in your timezone rather than in ours.
What you get with Sorraia
Let visitors book you straight from your website. Set your real working hours — split days included — and the widget offers slots in the visitor’s own timezone, checking your connected calendar so it never double-books you.
Split days, not one block
A working day is an ordered list of up to four windows, so 9:00–12:00 plus 13:00–17:00 is one calendar rather than a compromise — the lunch gap serves no slots at all. The honest limit: that window list applies to every working day you tick. Split days are supported; giving Monday different hours from Tuesday is not.
Slots in the visitor’s own timezone
The widget detects the visitor’s timezone in their browser and renders every slot in it, with the zone named and changeable from a dropdown — and if their zone is not in the list, it gets added rather than snapping them to a wrong one. Nobody has to work out in their head whether your 3pm is their 3pm, which is the most common way a booking gets missed.
It fails safe, so it never double-books
When a host has a calendar connected, busy time is checked before a slot is offered. If that check cannot complete — the provider is down, the token is stale — the day is treated as busy rather than offered. You may occasionally show less availability than you have; you will not get booked over something.
Name and email are yours to rename
The built-in Name and Email rows are ordinary rows in the field list: rename them, reorder them, put your own questions above them. The booking payload keeps its fixed shape underneath, so renaming a label can never break a workflow that reads it.
Every booking gets a manage link
The confirmation carries a token link the guest uses to reschedule or cancel — rescheduling keeps the same link working, cancelling retires it, so a cancelled meeting’s link stops being a working key the moment the meeting is off.
More detail in the Help Center: Calendars & bookings · Plans and limits
When Acuity is the better choice
When scheduling is your business rather than a button on your website. Acuity is an appointment-business product, not a booking link: packages and gift certificates, memberships and subscriptions, class and group scheduling with capacity limits, intake forms attached to appointment types, multiple locations and calendars, payment or a deposit taken at the moment of booking. A salon, a clinic, a studio or a coach running a real appointment book will use several of those in the first week, and Sorraia does none of them. If your list of requirements includes the word “packages”, stop reading this page.
Questions
Can I move my Acuity appointment types over?
Yes — there is an Acuity adapter in the calendar importer. It reads your appointment types and shows you a preview of what it will create before anything is written, and if the result is wrong an undo deletes exactly what the import made. What it does not bring across is the surrounding business machinery: packages, memberships, gift certificates and class capacity have no equivalent in Sorraia, so if those are in use, the import is not the hard part of the migration.
Can I take payment when someone books?
Not on the booking itself. Sorraia’s calendar takes the booking, and its confirmation carries a manage link for rescheduling or cancelling; taking money is a separate widget — a Stripe-backed product or deposit you embed on the same page. If payment at the moment of booking is a requirement rather than a nice-to-have, Acuity does it properly and we do not.
Try it on one site before you move anything
The free plan covers one verified website with no card, and the embed is the same one you would use on a paid plan. Build the booking calendar, paste one line, and see how it looks on a page you already own.
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