# 5 Best Acuity Scheduling Alternatives for Venues in 2026

> Acuity books a person’s time; venues book spaces. Compared: alternatives with multi-venue calendars, duration-based rates and approvals. From $79/mo flat.

Canonical: https://sportsbookingmanagement.com/alternatives/acuity

Acuity is one of the best one-to-one booking tools there is. It models a person’s availability. A facility needs to model a building’s — several spaces, different hours, rates that change with the block.

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## Why facilities look for an Acuity alternative

- Calendars represent people, so a multi-court venue has to be faked
- No single view across several venues
- Duration-based space pricing is not the pricing model
- League and team scheduling is out of scope
- Per-calendar pricing punishes facilities with many spaces

## 1. Sports Booking Management (Our platform)

Multi-space venues booked by the hour

Pricing: $79/mo flat, unlimited venues, price locked at signup

Strengths:

- Spaces and venues instead of practitioner calendars
- One calendar across every site on the account
- Duration-based rates set per space
- Recurring series for regular hirers
- Flat $79/mo regardless of how many spaces you list

Drawbacks:

- Not built for one-to-one appointments
- No intake forms for individual clients

[Read more](https://sportsbookingmanagement.com/compare/acuity)

## 2. AllBooked by Skedda

Facilities wanting memberships alongside rentals

Pricing: Core $99/mo (3 spaces), Business $149/mo (15), Advanced $199/mo

Strengths:

- Built for sports and community facilities
- Interactive maps and a strong rules engine
- Membership support

Drawbacks:

- Per-space pricing
- Unlimited spaces only on the top tier

[Read more](https://sportsbookingmanagement.com/compare/allbooked)

## 3. Skedda

Meeting rooms and shared workplace spaces

Pricing: Base plan around $99/mo

Strengths:

- Clean space-booking model
- Good rules and calendar integrations

Drawbacks:

- Workplace-first direction
- Sports facilities directed to AllBooked

[Read more](https://sportsbookingmanagement.com/compare/skedda)

## 4. Upper Hand

Academies and training businesses selling programming

Pricing: Facility plan published at $199/mo for a single facility, billed annually

Strengths:

- Strong at lessons, camps and programming
- Athlete and client management
- Published pricing

Drawbacks:

- Priced per facility
- More platform than a rental-led venue needs

[Read more](https://sportsbookingmanagement.com/compare/upperhand)

## Sports Booking Management, as your staff and renters see it

![Sports Booking Management calendar, day view, with bookings across four courts](https://sportsbookingmanagement.com/images/screens/calendar-day-view.webp)

The staff calendar: every court in one day view.

![A facility’s public booking page showing open court times for the day](https://sportsbookingmanagement.com/images/screens/public-booking-page.webp)

The public booking page renters use, no account needed.

![A weekly recurring league booking across two courts in Sports Booking Management](https://sportsbookingmanagement.com/images/screens/recurring-league-booking.webp)

A weekly league booking: one series, ten dates, two courts.

Screenshots from Sports Booking Management with demo data.

## FAQs

### Can Acuity handle multiple courts?

Only by representing each court as a calendar or a resource, which works for two or three and becomes hard to reason about beyond that — particularly when courts combine or split, or when one closes for a season.

### Is Acuity a bad tool?

No — it is excellent at what it is for. A coach selling their own hours is well served by Acuity. The mismatch is only about what is being booked: a person or a space.

### What changes with a venue-based tool?

Pricing attaches to the space, availability follows each space’s operating hours, and one calendar shows the spaces from every site. Approvals sit between a public request and a confirmed booking, which is what makes publishing availability safe.

### How does the cost compare?

Acuity is inexpensive for one calendar and gets less so as calendars multiply. A flat $79/mo for unlimited venues and spaces is usually the cheaper answer once a facility passes a handful of bookable spaces.

### Will you raise my price?

No. We will not raise prices on customers who sign up at the current $79/mo Pro rate — even if our public pricing increases later.

### Will you retire my plan?

No. We do not retire old plans. Your plan tier stays valid; we never force you onto a new tier to keep the same features at a higher price.

### What does grandfathered mean?

You keep your signup rate and plan tier forever. Sign up at $79/mo Pro today and that is what you pay — always grandfathered in.

## Related

- [Acuity Scheduling vs Sports Booking Management](https://sportsbookingmanagement.com/compare/acuity)
- [Every comparison and review](https://sportsbookingmanagement.com/compare)