# 5 Best SimplyBook.me Alternatives for Facility Hire in 2026

> SimplyBook.me books appointments; facilities book spaces. The alternatives built for hourly hire, duration-based rates and multi-venue sites. From $79/mo flat.

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

SimplyBook.me books appointments well. Facilities book spaces, for arbitrary blocks, at rates that change with duration — a different shape of problem, and the reason the feature toggles never quite line up.

**Always grandfathered in**

## Why facilities look for a SimplyBook.me alternative

- Appointment model: a provider for a slot, rather than a space for a block
- Booking caps on lower tiers, so cost rises with success
- Facility concepts have to be improvised out of services and providers
- Feature-toggle pricing makes the real monthly cost hard to predict
- Multi-venue reporting is awkward once you run more than one site

## 1. Sports Booking Management (Our platform)

Courts, pitches, halls and studios hired by the hour

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

Strengths:

- The bookable unit is a space, not a practitioner
- Duration-based rates set once against the space
- No cap on bookings, spaces or venues
- Public booking page with no account required
- One flat $79/mo with no feature-by-feature add-ons

Drawbacks:

- No marketplace or consumer discovery
- Not suited to one-to-one appointment businesses

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

## 2. AllBooked by Skedda

Facilities wanting memberships alongside hourly rentals

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

Strengths:

- Purpose-built for sports and community facilities
- Strong rules engine and interactive maps
- Membership support

Drawbacks:

- Priced per space, so the bill grows with the building
- Unlimited spaces only on the top tier

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

## 3. Acuity Scheduling

Individual coaches and trainers booking their own time

Pricing: Tiered monthly plans, priced per calendar

Strengths:

- Excellent one-to-one booking experience
- Straightforward payments and intake forms
- Cheap for a single practitioner

Drawbacks:

- Models a person's availability, not a facility
- No multi-venue view
- Not suited to league or team scheduling

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

## 4. Schedulicity

Small appointment-led businesses

Pricing: Flat monthly plans aimed at small operators

Strengths:

- Simple and quick to set up
- Predictable flat pricing
- No long contracts

Drawbacks:

- Appointment model, not facility hire
- No venue or court concepts
- Limited for recurring seasonal bookings

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

## 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 SimplyBook.me handle court or pitch hire?

You can approximate it by modelling each space as a service or a provider, and plenty of facilities do. It works until you need duration-based rates, per-space operating hours and an approval step, at which point the workaround is doing more work than the tool.

### What is the main difference in the data model?

Appointment tools book a person for a fixed slot. Facility tools book a space for an arbitrary block, with rates that vary by duration and constraints that vary by venue. Everything downstream — pricing, availability, reporting — follows from that choice.

### Do the alternatives cap bookings?

Ours does not: bookings, spaces and venues are unlimited on the flat plan. Tiered tools commonly meter bookings, which is worth checking against your busiest month rather than your average one.

### Is there a free SimplyBook.me alternative for facilities?

Free tiers in this category tend to cap bookings or spaces low enough to rule out a real facility. We do not offer one; the 30-day money-back guarantee is there so the evaluation still happens on your real venues.

### 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

- [SimplyBook.me vs Sports Booking Management](https://sportsbookingmanagement.com/compare/simplybook)
- [Every comparison and review](https://sportsbookingmanagement.com/compare)