Acuity Scheduling alternative
The intake form is a gate, not a form.
Setupp is an Acuity Scheduling alternative for meetings rather than appointments, where the intake answers can decide whether a booking happens at all. Plenty of schedulers collect answers before a booking. The question worth asking is what happens to the answers: whether anything reads them before the slot is given away, or whether they simply arrive in your inbox alongside the confirmation.
By Vedant Kulkarni, founder of Setupp. Prices checked 25 October 2026.
What 10 hosts pay a month
$14.17 a month less with Setupp, $170.00 a year.
List prices, Setupp billed yearly. Acuity Scheduling: Starter $16 a month for 1 calendar, Standard $27 for up to 6, Premium $55 for up to 36, billed yearly, checked on 25 October 2026 on its pricing page.
Every team size, side by sideIn Setupp the answers are the gate. Rules you write decide whether the calendar renders at all, and every booking that gets through carries a 0 to 10 score with the reasoning attached, so you know before the call which of Thursday's four meetings is the one.
The question underneath the search: My intake form collects answers nobody reads until it is too late. Can the answers actually decide something?
Every Acuity Scheduling price on this page is a list price read off its own pricing page on 25 October 2026, and linked where it appears. Yearly billing, US dollars, before tax. If nobody rechecks them within 90 days, this page stops showing them rather than guess.
Setupp is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Squarespace, Inc. Acuity Scheduling is their trademark, used here to name the thing you are comparing against.
| At a glance | Setupp | Acuity Scheduling |
|---|---|---|
| How the price grows | Flat per workspace | Per account, by number of calendars |
| Plan that screens bookers before the calendar | Pro and up | None listed on the pricing page |
| 3 hosts, a month | $15.83 (Pro) | $27 |
| 10 hosts, a month | $40.83 (Team) | $55 |
What it costs
What your team pays a month, on Setupp and on Acuity Scheduling.
Their list price against our flat one, at four team sizes. Paying something different? Put your own numbers in beside it.
- 1 host
- $15.83Pro$16
- 3 hosts
- $15.83Pro$27
- 5 hosts
- $40.83Team$27
- 10 hosts
- $40.83Team$55
Hosts, not everyone with a login. Up to 50.
Off your invoice, not off a pricing page.
- What you pay now6 × $12 a month
- $72
- Setupp Teamflat, up to 10 hosts
- $49
$276
$23 a month less, 32% cheaper, and the next 4 hosts cost nothing at all.
See it work
Three screens, straight from the product.
Real captures of a booking page and a booked call, not mock-ups. The numbers point at what is different.
Your questions come first.
- No time slot yetThe booker answers your questions before a single slot loads.
- Rules you writeEach answer is checked against conditions you set, like a minimum monthly budget. From Pro.
- Every host on one inviteEverybody on your side of the call is on the same calendar event as a full attendee. Pro includes 3 hosts.
No slot to take, and a message in your words.
- Turned away before the calendarMiss one of your rules and there is no slot to take. From Pro.
- Your words, not oursThey read the message you wrote for people who are not a fit yet.
- A way backIf things change, they can leave an address for you to follow up.
Every booking arrives scored, with the reason.
- A score on every bookingEvery booking is scored from 0 to 10, on every plan including Free.
- The reason, in plain wordsWritten for you, so you know which call to prepare for, and why.
- Hosts as real attendeesBoth hosts are on the invite and accepted it, rather than being copied in.
What is actually different
Three differences, and only one of them is the price.
Each of these is a fact about this product rather than a claim about another one, which is why each of them carries the tier it is on.
The slot is offered after the answers, not before.
Scoring on every plan including Free. Turning somebody away starts at Pro, $19 a month.A scheduling link is an open door. Anybody who finds it takes a slot, and the first time you learn whether they were worth an hour is when you are already in the hour.
Setupp puts the intake questions first and reads the answers before the calendar appears. If they fail the rules you wrote, they never see a time. If they pass, the booking is confirmed with a 0 to 10 score and the reasoning attached, so you walk in knowing which of the four meetings on Thursday matters.
The rules are yours and they are ordinary conditions on the fields you already ask about: company size, budget, whether they have a system in place today.
How the qualification gate worksA second host is a setting, not a purchase order.
3, 10 and 50 hosts by tier. Round robin assignment from Team.Put a solutions engineer on the discovery call and, under per-seat pricing, that is another subscription every month whether or not they take a booking that week.
Here the plan includes hosts the way it includes calendar connections. Pro covers three, Team ten, Business fifty. You add one in settings and the invoice does not notice until you cross the number on your plan.
One invite goes out with every host on it, availability is intersected across all of their calendars, and the reschedule updates the same event rather than sending a second one.
How multi-host invites workThe price steps twice and then stops.
Free, $19, $49 and $249 a month, per workspace.Per-seat pricing has one property that matters more than the rate: the bill is a function of headcount, so it grows every time the team does, and the growth is automatic.
A flat workspace price is a different shape. It is worse at the bottom, because a floor is a floor, and better everywhere above the crossover. The calculator further up finds yours.
Nothing is metered per booking at any tier, so a good month costs the same as a quiet one.
See every planAnd one more, from Pro: Setupp researches the company behind each booking before the call, from their website, their ads on Meta and Google and their competitors. See what pre-call research finds.
When not to move
Seven reasons to stay where you are.
Written by the people who would rather you did not sign up than sign up and leave in six weeks.
You are booking appointments rather than meetings: classes, recurring sessions, packages, deposits, or anything that takes payment at the point of booking. Setupp has no payments, no packages and no class scheduling, and is built around a meeting with named hosts.
You need per-practitioner booking pages with separate branding. There is one workspace, one brand, and hosts share it.
You are one person with one calendar and a rate under the crossover the calculator found. A floor is a floor, and this one would cost you money.
Your booking links are printed on something. Business cards, an email signature template rolled out to two hundred people, a QR code on a banner. Setupp cannot forward somebody else's URL, so those links go dead when you close the account rather than redirecting.
You need a scheduler on iCloud today. Apple Calendar is written and tested against a stubbed server, and the integrations page marks it in development because it has never spoken to a real iCloud account. Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar are live.
Routing by territory, by round-robin weighting, by lead owner lookup in a CRM. There is round robin and there is collective assignment. There is not a rules engine that reads an account record and picks an owner.
You want everything in one place through a single automation platform. Outbound webhooks are on Business. A published Zapier app is not built yet, and the integrations page marks it planned rather than coming soon.
Before the arithmetic
You have a form, and it is already collecting the right things
Most people arriving at this query are not missing questions. They are missing a consequence. The answers arrive, the slot is already gone, and the reading happens ten minutes before the call while somebody looks for a reason to feel better about it. So the first thing to bring across is the form you already have, more or less verbatim, and the second is a decision about which two answers would have let you say no.
Two of them, not ten. A rule per question is how a gate ends up declining people the operator wanted, and the first time that happens the gate gets switched off. Start with the one question whose wrong answer has never once produced a meeting worth having, write a block rule against it, and leave everything else as a flag. A flag does not turn anybody away; it marks the booking and discounts the score, which is enough to tell you whether the rule you are considering would have been right.
What comes with it is the part that is hard to see from a form builder. Every booking that clears the rules is scored from 0 to 10 against criteria you write, with the reasoning attached, and the calibration panel later tells you whether the score is separating anybody in practice. That is the check on your own rules: if the high scores and the low scores turn up at the same rate, the criteria describe something that does not predict attendance, and the panel says so rather than letting you keep trusting it.
If you do move
Five steps, a fortnight, and nothing switched off early.
There is no importer and this page is not going to imply there is one. What there is instead is a way to run both at once until you are sure.
- Step 1
Connect the calendar
Google Calendar or Outlook Calendar, in about thirty seconds. Existing events become busy time immediately, so nothing double-books while both tools are running.
- Step 2
Rebuild one event type
By hand. There is no importer, and for one event type there does not need to be: duration, buffers, notice, availability windows. Ten minutes, and Free covers exactly one.
- Step 3
Write the questions and the rules
The part that has no equivalent to migrate, because it is the reason for moving. Start with the two questions you always end up asking on the call anyway.
- Step 4
Run both for a fortnight
Keep the old link live and put the new one on one surface. On Free the score is advisory: it never turns anybody away, so you can see what it would have said before you let it act.
- Step 5
Move the link
When the scores are matching your read on the calls, swap the link everywhere and let the old tool lapse at renewal. Never mid-cycle: you have already paid for it.
Qualify leads before they book, not after
What you get, by tier
The tier every claim on this page sits on.
Read out of the entitlements table the product enforces, not retyped from the pricing page, so this cannot promise something the code refuses to do.
| Capability | Free | Pro | Team | Business |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Setupp Score on every booking | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Turn a booker away automatically | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Your own scoring criteria | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Round robin assignment | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |
| A different form per event type | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |
| Meeting document per booking | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |
| Embed on your own site | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Outbound webhooks | Not included | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Hosts included | 1 | 3 | 10 | 50 |
| Per month, per workspace | Free | $19 | $49 | $249 |
Single sign-on, an audit log and a public API are on the roadmap and are deliberately absent from this table rather than listed and crossed out, because a row nobody enforces is a claim nobody checks.
Before you switch
The questions worth asking of any scheduler, including this one.
Is Setupp cheaper?
Above the crossover, yes. Below it, no, and the calculator on this page says so rather than rendering a zero. At the representative rate of $12 a seat the crossover is 21 hosts; at a lower rate it is higher, and at a low enough rate there isn't one. The gap widens as you add hosts WITHIN a plan and resets when you cross into the next one: at $12 a seat, ten hosts saves $71 a month and eleven saves $-117, because the eleventh is the one that moves you to Business. Drag the calculator across a step and you can watch it happen.
Can I import my existing event types and booking links?
No. There is no importer, and no way to forward a link that lives on somebody else's domain. Rebuilding one event type takes about ten minutes; the honest advice is to move one, run both tools for a fortnight, and only then swap the link everywhere.
Does the qualification gate work on the free plan?
The score does, the gate does not. Free collects the intake answers and scores every booking 0 to 10, and it confirms all of them. Declining somebody automatically starts at Pro. That split is deliberate: it lets you see what the rules would have done for a fortnight before you let them do it.
Which calendars does it work with?
Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar are both live: real free/busy for every host, and one event with all of them on it. The meeting link can be Google Meet or Microsoft Teams, and the booker and every host get the same one. Zoom is built and tested, and coming soon. Apple Calendar over CalDAV is written and in testing, and it is called live only once it has run against a real iCloud account. The integrations page shows where each one stands.
What happens to bookings already on my calendar?
Nothing. Setupp reads your calendar for busy time and writes new events; it never touches anything it did not create. Both tools can run side by side for as long as you want, which is what makes a two week overlap the sensible way to move.
Can I take payment at the point of booking?
No. Setupp has no payment step, no deposits and no packages. It is built for meetings where the decision is whether the meeting is worth taking, not for appointments where the decision is which package to buy.
Can I run recurring or class bookings?
No. Each booking is a single meeting on a named event type with one or more hosts. Recurring series and group classes are not supported and are not planned.
Where do the answers end up?
On the booking, in the meeting document, and in the context the Setupp Score is written from. A question can be marked private, which keeps its answer out of any email, the score and the webhooks, while your qualification rules still read it and hosts still see it on the booking and in the meeting document.
Are you affiliated with Acuity Scheduling?
No. Setupp is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Squarespace, Inc., and Acuity Scheduling is their trademark. The prices on this page are list prices from their own pricing page, checked on 25 October 2026 and linked where they appear, and the calculator takes yours if you pay something else.
Stop taking calls you would have declined.
Connect a calendar, add the questions you already ask on every call, and set your minimum. It takes about twenty minutes, and it saves the half hours you spend finding out a call was never going to work.
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- Multi-recipient invitesfrom Pro
- Qualification before the calendarfrom Pro
- A score on every booking
- An embed that inherits your brandfrom Pro