The self-hosted Setmore alternative
Slotly — Self-hosted appointment booking engineered so it can't double-book. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying Setmore every month.
Stop renting Setmore
7 months of Setmore equals this one-time price.
Assumption: Per-user; figure shown for 3 staff x $5 = $15/mo on annual billing - the same three seats cost $36/mo billed monthly. Free tier exists; Slotly is one payment, unlimited staff.
How Setmore pricing grows with you
Setmore charges per user, billing each staff member with their own profile as a seat even if that person never logs in.
“Setmore charges per 'user' or by each staff member with their own profile.” — their own page, read 2026-08-11
What Setmore does that we don't
Setmore offers a paid Live Receptionist add-on where a real person answers your business calls around the clock.
“Have your calls answered by a professional team of real people and stay available 24/7 for customers.” — their own page
Who should stay with Setmore
If you need to accept online card payments directly through the booking flow, stay with Setmore — Slotly only quotes and tracks deposits in admin, it never processes cards at booking. Full honest limitations are on the product page.
Why owning beats renting Setmore
- One payment. No monthly, per-seat, or per-location fees — the license is perpetual.
- Your data stays on your server. It never lives in Setmore's cloud.
- No plan ceilings. Records and users are limited by your hosting, not a pricing tier.
- It keeps working if the vendor doesn't. Self-hosted software can't be sunset or price-hiked out from under you.
Fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up, and apply updates yourself — see the product page for honest limitations, and the full Slotly vs Setmore comparison.
Sources
- Setmore — price checked 2026-09-03 —
source “$5/user/month billed annually; $12/user/month billed monthly”
Competitor prices change — always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown. This vendor is tracked in the Price Observatory — every figure verbatim, dated, re-checked quarterly.