An Easy Appointment Booking alternative with UK pricing and hosting
Easy Appointment Booking is a well-reviewed app with multi-location scheduling, waitlists, intake questions and QR tickets. Booking Slot is smaller and UK-built, priced in pounds, hosted in London, and designed so that the free plan is genuinely usable for a one-person business.
Easy Appointment Booking and Booking Slot side by side
Competitor details are taken from public listings at the time of writing and can change. Always check the current App Store listing before deciding.
| Easy Appointment Booking | Booking Slot | |
|---|---|---|
| Waitlists and intake questions | Yes | Roadmap |
| Multi-location | Yes | Roadmap |
| POS | Yes | Growth and Pro |
| Deposits | Yes | Starter and above |
| Pricing currency | USD | GBP, flat |
| Hosting | See their policy | London, UK |
A well-reviewed app with features Booking Slot does not have
Start with the part that might end the comparison. Easy Appointment Booking, from Servicify, is a strongly reviewed app with a feature list that includes waitlists, intake questions, multi-location scheduling and QR tickets.
Booking Slot has none of those four. Waitlists, intake questions and multi-location are on the roadmap. QR tickets are not planned at all.
If any of them is on your must-have list, install Easy Appointment Booking and stop here. There is no argument on this page that makes an absent feature present, and a booking app that cannot do the thing you need is not a bargain at any price.
The honest comparison starts with what the other app does that this one cannot.
Why a UK merchant might still prefer the UK one
If none of those four is essential, the differences that remain are mostly about being built on this side of the Atlantic.
Pricing in pounds. A dollar-priced app on your Shopify invoice is a number that moves every month for reasons unconnected to your business. Twenty-nine dollars is twenty-two pounds one month and twenty-four the next, which makes the app impossible to budget and your bookkeeping messier than it needs to be. Booking Slot's prices are in pounds and identical every month.
Hosting in London. Bookings live in Firestore in europe-west2, which is Google Cloud's London region. For a UK merchant that keeps international transfers off your privacy policy entirely. The data processing agreement is section 12 of the policy and applies automatically to every merchant, so there is nothing to request or sign.
UK SMS. Reminder allowances are bundled rather than charged per message, and a UK mobile is the default destination rather than an international one. Fifty a month on Starter, two hundred and fifty on Growth, a thousand on Pro, with top-ups at four ninety-nine per hundred.
- Prices in pounds, the same figure every month
- Bookings stored in Google Cloud's London region
- DPA built into the privacy policy, nothing to sign
- UK SMS allowance bundled into every paid plan
- Support from Cheshire on UK working days
The free plan, and what happens at the cap
Both apps have a free tier and the headline number is the least interesting thing about either.
What decides whether a free plan is usable is the behaviour at the limit. A free plan that hides the picker once you pass its cap is worse than no app, because the add-to-cart button is still there and customers keep buying services with no time attached. You find out when they ring asking when to come in, and every one of those is a refund or an awkward conversation.
Booking Slot's free plan is one resource and twenty bookings a month, with every scheduling rule switched on: conflict checking, transactional holds, buffers, per-person hours and time off. At twenty-one, the picker stays exactly where it is and shows a clear message that online booking is paused. Nobody can buy a service without a slot. Existing bookings are untouched.
Check the current behaviour on any app you try, including this one, rather than taking a page's word for it.
POS and deposits, where the tiering differs
Both apps support booking at the till and both support deposits, so the question is what you pay and how it behaves.
On Booking Slot, POS booking arrives on Growth at thirty-nine ninety-nine a month and is not an add-on. It is a Shopify POS UI extension calling the same availability and hold endpoints as the storefront, with no sync step, so the counter and the website cannot disagree. Several bookings go through one transaction. POS Lite and POS Pro both work.
Deposits arrive on Starter at fourteen ninety-nine. The deposit is a line in your normal Shopify checkout, set per service as a fixed amount or a percentage, landing in your usual payout with no second payment provider. The balance is settled at the till or by Shopify payment link, tracked on the booking.
Compare against the current Easy Appointment Booking listing for their tiering, since App Store pricing changes and anything written here is a point in time.
Which one to pick
Choose Easy Appointment Booking if you need waitlists, intake questions, multi-location or QR tickets today, or if its review history and size matter more to you than where the servers are.
Choose Booking Slot if you are a UK business that wants a predictable invoice in pounds, data in London, a DPA you do not have to chase, reminder texts that are not billed per message, and support from someone in the same time zone as your Saturday morning.
And if you are comparing free plans specifically, compare what happens at the cap rather than the number before it.
Questions about Easy Appointment Booking alternative
Why does hosting location matter?
UK data residency simplifies your privacy policy and DPA with customers.
Can I run both?
Yes, on different products, during a changeover.
Is Booking Slot cheaper?
Compare current listings; ours is flat and in pounds.
Does Booking Slot do QR tickets?
No.
Try Booking Slot free on your store
Install in a few minutes, link one product and take a test booking. Free for one resource and 20 bookings a month, then flat pricing from £14.99.