Pay Per Booking, Capped at €15 per Member a Month
BooknTalk has always charged €1 per paid booking and nothing else: no subscription, no seats, nothing for free events. That is the cheapest model there is for a calendar that comes and goes, and the one argument against it was the busy month, when a full diary of paid sessions could cost more than a seat would have. So the fee now has a ceiling. However many paid bookings you take, BooknTalk takes no more than €15 per team member in a calendar month.
How the cap works
Every paid booking still carries the €1 fee, every paid seat in a class carries one, and a weekly package pays it once per session. Those fees add up across the calendar month, and once they reach the cap, paid bookings carry no BooknTalk fee at all until the month ends. A package that would cross the cap pays only what is left of it: if €10 has been taken this month on a €15 cap, a twelve-session package pays €5, not €12.
The cap is €15 for each person on your account, owner included. A team of one is capped at €15, a team of four at €60. Adding a member still costs nothing; it only raises the ceiling.
Refunds work as they always have. Refund a client and the fee comes back with the money, and that much of the month’s cap opens up again. Stripe’s own card processing fee is separate, as it is with any booking tool.
In one line: €1 per paid booking, free events free, and never more than €15 per team member in a calendar month.
What it means in practice
Four calendars, one month each:
- A coach with eight paid sessions: €8. The cap never comes into it.
- The same coach in a busy month of forty paid sessions: €15, not €40.
- A yoga teacher running a weekly class of eight paying students, about 34 paid seats a month: €15, not €34.
- A team of five taking 150 paid bookings between them: €75, not €150. In a quiet month of 20 paid bookings, the same team pays €20.
Compared with Calendly Teams
A team that schedules together usually needs more than a personal booking link: bookings shared out between colleagues, group sessions, payment at the time of booking. On Calendly, round-robin assignment and the other team features sit on the Teams plan, at $20 per seat per month paid month to month. BooknTalk has one price and no tiers, and it includes round-robin assignment, which hands each booking to whichever assigned colleague is free and has gone longest without one, along with classes sold by the seat, weekly packages and video meetings with nothing to connect.
So for a team, the comparison is €15 per member at most against $20 per seat at least. The Teams seat is owed every month whether or not anybody books; the BooknTalk fee only reaches €15 in a month that brought in the bookings to pay for it.
We compare against month-to-month prices because BooknTalk has no annual plan. Calendly’s Teams seat is $16 if you commit to a year up front.
Worth knowing: If you work alone, are fully booked every month and only need what Calendly Standard covers, its $12 seat is below our ceiling. Most months are not fully booked, and the months that are not cost you only what was booked.
What BooknTalk does not do
The cap changes the price, not the product. BooknTalk has no collective events where several hosts must all be free, no routing forms, no CRM integration and no SMS reminders. Calendars are Google Calendar, meetings are held on BooknTalk’s own video service or your own Google Meet, and Stripe is the only payment provider. If one of those is central to how you work, a seat plan is the honest answer.
Seeing where you are this month
Account admins see this month’s fee against the cap on the dashboard, for example €6.50 of €30 for a team of two. The month is the calendar month in UTC: the count starts again at midnight UTC on the first, with nothing to reset and nothing to claim.
For the full arithmetic against seat pricing, read per-seat vs per-booking pricing.
Frequently asked questions
What is the most BooknTalk can cost in a month?
€15 per team member, owner included. A solo account never pays more than €15 in a calendar month, and a team of four never more than €60, however many paid bookings they take. Stripe’s card fees are separate.
What happens when the cap is reached?
Paid bookings carry no BooknTalk fee for the rest of the calendar month. Your clients see no difference, and the full price goes to your Stripe account minus Stripe’s own fee.
Does a refund count against the cap?
No. A refund returns the €1 with the client’s money, and that much of the month’s cap is free again.
Do I pay for team members who take no bookings?
No. There are no seats. Each member raises the monthly cap by €15, but a member who takes no paid bookings adds nothing to the bill.
Why compare with monthly rather than annual prices?
Because BooknTalk has no annual plan or commitment. The monthly price of a seat plan is the one you would pay to get the same freedom to stop.
Paying per booking used to be the cheap choice for a quiet calendar and an open question for a full one. With a ceiling of €15 per member, the quiet month still costs only what was booked, and the busy month costs less than a team seat.
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