Chili Piper is scheduling and routing software for B2B revenue teams. Its products help revenue teams increase their inbound conversion rates, increase customer satisfaction, and reach new levels of productivity. The vendor states Companies like Twilio, Forrester, Spotify, and Gong use Chili Piper with the goal of increasing their inbound conversion rates, eliminating manual lead routing, and streamlining critical processes around meetings. Chili Piper…
$15
per month per user
Zoho Bookings
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Zoho Bookings is a calendar syncing and appointment booking app for consultants, firms, and small business.
$6
per user
Pricing
Chili Piper
Zoho Bookings
Editions & Modules
Instant Booker
$15
per month per user
Handoff
$25
per month per user
Concierge Inbound Scheduling
$30
per month per user
Distro
Starting at $20
per month per user
Free
0 (1 staff included)
per staff per month
Basic
$6 per month when billed annually.
per user
Premium
$9 per month when billed annually.
per staff
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Chili Piper
Zoho Bookings
Free Trial
No
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No
Yes
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
$6 per user per month when billed annually
Additional Details
Onboarding and Support are included at no additional charge.
Chili Piper is GREAT for sales development teams booking for sales people. This is especially true when there is a "round robin" system that needs to be abided by. I've experienced a lot of bad round robin systems and Chili Piper's is fantastic. This is also a great tool to schedule with people across multiple time zones, which I don't want to have to focus on while speaking. It enables sales reps to focus on the prospect, not the time change. Chili piper would not be a good fit for underperforming sales teams that don't book any meetings (:
I've tried some of the other online booking services and while there were good, they didn't have all of the features that Zoho Bookings does and since I'm already a Zoho One subscriber, it doesn't cost me anything more. I think virtually any type of business can use Bookings as it's not geared to a specific industry but can be customized for use in any type of industry. I would love to see salons use it as I think it can be truly a way for them to better book clients than using a paper calendar which I see many using. I also think massage therapists would also benefit but using Bookings. If you are a solopreneur or have a sales team, there's no way you can't benefit by using Bookings for your phone appointments, Zoom/Video meetings, or in-person meetings. There is also a resource function which allows you to block out conference rooms and other resources.
It still needs more robust features and customization, like workflows and such. I'm confident they'll continue improving it, but some particular customization settings aren't available, in terms of triggers, content, look and feel, but it is mostly very detailed and particular. If you're ok with adapting to it, it is an excellent tool.
Support was very responsive during our integration phase, and after that too.
They have the whole infrastructure built to notify customers about bug/outages, which is excellent. Entire System outage only happened once, but being updated on fix progress helped a lot to keep our team calm.
A lot of things are not great as this is a new tool, but they fix it relatively quickly. They don't have a direct phone number, but Zoho support has good service overall
Calendly was being used at the company by some other departments and still is to some extent. However adding Chili Piper fore the marketing and sales departments was a no brainer once we saw the demo. It's Calendly on steroids and the company is just getting started using it. I'm sure we will see even more benefits as the years go on.
I found the integration with the two above is great if you're a Google Calendar user which we are not. While with Zoho Calendar we can have two way integration with Google Calendar there wasn't a need to do so. With Zoho Bookings which also integrates with Google Calendar we didn't have to worry about that as the integration with our Zoho Calendar was virtually automatic. There was also the cost consideration as the two above have a free version it was limited and didn't have all the bells and whistles we needed. Zoho Bookings provide us with everything from a single sign-on web browser and mobile app