Breely

Breely is a web scheduling platform for service businesses handling appointments, classes, workshops, events, payments, and client intake. It is best for operators who need booking, forms, signatures, and payment steps in one workflow rather than a basic calendar. The Free plan can cover very small volumes, while larger teams should assess its per-user billing, message quotas, and support model.

Overview

Breely supports one-to-one appointments, classes, workshops, and multi-day events. A booking page can stand alone or be embedded into an existing website, so businesses can choose between a dedicated booking destination and a more integrated customer journey. The breadth is useful for varied service schedules; a solo provider with only simple appointments may find the extra controls unnecessary.

The platform is aimed at service-based businesses working directly with clients. Founder Gavin Zuchlinski previously founded Acuity Scheduling, and Breely follows that scheduling-focused lineage while adding intake, payment, and communication tools.

Key features

Booking and capacity controls

Waitlists and scheduling limits help manage scarce slots. Round-robin and prioritized appointment selection can distribute demand among staff, while booking people or resources such as rooms and courts addresses operations where physical capacity matters as much as staff availability. These features suit studios, clinics, classes, and other multi-resource services better than a straightforward personal calendar.

Payments, forms, and signatures

Connections to Square or Stripe support payments, deposits, and vaulted cards. Standalone forms can gather client information, signatures, payments, and file uploads, and contracts or waivers can require a signature. Combining these steps with booking can reduce separate intake and checkout work, particularly where consent or documents are required before an appointment.

Calendars, video, and other integrations

Breely lists syncing with Google, Office 365, and iCloud calendars. It can automatically create Google Meet or Zoom links, keeping online appointments connected to the booking process. Additional listed integrations include Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Facebook, Zapier, Square, and Stripe, giving businesses options for measurement, marketing, automation, and payments.

Breely says users can sign a business associate agreement and use the platform as part of a HIPAA-compliant business. That statement makes it relevant to covered workflows, but the business remains responsible for its own compliance setup and procedures.

Pricing

Free

The Free plan costs nothing, billed at $0/mo. It allows up to 10 clients per month, unlimited forms, unlimited bookings, and 100 emails or texts per month. This is a practical starting point for a very small operation or a low-volume pilot, but the 10-client ceiling makes it unsuitable for a growing client base even if booking volume itself is unlimited.

Business

Business costs $7 a month, billed at $7/mo per user. It removes the client limit and includes 3,000 emails per month and 200 texts per month. The per-user term matters for teams: adding staff increases recurring cost. Messaging allowances are substantially higher than Free, yet businesses with heavy texting should monitor the 200-text monthly quota.

Breely supports recurring billing, package credits, membership benefits, usage entitlements, and member self-service. Those capabilities make the paid plan more suitable for memberships, prepaid packages, and repeat-service models than the free tier alone. The pricing information supplied does not state a trial period or renewal discount, so prospective buyers should budget for recurring monthly charges.

Platforms

Breely is offered on the web. Calendar and video connections can extend its workflow into Google, Office 365, iCloud, Google Meet, and Zoom, but the product itself is web-based rather than a listed native mobile or desktop application.

Who it's for

Breely fits service businesses coordinating clients, staff, schedules, rooms, courts, classes, or events. It is particularly well matched to businesses that need deposits, payment collection, waivers, signatures, and automated meeting links around a booking. The Free plan is most appropriate for a small practice serving no more than 10 clients monthly. Businesses with larger rosters should consider Business, while organizations requiring frequent outbound texts should verify that 200 monthly texts is enough.

Pros and cons

Pros

• One workflow covers appointments, classes, workshops, and multi-day events, useful for businesses with mixed offerings.
• Square and Stripe support payments, deposits, and vaulted cards without separating checkout from scheduling.
• Forms, file uploads, contracts, waivers, and signatures can be tied to client intake.
• Resource booking, waitlists, limits, and round-robin assignment address shared capacity and team scheduling.
• Recurring billing, packages, memberships, entitlements, and member self-service support repeat-service models.

Cons

• The Free plan's 10-client monthly cap limits it to very small operations.
• Business billing is per user, so team costs rise as more staff need access.
• Business includes 200 texts per month, which may constrain text-heavy communication.
• The product is web-only in the listed platform coverage.

Alternatives

Choose WellnessLiving instead if you need Android, iOS, and web apps, a client app, a staff app, and classes and appointments in a paid Starter plan at $62 a month billed annually for one staff member.

SalonApp is a better fit when a mobile salon product and a free allowance of up to 15 clients, 20 appointments per month, and one staff member are the priority; its Starter plan is $39 a month billed monthly for up to five staff members.

Pick Salonist when salon-specific tools such as online booking and staff shift management matter, with a free marketplace listing allowing 50 appointments per month.

BoomCloud suits practices using a certified consultant model, with no monthly software subscription in its free option and an upgrade at member number 11.

Consider Kitomba for a paid, multi-platform salon system with online booking, stock management, integrated EFTPOS, and marketing tools.

Meevo is a paid alternative for salon and spa teams needing desktop and mobile coverage, with a Lite plan listing five users, 2,500 email contacts, and 100 SMS marketing credits.

Choose Phorest for a paid salon platform whose listed plans include unlimited devices and unlimited staff.

Vagaro is a paid multi-platform option with a one-location plan at $30 a month billed monthly.

For a broader category comparison, see Salon Membership Software.

Verdict

Breely is a strong choice for service businesses that want scheduling, client intake, signatures, payments, memberships, and resource management connected in one web workflow. Choose it when those combined controls outweigh the Free plan's 10-client limit and Business's per-user, message-capped pricing. Look elsewhere if you require native mobile apps or live human support as a standard channel.