Which booking systems limit how many bookings you can take

Why this is the question to ask late, and should be asked early

Nobody chooses booking software by reading the volume limits. You choose on features and price, you set the thing up, you get busy, and then one month the software tells you to upgrade. The upgrade is not for a feature you wanted. It is for permission to keep taking the bookings you already earned.

A booking cap prices your good months, so find out where each one sits before you sign up, ours included.

The caps, as published

SimplyBook.me is the clearest example because the cap is the product ladder. Their pricing page sells Free at 50 bookings a month, Basic at 100, Standard at 500 and Premium at 2,000, with an Enterprise tier above that. The features differ too, but the volume is what the tiers are named for.

Setmore used to be the other example: until recently its free plan capped appointments at 200 a month. Its pricing page now lists the free plan as unlimited appointments for up to 4 users, so its limit moved from volume to staff and features. A fifth user, text reminders, deposits or two-way calendar sync is what moves a Setmore team onto Pro; a busy month on its own no longer does. Read from setmore.com/pricing on 9 October 2026.

Marketplaces meter differently again, and it is worth counting as the same thing. A per-cover fee and a percentage of a new client are both charges that rise with volume. The label changes; the direction does not.

How ours work

Appointment plans have no booking cap. Solo is free up to 50 bookings a month and A$19 in a busier one, and Growth and Pro never change with volume. The only line is fair use, 1,000 bookings a month per team member, and past it we contact you first rather than throttle anything.

Venue plans are sized by bookings. Venue Starter is free up to 35 a month and A$49 in a busier one, covering up to 100; Venue Growth covers 350 for A$99 and Venue Pro 1,500 for A$199. A month up to 5% over is a heads-up, not a bill. Further over, or over two months running, means moving up a plan, with 7 days' notice before online booking would pause. Venue Pro never pauses: past its cap, we talk about Venue Custom.

With no card on file, a month past the free band gets the same 7 days' notice, and a pause never starts before a weekend. Existing bookings keep working either way.

Texts cost A$0.09 per text on the Growth and Pro plans, because the mobile carrier charges us for each one. Email confirmations and reminders are included and unmetered on every plan, so a booking is never left unconfirmed because of a limit.