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Why Nylas
NewsroomCalendly vs. Nylas
Looking for a Calendly alternative? Nylas is a platform of scheduling components and APIs that lets you seamlessly embed scheduling into your application. Take control of the end-to-end user journey and deliver the scheduling experiences your customers expect with Nylas.
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- Learn how to deliver an embedded scheduling experience tailor-made to your use case
- Control data and insights to better understand your users and build additional time-saving workflows
- Choose a secure, HIPAA compliant partner that scales with your business
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A Calendly alternative with embedded, customizable scheduling experiences
Build unique scheduling workflows while saving time and developer resources.
Endless customization
Nylas’ modular, customizable, and native scheduling components let you build a unique scheduling flow in your app.
Advanced insight
Track scheduling usage with events metadata to understand user behavior and build differentiating features.
Security
Ensure your sensitive customer data is secure with enterprise-grade data security.
Build and scale with confidence
A Cronofy alternative, Nylas securely integrates your application across service providers with more robust, customizable capabilities to fit your business.
Scheduling API
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Monetization
Full CRUD (CREATE, READ, UPDATE, DELETE) API for building embedded scheduling and tracking.
Access to an Email and Contacts API so you can invest in one API for all integrations.
HIPAA (and HITECH) compliance, plus a HIPAA BAA. Nylas also offers support for US and European data residency.
Selve-serve access to white-labeled auth customized to your custom brand.
Build additional value in your product and generate revenue with differentiated scheduling features.
Calendly’s API is READ only, limiting tracking and control over the scheduling experience.
Calendly only supports scheduling functionality and does not have a dedicated Email or Contacts API.
Not HIPAA compliant nor offers HIPAA BAA. Calendly only offers US data residency.
Calendly requires that you contact Developer Support for OAuth access.
Calendly forces users to manage their own scheduling tools and processes.
Nylas vs. Calendly
Customization
Combine and interchange the Nylas Scheduler’s modular web components to design a unique booking workflow. Add custom pre- and post-booking options to capture data and improve user productivity.
Calendly offers a plug-and-play, third-party scheduler that places the burden of scheduling on your user. Calendly’s API is READ only and can’t embed natively in your app.
Pricing
Nylas’ tiered, all-inclusive pricing model has no hidden costs or usage limits. Our pricing is based on the number of connected calendar accounts, offering better discounts at scale.
Calendly’s pricing is feature-based and is tailored to end users, making it very expensive for businesses especially as they scale.
Security
The Nylas platform is designed with security in mind. Nylas is HIPAA (and HITECH) compliant, and we offer a HIPAA BAA, ensuring sensitive user data remains secure. Nylas also offers support for US and European data residency.
Calendly isn’t HIPAA compliant nor offers HIPAA BAA. Calendly only offers US data residency while subcontractors host data in other regions.
Support & onboarding
Nylas’ global team offers support across all time zones to meet your customers’ SLAs. Choose from three support and onboarding tiers for quicker response times with options to access both email and phone options.
Calendly only offers a dedicated account representative and phone support in their Enterprise tier.
Nylas API powers top applications worldwide
Over 250,000 developers at industry-leading brands and fast-growing companies use the Nylas API to deliver core communication features
More bang for your buck
“I appreciate this type of relationship and level of attentiveness and thoroughness while going above and beyond to come up with a solution.”
Alexander Plum
Sr. Product Manager at TalentReef
How TalentReef launched calendar features twice as fast with half the resources
TalentReef built calendar features into their applicant tracking system (ATS) to help accelerate time to hire. They used Nylas to:
- Accelerate time to hire by 3 days
- Build calendar features 2x faster with half the resources
- Reduce applicant dropoff rates from 98% to 12%
“We’ve such a complex platform that we can’t implement every solution on our own, so we look for the best solutions in the market – that’s why we chose Nylas.”
Product Manager
Global Professional Services Marketplace
How a global professional services marketplace enables users to hire twice as fast and increase revenue
The company wanted a seamless, flexible scheduling solution to keep users scheduling within their app. They used Nylas to:
- Increase CSAT score from low to mid 90s
- Increase hiring consultants 2x faster
- Create a better user experience
“It’s not an exaggeration to say that Nylas helped us build our new casting features 10x faster. It took us less than a month to integrate email and calendar, allowing us to refocus our technical resources on building the most robust casting solution on the market.”
Tommy Eklund
CTO at Choicely
Choicely builds scheduling features to streamline manual casting processes
Choicely’s no-code platform makes it easy to build custom applications for TV production. They used Nylas to:
- Built email and scheduling features in less than a month
- Powering casting for the largest TV production company
- Launches features 10x faster to refocus on core product
Industry recognitions and awards
- Nylas ranks on the 2023 Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ for the second consecutive year
Attributes enhanced onboarding experiences, new generative AI features, and strategic partnerships to its revenue growth and second year of recognition. Read more
- Nylas named a 2023 Gartner Cool Vendor
Nylas was recognized as a Cool Vendor in the 2023 Gartner “Cool Vendors™ in composable customer engagement platforms report”. Read more
- CPaaS and business scheduling software
Nylas has been recognized in the G2 Winter 2023 Reports for CPaaS, and Business Scheduling. Read more
Nylas security and compliance
With security built into the core of our products, you can rest assured knowing your data will always be safe, secure, and protected. Learn more about Nylas security
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Frequently asked questions
What is Calendly?
Calendly is a scheduling tool that lets users automate the process of setting up meetings by syncing availability across calendars and eliminating back-and-forth emails. It integrates with various calendar platforms, enabling easy appointment booking based on predefined time slots.
What is a connected account?
A connected account refers to an email address associated with an email, calendar, or contacts account that has been connected to the Nylas platform.
Is Nylas a Calendly alternative?
Yes, Nylas is a platform comprising of developer tools, scheduling components, and calendar APIs that lets you embed booking and scheduling features directly in your application. Unlike Calendly, Nylas offers a robust, full CRUD API that you can use to quickly connect user calendar accounts and deploy a customizable scheduling interface in your application. Plus, Nylas offers an Email API that lets you connect your app with 100% of email service providers to stand up engaging email features.
How does Nylas help product teams own the end user scheduling experience?
While Calendly is a great tool for individuals or non-technical users to quickly stand up a scheduling page, Nylas offers a scheduling API that lets developers build scheduling features in their application 10x faster than starting from scratch. With Nylas, you can customize the scheduling flow and embed it seamlessly into your application. Plus, developers can use Nylas to extract scheduling data (events metadata) for specific use cases, such as building additional features or tracking performance.
Data privacy and security are top priorities. How secure is Nylas?
Nylas adheres to the most stringent security standards such as GDPR, CCPA, GLBA, and DPA. With security built into the core of our products, we also engage with respected 3rd party firms to audit our infrastructure and security practices, resulting in a SOC 2 Type II audit report, SOC 1 Type I audit report, HIPAA/HITRUST report, and ISO 27001 certification.
Does Nylas support video conferencing providers?
Yes, Nylas supports major conferencing providers including Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, and Zoom. Automatically create video conferencing URLs in calendar events.