Makeplans review
A practical booking tool for appointments and smaller capacity-limited events.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Makeplans is a web-based appointment scheduling and event registration service for businesses that accept customer bookings. It supports standalone or embeddable booking sites, appointment and event registration booking types, availability and capacity controls, recurring appointments, customer records, and booking reports. Its fit is strongest for clinics, salons, meeting-room providers, saunas, and other service businesses that need to manage appointments or smaller capacity-limited events.
The published plan is straightforward: Makeplans costs $10 USD per resource per month, billed monthly. There is no separate feature tier; the plan includes all functionality, unlimited bookings, unlimited services, and unlimited users. A 14-day free trial is available. The feature set covers custom forms, branding, CSS, custom domains, email and SMS confirmations and reminders, and credit-card prepayment through payment partners. This makes the pricing easier to assess for organizations that can map their needs to a resource-based monthly cost.
Makeplans also offers practical connectivity through a REST API, webhooks, CSV export, Zapier, Make, and Stripe. Its calendar connection is a one-way, read-only iCalendar feed. The product’s breadth is centered on booking operations rather than a full event-management workflow: organizations needing attendee apps, exhibitor tools, or onsite processes should choose a more specialized event platform. Pick Makeplans when appointment scheduling, capacity management, payment collection, and branded booking pages are the priority; look elsewhere when event delivery extends beyond registration and booking administration.
Makeplans pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Includes booking pages, forms, capacity controls, reminders, and payments
- Unlimited bookings, services, and users on the single plan
- REST API, webhooks, CSV export, Zapier, Make, and Stripe support
- Where it doesn't
- Broader booking focus than comprehensive event registration
- Calendar integration is limited to a read-only iCalendar feed
- Not suited to attendee apps, exhibitor management, or onsite workflows
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