Who Wix Bookings is for
Wix Bookings is not a product you buy on its own. It is an app inside the Wix website builder: the booking pages are pages of your site, the price is the site plan that unlocks them, and the team is managed through the site's collaborator seats. The product itself is general: appointments, classes and courses, resources, automations, memberships and packages, and payments where Wix Payments operates. It suits a business whose website is already on Wix, or that wants the site and the bookings designed in one editor on one domain.
Bookodile is a booking system and nothing else. It sits beside a website rather than inside it β a hosted page, or a widget on a site you already have β and it is built for a business where people are priced and timed differently, where a room or a machine is the real limit, and where one visit can involve two people.
The pricing model, in practice
Wix charges per site. The plan you need for bookings is Core or above, the displayed price is a year paid in full at purchase, and it renews for the same period at the full price. There is no trial of a paid plan; a new plan carries a 14-day money-back guarantee, a renewal does not.
Two things follow from per-site pricing. First, the plan sets how many people can manage their own calendar: every team member with dashboard permissions uses one of the site's collaborator seats β five on Core, ten on Business, a hundred on Business Elite. Second, text messages are metered by plan β 50, 100 or 250 a month β with larger bundles sold separately at prices the help centre does not print.
Prices vary by region and the plans page renders them for the visitor's country. We could not read a euro or pound figure from it, so this page quotes none; read the plans page from your own country.
Bookodile charges per location plus per booking spot that took a booking that month. Nobody is a seat: any number of people can have an account and a role, and a person who takes no bookings costs nothing. The figures for your country are on the pricing page and the model is explained in What Bookodile costs.
Which is cheaper depends on the shape of the business. A large team on one site pays Wix one site plan whatever the headcount; on Bookodile the same team pays per spot. A small business that does not need a website may be free on Bookodile, and cannot take a booking on a free Wix site.
Two services, two people
Wix's help centre is specific here.
A customer picks a first service and presses + Add Service; up to five services go into one multi-service appointment, on the same date and at the same location, and the customer can choose a team member for each. The sessions appear one after another in the calendar, and the times offered are only those at which every service in the chain is available. It needs a paid plan, works on the web but not in any Wix mobile app, uses only the default booking form, cannot repeat, and the customer can only cancel the whole booking.
Three things Wix says it does not do. Processing time β a gap inside a service where the person is free β is not possible and is an open feature request. A multi-service booking cannot be limited to one team member for every service; the article's own FAQ answers that with "Currently no". And two services at the same time for one customer, with two people, can only be set up by the business, not booked by the customer. What the article does not say is how each person's time is blocked when the services go to different people; it describes the result only as sessions one after another. This page does not guess.
In Bookodile the same thing is a combo service: two stages, each with its own team member, its own duration and its own room if it needs one, booked back to back, and each person blocked only for their own stage. The customer books once.
Switching from Wix Bookings
- Customers. Wix exports contacts as CSV, up to 50,000 at a time. Bookodile has no import tool yet; customers are created the first time they book, and your team can add anyone by hand.
- Bookings. Wix exports the booking list as CSV. Bookodile does not import bookings; run the two side by side until the Wix calendar empties, then switch the link.
- Your website. It stays on Wix if you want it to. Embed Bookodile's widget in a Wix page with one snippet, or link to the hosted page. The site plan is a separate decision β Light and the free site keep the website without scheduling.
- Memberships and packages. Wix sells them; Bookodile has neither, so anything a customer has already paid for in a package is yours to track.
- Reserve with Google, the Facebook or Instagram button, ClassPass. These are Wix integrations; Bookodile has no equivalent. Your Google Business profile can still carry the booking link.
- Payments, deposits and cards on file. If Wix takes them for you, you need a separate way to do that. Bookodile records payments; it does not take them.
- Text reminders. Wix sends them from the plan quota. Bookodile's reminders are email; text messages are built but not switched on.
Where each one fits
Choose Wix Bookings if your website is on Wix or you want the site and the bookings designed together on your own domain, if you take payments, deposits or no-show fees at booking, sell memberships or packages, want native apps for customers and team, or need Reserve with Google.
Choose Bookodile if you want bookings without buying a site plan, if your team is bigger than a plan's collaborator seats and you would rather pay for booking spots than for seats, if a room or a machine limits what you can take, if your people are priced or timed differently, if you want an automatic waiting list for appointments, or if your customers read Slovak or Vietnamese.
Book buttons on Google, Instagram and Facebook#
Bookodile
No Reserve with Google or Instagram integration. Your booking link goes in your Google profile, your bio or a post like any link.
Wix Bookings
Reserve with Google needs a connected domain, a paid plan and a verified Google Business Profile, and live availability on Google is currently limited to one business category. A Book button on Facebook or Instagram, not both. A ClassPass channel. Source