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# Hardbook

> Hardbook is online booking software: the booking page that does the rest. You send one link. Your client picks a time, then does what you asked for before the booking is confirmed — sign your contract, pay a deposit, answer your questions, pick a package. Each part is a switch. The whole booking is on the free plan.

## What it does

- One booking link. The client needs no app and no account.
- Contract signing inside the booking. Optional; switch it off for jobs that don't need one.
- Deposits through the freelancer's own Stripe account. Hardbook adds no fee; Stripe charges its usual processing fee.
- Date holds (pencils): a date can be held before it is confirmed, and the first client to hard book keeps it.
- Bookings of one day or several days, not only time slots.
- Packages and extras, custom booking questions, Google Calendar sync, email reminders, balance payments.
- The freelancer's own branding, and an embed for their website.

## Pricing

- Free: unlimited bookings, contracts, deposits, packages, questions, reminders, calendar sync. 2 AI contract drafts in total.
- Pro: $19 a month or $190 a year. Removes the "Powered by Hardbook" line, adds the freelancer's own motion identity, full analytics and 30 AI contract drafts a month.

## Who it is for

People who sell their time and need more than a calendar link: wedding photographers and videographers, film and video crew, editors, DJs, tattoo artists, and the studios they grow into.

## How it compares

- Calendly books meetings in time slots and has no contract signing; its payments start on the $10 Standard plan. Better than Hardbook for booking calls and team routing.
- HoneyBook is a full CRM (proposals, invoices, pipelines) from $29 a month with no free plan. Better than Hardbook if you need the whole CRM.
- Hardbook is not a CRM, a project manager or an invoicing suite.

## Links

- [Home](https://hard-book.com/)
- [Pricing](https://hard-book.com/pricing)
- [For wedding photographers](https://hard-book.com/for/wedding-photographers)
- [HoneyBook alternatives, compared](https://hard-book.com/alternatives/honeybook)
- [Dubsado alternatives, compared](https://hard-book.com/alternatives/dubsado)
- [Calendly alternatives for booking jobs, not meetings](https://hard-book.com/alternatives/calendly)
- [Blog](https://hard-book.com/blog)
- [The Vault: tools for After Effects and DaVinci Resolve](https://hard-book.com/vault)