I Used TidyCal 7 Years and Missed the Half That Pays Me ($29 AppSumo)

So I've been running my entire booking calendar on this software called TidyCal and I've been doing it for for years. Every podcast, every client call, every time my editor needs me, even personal meetings I run through there. And I just found out that I have been using maybe half of it. It has a ton of features I didn't even know existed and this other half is the half that actually makes money from my calendar link and I never even turned it on. So I'm gonna turn it on right now on calendar and see how long this actually takes. So this is TidyCal. It's a scheduling tool so somebody picks a slot, it lands on my calendar, it finds availability, I can set what hours that I want it to be available and what days. Like I make Mondays and Fridays or catch-up days so no one can schedule meetings with me on those days. But I bought it once as an AppSumo deal years ago. So not a subscription but a one-time payment. I was using Calendly before that but was paying monthly for Calendly and you guys know you pay a lot of stuff monthly and it's pretty crazy when you look at subscriptions and just I'm subscribed to this, this, this and this. So what I found, you can do a one-time payment on AppSumo for TidyCal. I was all over it and I've been using it for years. And that was pretty much the reason that I switched as I was using Calendly. Their free version didn't have enough for me so I was paying 10 bucks a month. Which doesn't sound like a lot but again when you've been doing this for six, seven years, what's seven times 12 times 10? 840. So I make a one-time payment for TidyCal and it saves me that 840 dollars that I would have spent in this Calendly subscription all these years. So but this is my real account, not a demo account. I have my bookings, my page views, my conversion rate on bookings. And then there's this one, zero dollars in earnings. And that caused me to pause for a little bit. What does this mean, earnings? What I realized, I didn't really know this at the time, is that you can have a booking type where you actually charge for people to get on a call with you. And I get asked this a lot. Like people just want, you know, 30 minutes to talk over a business idea or an AI tool or something like that. And usually I have just done it for free but it does take a lot of times. A lot of times I turn people away and I didn't realize that I could be charging for these one-on-one calls. So I also could be charging a subscription to like $25 per month for four bookings per month. I didn't even know this was an option. I just missed it. So and if you go down here to integrations, you can either connect with Stripe or you can just put your PayPal email in here, which I will probably do that. Save PayPal email. So that's basically it. That's what I've been putting off for years. Probably could have been an income stream in and of itself. So what I really like about TidyCal is you can set up different booking types. So depending on what type of meeting you want, like usually I send people just this 10-minute meeting because even if we go over 10 minutes, I want to keep people's expectations. I usually have five or six meetings a day. So I just I can't let them spread out too long. So I usually send this 10-minute one. But you know, if there's something more important or that's going to take longer to discuss, then I can send this 30-minute one. So I can have all these different booking types that each get their own URL. And when you pull up the URL, it pulls up my actual calendar and my actual availability. And like this week, Thursday is the only time that this 45-minute would work. Going into September, we've got a few more slots here. But it just takes it off my brain. Like people say, hey, when works for you to do a call? My calendar is pretty crazy. So it's really nice to just be able to send them a link, know it's integrated with my calendar, and know if it fits on that calendar, you can go ahead and book it. But they have all these different booking types. So you can do a one-on-one. That's just normal. You can have a group where it's me and several people. You can have a recurring meeting through here, a bundle of sessions that you sell together, or the subscription where each month you're charging for a certain number of meetings or calls. So this is perfect if you want just a simple coaching program or a group program or a consulting business or something like that. This is a great way to set up that business without complicated software and with very little cost involved. And like I said, you can set your availability. So I turn Saturday and Sunday off, and then I do Monday 8 to 5. But then on my calendar, I actually block off Monday and Friday as catch up after the weekend and catch up before the weekend. So pretty much Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday are when all my calls are limited to. But you can set the time. You can set certain dates that you want to override for. Like, hey, I don't want any calls next week. You can set that up. So here on the subscriptions page, this is where you could set up one session a month for $75. That would be great for a consultant or something like that. And it'll keep track of your subscribers and your monthly revenue. I mean, this tool in and of itself could be where you manage that business. You can set up coupons. So if you want to give a discount, for people setting up calls, then they have automatic emails that go up to remind people of the call. And you can set up whatever cadence that you want, like a thank you afterwards, or hey, maybe, are you ready to book another call? You can do that afterwards as well. And then you can get testimonials. So you can get a review link, and people can actually leave a review on you that you could use as a testimonial to sell this going forward. But by far, the best feature is that this is on AppSumo. So again, instead of paying Calendly $10 a month, or you might even need the bigger plans, you can come on AppSumo and $29. It's not $29 per month. What I love about AppSumo, $29 for lifetime access, refundable up to 60 days. But you just pay that one time, and then you get access. And again, I've been using it for years. So straight review of TidyCal. Is it the most powerful scheduling tool on earth? No. I think if you have a super big company, Calendly has more surface area. If you're running a 50-person sales team with routing rules and things like that, maybe Calendly might be worth paying for. But for me especially, I'm one person. I need people to book with me. Now I know that people can pay to book with me. This does both of those things. I paid one time years ago, have access forever, takes off my monthly subscription budget, which is just all the time going up and up and up. So I will leave a link to this AppSumo deal for TidyCal. But again, check out the other stuff that AppSumo has. I love AppSumo. I check it almost every day just to see if there's something there. Because again, make these one-time payments, get access to software for life. I love it. So all links down below. Thank you guys so much for watching. Please like and subscribe if you like reviews of different software and tools and productivity and site hustles and AI. And if you just like red hair, like and subscribe. Thank you all for watching. God bless you and have a great rest of your day.