Schedly
Built for Consultants

Scheduling Built for Consultants.

Prospects pay for your expertise from the first minute. Schedly collects your consultation fee at booking and delivers your meeting link only after payment confirms.

The scheduling problems holding you back

Pain Point 1

You give away your expertise in free discovery calls

When you offer unlimited free calls to anyone who asks, you subsidize the tire-kickers with the time you could spend on paying clients. A paid consultation model filters for serious prospects.

Pain Point 2

International clients mean timezone math every morning

Managing availability across multiple time zones manually is error-prone and time-consuming. Schedly detects and converts automatically for every visitor to your booking page.

Pain Point 3

Proposal follow-up calls never get booked

After sending a proposal, the single most effective thing you can do is attach a booking link. Schedly turns a static PDF proposal into an interactive sales tool.

How Schedly Solves It

Built for consultants.

Every feature designed around how you actually work.

Paid advisory sessions

Set your hourly or per-session rate and require payment via Stripe before the booking confirms. Your expertise is valued from the first touchpoint.

Global time zone support

Every visitor to your booking page sees your availability in their own local time zone. Daylight saving time adjustments are automatic.

Project intake questionnaires

Before the first meeting, collect scope, budget, timeline, prior work history, and decision criteria. Every engagement starts informed.

"Adding a paid consultation requirement to my booking page was the best business decision I made last year. My qualified meeting rate went up dramatically, and I stopped subsidizing prospects who were never going to hire me. Revenue per hour of consulting time increased by 40%."
MW
Marcus Webb
Independent Technology Strategy Consultant
Revenue per hour up 40%
Deep Dive

Consultant's Guide to Professional Meeting Scheduling

Consulting is fundamentally a time-for-expertise exchange, which means that every hour a consultant spends on activities that are not billable or business-generative is a direct cost to the practice. Scheduling administration -- coordinating meeting times, sending meeting links, collecting pre-meeting information, chasing payment -- falls squarely in the non-billable category. For a consultant billing $250 per hour, recovering even three hours per week from scheduling overhead returns more than $3,000 per month to billable capacity.

The Paid Consultation Model

The conventional consulting business development model -- offer free discovery calls to anyone who asks -- systematically subsidizes unqualified prospects with the time of highly-paid professionals. A consultant billing $250 per hour who conducts five free 60-minute discovery calls per week that convert at 20% is spending four hours per week -- $1,000 in billing time -- subsidizing people who will not become clients. A paid consultation model at $200-$300 per session flips this entirely: every call is compensated, qualified prospects self-identify through willingness to pay, and conversion rates to paid engagements typically increase because the client has already demonstrated financial commitment.

From Static Proposals to Interactive Sales Tools

Most consultants send proposals as static PDF documents and then wait. The waiting period -- while the prospect reviews the proposal and potentially compares alternatives -- is the highest-risk phase of the sales process. Including a scheduling link directly in the proposal body creates an active next step: 'If this proposal resonates with you, click here to book a follow-up conversation.' Prospects who click the link and book a call are expressing intent. The meeting itself becomes the close conversation, and the conversion rate from booked follow-up call to signed engagement is substantially higher than from passive proposal review.

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