Verified purchaser
Loved it for years, no longer recommend it
I bought an early lifetime plan. I was super disappointed to discover that Tidycal had switched to taking 1% of bookings. In a good month, I book several thousand dollars of work through Tidycal. Guess what? I can buy a monthly subscription to Calendly for that price. $30-50/month is not the right price for one seat of this product, but that's what it would now cost me to fully book work through it.
Best still: I suppose that I missed an email about the change, but when they switched to taking 1% of bookings, they started adding it as a charge to my clients. NOT cool.
Luka_originals
Oct 20, 2026Thank you for supporting TidyCal since the early days, and we're sorry for the disappointment.
TidyCal has grown a great deal since you bought. We've added a lot and improved the product across the board, and keeping that up means a few things can no longer be supported on lifetime plans. Payments without a platform fee are one of them: lifetime plans now have a 1% platform fee on Stripe bookings, and Pro is the plan without it.
By default the fee is added to your client's total as a separate line at checkout. On a lifetime plan you can choose to cover it yourself instead, so your clients are charged your price alone.
If you'd like to go through what this means for your account, email [email protected] with the email address on your account.