Switch from BookingKoala to Busy Book

BookingKoala is booking software for many kinds of service businesses, from maids to dog walkers, with deep control over your booking form. Busy Book is built only for cleaning businesses, with Irene answering every lead on every plan.

Start my free trial What would I pay?
Irene answers every leadIrene texts every new lead within a minute, quotes your flat price and books the cleaning, day or night, on every plan. She answers your phone too.
The cleaner app and texts start at $57BookingKoala's Starter plan is $27 a month for up to 5 cleaners, without the mobile apps or SMS notifications. Those start on Growing at $57, and texts go through your own Twilio account. Every Busy Book plan has the partner app and texting through your own Quo, GoHighLevel or Twilio number.
The price grows with your teamBookingKoala counts each team member as a provider. Growing covers 15, Premium is $197 a month for 50, and it goes up $40 for each 10 more. Busy Book has no fee per cleaner on any plan.
Your saved cards can come with youBookingKoala keeps your clients' cards in your own Stripe account, not on its platform. Busy Book can bring those saved cards over, matched to each client, with nothing charged.

What would I pay each month?

Monthly, no-commitment prices from each company's own pricing page, checked November 2026. Yearly billing is lower for most of them. Prices change, so check BookingKoala's pricing page before you decide.

We make Busy Book, so we're not neutral. We stuck to what BookingKoala says on its own pricing page in November 2026, and here's when BookingKoala may fit you better:
  • You have 5 cleaners or fewer and don't need a cleaner app or texts yet. Starter is $27 a month.
  • You want deep control over your booking form and theme, or you run more than one location.
  • You pay cleaners through Stripe Connect, or you need QuickBooks or Xero sync.

Switch in an afternoon

Get your client listIn BookingKoala, go to Customers, then Customers again, and tap Export to download a spreadsheet of your clients.
Start your free trialPut in your business details and your prices. The Get started checklist walks you through it, step by step.
Bring your clients overUpload your spreadsheet under Bring your clients over, check the columns and bring them in. Then bring over their repeat schedules, so each client keeps their day, time, price and partner, and any cards your old software kept in your own Stripe account, with nothing charged. Or send us the file and we'll do it.
Bring your partners and pricesUpload a spreadsheet of your partners or your prices, see every row first, then bring them in. Nobody gets a text until you send each partner their invite to the partner app, in English or Spanish.

Keep BookingKoala until your first full round of cleanings runs smoothly in Busy Book, then cancel. Your clients stay yours either way: every Busy Book plan can download all its data as spreadsheets, any time, even after you cancel.

Questions

Is Busy Book cheaper than BookingKoala?

For up to 5 cleaners, BookingKoala's $27 Starter plan costs less, without its cleaner app or texts. With the cleaner app and texts, BookingKoala starts at $57 a month on Growing, and Busy Book starts at $39 with Irene included and no fee per cleaner. Use the calculator above with your own numbers. Prices checked November 2026.

Can I bring my clients and their saved cards from BookingKoala?

Yes. Export your customers from BookingKoala and upload the spreadsheet in Busy Book under Bring your clients over. BookingKoala keeps cards in your own Stripe account, so Bring over saved cards from Stripe matches them to each client. Nothing is charged, and no card number is ever seen.

Will my repeat clients keep their schedule?

Yes. Bring over repeat schedules reads each client's day, time, price and partner, and every 3 weeks comes over as every 3 weeks. You see every plan and the next 3 visits before anything is saved, and nobody is texted.

Does Busy Book hold cards and charge cancel fees like BookingKoala?

Yes. Busy Book saves the card when a client books, holds it before the cleaning and charges it after, and can charge the late-cancel fee your clients agreed to.

Want the full side-by-side? Read the comparison on the blog.

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