Schedularity vs Amelia
Amelia is software you rent. This is software you own.
The closest WordPress competitor and a polished one. We win on events and ticketing, POS, accounting and native WhatsApp.
At a glance
Feature by feature.
Benchmarks as of May 2026, taken from each vendor’s published documentation and pricing.
| Schedularity | Amelia | |
|---|---|---|
| Self-hosted, data you own | ✓ | ✕ |
| No per-booking fees | ✓ | partial |
| Events & ticketing | ✓ | ✕ |
| Seat maps | ✓ | ✕ |
| Table reservations | ✓ | ✕ |
| WhatsApp + voice | ✓ | ✕ |
| Memberships & packs | ✓ | ✕ |
| POS terminal | ✓ | ✕ |
| Waivers & e-signature | ✓ | ✕ |
| REST API + webhooks | ✓ | ✓ |
| Starting price | Free → $89/yr | $12/seat/mo |
Being fair
What Amelia genuinely does well.
A comparison that only lists weaknesses is not worth reading. Here is the honest picture.
Amelia strengths
- Best-in-class link-sharing flow
- Excellent calendar integrations
- Very fast to set up
- Strong mobile experience
Where it runs out
- Your customer data lives on their servers
- Per-seat pricing grows with headcount
- No events, tickets, tables or POS
- No memberships or loyalty
- Payments are limited and add-on based
- You are renting, permanently
Why businesses switch. The switch is usually about ownership rather than features — a growing team hits per-seat pricing, or a data-protection review asks where the records actually live.
Total cost of ownership
What it actually costs over a year.
List price is rarely the real number. This is the same capability set, priced honestly on both sides, as published in May 2026.
| Amelia | Schedularity | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | $12/seat/month | Flat annual licence |
| Three seats, one year | $432 | $89 |
| Data location | Their servers | Your server |
| Events & ticketing | Not available | Included |
| POS & memberships | Not available | Included |
| Year three total | $1,296 | $267 |
Neither number includes payment processing. Your gateway charges its standard rate to your own account in both cases — we add nothing on top of it, and neither does Amelia.
Questions
Switching from Amelia.
Can I run both plugins at once while I test?
Yes. Install Schedularity alongside Amelia and point it at a staging page. Nothing conflicts, and you can compare against your own real services before switching the live booking page.
Will I lose my existing bookings?
No. Export customers and upcoming bookings from Amelia as CSV and import them here. The importer maps columns and flags anything ambiguous before it writes a single row.
What happens to my existing booking page URL?
It stays the same. You swap the shortcode or block on that page — the URL, its SEO history and any inbound links are untouched.
Is there a refund if it does not suit us?
Thirty days, no questions asked, on annual plans. Sixty on the lifetime tier. And the free plan is not time-limited, so you can evaluate indefinitely before paying anything.
Do you offer migration help?
Yes. Professional and Agency customers get migration assistance included — we will walk the first import with you on a call.
Searching for “amelia alternative wordpress self hosted”? This page is written for exactly that. The comparison hub covers the other seven.
Migration
Most operators move in a weekend.
1
Export from Amelia
Customers and upcoming bookings as CSV from their admin.
2
Import here
Our importer maps the columns and flags anything ambiguous before writing.
3
Run both for a week
Point the new widget at a staging page and check the calendar matches.
4
Switch the page
Swap the shortcode on your booking page. Deactivate the old plugin.
Try it before you move anything.
The free plan is not a trial. Install alongside Amelia and compare on your own site.