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Doodle at a glance

Vendor
Doodle AG
Headquarters
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 28 Oct 2026
Data hosting
Default not stated; pages mention Ireland and the EU source, captured 28 Oct 2026
Free plan
Yes, per the vendor’s own page source, captured 28 Oct 2026
Panel verdict
The AI panel rates Doodle 3/5, the mean of 6 judges. The judges score Doodle, an appointment scheduler from Doodle AG of Zurich, a subsidiary of TX Group AG, strongest on sovereignty, where scores run 6-8 and cluster at 7, crediting production data on AWS in Ireland, a published data processing agreement with standard contractual clauses and binding corporate rules, SOC 2 Type II and Cyber Verify Level 3, and a dated subprocessor list — while noting US providers in that chain, including Mailgun, Chargebee and Google Analytics, and a Swiss rather than an EU contracting entity. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 28 Oct 2026; evaluated by the panel 29 Oct 2026. all sources

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Read this page as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.

The Salon Owner

Weighted verdict

Owns two hair and beauty salons with eleven stylists and a Saturday that is booked out by Wednesday. Wants every service with its own duration and price on one booking page, clients who pick their stylist, a deposit for colour appointments, a fee when someone does not show, and a monthly bill that does not grow with every chair.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The Salon Owner

Panel median The Salon Owner This judge’s scores over the panel median. Each label opens its reasoning below.
Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion Panel median The Salon Owner
Booking page & client experience 3.5 of 5 3 of 5
Calendar sync & availability rules 3 of 5 3 of 5
Team, staff & location scheduling 2 of 5 2 of 5
Reminders, payments & no-show protection 2.5 of 5 3 of 5
Integrations, API & data export 2.5 of 5 2.5 of 5
European sovereignty 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
Pricing transparency 2.5 of 5 2 of 5

Booking page & client experience

How this is scored

What the person booking sees and can do: a booking page with the services or meeting types on offer, their durations and prices, booking questions, an embed or widget for the business's own website, time zones and languages, group or class bookings, and links to reschedule or cancel without calling.

0 — Not a booking product: no page or widget where a customer picks a slot; appointments are entered by staff only.

3 — A booking page or form exists, but the pages say little about how it works: types of appointment, booking questions, embedding and rescheduling are not described.

5 — A booking page with several appointment or service types of their own duration, custom booking questions, and a way to put it on the business's website (link, embed or widget); confirmations carry a link to reschedule or cancel.

8 — In addition: group or class bookings with seat limits, booking pages in several languages with automatic time-zone handling, branding without the vendor's logo, multi-step selection of service, staff member and location, and a booking flow the vendor states is accessible or mobile-optimised.

10 — Booking as a finished storefront: packages, memberships or recurring bookings, intake forms with conditional questions, booking from Google or other directories, a customer account with booking history, and an accessibility statement for the booking pages published.

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The Salon Owner

There is a real booking page that shows my availability, applies my rules and takes payment through Stripe, collects the client's name and email automatically, takes custom questions, and sends an automatic reschedule-or-cancel link; sign-up sheets handle group bookings with seat limits, time zones are detected automatically, language options exist, and my own logo and brand colour go on the page. What I miss for my chairs is a menu where every service carries its own duration and price on one page — the captured pages recommend a single short session of 15 or 30 minutes per page — and beyond a shareable link I found no public information on embedding the page into my salon website. 2 10 11 13 16 17

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Calendar sync & availability rules

How this is scored

How the product knows when someone is free: two-way sync with Google, Microsoft 365 and Outlook, iCloud or CalDAV, conflict checks across several calendars, working hours and exceptions, buffers, minimum notice and booking windows, daily limits, and rooms or equipment that must be free as well.

0 — No calendar: no availability is kept and no sync with any calendar is offered.

3 — An internal calendar or a one-way export (iCal feed), but no stated two-way sync and few availability rules beyond opening hours.

5 — Two-way sync with Google and Microsoft calendars that blocks booked times, working hours with exceptions, and buffers or minimum notice per appointment type.

8 — In addition: several calendars per person checked for conflicts, iCloud or CalDAV, booking windows and daily or weekly limits, holidays and absences, and resources (rooms, equipment, chairs) that must be free alongside the person.

10 — Availability that runs a multi-site business: per-location and per-resource schedules, capacity rules across staff and rooms, sync behaviour and latency documented, and changes in any connected calendar reflected without double bookings, as stated in the documentation.

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The Salon Owner

Hours default to Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm and adjust per booking page, with buffers before and after, minimum notice, and daily or weekly limits on bookings taken; Google Calendar, Outlook and Apple Calendar connect, meetings sync automatically and double-bookings show as conflicts instantly. I found no public information on a chair or room being blocked alongside the person, on several calendars per stylist being checked, or on documented sync behaviour and latency. 10 12 15 17 18

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Team, staff & location scheduling

How this is scored

How bookings are shared out across more than one person: staff profiles and the services each offers, round-robin and collective (all-hands) meetings, routing forms that send a booking to the right person, several locations, roles and permissions for admins and staff, and single sign-on for larger teams.

0 — A single-user tool with no way to add staff or a team.

3 — Several users or staff calendars can be added, but how bookings are distributed among them and who may change what is not described.

5 — Several staff or team members with their own availability, the customer choosing a person or the system assigning one (round-robin or "any available"), and an admin role that manages the team.

8 — In addition: weighted or priority round-robin, collective bookings that need several people at once, routing by form answers, several locations with their own staff, granular roles and permissions, and reporting per staff member.

10 — Scheduling as a team system: SSO and user provisioning (SAML, SCIM), routing that takes ownership from a CRM, managed templates the organisation pushes to every member, audit logs of changes, and distribution fairness reported.

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The Salon Owner

A Team subscription brings an Admin Console, roles and permissions, book on behalf, co-hosted events, member management by CSV file and activity reports, and Enterprise adds single sign-on with SAML or OIDC and role-based access. The deciding gap for eleven stylists: I found no public information on round-robin or 'any available' assignment, or on a client choosing their stylist from one team booking page. 3 14 19

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Reminders, payments & no-show protection

How this is scored

How the product keeps a booked slot from turning into an empty one: confirmations and reminders by email and SMS, payment or deposit at booking, cancellation and late-cancellation policies, fees for no-shows, waiting lists that refill cancelled slots, and follow-ups after the appointment.

0 — No notifications to the person booking: no confirmation, no reminder.

3 — Email confirmations are sent, but reminders, payments and cancellation rules are not described.

5 — Automatic email reminders with configurable timing, SMS reminders (included or as a paid add-on), and payment at booking through at least one named provider such as Stripe or PayPal.

8 — In addition: deposits or partial prepayment, a cancellation deadline the system enforces, no-show or late-cancellation fees, a waiting list that fills freed slots, and follow-up or review messages after the appointment.

10 — No-show protection as a measured process: no-show rates reported, card-on-file or pre-authorisation charged by policy, reminder channels per customer (email, SMS, messenger), refunds and vouchers handled in the product, and the cancellation and payment terms shown to the customer configurable per service.

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The Salon Owner

Email confirmations and calendar invites go out automatically, Doodle Pro sends automatic reminders so every booking follows the same sequence, Stripe charges at booking, and the vendor states deposits work by setting the booking price to the deposit with the remainder invoiced separately — workable for my colour appointments. I found no public information on SMS reminders, on a fee charged when a client does not show, or on a waiting list that refills a freed slot; the captured help pages say a cancelled slot simply becomes bookable again. 2 11 16 17 18

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Integrations, API & data export

How this is scored

What the product connects to and how the data gets out again: video-meeting links (Zoom, Teams, Google Meet), CRM and marketing tools, automation platforms (Zapier, Make), a documented API and webhooks, website and app-store integrations, and an export of bookings and customer records.

0 — No integrations and no export; bookings stay in the product.

3 — A few named integrations or an export of bookings, but no API or webhooks described.

5 — Video-meeting links created automatically for at least one named tool, a connection to an automation platform or a few named CRM or marketing tools, and an export of bookings or customers.

8 — In addition: a documented public API and webhooks, native CRM integrations named (HubSpot, Salesforce or similar), an integrations directory, and a full export of bookings, customers and booking-form answers.

10 — Built to be connected and left: an API covering every object with its documentation and rate limits published, embeddable components or an SDK, a self-hosting or open-source option or a stated migration path, and the complete account data exportable in a documented format.

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The Salon Owner

Every booking can carry an automatic video link from Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams or Webex, Zapier connects 3,000+ apps, and an integrations page lists the connections; the terms mention an API that is free of charge up to a certain extent of use, and personal data is returned or securely destroyed on request. I found no public information on a documented public API with rate limits or webhooks, on native CRM connections for my own account, or on a self-service export of bookings and client records — and a deprecation notice for the API sits in the help collection. 6 14 16 18

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Who the contracting entity and the parent company are, where booking and customer data is hosted, and who the subprocessors are: hosting, the SMS gateway, email delivery, payment providers, video tools and analytics. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; booking data names who sees a doctor, a lawyer or a therapist and when, so the whole chain counts, not only the database.

0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, no data processing agreement offered, and neither hosting location nor subprocessors stated.

3 — A privacy policy and a data processing agreement exist, but the vendor and hosting are outside the EU (or hosting is unstated) and subprocessors are not listed.

5 — A data processing agreement and a subprocessor list are published, and either EU hosting or an EU contracting entity is stated, while parts of the chain (SMS, email, analytics, support) run through non-EU providers.

8 — EU contracting entity and EU hosting on named infrastructure, subprocessors listed with their locations, a data processing agreement published, and security certifications (ISO 27001, SOC 2) stated.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: European ownership, entity, hosting and every subprocessor including SMS and email, data export and deletion documented, and certifications published with their scope rather than implied.

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The Salon Owner

The contracting entity is Doodle AG of Werdstrasse 21, 8004 Zurich, governed by Swiss law and a subsidiary of TX Group AG of Zurich; production data is stored on Amazon Web Services in Ireland with pre-production in Germany, a data processing agreement and a subprocessor list with locations are published, and a SOC 2 Type II examination is stated. Email delivery via Mailgun, payment processing via Chargebee and analytics via Google Analytics are listed with locations in the USA, so parts of the chain run outside Europe. 4 5 7 8 9

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Pricing transparency

How this is scored

Whether a buyer can compute the real annual cost from public pages alone: price per user, staff member, location or calendar, what the free plan covers, which features (SMS reminders, payments, round-robin, SSO, branding removal) sit in which tier, the cost of SMS credits and payment fees, setup and minimum term.

0 — No public prices at all; every customer is a sales call.

3 — A starting price or a free plan is published, but what scales the cost (users, staff, bookings, SMS) and what each tier includes is unclear.

5 — Tiers are public with their prices per user, staff member or location and their main features, while at least one commonly needed piece (SMS credits, payment fees, an enterprise tier) is unpriced or "on request".

8 — Every tier priced publicly with its scaling unit, add-ons and SMS credits priced, monthly and annual prices both shown, and VAT treatment and minimum term stated.

10 — Complete price computability: annual cost derivable for a given team size, location count and SMS volume, with every add-on, setup, support and payment fee and the cancellation and data-return terms published.

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The Salon Owner

The Free plan is USD 0 with its contents spelled out, Pro is billed 'per seat / month | billed annually', the yearly discount is stated as -24% with USD 120 saved versus monthly billing, Enterprise 'Starts at USD 15k Custom pricing — billed annually', taxes are charged separately, subscriptions renew automatically for twelve months, and every plan carries a 14-day right to cancel. I found no public information on the per-seat price figure for Pro or Team, on the cost of text-message reminders, or on payment fees — so I cannot compute a yearly bill for eleven chairs, and the per-seat scaling grows with every stylist I add. 3 6 15

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 of 6 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

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Questions about Doodle

Is Doodle European?

Yes, though not from the EU. whats-best.ai classifies Doodle as UK / wider Europe.

Where does Doodle store data?

The default storage location for customer data is not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 28 Oct 2026. The vendor’s pages mention Ireland and the EU as hosting locations, per the vendor’s page captured 28 Oct 2026.

Does Doodle have a free plan?

Yes. Doodle has a free plan, per the vendor’s page captured 28 Oct 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Doodle?

As of 3 Nov 2026, the panel rates zeeg (3.5/5), YouCanBookMe (3.5/5) and SimplyBook.me (3.5/5) highest among the other 18 Appointment Scheduling products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is zeeg (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: Doodle alternatives.

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Sources (19)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor homepage doodle.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Product features doodle.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Pricing page doodle.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Legal notice doodle.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Privacy policy doodle.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Terms of service doodle.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Data processing agreement doodle.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Subprocessor list doodle.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Security / trust page doodle.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Booking page & client experience — found from sitemap doodle.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Booking page & client experience — found from sitemap help.doodle.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Calendar sync & availability rules — found from sitemap doodle.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
  13. 13 Calendar sync & availability rules — found from sitemap doodle.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
  14. 14 Team, staff & location scheduling — found from sitemap help.doodle.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
  15. 15 Team, staff & location scheduling — found from sitemap doodle.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
  16. 16 Reminders, payments & no-show protection — found from sitemap doodle.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
  17. 17 Reminders, payments & no-show protection — found from sitemap doodle.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
  18. 18 Integrations, API & data export — found from sitemap doodle.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →
  19. 19 Integrations, API & data export — found from sitemap help.doodle.com Checked 28 Oct 2026 Details →