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Pairing your CRM and meeting scheduler tool is the perfect way to keep track of customer and lead engagements and activities. Nutshell Scheduler takes client appointments a step further by offering you the tools to affect real business growth. And to make things even easier, Nutshell Scheduler is built straight into Nutshell, eliminating the need for third-party CRM integration.
Nutshell Scheduler outperforms Doodle in the following ways:
Doodle is a meeting and collaboration scheduling tool with various features, including group polls for team meeting scheduling, event sign-up sheets, and automatic reminders.
Nutshell Scheduler is an advanced built-in meeting scheduler for Nutshell, an award-winning CRM solution designed to help businesses improve productivity and increase revenue. Because Scheduler is built into the Nutshell system, it has easy access to Nutshell’s many tools, including your customer data. This makes it easy to interact with leads and customers through Nutshell Scheduler for improved nurturing and relationship building.
Book product demos, collaborative team huddles, client sales calls, and more with ease directly from the Nutshell platform. Invite meeting attendees by sharing your Scheduler link or embedding it on your website, plus give attendees the option to invite others. Attach a custom form to your meetings and appointments to capture essential prospect information. And send automated reminders and emails to engage and convert leads.
Schedule meetings, appointments, and more. Transforming bookings into opportunities for business growth has never been easier than with Nutshell Scheduler. See Scheduler in use!
You’ve likely read about Doodle when on the hunt for the best online meeting scheduling tool. While it certainly offers a few helpful features, its complexity, zero co-hosting option on lower plans, and lack of sales integration make Doodle an undesirable option for many.
Nutshell Scheduler is the ideal Doodle alternative, providing:
Let’s take a closer look at how these two online appointment scheduling tools stack up against each other.
Because Scheduler is built right into Nutshell, you’ll always have a holistic view of your relationships with the customers and prospects scheduling bookings. Effortlessly embed your scheduler link into a Nutshell Form to capture vital information about your audience so that you can better understand them.
Nutshell will automatically send the information gathered through your form to your CRM, creating either a new Company or Person record and adding them as a Lead to your chosen sales pipeline. Viewing the record gives you access to all the Person or Company information and a detailed timeline of every interaction with your prospect.
Assign an activity type to each appointment, whether a Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams meeting, phone call, or demo, so that you can draw reports related to Scheduler bookings. This is a great way to keep track of call and meeting quotas and assess your team’s overall productivity.
If you opt for Doodle as your meeting scheduler, you’ll need an app like Zapier to facilitate integration with your CRM. This could become challenging, especially if you’re unfamiliar with the tech. It would also prove more expensive, as you’d have to sign up with Zapier and a CRM to get a good overview of your customer and prospect information relationships.
Whether you’re organizing a recruitment interview or client meeting, you may need more than one team member present for various reasons. With Scheduler, you can seamlessly add a team member as a co-host to a new or existing event at no additional cost.
Simply choose the Co-host option when you begin the event setup process and add the relevant co-hosts from the dropdown list below it. Changing an existing “Solo” meeting to a “Co-host” meeting in the scheduler is equally as straightforward, with an “Add co-host(s)” button visible at the top right-hand corner of the scheduled event. All that’s left to do is update the hosting details by clicking the “Hosting details” link above the event.
Doodle also offers a co-hosting option, but there are some conditions attached. First, you must be a Team or Enterprise plan subscriber to access this feature. Second, you can only add another user from your team as a co-host, which means you’ll need to add them as a user at an additional cost.
At Nutshell, we realize that a lot of people on your team may need to book appointments, whether it’s your sales reps, customer success team, marketers, or executives. It’s why Scheduler is included on the Nutshell Sales Pro plan, and every plan above it.
For just $42 per user per month, you give everyone on your team all the features on the Sales Pro plan, including the ability to create and book appointments—and others like sales automation, personal email sequences, the full reporting suite, and more.
With Doodle, you can choose between three paid plans and a highly limited free plan. Paid plans are priced per user and start at $6.95 per user per month if billed annually. This entry price jumps all the way up to $14.95 per user per month if billed monthly. Irrespective, the cost of your Doodle scheduling tool can become rather steep when adding team members.
You’ll need a paid Doodle plan to add a second user and increase to more than one sign-up sheet, booking page, and 1:1 per month. You’ll also need to sign up for Doodle’s higher-tier plans to take advantage of features like co-hosted events, admin console, roles and permissions, activity reports, and single sign-on.
The Nutshell Sales Pro plan gets you essential Scheduler features, so your whole team can start scheduling appointments with leads and customers right away. Sales Pro includes:
By upgrading to the Sales Business or Sales Enterprise plans, you can also leverage:
Nutshell Scheduler vs. the 4 tiers of Doodle (updated April 2025)
Nutshell Scheduler is available in our Pro, Business and Enterprise Nutshell Sales plans. Some Scheduler features are only available on Sales Business & Enterprise. We’ll highlight those features in the table below.
Scheduler is included on every Nutshell Sales Pro plan and above. Doodle has four plans to sift through.
Included with our Sales Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans at no additional cost.
Scheduler is built into Nutshell CRM, so you get the complete picture of every client relationship.
Assign activity types for your scheduler meetings so you can log and report on them later in your Nutshell reports.
Easily embed Nutshell Scheduler on your website with just a few clicks.
Nutshell Scheduler lets you add multiple co-hosts to any booking, so you can get the right people in on your appointments.
Replace Nutshell branding with your company logo to enhance brand recognition
Automate confirmation and reminder emails once attendees book your appointments to reduce no-shows and keep everyone updated.
Nutshell forms are completely customizable, so you can design branded forms to include in your schedulers and collect exactly the information you need from prospects.
With Nutshell Scheduler, your team can create and book an unlimited number of appointments with attendees.
Nutshell Scheduler lets you turn any booking into a one-to-many appointment, and attendees can invite others to keep every important stakeholder in the loop.
Automatically rotate meeting assignments between your team members based on availability.
Host Scheduler links on your custom domain for enhanced brand recognition.
Customize your main and individual meeting pages with a unique link and your Nutshell avatar
Enable secret bookings that are hidden from your main Scheduler page and only accessible through a private link you share with attendees, perfect for confidential or internal meetings
A shareable web page with all of your public-facing meeting options. With a Sales Business and Sales Enterprise plan, you can add your photo and a company logo to customize your Scheduler page.
Sync your Scheduler meetings with your Google and Microsoft calendars
Scheduler syncs with Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams, so you can book appointments however works best.
Available on Monday-Friday, 7:30am to 10:30pm Eastern Time (excluding holidays).
Create a ticket through a support email.
Setting up appointments for client calls and demos is essential for any sales or marketing team. Utilizing a quality meeting scheduler tool makes engaging with customers and prospects a breeze.
When you integrate a great meeting scheduler with your CRM solution, your customer relationship management and building efforts reach a new level. Assess prospect and customer needs through your centralized CRM database, using your scheduler to bolster client interactions and reinforce customer or lead relationships.
Keep track of every meeting and web form associated with a contact, and use it to gain in-depth insight that can help move your contact from lead to customer.
When it comes to booking and managing appointments with potential customers that will result in real business growth, Nutshell Scheduler is the meeting scheduler your team needs.
With its all-in-one meeting scheduler and CRM functionality, integration with web forms, superior support, and per-company pricing, Nutshell Scheduler can help your business level up its outreach and drive higher revenue.
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