About HoneyBook
HoneyBook pricing
HoneyBook does not have a free version but does offer a free trial. HoneyBook paid version starts at US$39.00/month.
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HoneyBook Reviews
Feature rating
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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LocallyHost.Com use of HoneyBook
It enables us to create, send and manage contracts, invoicing and billing like no platform we have ever used
Pros
Easily sending out contracts and enabling the clients to sign them electronically
Cons
The cost of transitions when collecting online payments from clients
Alternatives Considered
DocuSignReasons for Choosing HoneyBook
We stopped using QuickBooks Online to send out invoices as we couldn't use it to sign documents electronicallySwitched From
Quickbooks OnlineReasons for Switching to HoneyBook
We used DocuSign for some time and stopped because HoneyBook provides significantly more value
- Industry: Photography
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Best I've Used So Far
Overall it has been a Godsend. I am feeling much better about how I manage my business with Honeybook.
Pros
I love using Honeybook! I've tried a couple other CRM softwares, and this one is by far the easiest to deploy and keep me on track. It is logical and feels easy to use, which has kept me using it rather than reverting to inefficient paper tracking. The customer service has been great: always quick and friendly to answer questions and help me through something I didn't understand. I would highly recommend Honeybook to anyone.
Cons
The calendar sync is sometimes glitchy, but that could also be user error. One thing that would make it better would be an easy way to override when I am considered "busy" on my Google Calendar that syncs in. I'd also love to have SMS communication with my clients, but rumor has it they are working on this.
Alternatives Considered
17hatsReasons for Choosing HoneyBook
Zoho was just too confusing - I love that it's one big suite to manage Social, and Website, and Accounting, and CRM, and washes my windows...but it was overwhelming, and to have someone help me set it up would require an additional subscription. Studio Cloud was just clunky. I may not have given it enough effort, but it just wasn't quite there for me.Switched From
Zoho CRM- Industry: Events Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Tries to do a lot of things, but none of them are done very well
I felt like the app looked great and had great potential, but the clunky UI design left me frustrated. We had been using it for almost a year and still felt that something just wasn't clicking. We ended up moving away from Honeybook and chose another program that was more specific to our industry.
Pros
The look and feel of the app is very clean, love the ability to add images and customize the look and feel of contracts, flyers, brochures and more. Adding a custom form field to our website was easy to do. Automation feature seems nice, but we didn't really use it.
Cons
In contracts the most frustrating thing is that you can only add line items at the very bottom of the invoice. That means if you have a very long invoice and want to add a line to the top of the page, you have to add a line at the bottom and drag it all the way up to the top ( which is extremely tedious ). It wastes so much time that it made me wonder if we wasted more time trying to use this clunky app than just doing things the way we were used to in excel!
- Industry: Entertainment
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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Plan for successful events
Honeybook is definitely professional level event planning. That made it a little harder to get used to and harder to customize but all in all it was a plus. It's a reasonable price for what you get. Customer support is actually a human instead of a chat bot.
Pros
So for the planning, coordinating, and tracking aspects, Honeybook is awesome. Our business is presented well to our clientele.
Cons
The reason I didn't renew is the payment processing speed.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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Solid Payment Invoicing & Proposal Tool
8/10. Once the client has paid the first time, their automated recurring payment solution is working really well for me.
Pros
I moved away from Quickbooks online because they didn't have an easy way to send customers automatic recurring invoices. Honeybook had pre-built service agreements along with the automated recurring payments feature I needed for my business. It was appealing to work with them because set up was very easy to get what we needed up and running
Cons
After a client pays their invoice, it usually takes 12-24 hours for Honeybook to send me a confirmation email saying they've paid. This is (I don't use this word often) absurd. With Quickbooks, I know payment confirmation comes in within 10 minutes.
Especially if I am going to start work with a client right as they pay, this hurdle in their platform stops me from getting to work right away.
It usually leads to me emailing my customer "Did you pay the invoice?" then them replying "I did!" then me looking into Honeybook wondering why the heck it hasn't come in and making me look foolish to my client... Then I finally get the notification the next day.
It's the #1 feature request they need to get updated.
