When I Work alternative

When I Work schedules your team. Your customers still cannot book.

When I Work covers shift scheduling, a time clock, and team messaging. But it has no customer-facing booking page, so you pay for a second tool to take appointments. Harbor does the customer booking and the staff schedule together, for one flat price.

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The front desk and the back office.

Customer booking, deposits, and reminders on one side. Staff scheduling, time clock, and PTO on the other. Same login, one bill.

No-show killer

SMS reminders

Twenty-four hour and one-hour text reminders fire automatically. Clients can reschedule from the link in the text. Carrier-registered for reliable delivery.

Get paid up front

Deposits via Stripe

Charge a percentage of the service price at booking. Money lands directly in your Stripe account. Per-org refund rules for cancels and reschedules.

Pass-through, not stored

Intake questions

Ask what you need at booking. Answers go straight to your inbox. Harbor never writes them to a database. Marketable as a real privacy promise.

Your site, your brand

Embeddable widget

Drop a single iframe snippet on Squarespace, Wix, WordPress, or plain HTML. Your customers book without leaving your site.

Recover cancellations

Auto-waitlist

Slot fills up? Clients join the waitlist with one tap. When someone cancels, the next match gets a book-now link. No staff time required.

Set once, run forever

Recurring appointments

Weekly, biweekly, or monthly. Up to 26 occurrences booked in one click with automatic conflict detection. Cancel one or cancel the whole series.

Your brand on top

Co-branded everything

Your logo and business name appear on the booking page, the admin dashboard, the confirmation emails, and the reschedule pages. Harbor sits underneath as "powered by".

Service catalog

Prices, deposits, buffer time

Per-service pricing and deposit percentage. Buffer minutes before and after each appointment so back-to-back slots stop wrecking your day.

Workforce included

Staff scheduling

Shift templates, time tracking, PTO, shift marketplace, internal messaging. Most booking tools make you pay extra. We don't.

When I Work is half a stack. Harbor is the whole thing.

When I Work handles the staff side, the schedule and the time clock. But customers cannot book through it, so teams bolt on Acuity, Calendly, or a paper book. Two logins, two bills, and customer data spread across both.

Harbor runs the customer-facing booking page and the back-office schedule from the same account. One subscription, one place your data lives, no per-seat math.

  • Customers book online and staff get scheduled, in one app
  • Deposits, SMS reminders, and pass-through intake on the booking side
  • Shifts, time clock, PTO, and shift swaps on the staff side
  • Flat $5.99/mo, unlimited employees, no per-seat pricing
Your monthly stack
$5.99
Flat. Booking and staff, unlimited employees.

When I Work (staff only)Per user, per month
+ a separate booking appAnother bill
Harbor (booking + staff)$5.99 flat
Per-seat chargesNone

Booking and back office.

When I Work covers your staff. Harbor covers your staff and your customers, in one tool.

FeatureHarbor BookingWhen I Work
Customer online booking Included Not offered
Appointment deposits (Stripe) 2% platform fee, plus Stripe fees Not offered
Customer SMS reminders Included Not offered
Embeddable booking widget One iframe snippet Not offered
Employee shift scheduling Included Included
Employee time clock and PTO Included Included
One tool, front desk and back office Yes Staff side only
Pricing $5.99/mo flat, unlimited staff Per user, per month

Two prices. No surprises.

Free covers a solo operator taking bookings. Pro adds SMS and unlimited staff for the back office.

One bill, not two. Staff-scheduling tools charge per employee, then you pay again for a booking app. Harbor is one flat price for both, with no per-seat charges.

Free

For solo operators and small teams.

$0 /month
  • Unlimited bookings
  • Email reminders
  • Embeddable widget
  • Pass-through intake
  • Waitlist and self-serve reschedule
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One login.
The whole operation.

One login for the people who work for you and the people who book with you. Set up your services, import your team, go.

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