ReserveBee or OnlineAfspraken.nl: pay per resource or per booking?

OnlineAfspraken.nl is a Dutch booking system with more than 4,000 active customers in the Netherlands and Belgium, more broadly applicable than the name sometimes suggests: from healthcare practices to sports clubs, education and retail. It's an established player with an extensive feature set. Still, there's a fundamental difference in how you pay, with a big impact depending on how your business is structured.

Three key differences at a glance

What OnlineAfspraken.nl does well

OnlineAfspraken.nl is functionally broad: a 24/7 booking widget with Google and Outlook sync, wide support for Dutch payment methods (iDEAL, Bancontact, SEPA, PayPal, Trustly, alongside cards), waitlists with automatic fulfillment, buffer times between appointments, and support for recurring and group appointments. The platform is available in five languages and is ISO 27001-certified with hosting in the Netherlands, which can be a requirement in some sectors (healthcare, government). There are no connection fees to get started. There's also a consumer app for customers to manage their bookings, and an integrated point-of-sale system for anyone who also sells in person alongside reservations.

Where ReserveBee makes the difference

OnlineAfspraken.nl's pricing model is based on the number of resources, not on how much you actually book. For an organisation with multiple staff, rooms or fields but a quiet booking month, that means: you pay the same as in a peak month. ReserveBee flips that around: add as many bookable objects as you like, at no surcharge, and only pay for what actually gets booked. OnlineAfspraken.nl also lacks a comparable automatic bundle-blocking feature: with ReserveBee, booking a larger object automatically blocks its individual parts (for example a whole sports field versus its two halves), while OnlineAfspraken.nl can only link separate components to one booking. Finally, OnlineAfspraken.nl requires a one-month cancellation notice; with ReserveBee there's no lock-in.

A worked pricing example

Say you're a small practice with 3 treatment rooms but only 20 bookings in a quiet month.

OnlineAfspraken.nl claims more than 4,000 active customers in the Netherlands and Belgium, making it an established, trusted name. But that scale doesn't change the pricing model: because OnlineAfspraken.nl charges per resource, you pay the Groei rate as soon as you have 2 or more rooms, even in a month with barely any bookings. ReserveBee costs nothing in that same situation, and the bill only grows once bookings actually come in, regardless of how many objects you offer. Grow further still, and OnlineAfspraken.nl's top Platinum plan (unlimited resources, white-label, a dedicated account manager) starts at €250 per month. With ReserveBee the pricing model simply stays per reservation at any scale.

Switching from OnlineAfspraken.nl to ReserveBee

Switching from OnlineAfspraken.nl mainly comes down to translating your resources into objects within ReserveBee. We help you migrate staff, rooms or other resources for free, including existing customer data and upcoming bookings, so nothing changes for your customers. If you use combined bookings across multiple resources at OnlineAfspraken.nl, we translate that into bundles, with the added benefit that booking the whole automatically blocks the individual parts from then on. Prefer to start yourself right away? You can: start a free trial and you're live within minutes.

Personal contact, not just a system

OnlineAfspraken.nl and ReserveBee are both Dutch companies and GDPR-compliant, so on that front they're not far apart. The difference is in the direct line to the team behind the product: questions, feature requests and bug reports go straight to the people actually building the next version, instead of a support department passing along a ticket. For a small practice with just a couple of resources, that personal contact can be just as valuable as the price difference itself.

Who should choose ReserveBee?

Also weigh how likely you are to add more resources over time: adding a fourth or fifth bookable object at OnlineAfspraken.nl means yet another pricing tier, while at ReserveBee it never changes what you pay. Do you work with a fixed, small number of resources that are consistently fully booked, making the difference with a volume-based model small? OnlineAfspraken.nl, with its broad feature set and Dutch hosting, is a solid choice. Do you instead have multiple objects, rooms or staff with fluctuating occupancy, or want to bundle objects intelligently without a per-resource surcharge? Then ReserveBee is more affordable and more flexible. Not sure? Simply count your current resources and multiply that by OnlineAfspraken.nl's resource price, then compare it to what you actually process in bookings today. We help you migrate your resources, services and customers for free.

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