BookingLive alternativeA BookingLive alternative built for training, not general bookings.
BookingLive is a booking platform for businesses, the NHS and local government, covering appointments, rooms, venues and courses. Cademy is built only for training providers and includes online learning, certificates and company invoicing.
Course booking is one BookingLive use among several.
BookingLive describes itself as “One Online Booking Platform For Businesses and Government”. Course booking is one of its uses, alongside appointments, facility and room hire, and venue bookings. It is strongest at scale and in the public sector, with ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus, a G-Cloud listing and local authority customers.
On a training course, learners often do online lessons and quizzes after booking and get a certificate with an expiry date. Company clients want one invoice for their staff. BookingLive's site describes completion certificates and Zoom for online classes, but no LMS.
Plans, fees and what is included.
From BookingLive's pricing and feature pages.
| Cademy | BookingLive | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Professional training providers | Businesses and government, for appointments, rooms, venues and courses |
| Free plan | Yes, with no time limit and 1,000 registrations a year | Start plan, up to 25 bookings a month |
| What a plan includes | Booking, LMS, certificates with expiry, invoices with PO numbers from Pro, CRM and scheduling. No platform fee on Pro and Teams | Bookings for appointments, rooms, venues and courses, with completion certificates and Zoom |
| Larger plans | Teams £499 ($649) a month billed yearly, 5,000 registrations a year | Enterprise from £7,500 a year, up to 12,000 bookings, on a two-year minimum contract |
| Online learning | Included on every plan. SCORM 1.2 on Teams | Not offered. Zoom for online classes |
| Certificates | Issued automatically, with expiry dates. CPD points from Pro | Automated course completion certificates |
| Rooms and venues | A saved venue on each course date | Facility, venue and room bookings |
| Accounting | Xero on Teams | Xero, QuickBooks and Sage 50 listed |
Checked November 2, 2026 on BookingLive's own pages: Small business pricing, Enterprise pricing, Features, Integrations, Course booking system.
The parts of a training business a booking platform leaves out.
Lessons, video, downloads, quizzes with a pass mark, drip release and forums, on every plan. SCORM 1.2 is on Teams.
Contacts link to their organization by email domain, the booker adds attendees after buying places, and invoices carry the client's PO number from Pro.
Pro and Teams charge no platform fee on bookings, so you pay only your payment provider's card fees. BookingLive's small business plans list a transaction fee of 2% to 3% plus 40p on each paid booking.
Pro and Teams can be paid monthly or yearly. BookingLive's Enterprise platform has a two-year minimum contract, with the first year paid on signature.
When BookingLive is the better choice.
BookingLive fits if
- You book rooms, facilities or appointments as well as courses.
- You are a public sector body that buys through G-Cloud or needs ISO 27001 or Cyber Essentials Plus from the vendor.
- Your volume runs to tens of thousands of bookings a year across several sites.
- You need options such as multi-site, white label or virtual queuing.
Cademy fits if
- You only sell training.
- Your courses include online lessons, quizzes or SCORM modules.
- Companies book places for their staff and pay by invoice.
- You want no per-booking platform fee on a paid plan.
Moving your courses and attendees from BookingLive.
BookingLive exports reports and data as CSV, and you can import those files into Cademy yourself on any plan.
Export from BookingLive
Export attendees, orders and events from BookingLive's reports as CSV files.
Import into Cademy
Contacts, organizations, courses, dates, registrations and orders come in from those files. On Teams, our team helps you migrate them. On Enterprise, we carry out the migration for you.
Switch the booking pages
Swap BookingLive's booking pages for Cademy's calendar embed or booking site, and connect Stripe, PayPal or Klarna for card payments.
On a BookingLive Enterprise contract, plan the move around the end of the two-year term.
Before leaving BookingLive.
Does BookingLive have an LMS?
BookingLive's site does not describe an LMS. It offers completion certificates and Zoom for online classes. On Cademy, online lessons and quizzes sit inside the course on every plan.
What does a Cademy paid plan include?
Pro and Teams charge no platform fee on bookings. Both include course booking, online lessons and quizzes, certificates with expiry dates, invoices with the client's PO number, the training CRM and one scheduling calendar. Teams adds Xero and SCORM 1.2.
Can I move from BookingLive to Cademy?
Yes. Export your attendees, orders and events from BookingLive as CSV and import them on any plan, Free included. Teams customers get migration help from us, and Enterprise customers get a full migration run by our team.
How does Cademy handle venues?
Each course date carries a saved venue, shown in the calendar and on the booking pages. If you also hire out rooms or facilities on their own, BookingLive books those.
Book a call about moving from BookingLive.
Bring your yearly course and attendee numbers, and we will explain how the import works on each plan.
No card needed. See every plan on the pricing page.