15 Scheduling Software ROI Statistics (2026)
Scheduling tools can affect meeting coordination time, attendance, access and revenue, but returns depend on the organization and workflow. Forrester's August 2023 Calendly study models a 1,000-employee IT company with 230 users from interviews at four organizations. Its enterprise model and individual vendor case studies should not be treated as typical small-business returns or SchedulingKit performance guarantees.
Collection updated: October 2026
15 Scheduling Software ROI Statistics (2026) reveal key trends in scheduling and appointment management. This collection contains 15 data points. Check each source's population, reporting period and methodology before applying a figure to your business; forecasts and vendor case studies are not general industry results.
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Overall ROI & Payback
Calculated first-year net ROI in Forrester's commissioned 2023 Calendly model: ($362,931 benefits minus $103,030 initial/year-one costs) divided by costs. Composite IT company with 230 users; not an observed average.
Calculated from Forrester TEI of Calendly, August 2023, financial summary
Modeled three-year ROI for Calendly in a 1,000-employee IT composite with 230 users, based on interviews at four organizations. Commissioned by Calendly; results are not guaranteed for other businesses.
Modeled payback in Forrester's April 2024 Coconut Software study: a financial institution with $4.5 billion in assets and 300 users. Applies to the combined scheduling/queue/video-banking suite, not typical scheduling-software payback.
Annual risk-adjusted benefits in Forrester's 2023 Calendly enterprise composite, before costs; includes renewal profit and recruiting/booking efficiency. Not typical small-business revenue.
Forrester TEI of Calendly, August 2023, Table: Total Benefits
Share of reviewers in Software Advice's appointment-scheduling feature analysis rating appointment management critical or highly important. This measures feature importance; the page does not publish a denominator for this feature-specific percentage.
Software Advice, Appointment Scheduling Software category and feature analysis
Time Savings
Time saved scheduling smaller group events in a 96-person ETH Zurich thesis experiment reported by Doodle in 2021. This vendor summary does not establish average weekly professional savings.
Doodle report of ETH Zurich scheduling experiment, November 2021
External-meeting booking time saved over three years in Forrester's 230-user Calendly enterprise composite; a modeled organization-wide result, not annual savings for each business.
Reduction in unnecessary scheduling emails and communications reported by Achievement First's IT team after adopting Calendly; a customer case study, not a Reclaim.ai or industry average.
Time for UT Austin technology-support deployment projects before and with Calendly, as reported in a vendor case study; a specific administrative scheduling workflow, not an average 26% reduction across businesses.
Per-meeting time savings used in Forrester's 2023 Calendly model: 10 minutes for sales/customer success and 15 for recruiters, based on interviews. These are external-meeting assumptions, not every appointment.
Forrester TEI of Calendly, August 2023, meeting-booking table
Revenue Recovery
Modeled per-patient Medicare revenue increase with targeted staff reminder calls in a 2013 Massachusetts General Hospital primary-care trial; no-shows fell 6.4 percentage points, but the observed reimbursement difference was not statistically significant and fixed costs of developing the intervention were not tracked.
UK consumers wanting to book beauty or personal-care appointments after hours or on weekends in Square's September 2022 survey of 1,000 consumers. This measures stated preference rather than incremental bookings or revenue.
Increase in online bookings compared with the previous system reported by management of J Sterling's five-location wellness spa in a Zenoti customer case study. This vendor-reported result is not average revenue growth; the page does not publish the measurement period or booking counts.
Share of customers using Square's Text Us feature who ultimately booked an appointment, as of April 2024; not a 33% uplift in new bookings.
Estimated annual billed revenue associated with 4,627 missed appointments in one Dallas pediatric otolaryngology clinic, studied from December 2021 to December 2022. The range varies by assumed visit billing level; it is not collected or recovered revenue per provider.
Sunkara et al., Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology, 2025
What the Data Tells Us
Forrester's commissioned Calendly model reports 318% ROI over three years. A first-year net ROI of approximately 252% can be calculated from its annual cash-flow table; neither is an observed industry average.
Time savings depend on workflow and meeting volume. Forrester used 10-15 minutes per external meeting in its enterprise model, while Doodle reports an experiment with smaller group events.
After-hours access and fewer no-shows can contribute to revenue, but a booking is not necessarily incremental revenue. Measure attendance, fees collected and whether the client would otherwise have booked during office hours.
Forrester models $362,931 in annual benefits before costs for its enterprise composite. Do not add unrelated case-study benefits together or assume they apply to a typical service business.
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