Paperbell Alternative
Simply.Coach – The Ultimate Paperbell Alternative
Simply.Coach: An End-to-end Coaching Management Platform.
With Simply.Coach, you can make your own feedback forms and surveys from scratch, or edit existing templates to tailor them to your requirements. Paperbell offers a very basic survey option, but lacks on nuances like easy to edit templates and data collation.
Whether it be associate coaches, program managers or an administrator, everyone can collaborate and work seamlessly together with Simply.Coach’s different user roles. Share access to different levels of data as per your choice with colleagues.
Pay for what you need. Unlike Paperbell, Simply.Coach has a variety of different pricing plans to help you choose the best subscription for your scale. Individual plans start as low as $9/month, in comparison to Paperbell’s $40/month.


Made for | ||
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Individual Coaches | Coaches | |
Therapists | ||
Mentors | ||
Consultants | ||
Pricing | ||
$47/ Month | Starts at $9/ Month | |
Digital Tools | ||
Survey answers | Fully customizable forms | |
Multiple choice questions | ||
Easy data collection & visualization | ||
Multiple coaching tool templates (editable) | ||
Branding | ||
Customizable landing page | Customizable domain | |
Customizable brand colors | ||
Scheduling & Availability | ||
Google, Outlook or iCal | Google & Office 365 Calendar integration | |
Pre- & post-session buffers | ||
Multiple calendars supported* | ||
Content Sharing | ||
Share files & links, without much context | Share resources and messages easily, visible in a clean timeline to refer back | |
No notes sharing or messaging capability inside the platform |
Share notes with clients easily from the platform at any time | |
Collaboration | ||
Virtually no collaboration |
Collaborate with full time associate coaches or freelance coaches | |
Access for Program Managers and Administrators | ||
Different levels of data accessibility for different roles | ||
Easy Resources & Templates Sharing with associated coaches | ||
Contracts & Invoicing | ||
E-sign contracts | Fully customizable contracts | |
No customization of contract template | E-sign contracts and get downloadable PDFs | |
Collect payments via Stripe |
Collect payments via Stripe and automatically generate invoices | |
Coaching Management | ||
No goal setting process | Collaborative goal setting with client | |
Package builder |
Easy Journey builder – Automate engagements & sell packages | |
Do the groundwork for each coaching engagement from scratch | Set up automated notes, actions, surveys and session invites with the Journey Builder | |
Templates of coaching journeys (editable) |
Made For
Paperbell is almost exclusively made for coaches, and they don’t claim anything that suggests otherwise in their marketing communications.
Simply.Coach, on the other hand, started off intended to serve only coaches, but has quickly expanded its scope to serve counsellors, therapists, consultants, training & development companies and mentors alike.
Pricing
The plus point of Paperbell’s pricing is that there is only one plan to choose from, so there’s nothing to confuse you. It either works for you or it doesn’t. If you choose to pay annually, you pay $570 (that’s $47.50 per month, which means you get 2 months’ subscription free), or else you pay $57 per month if you choose to pay monthly.
Simply.Coach takes a different approach; it offers separate pricing plans for individuals and businesses. The individual pricing plan starts from as low as $9 per month (when paid annually) –which offers basic features of the platform for a professional who’s just starting out with their practice and goes up to $59 per month with added benefits such as team/group coaching, unlimited clients, a white labelled platform and so much more. The business pricing plans range between $69 and $129 per month.
There’s something for every professional requirement and budget!
Digital Tools
With Paperbell, coaches can send their clients surveys to fill up and have the option of viewing past surveys as well. But a sore point among Paperbell users is the lack of customisation of coaching tools, forms, and surveys. They offer a very basic survey option that lacks in nuances like easy to edit templates and data collation.
Simply.Coach offers fully customizable forms, multiple choice questions, various templates for digital tools that professionals can use as is or edit as required. The repository of digital tools is ever expanding, and includes 360º Feedback, Impact Assessment, Reflective Goal Setting, and more.
The data collection is incredibly easy and automatic, which forms the basis for rich insights. The platform automatically collates responses and data into beautiful, insightful reports that the professional can share with clients and their sponsors.
Branding
Paperbell provides the option of giving its users customizable landing pages with the option to customize colours as per the brand of the business.
Apart from providing the same as Paperbell, Simply.Coach also allows its users to create a landing page (called Showcase Page) on a customizable domain of their choice. On this landing page, users can showcase their experience, certifications and credentials, list out specialities, and even connect their calendars to allow prospects to book discovery sessions/calls with them.
Scheduling & Availability
Both Paperbell and Simply.Coach offer similar features when it comes to scheduling. Paperbell allows integration with Google, Outlook, and iCal, whereas Simply.Coach offers Google and Office 365 Calendar integration.
In that sense, Simply.Coach works to replace Calendly and Acuity for its users, thus bringing down the number of toolsets in use along with a reduction in resulting cost. With Simply.Coach’s calendar integration, users can have clients book sessions based on their shown available slots, allow clients to book recurring sessions, say for 3-6 months in advance, and show their availability on their Showcase Page so prospects can directly book discovery sessions.
Not just that, Simply.Coach also lets users set up availability for different kinds of sessions at different times. You can:
- Segregate days by session types – for example, allow discoverability sessions on Monday only, and the rest of the week for current engagements
- Account for commitments and personal time, as well as buffer time between sessions
- Set a minimum and maximum buffer time so you get enough notice
- Keep the availability of certain session types private
Paperbell too offers similar features, such as allowing for time buffers between appointments, limiting how far in advance clients can book sessions, and set different availabilities for different offerings. However, Paperbell doesn’t seem to offer the feature to keep the availability of certain session types private like Simply.Coach does.
Content Sharing & Collaboration
Content sharing and collaboration is where the bulk of difference lies between Simply.Coach and Paperbell.
Simply.Coach comes with a comprehensive Client Workspace that lets its users create a completely digital, branded coaching journey for their clients all in one place. Using this space, clients can:
- Create, view, and mark progress on their own goals and actions
- Track their own progress and make notes
- Add content into their workspace and share it with you
- Assign actions to you (for ex. to review documents/work)
Simply.Coach also gives you one central repository to share notes, links and any other documents with each client, all visible in a clean timeline to refer to. And if your client doesn’t have a workspace on Simply.Coach, they receive the shared content via email, accessible/downloadable for 7 days to protect your proprietary content.
Paperbell, on the other hand, allows users to share files and links, but lacks the ability to set much context for the same. Moreover, unlike Simply.Coach, Paperbell fails to provide notes sharing or messaging capability inside the platform.
For businesses, Simply.Coach goes even further by offering its users the option to collaborate with full-time associate or freelance service professionals and gives access to Program Managers & Administrators. Relevant resources and templates can also be shared with associate coaches with much ease, so that the brand experience gets standardized. Additionally, there is the ability to set different levels of data accessibility for different roles. Paperbell offers virtually no collaboration in comparison to Simply.Coach, leaving a lot to be desired.
Contracts & Invoicing
Simply.Coach and Paperbell both offer the ability to e-sign contracts that users can share with their clients. Simply.Coach, however, goes one step further and provides the option to fully customize contracts as per requirement and get downloadable PDFs as well. Paperbell, unfortunately, provides no such option, but does provide the option to coaches to upload their own custom contracts.
Both Simply.Coach and Paperbell offer integration with Stripe, so the invoicing and payment collection process is streamlined on both platforms. However, where Paperbell offers the ability to accept payments across 8 currencies, Simply.Coach offers the same in 135+ different currencies!
Coaching Management
Since we’re comparing two major coaching management platforms, it is important to compare the actual coaching management features.
Simply.Coach provides for a collaborative goal setting process with the client. It also comes with an easy Journey builder to templatise, standardize, and automate the coaching journey from start to finish (with an option for customization). The Journeys feature works at a micro level by enabling users to set up automated notes, actions, surveys, and session invites.
Paperbell does not provide any goal-setting feature, a missed crucial element of coaching. While they do provide a package builder, there is no option to templatize and standardize a coaching engagement, which means that the coach must build each coaching engagement from scratch, which ends up eating into time that could be spent more productively.

- Paperbell is a coaching management platform built primarily for individual coaches
- While Paperbell has capabilities like – Calendar integration, contract signing, package builder and payment processing; It lacks in the depth of these features
- They have coaching tools to ask questions, but they’re not customizable. You can only collect paragraph style answers, so you can’t run customized surveys with multiple choice questions


- Simply.Coach is a coaching management platform that caters to individual coaches, coaching businesses as well as enterprises
- With Simply.Coach, reduce your admin effort and save over 30% of your time
- You can build your branded coaching business by whitelabelling the platform
- You can highlight the ROI of your coaching with completely customizable coaching tools and reports
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Josh Alwitt Leadership

CoachFluence

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Being one of the top-rated platforms on G2, Capterra, GetApp, and Software Advice, the love of our customers is very evident. Another badge of honour is the recognition from Capterra as the “Best Value” Coaching Platform for 2022! We’re also proud receivers of the “High Performer Overall” and “High Performer for Small Businesses” badges on G2!