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3 Reasons Why Users Prefer Simply.Coach Over Paperbell

Customizable Coaching Tools

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.

Collaborate With Ease

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.

Cost Effective

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.

Here are some key differences between features of Simply.Coach and Paperbell:


Made for
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.

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

Trusted by businesses across 34+ countries! Why?

Simple! We are a platform built by coaches, for coaches – we care about the coaching community and go above & beyond to be a partner in every growth journey, ensuring you’re never left wanting for more.

And that’s not just us saying that; here's what our customers think of us:

"Simply.Coach has quality built within it. It has security built within it. It has confidence built within it. It has ethics built within it. It has a flow that is understandable that is built within it and it has an administration process that doesn't feel like a burden. It is based on interpersonal relationship connectivity, it is based on the flow of growth and personal development. It far outweighs anything that I have ever seen. You have touched the DNA of coaching through this application."

“Simply.Coach has been very useful in helping me get my coaching business started with my first client. It is accessible, fairly easy to use, cost-effective, has a lot of abilities, and is constantly improving. The staff is friendly and helpful and always available to assist with a problem. They also will provide great training on the system when you come on board. Working with Simply.Coach has been really good and I anticipate using it for the foreseeable future as my business grows."

"Simply.Coach supports me, organises my coaching engagements, makes me look professional in front of my clients and supports my clients to keep a track of the progress. It's a must-do for every coach!"

"I loved the Simply.Coach interface. Ram and Chirag explained the different amazing features your product has! Really impressed with the simple but rich design."

"Simply.Coach is a single place to manage your coaching client relationships and stay focused on what will be most helpful to each client. You don't have to wonder where you took those coaching notes in your previous session with a client, or where you kept track of their committed actions. You can even automate nudges to remind clients to do what they committed to."

"Simply.Coach is user friendly, easy to set up, and feature-rich. It helps me manage all my engagements in one place - so much easier than excel docs and email. I am enjoying the platform and support is always quick and extremely helpful."

"A great tool to equip yourself with! Simply.Coach's response to queries and issues has been super quick. It helps in keeping track of the entire coaching engagement in one place and keeping coach-coachee aligned on where we are in the engagement."

"Game changer - I like that the tool is simple enough to intuitively get a hold of the functionality, while capturing all the things that are critical for a coaching business."

Here’s what users missed in Paperbell

(Paperbell Reviews from Capterra)

“The survey questions drive me insane” (Lack of customizable forms, surveys and tools - coaching tools need more than just paragraph style answers.)

“Want flexibility for my clients or me to reschedule appointments in less than 24 hours” (Paperbell doesn’t offer granular scheduling and availability settings.)

“I wish there was a goals section so that I can enter in goals for my clients and also that clients can enter in themselves.” (Goal setting, a crucial part of coaching, is missing from the platform.)

“Sometimes you just need to talk out an issue with someone and the answer is quick and easy, instead of writing multiple email over the course of a week to figure something out.” (Lack of immediate chat support or help articles means often being stuck on problems that could be solved in seconds.)

“...not offering customization in the contract space isn't a good idea” (Not just coaching tools, but contracts need customization too, to be able to address your individual requirements as a coach/coaching business)

The platform rated #1 for Customer Success, Support & Value

We are rated 5.0 for “Customer Support” (the highest in the industry) & 4.9 for “Best Value for Money” (again highest in the industry)! Apart from offering the most value as a platform, Simply.Coach also provides the best-in-class, unmatched customer service. Whether it be our ever-ready chat support, detailed onboarding process or intuitive problem solving, we make sure you find success in scaling your business.

Businesses like yourself really love Simply.Coach!

We are rated 5.0 for “Customer Support” (the highest in the industry) & 4.9 for “Best Value for Money” (again highest in the industry)!
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!