The HoneyBook alternative built for service businesses worldwide.
HoneyBook raised prices by ~89% in February 2025 — and still bills clients in USD only. Hey Otto starts at $29/mo, ships native multi-currency, and runs the whole back office through a real AI agent you can talk to. One app. Pipeline, invoices, time, books, calendar.
CSV import from HoneyBook · 1-minute setup · multi-currency from day one
HoneyBook raised prices by ~89%.
Essentials moved from $19 to $36. Premium from $39 to $59. Premium-with-add-ons north of $79. For solo creatives and small studios, that hike pushed the math past the point where "best fit for our vertical" was still worth it.
We did the opposite. Pricing is anchored against the stack you delete, not against your team size or contact count.
Head to head, no gymnastics.
Where HoneyBook is the stronger fit, we say so. Where we are, we show you why.
Why service businesses switch.
Four reasons, in priority order, drawn from operators who actually made the move.
You bill in something other than dollars.
HoneyBook bills clients in USD only. If you invoice in euros, pounds, shekels, Australian or Canadian dollars — or your clients do — that's a wall, not a workaround. Hey Otto ships native multi-currency: primary and secondary per organization, per-deal currency override, live FX rates, PDF invoices in any currency.
You want an AI that does the work.
HoneyBook AI drafts emails for you to send. Otto runs 35 tool-calling actions across pipeline, invoicing, time, books, and calendar — by voice or chat. Every write surfaces an editable confirmation card; every action has 30-day undo. The agent is a power tool, not autocomplete.
You're tired of the parallel spreadsheet.
HoneyBook handles proposal-to-payment. It does not give you a books ledger or time tracking — so you keep paying for QuickBooks Self-Employed and Toggl on top. Hey Otto bundles both natively. Bank statement import with AI duplicate detection lets you reconcile without leaving the app.
You want pricing that respects you.
A ~89% one-time hike teaches a brittle lesson. We anchor pricing against the stack we replace ($66+/mo of CRM + bookkeeping + time + scheduling + AI), not against your contact count. $29 Solo. $69 Studio. $149 Agency. Free plan to try.
Bringing your data across.
The hardest part of switching is the data. We made it the easiest.
Export from HoneyBook
Contacts, projects, invoices — all CSV-exportable from your HoneyBook account.
Drag into Hey Otto
Otto maps the columns, flags duplicates, and previews everything before he commits a single record.
Bring your books across too
Drop a bank-statement PDF or CSV. Otto parses, deduplicates against existing entries, and writes the ledger.
Run them in parallel for a month
You don't have to cut over in a day. Most operators run both for the first invoice cycle, then drop HoneyBook.
Switching from HoneyBook?
Is Hey Otto really cheaper than HoneyBook after their 2025 price increase?
Yes. HoneyBook raised prices by ~89% in February 2025; their Essentials tier moved from $19 to $36, Premium from $39 to $59, and Premium-with-add-ons north of $79. Hey Otto starts at $29 for the Solo plan and $69 for studios up to 5 people — and bundles in time tracking and a books ledger that HoneyBook does not include at any tier.
Does Hey Otto support currencies other than USD?
Native multi-currency from day one. Primary and secondary currency per organization, per-deal currency override, live exchange rates, and PDF invoices in any currency. HoneyBook bills clients only in USD — a hard wall for European, UK, Australian, Canadian, Israeli, and LATAM operators.
Can I import my HoneyBook data?
Yes. CSV import for contacts, companies, deals, and invoices. Bank statement import (PDF or CSV) for any historical revenue and expense records you want to bring across into the books. We handle the messy parts.
How is Hey Otto's AI different from HoneyBook AI?
HoneyBook AI is a generative-text helper — it drafts emails and proposals you still need to send yourself. Otto is a tool-calling agent: 35 real actions across pipeline, invoicing, time, books, and calendar that he executes for you, with an editable confirmation card before every write and 30-day undo on every action. You can also drive him by voice.
What about contracts, proposals, and online signatures?
Templated PDF invoices today, with proposals and e-signatures on the near-term roadmap. If signed proposals are your single most-used HoneyBook feature, wait one quarter or import in parallel — we will not pretend we ship every HoneyBook feature.
Is Hey Otto a good fit for wedding and event creatives specifically?
Hey Otto is built for service businesses generally — designers, marketers, dev shops, consultants, coaches, photographers, videographers. We are not a wedding-vertical product the way HoneyBook is. If you need wedding-specific workflow templates and a marketplace, HoneyBook still owns that lane. If you want an operations platform that handles the whole back office and an AI agent that runs work for you, that is us.
Can I try it without a credit card?
Yes. Free plan, 1 user, unlimited contacts, light agent use. Set up in under a minute. Cancel any time.