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OpenLagoon: Buy vs Skip (Branded Booking and Video for Retainer Clients)

IF your agency sells retainer-based calls, consulting sessions, or live events and needs clients to book and meet under your own logo, colors, and custom domain, THEN OpenLagoon's Free tier ($0/mo, meetings up to 5 people and 40 minutes each, calendar sync with Google and Outlook, payments routed to your own Stripe with no platform cut) is enough to validate the workflow before paying. IF you need unlimited meeting length, group sessions or live events up to 100 people, cloud recording, or your logo and colors on the booking page, THEN the Pro tier at $19/mo is the gate, and you should only upgrade once a client retainer covers that line item.

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OpenLagoon: Buy vs Skip (Branded Booking and Video for Retainer Clients)

“IF your agency sells retainer-based calls, consulting sessions, or live events and needs clients to book and meet under your own logo, colors, and custom domain, THEN OpenLagoon's Free tier ($0/mo, meetings up to 5 people and 40 minutes each, calendar sync with Google and Outlook, payments routed to your own Stripe with no platform cut) is enough to validate the workflow before paying. IF you need unlimited meeting length, group sessions or live events up to 100 people, cloud recording, or your logo and colors on the booking page, THEN the Pro tier at $19/mo is the gate, and you should only upgrade once a client retainer covers that line item.”

When is it the right choice?
  • Agency runs recurring client calls, consulting sessions, or paid live events and wants booking plus video inside one branded flow rather than stitching a scheduler to a separate conferencing tool.
  • Clients already pay through the agency's own Stripe account, so OpenLagoon's no-cut payment routing fits the existing billing path without adding a platform fee.
  • The agency's Google Calendar or Outlook is the source of truth for availability and two-way sync is required to stop double bookings across delivery staff.
  • Branded booking pages matter to the vertical being served (coaching, therapy, professional services) where a client logo, colors, and custom domain reduce friction at the point of booking.
  • The agency wants to resell a setup engagement, for example the OpenLagoon Local Booking Setup at $299/mo covering 8h setup plus 2h/mo, to local service clients who need branded booking with payment collection.
When should you skip it?
  • The agency needs to consolidate all client billing through its own merchant account or take a platform fee on transactions; OpenLagoon routes payments through the client's own Stripe account, so no platform cut is possible.
  • Delivery requires meeting lengths beyond 40 minutes or group sessions above 5 people on the Free tier, and the agency is unwilling to move to Pro at $19/mo to lift those caps.
  • The agency's client portal needs file sharing, approvals, and project tracking; OpenLagoon covers scheduling, video, calendar sync, and payments, not document collaboration.
  • Clients are enterprise accounts that require SSO, custom security review, or procurement paperwork that a low-cost scheduling and meeting tool will not satisfy.
  • The agency already pays for a conferencing and scheduling stack that clients have adopted, making a second branded booking surface redundant for the retainer base.
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