Comparison
Looking for a HoneyBook alternative for a UK event business?
If you are weighing up tools, the useful question is not which one has the longest feature list — it is which one fits how a UK event business takes work on and delivers it. Here is what is worth checking, and where StoonOS fits.
We have not benchmarked or tested other products, so this page makes no claims about them — only about StoonOS.
Why people look
The reasons we actually hear.
The money side does not match how you work
Currency, invoicing habits and VAT handling differ from market to market. When a tool is built around another market’s defaults, the workarounds land on you — usually in the least convenient week of the season.
The client work is covered, the event work is not
Client paperwork is one part of running events. What happens after the signature — suppliers, guest numbers, tasks, documents, the run of show — often stays in spreadsheets beside the tool rather than inside it.
The team has outgrown how it is shared
One person holding the logins, or a single shared account, stops working the moment there are two of you. Capacity problems usually show up as coordination problems first.
Growth means more events, not more people
The next step is usually taking on more work with the team you have. That is an operational question — where the work lives and who can see it — rather than a paperwork one.
Before you commit
Six things worth checking in any tool, including ours.
These apply whether you stay where you are, move to StoonOS or choose something else. Ask them of every option.
- Currency, invoicing and any VAT handling you actually need
- Whether the operational work lives in the tool or beside it
- What your client sees, and whether they need an account to see it
- How your team shares access, and what each person can change
- Whether one workspace covers all the event types you run
- What leaving looks like: export, ownership, and how you would move
Where StoonOS fits
One workspace for the client work and the event work.
StoonOS exists because the operational side of an event business is usually the part that gets left out. Client paperwork tools are common. A workspace that holds the suppliers, the guest numbers, the task list, the documents and the run of show for every live event — alongside the enquiry, the proposal and the contract — is rarer, and it is the part that decides how many events a small team can actually carry.
It is built international-first rather than for one market: an organisation sets its own country, currency, time zone and language, and GBP is one of the supported currencies. We are onboarding our first group of UK wedding professionals now, which is why the product is in private beta rather than on open sale.
It is also honest about its edges. Nothing on this site claims a capability the product does not have, and the list below is the current state rather than a roadmap.
What you would actually get today
In the product today
- Enquiries, clients and contacts on one record, with details proposed from your text or a connected Gmail inbox and your approval before a lead exists
- Proposals with line items, calculated totals and version history, accepted by the client from a private link
- Contracts drafted, versioned and sent by private link, with the client signing there after a one-time email code
- A passwordless client portal showing clients their event and released documents
- Events, suppliers, guest lists with public RSVP links, documents, tasks and run-of-show timelines
- Budgets with planned, approved and actual costs, in one currency per budget
- Deposit requests, payment schedules and invoices: a deposit requested from the client, the balance split into installments, and invoices a client can open from a private link. Payments are made to you directly and recorded in StoonOS; it does not take card or online payments
- Country, currency, time zone and language set per organisation — GBP included
Not in StoonOS yet
- Signature fields placed on a PDF, multi-signer flows, or a countersignature from you
- Any automated import or migration from another product
- Accounting integrations, VAT or tax handling
- A published price, or anything to buy — StoonOS is in private beta
Frequently asked questions
Is StoonOS a HoneyBook alternative?
It can be, for the operational side of an event business. StoonOS holds enquiries, clients, proposals, contracts, suppliers, guests, documents, tasks, timelines and budgets in one workspace. It is not a like-for-like replacement for every part of another product: it raises invoices, requests deposits and scheduled installments that you record as they arrive, and lets a client sign a contract from its private link, but it does not take card or online payments, there is no automated migration path from anywhere else, and that signing is a single client verifying with a one-time code rather than a full e-signature platform.
Can I migrate my existing data across?
Not automatically. StoonOS has no importer today, so existing clients, projects and documents have to be entered by hand. Mid-season that is worth planning around — most people start with the events already coming up and leave the historical records where they are.
Does StoonOS work for UK businesses?
StoonOS is browser-based, and each organisation configures its own country, currency, time zone and language, with GBP among the supported currencies — it fits a UK business's day-to-day settings. It does not currently automate VAT, sales tax, or accounting workflows, so your accounting stays where it is. StoonOS is currently in private beta; public market availability has not been announced.
Is StoonOS free?
There is nothing to buy today and no published price: StoonOS is in private beta and access is by request. There is also no free trial to sign up for, because there is no open sign-up. When pricing is set it will be published on this site.
How do I decide between two tools?
Start from the gap you are closing rather than the feature list. If the gap is client paperwork, most tools cover it and any of them will do. If the gap is the operational work — suppliers, guests, tasks, documents, the run of show — check whether the tool you are considering actually holds it, and ask to see the view across several live events at once rather than a single tidy project.
Where to go next
- StoonOS for wedding photographersThe enquiry-to-contract flow for a photography studio, and what StoonOS leaves alone.
- StoonOS for wedding plannersThe coordination side: suppliers, guest lists, budgets and running several weddings at once.
- Dubsado alternative for UK businessesThe same evaluation from a different angle: how far a client-management tool follows you into delivery.
- See the whole productThe capability list on the homepage, covering events, vendors, guests and the rest of the workspace.
Compare it against your own workflow.
Request access and we will show you the product on real events — including the parts it does not do yet.