Booksui vs Aisle Planner
A Booksui alternative to Aisle Planner
Aisle Planner is built around the plan itself — the day’s schedule, the checklist, the budget, the guest list and the look of the wedding — worked on with the couple. Booksui is built around the business of planning: the inquiry, the proposal for full, partial or day-of coordination, the contract and the invoices, with a coordinator’s pipeline from discovery to event day and the vendors attached to each job.
Aisle Planner is known for planning software built for wedding and event planners — timelines, checklists, budgets, guest lists, layouts and design boards, worked on together with the couple. The table below sets Booksui’s own features next to that, in plain terms.
| Topic | Booksui | Aisle Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Wedding photographers, videographers, DJs and planners alike. You pick your trade and its pipeline phases, checklists, contracts and templates are installed for it. | Wedding and event planners, with the planning tools at the centre. |
| The plan itself | Checklists per phase rather than planning tools — vendor contracts and certificates of insurance collected, the final guest count confirmed with the caterer, arrival times reconfirmed with every vendor. There is no budget tracker, guest list or layout designer in Booksui. | Its core: timelines, checklists, budgets, guest lists, layouts and design boards, shared with the couple. |
| Job pipeline | A coordinator’s phases: inquiry → discovery → proposal → booked → design & planning → vendor contracting → final details → event week → event day, each landing its checklist on the job. | Planning checklists and templates per event, built for the planning work itself. |
| Vendors | Venues and vendors attach to the job with their contacts, so a wedding’s caterer, florist, photographer and DJ sit on its record. | Vendor contacts kept with each event. |
| The inquiry | A shared inbox where a website inquiry, its email replies and private team notes sit on one thread next to the event details, and replies to what you send come back to the same conversation. | Lead and client management alongside the planning tools; how far it goes is worth checking on its own site. |
| Proposals and contracts | Full, partial and day-of coordination as packages on your price sheet. The proposal spells out what each includes and becomes a contract the couple signs on their phone; Full-Service Event Planning and Event Day Coordination agreements are installed for planners, and the invoice can carry a payment schedule. | Not its centre; check its current business tools. |
| Price | Starter is free with no card (3 galleries, 1 booking page, 10 active inquiries). Pro $29/mo, Studio $59/mo, Agency $99/mo. 30-day refund on your first paid month. | Set by Aisle Planner and changed by Aisle Planner; their current pricing page is the only honest source, so this page does not quote it. |
Who switches, and why
- Planners whose inquiries, proposals and invoices live in a different tool from the plan, and want that side built for weddings.
- Coordinators who want the day-of coordination agreement and the vendor checklists installed rather than written from scratch.
- Coordinators who want each wedding’s vendors on the job, next to the couple’s conversation and the contract.
What you keep
- Aisle Planner itself, if you want it: Booksui does not replace the budget, guest list or design tools, so the plan can stay where it is.
- Your service levels, as full, partial and day-of packages on the price sheet.
- Your contract language, pasted into the planning agreement templates with merge fields.
What changes
- Inquiries arrive in a shared inbox with the date, venue and guest count beside the reply.
- Each wedding moves through the coordinator phases, and each phase lands its checklist on the job.
- Budgets, guest lists and layouts are not in Booksui; if you live in those, you keep a planning tool beside it.
How the move happens
- 1Export your client contacts from Aisle Planner as a CSV. If your account has no export, a spreadsheet of names and emails imports the same way.
- 2In Booksui, Import → Upload CSV; check the column matching and confirm. Events, plans and files stay in Aisle Planner.
- 3Pick Event Coordinator during onboarding so the coordinator pipeline, checklists and planning agreements are installed, then add your full, partial and day-of packages to the price sheet.
- 4Point your website inquiry form at Booksui.
Importing
Any CSV of contacts imports through the generic path: upload, check the column matching, confirm. Names, email, phone, company, type, source and notes come across, and anyone already on file with the same email is skipped. Jobs, invoices and documents do not come across this way — write to us and we will help with the rest.
When Aisle Planner is the better choice
If your working day is the plan itself — the schedule, the budget, the guest list and the layout, built with the couple — Aisle Planner is made for exactly that, and Booksui does not have those tools. Booksui earns its place on the business side: the inquiry, the proposal, the contract and the invoices.
Questions
- Does Booksui replace Aisle Planner’s planning tools?
- No. Booksui has no budget tracker, guest list or layout designer, and the day’s schedule stays in your own document or planning tool. It runs the business around the plan: inquiry, proposal, contract, invoices and the coordinator’s phases.
- Can I sell full, partial and day-of coordination?
- Yes. Each is a package on your price sheet; the proposal spells out what is included, and the Full-Service Event Planning and Event Day Coordination agreements are installed for planners.
- Can I import from Aisle Planner?
- There is no dedicated Aisle Planner import. Client contacts come across through the generic CSV path; events, plans and files do not.
- Is there a free plan?
- Yes, no card required; limits are on the pricing page.
Aisle Planner’s pricing and feature set are set by Aisle Planner, change over time, and are worth checking on their own site — this page reflects Booksui’s own features accurately and describes Aisle Planner in general, well-known terms rather than a line-by-line audit of their current product.