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(updated 1/2025)
Assembly vs. HoneyBook
Assembly is a flexible platform that scales with your business, supports more complex workflows, and gives you more control over payments, custom integrations, and creative expression. HoneyBook might work for solo freelancers, but Assembly handles that use case plus much more.
- Assembly is designed for freelancers and scaling teams
- Assembly delivers a more robust billing experience with lower fees
- Assembly lets you express your creativity better
- Assembly comes with more advanced features, a developer ecosystem, and better support
Assembly
4.8
Overall G2 score
HoneyBook
4.5
Overall G2 score
Assembly is designed for freelancers and scaling team
HoneyBook’s feature set is geared toward solo photographers and event planners. Assembly, on the other hand, is great for creative professionals and broader service firms of 2 to 50+ employees looking for more customization, automation, and security. Whether you’re in marketing, consulting, accounting, law, real estate, or tech, Assembly adapts to your workflows — offering advanced integrations and team-based controls that HoneyBook simply doesn’t match.
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Photography | | |||
Evening planning | | |||
Freelancing | | |||
Marketing | | |||
Consulting | | |||
Accounting and bookkeeping | | |||
Law | | |||
Real estate | | |||
Technology | |
Assembly delivers a more robust billing experience with lower fees
Assembly supports more currencies — USD, CAD, AUD, and GBP — along with one-time surcharging and a lower-cost ACH setup. While HoneyBook charges 1.5% on ACH transactions with no fee cap, Assembly’s 1% ACH rate maxes out at $10 per transaction. That means a business processing $200,000 in payments per year could see up to $3,000 in ACH fees with HoneyBook but just $100 with Assembly (assuming 10 transactions at $20,000 each), resulting in 97% savings.
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Credit cards | | |||
ACH | | Supported — 1% with $10 maximum fee | Supported — 1.5% fee with no maximum | |
Multi currency | | Yes — USD, CAD, AUD, and GBP | Yes — USD and CAD only | |
Surcharging | |
Assembly lets you express your creativity better
Assembly effortlessly embeds thousands of third-party products — like YouTube, Loom, Calendly, Typeform, Airtable, and ClickUp — directly in your client portal. Imagine delivering project status updates via a live Airtable kanban board or sharing Loom videos right inside your portal without forcing clients to jump between platforms. HoneyBook’s customization options focus on colors and logos, but it doesn’t offer native embedding of these powerful external tools.
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Client portal customization | | Comprehensive — configure each app’s name and icon, typography, and more | Basic — colors, login images, and emails | |
Embed schedulers like Calendly | | |||
Embed videos from YouTube and Loom | | |||
Embed forms from TypeForm and JotForm | | |||
Embed kanban views from Airtable and ClickUp | | |||
Embed photo albums | |
Assembly comes with more advanced features, a developer ecosystem, and better support
HoneyBook offers helpful features for some soloproneurs, but Assembly’s toolkit is built with expanding teams in mind. Beyond essential features Assembly comes with support for embedded apps, more team controls and permission, and ever-expanding app store, a more comprehensive API, and support for more complex work workflow automation.
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Messaging and team inbox | | |||
Proposals and contracts | | |||
File-sharing and intake forms | | |||
Task and project management | | |||
Invoices, subscriptions, pay links | | |||
Embeds & links | | |||
App Visibility — Control which clients can see each app | | |||
Client Access — Control which team members can access each client | | |||
App Store — Install apps built by others | | |||
Developer platform | | Comprehensive — Open-source apps, integrations, and more | Limited — Basic API only | |
Automations | | Comprehensive — In-app, Zapier, Make, API | Limited — Low coverage on Zapier, Make, and API |
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