TimeRex pricing: ¥0, ¥750, ¥1,250 — and no payment collection on any plan

Two leading Japan-built scheduling tools compared head-to-head: pricing, features, and real-world usability.

TimeRex costs ¥0 on Free, ¥750/month on Basic and ¥1,250/month on Premium when billed annually (excluding tax, from the official price list as of 1 August 2026). The gap between the paid tiers is ¥500 a month. Deciding on that number alone can send you the wrong way.

Nowhere in that price list is there a line for payments. If you charge for the meeting — paid consultations, single lessons, coaching sessions — what you actually need to compare is not "¥750 or ¥1,250" but "¥750 plus a way to take money plus the time spent matching payments to bookings". If no money changes hands, you can stop after the pricing table: TimeRex is enough.

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What TimeRex is

TimeRex is a Japan-built scheduling tool from Mixtend, Inc., the company behind Chouseisan. Its site reports over 600,000 registered users (as of 1 August 2026). Note that this is a registration count, not a published figure for active users.

What it does is deliberately narrow.

• Google Calendar and Outlook (Microsoft 365) sync
• Zoom, Google Meet and Microsoft Teams links generated automatically when a booking is confirmed
• Reminder emails for confirmed meetings
• Team scheduling (the free plan covers up to 2 people)
• A booking screen that needs no explaining to a candidate or a client

The design goal is to confirm a meeting time in as few steps as possible. Because the feature set is small, there is little to learn, and it is widely used for interview and sales scheduling.

TimeRex pricing plans (August 2026)

Four plans, all quoted excluding tax. Annual billing takes 16% off (verified on the official pricing page, 1 August 2026).

Plan	Monthly billing	Annual (per month)	What you get
Free	¥0	¥0	Basic scheduling. Multi-person scheduling is capped at 2 people
Basic	¥900	¥750	The free plan with its limits lifted
Premium	¥1,500	¥1,250	Salesforce and HubSpot integration, custom questions, CSV export
Enterprise	Contact sales		Aimed at deployments of 40 people or more

In practice the free plan's 2-person cap is what people hit first. One reviewer puts it plainly: "I can't coordinate schedules for larger groups, which is inconvenient" (ITreview, food-service industry, free plan, retrieved 1 August 2026). Whether you can stay on the free plan comes down to how many people are in the meeting.

What the price list leaves out — payments

Read the published feature list top to bottom and there is no payment capability on any plan (as of 1 August 2026). That is a coherent design choice: the product confirms times and stays out of the money.

It becomes a problem when the booking and the payment are the same event — paid consultations, one-off lessons, counselling, coaching. A scheduling tool alone does not close that loop.

Say you take 20 paid consultations a month. Times are confirmed in TimeRex; payment arrives by bank transfer or through a separate payment service. That means 20 manual reconciliations a month: whose transfer corresponds to which booking. The name on the transfer differs from the name on the booking, the money lands the day before, someone cancelled but paid anyway. Each one takes a few minutes; twenty of them take a real bite out of the month. That is a separate account from the ¥500 monthly price difference.

So this comparison is not a reading of two price lists. It turns on one question: does money move when someone books you?

Feature comparison

Where the two tools stand, as of 1 August 2026, based on each vendor's published information.

Item	TimeRex	SailLab
One-to-one scheduling	◎	◎
Calendar sync	Google Calendar / Outlook	Google Calendar / Outlook
Automatic meeting links	Zoom, Meet, Teams	Zoom, Meet, Teams
Multi-person scheduling on the free plan	Up to 2 people	Unlimited bookings (1 scheduling link)
Payment at booking	— (not in the feature list)	○ (Stripe, Standard and above)
Service menu selection	— (create separate pages instead)	◎ (one page, Standard and above)
Choosing a specific staff member	—	◎ (with an optional fee, Standard and above)
Japanese public holidays blocked automatically	— (not stated)	○
Events with capacity limits	— (not stated)	○ (Light and above)
Booking page appearance	— (not stated)	◎ (Light and above)
Salesforce / HubSpot	○ (Premium)	— (roadmap)
Embedding in your own site	○	— (share the booking page URL)
LINE notifications	—	— (email only)

Which one to pick

Start with the cases where TimeRex is the straightforward answer.

TimeRex is enough when your work is mostly one-to-one external scheduling — interviews, sales calls — and no money changes hands at booking; or you need Salesforce or HubSpot; or you want the booking form embedded in your own site; or deployment track record carries weight in your organisation. Embedding and CRM integration in particular are requirements SailLab cannot meet today.

SailLab fits better when you want to be paid at the moment of booking; you offer several service menus (a 30-minute consultation and a 60-minute session differ in content, length and price) and want them on one page; clients choose a specific person; or you run sessions with a capacity limit.

One question settles it. Does money move on that booking? If not, TimeRex. If it does, the thing to compare is not the monthly fee but the work involved in running payments separately.

If choosing a specific staff member is part of the picture, see our guide to booking systems that let clients pick their provider.

What SailLab is

SailLab

SailLab is a Japan-built tool that handles scheduling, taking bookings and collecting payment in one place. It launched in 2026. It is built for work where the client picks a menu and a person before the booking is complete — coaches, consultants, licensed professionals, schools.

• Service menus: put options that differ in content, length and price on a single booking page
• Provider selection: clients can book a named person, with an optional fee for doing so
• Payment at booking: with Stripe connected, the card is charged as the booking is confirmed. Invoice-style payment after the fact is also available
• Japanese public holidays: national holidays drop out of your bookable slots automatically, including the two whose dates move each year
• Booking page appearance: replace the cover image and match the colours to your own brand

Plan	Monthly	Annual (per month)	What you get
Free	¥0	¥0	One-to-one bookings, 1 scheduling link, calendar sync, automatic reminders
Light	¥1,000	¥800	Unlimited scheduling links, cover image and colours, events with capacity, team management
Standard	¥1,500	¥1,200	Service menus, provider selection, Stripe payments, round robin, analytics
Professional	¥2,800	¥2,240	Same features as Standard, with a 0% platform fee on payments

All prices exclude tax. The platform fee on money you collect is 3% on Standard and 0% on Professional (Stripe's own processing fee applies separately, as of 1 August 2026 — see the pricing page).

The gaps are worth stating plainly. SailLab launched in 2026, so there is not yet a long deployment record. Salesforce and HubSpot integration is on the roadmap and not available. There is no embeddable widget — you share the booking page URL. Notifications are email only, with no SMS or LINE. SSO and SAML are not supported.

Migrating from TimeRex

1. Create a free SailLab account and connect Google Calendar or Outlook
2. Rebuild the scheduling pages you were running in TimeRex as SailLab booking links
3. If you have several menus or several people, set up the service menus and provider profiles
4. If you collect payment, connect Stripe and set a price on each menu
5. Set the booking page cover, colours and reminder wording
6. Replace the booking URL in your email signature, business cards and website
7. Let scheduling already in flight finish in TimeRex; send new bookings to SailLab

Both tools have a free plan, so running them side by side during the switch is the practical route.

Summary

TimeRex costs ¥0 on Free, ¥750/month on Basic and ¥1,250/month on Premium billed annually (excluding tax, as of 1 August 2026). As a scheduling tool at that price, it is well made.

But there is no payment line in the price list. If no money moves, TimeRex is enough; if it does, what you are comparing is not the monthly fee but the reconciliation work that comes with running payments separately. Check that first.

To weigh other Japan-built tools, see our Calendly Japanese-language guide and Jicoo compared with SailLab. To try SailLab, a free account gets you a booking page in a few minutes, with no card required.