Alternative

The HoneyBook alternative built in the UK

People look for a HoneyBook alternative for ordinary reasons: a job it does not cover, a price that moved, or a product that grew in a direction they did not. This page is the honest version for UK creators: what changes on Herd, what you give up, and how the move actually goes.

Client management software for independent professionals: proposals, contracts, invoices, scheduling and payments in one place. For a lot of people that is enough, and if it is enough for you there is no reason to move.

Herd is a UK product with three sides in one account. Creators run content, deals, contracts and invoices. Brands run campaigns, review content and pay creator invoices by card. Agencies run a roster with commission splits and white-label client portals. Herd costs from £99/month for creators, billed in pounds. That breadth is the whole trade: Herd covers more of the week, and in a few places it covers it less thoroughly than HoneyBook does.

The rest of this page is the practical version: what lands in the same account when you switch, what you give up by leaving HoneyBook, what it costs in pounds, and the order to do the move in. There is no importer, so it is manual work, and that belongs above the pricing table rather than under it.

What changes when you switch

Each line below is something we could not find in HoneyBook's published feature list when we checked on 21 September 2026, or a difference in how the two are priced. On Herd they are part of the same account, which is the practical difference a switch makes.

  • Not in HoneyBook

    No social publishing, content calendar or video editor.

  • Not in HoneyBook

    No media kit, public profile or rate card built for brand deals.

  • Not in HoneyBook

    No opportunities queue and no brand or agency side.

  • Not in HoneyBook

    No digital products or memberships.

  • Not in HoneyBook

    No creator discovery for the brands you work with.

  • Not in HoneyBook

    Nothing that understands a deliverable as a post on a platform.

In practice that means one composer posting to Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and X, an invoice that carries a card pay link and settles into your own bank through Stripe, and a contract drawn from the deal and signed in the browser. Herd does not publish to LinkedIn or Pinterest and has no link-in-bio page, so a switch is rarely a clean swap.

What you would give up

A switch costs you something. These are HoneyBook's advantages, not ours, and any one of them can be a good reason to stay where you are.

  • A mature, well-tested client workflow: proposal to contract to invoice, refined over years.
  • Far cheaper than Herd Pro, starting around $29 a month billed annually.
  • Now sells in GBP in the UK, so the currency objection has gone.
  • Works for any service business, not just creators, which matters if you do mixed work.
  • Built-in scheduling and an AI notetaker.

Moving over

There is no importer. Herd cannot read a HoneyBook export, and we would rather say that plainly than bury it. Moving is manual, for most people an afternoon rather than a fortnight, and this is the order that leaves the fewest gaps.

  1. Re-create your templates

    Contract templates need re-creating in Herd. Copy the wording across, it is a short job.

  2. Let open invoices finish

    Open invoices are easiest to leave in HoneyBook until they are paid.

  3. Connect Stripe

    Connect Stripe in Herd before raising new invoices.

  4. Move the live work

    Add your live client work as Herd deals so contracts and invoices attach to something.

What each one costs

According to third-party listings, Starter is $36 a month or $29 billed annually, Essentials is $59 or $49, and Premium is $129 or $109, with GBP pricing available in the UK since 28 May 2026. HoneyBook does not publish those figures in a form we could read directly, so they come from a third-party listing, last checked on 21 September 2026. Herd is priced in pounds and costs from £99/month for creators, with 17% off when you pay for the year and a 14-day cooling-off period on every paid plan.

Herd, in pounds

For creators

  • FreeFree, no card
  • Starter£99/month, £986/year
  • Pro£299/month, £2,978/year

Annual billing saves 17% on creator and Brand plans and 20% on the Agency plan. 14-day cooling-off on every paid plan. Brands and agencies can book a live demo before subscribing.

HoneyBook, as published

  • Starter$36/mo or $29/mo annual

    USD

  • Essentials$59/mo or $49/mo annual

    USD

  • Premium$129/mo or $109/mo annual

    USD

  • UK pricingGBP pricing launched 28 May 2026

    Check honeybook.com from the UK for the pound figures

Pricing last checked 21 September 2026 from assembly.com (a third-party listing).

HoneyBook does not publish those figures in a form we could read directly, so they come from a third-party listing, last checked on 21 September 2026.

Prices in USD, with GBP in the UK since May 2026; features change, check HoneyBook's site before deciding.

Media kit

A page a brand can read before they reply

The media kit is a live page rather than a PDF that goes stale in a download folder. It takes its per-network numbers from the accounts you have connected, sits next to your rate card, and keeps the same link when you update it.

  • A public page at herduk.co.uk/yourname with per-network figures from your connected accounts.
  • A rate card of priced packages you can share, and proposals built from those same packages.
  • You decide when it goes public, and the link does not change afterwards.

Moving from HoneyBook

Creator pricing

Start free and stay there as long as you like. Paid plans add real invoices, the inbox, the media kit and everything else.

Free

Have a proper look around

£0/month

No card needed.

  • Content calendar and drafts
  • One draft deal to set up
  • Invoice preview
  • Dashboard with sample data
  • Video editor · 1 watermarked export a month
  • Community
  • Send invoices or activate deals
  • Inbox, meetings, media kit
  • 7 days of history
  • No social integrations
Create a free account

Starter

Run the business by hand

£99/month

Billed monthly. Cancel from your settings at any time.

  • Active deals · Up to 5 at a time
  • Send invoices your clients pay by card through Stripe
  • Stripe payouts to your own bank
  • Gmail or Outlook inbox and opportunities queue
  • Live media kit, rate card and video meetings
  • Video exports · 5 a month, no watermark
  • Social integrations · 2 connected accounts
  • Contracts, expenses, products and memberships
  • 90 days of history
  • No automated reminders
Get started

Pro

The whole business, no limits

Recommended

£299/month

Billed monthly. Cancel from your settings at any time.

  • Unlimited active deals and video exports
  • Contracts with e-signature
  • Proposals to brands and agencies
  • Payments page with your Stripe balance and payout history
  • Digital products and memberships
  • Expenses, cashflow and tax-ready exports
  • Asset library and email
  • Unlimited social integrations
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  • Prices in GBP. VAT added where applicable.
  • Annual billing saves 17% on creator and Brand plans and 20% on the Agency plan.
  • 14-day cooling-off period on every paid plan.
  • Card payment through Stripe. Cancel from your settings at any time.
  • Platform fee on digital product sales: 5%.

Keep reading

The full comparison, the other tools UK creators weigh up, and how Herd works once you are in it.

Herd has a page for each side of the market: creators, brands and agencies. The full list of what the product does is on the features page, and every plan and fee is on the pricing page.

Run the business side from one screen

Plan the week, send the invoice, sign the contract and watch the money land in your own bank account.

Create a free accountSee pricing

The free plan does not expire and needs no card.