Non-EU vendorScheduling & BookingHeadquarters: US

Acuity Scheduling: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Acuity Scheduling is online appointment-booking software for businesses ranging from solo practitioners to multi-location teams, for example in beauty, wellness, fitness, education and business services. Clients book themselves through a branded booking page. The product also offers deposits and reminders, intake forms, calendar sync to prevent double bookings, staff and resource availability management, and sales of packages, subscriptions and gift certificates. It integrates with Google and Apple calendars, Stripe, Square, PayPal, QuickBooks, Zoom, Google Meet, Mailchimp and Zapier. Acuity is delivered as a cloud service (SaaS).

Acuity Scheduling has been part of Squarespace since 2019. Squarespace is headquartered in New York and has been owned by the British private equity firm Permira since October 2024. The product is not open source. As a US vendor, it falls under US jurisdiction, including the CLOUD Act. The sources consulted do not document where its data is hosted or whether an EU hosting option exists, so a European organisation should ask the vendor.

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Sovereignty score

17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-30
No hosting in Europe (US)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
Key management with a non-European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 8, 2026

Headquarters	US (US)Verified by hand
Ultimate parent company	GBVerified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	USVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	NoVendor-stated
Category	Scheduling & Booking
Type	Product
Website	acuityscheduling.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Acuity Scheduling

The European alternatives to Acuity Scheduling come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Acuity Scheduling

Acuity Scheduling is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model. The ultimate owner is based in GB. Foreign control undermines part of the certainty a European headquarters offers.

Acuity Scheduling hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Acuity Scheduling is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Acuity Scheduling together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Acuity Scheduling?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Acuity Scheduling include Agendize, Billetto and Bokadirekt. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Acuity Scheduling?

Our list of EU alternatives to Acuity Scheduling is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Acuity Scheduling GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Acuity Scheduling is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. Its GDPR compliance is limited or unclear. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Sources

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Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Scheduling & Booking

Scheduling & Booking: Appointment scheduling, online booking systems and calendar management. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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