Gallurio vs 17hats: a focused alternative

The short version

Start with Gallurio if you want a public portfolio, inquiries, bookings, clients, and invoice PDFs in one lower-priced workspace without paying for bookkeeping or workflow automation.

17hats is one of the broadest small-business platforms in this category: quotes, contracts, invoices, bookkeeping, scheduling and workflows in one subscription. List price is $60 per month, discounted to about $25 per month when the standing annual promotion applies.

Gallurio covers bookings, clients, calendar, and invoices, then adds something 17hats does not have: two configurable public canvases for story, services, video, featured projects, and gallery collections. The same storefront creates the client and booking from its Contact experience. It is $15.00/mo — $150/yr.

Price

Note the promotion. 17hats has advertised 50% off for long enough that the discounted figure is arguably the real one, but it is a promotion and can end. Compare against the list price if you are signing up for more than a year.

What 17hats does that Gallurio does not

• Quotes and contracts with e-signatures.
• Bookkeeping — income and expense tracking, tax categories.
• Automated workflows and scheduled client emails.
• Online scheduling links for consultations.
• Payment processing inside the invoice.

What Gallurio does that 17hats does not

• A creative storefront with two drag-and-drop canvases. Home and Gallery can combine story, services, video, featured projects, grid or masonry galleries, and project collections using your own colours, typography, and layouts. This is the largest single difference between the products.
• Inquiry to client to booking in one transaction, so a submission never lands half-created.
• Unlimited invoices on the paid plan, against 17hats' free-tier cap of four per quarter.
• Regional pricing with a local estimate, billed in USD and shown converted when a rate is available.
• Five interface languages, including right-to-left Arabic.

Public discovery or back-office breadth?

17hats covers more of the back office. Gallurio puts more emphasis on the public path into that office: a configurable portfolio where a creative business can explain its services, show projects, and receive the inquiry that becomes a client and booking.

The portfolio includes configurable search titles and descriptions, a distinct Gallery summary, canonical URLs, social preview settings, structured business/gallery data, and an indexing choice. These features help crawlers understand an index-enabled page, while useful service, location, and project content gives potential clients a reason to visit. Pick 17hats for contracts, bookkeeping, and automation; pick Gallurio when discovery and the core booking workflow are the tighter fit.

Who this is not for

Stay on 17hats if:

• You need bookkeeping and your accountant already relies on it.
• Contracts and quotes are part of closing every job.
• You depend on scheduling links for consultations.
• The 50% promotion is active and $25 a month is not a number you are trying to reduce.

Related comparisons

• Gallurio vs HoneyBook — the biggest name in this category
• Gallurio vs Dubsado — the automation-first alternative
• Gallurio vs Studio Ninja — built specifically for photographers

Sources

17hats pricing read from 17hats.com/pricing on 2026-08-18, including the free tier's four-invoices-per-quarter limit and the 50% promotional annual rate.