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Every price on this page was read from the company's own pricing page on 31 August 2026, and says so. Where a company doesn't publish a number, the table says that instead of guessing.
Most salon booking software has two prices. The one on the pricing page, and the one that arrives once commission and card fees have taken their cut. This page puts both in the same table.
A solo stylist doing 60 appointments a month at £45 pays somewhere between £22 and £168 a month to run her books, depending which platform she's on and how many of her new clients came through its marketplace.
On Moshee she pays £16. There is no second number.
The same month, on every platform
Change those assumptions and the numbers move. The new-client share is the swing variable on every marketplace platform, which is the whole point of the table.
| Platform | Subscription | Commission | The month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moshee | £16/mo flat | None | £16.00 |
| Fresha → | Independent £14.95/mo · Team £9.95 per member/mo | 20% one-time on a new client’s first booking, minimum £4 · returning clients none | £119.08£65.08 with no marketplace clients at all |
| Booksy → | £40/mo, extra users £5/mo eachplus VAT | Boost: 30% of a Boost client’s first visit, minimum £5 · off by default | £86.83£167.83 with Boost on for those six first visits |
| Treatwell → | not published | 35% on a new client’s first booking via the marketplace · repeat bookings 0% | not costableAt least £94.50 in commission, plus a subscription Treatwell does not publish |
| Timely → | Build £22 per staff/mo · Elevate £34 · Innovate £39 | None — “no new client fees” on every tier | £22.00Plus card and text overage rates Timely does not publish |
| Vagaro → | £20/mo one location · £30 multiple locations | 20% one-time on the first appointment from the Vagaro Marketplace | not costableAt least £74.00, plus card rates Vagaro does not publish |
| Square Appointments → | Free £0 single location · Plus £29/mo · Premium £69/mo | None | £47.25On the free tier, which cannot send custom text reminders |
| Ovatu | Neat £20/mo first employee + £6 each · Loaded £30 + £9 | None published | £28.40Plus card rates Ovatu does not publish |
| Slick | Essential £20/mo + £12 per extra column · Advanced £35 + £18 · Supercharged £219plus VAT | None | £63.83Plus reminder text costs Slick does not publish |
| Setmore | Free $0 up to 4 users · Pro $5/user/mo billed annually | None | not costablePriced in USD with no GBP page; card costs depend on the processor you connect |
| Phorest | not published | not published | not costableQuote only — no subscription price is published |
What isn't published
Treatwell
At least £94.50 in commission, plus a subscription Treatwell does not publish
Vagaro
At least £74.00, plus card rates Vagaro does not publish
Setmore
Priced in USD with no GBP page; card costs depend on the processor you connect
Phorest
Quote only — no subscription price is published
That is not an accusation of anything. It is simply what the pricing pages said on 31 August 2026, and it is worth knowing before you spend an afternoon on a demo call.
The second number
Fresha takes 20% of a new client's first booking with a £4 minimum. Vagaro takes 20%. Booksy's Boost takes 30% with a £5 minimum, and is off by default. Treatwell takes 35%. In every case it is charged once, on the first visit, for a client the marketplace introduced — including, on some platforms, a client who found the salon on its own Instagram and happened to book through the app.
Between 0.99% and 2.5%, depending on the platform and whether the card is present. On £2,700 a month that is £27 to £67 before anything else.
Fresha gives 20 free a month then charges 6p. Ovatu charges 7p. Phorest charges 7p to 9.5p after 500. Booksy and Slick include a bundle and charge for overage.
What Moshee charges
No commission, on new clients or returning ones. Moshee has no marketplace to introduce you to anyone, which is also why it can't charge you for the introduction. Your clients arrive because they are already yours.
Moshee Pay makes it easy for your client to put the money straight into your bank account. You ask for it, she gets a link, and her tap opens your account details ready to copy into her own banking app. Or she scans the QR code off your screen. Faster Payments does the rest, and it usually lands before she has got her coat on.
It goes from her bank to yours. Moshee never holds it and never routes it, so there is nothing sitting in the middle that could take a slice. That is why there is no card line in the table above for Moshee — the money never becomes a card transaction in the first place, so nobody charges you 1.19% of it.
No text costs, because SmartSend opens your own Messages app with the message written. You send it from your own number, in the thread you already have with her. It costs whatever a text costs you, which for almost everyone is nothing.
Free for 7 days first, and it does not ask for a card.
Coming from one of these?
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Fresha
20% one-time on a new client’s first booking, minimum £4 · returning clients none
How to move across →Booksy
Boost: 30% of a Boost client’s first visit, minimum £5 · off by default
How to move across →Treatwell
35% on a new client’s first booking via the marketplace · repeat bookings 0%
How to move across →Timely
None — “no new client fees” on every tier
How to move across →Vagaro
20% one-time on the first appointment from the Vagaro Marketplace
How to move across →Square Appointments
None
How to move across →How the numbers were worked out
Every subscription, commission rate, card rate and text price on this page came from the company's own public pricing page, read on 31 August 2026. Nothing is estimated. Where a company does not publish a figure, the table says “not published” rather than filling the gap.
Booksy and Slick publish their prices excluding VAT; add 20% to compare them directly with the rest. Fresha's page does not state its VAT treatment.
Prices change. If you find one of these out of date, tell us and we'll fix it the same week — a wrong number on this page would undo the only thing it is for.