Fresha · what it costs
Fresha is free to sign up for. The software is then £14.95 a month for a solo stylist, or £9.95 per team member. On top of that it takes 20% of a new client’s first booking through the marketplace, with a £4 minimum, plus 1.19% and 20p on card payments and 6p a text after the first twenty.
So it is free to start, and the cost arrives with the work. Below is every charge in one place, and what they came to on a month that probably looks like yours.
Read from Fresha's own pricing page on 31 August 2026. Prices change; if this is out of date, tell us and we will fix it the same week.
Free to sign up for and free to list on, yes. Free to run a salon on, no — and the difference is where most of the confusion lives.
Nothing leaves your account until you take a booking. That is genuinely generous compared with a platform charging £40 a month before you have earned anything, and it is why so many people start there.
What it means in practice is that your bill scales with how busy you are, and the busiest months cost the most. A quiet January is cheap. A full diary in December is not.
Moshee is £16.00 a month, flat, and that is the whole bill.
No commission on any client, new or returning. Free for 7 days, no card.
The subscription is the only fixed part. Everything else is triggered by something happening: a new client arriving through the marketplace, a card being tapped, a text going out past the free twenty.
That is worth knowing before you compare it with a flat monthly price, because the two numbers are not the same shape. One is a bill you can predict in advance and budget around; the other is a percentage of a month you have not had yet.
| Subscription | Independent £14.95/mo · Team £9.95 per member/mo |
| Free tier | None (7-day trial) |
| New-client commission | 20% one-time on a new client’s first booking, minimum £4 · returning clients none |
| Card fees | 1.19% + £0.20 |
| Texts | 20 free/month, then £0.06 each |
On 60 appointments at £45, with 6 of them new clients arriving through the marketplace:
Fresha
£119.08
£65.08 with no marketplace clients at all
Moshee
£16.00
Flat. No commission, no card fees, no text costs.
Common questions
Fresha is free to sign up for and free to list on the marketplace. The software is £14.95 a month for a solo stylist, and it takes 20% of a new client’s first booking with a £4 minimum, plus card fees and text costs. So it is free to start and the cost arrives with the work.
£14.95 a month for an independent, or £9.95 per team member. That is the subscription alone. On the worked month below — sixty appointments at £45 with six new clients from the marketplace — everything together came to £119.08.
Yes, 1.19% plus 20p on a card payment taken in person. On sixty appointments at £45 that is £44.13 in a month, which is roughly three times the subscription.
£16 a month, flat, and that is the whole bill. No commission on any client. No card fees, because the money moves bank to bank and never becomes a card transaction. No text costs, because texts send from your own phone. Seven days free first, without a card.
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Free for 7 days, no card needed. Then £16 a month, and you can leave whenever you like.