Booksy pricing: Booksy cost, fees and the monthly fee per staff member

Booksy costs 29.99 USD a month for the first person on the account and 20 USD a month for each additional staff member, with every feature included and no contract. On top of that come card processing at 2.49% to 2.69% plus 10 to 30 cents, and a one-time 30% fee on a new client's first visit when that client comes through Booksy Boost.

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How much does Booksy cost per month?

Booksy costs 29.99 USD a month plus tax for a one-person business, which is 359.88 USD a year. Each additional team member adds 20 USD a month. There is one plan with all features, a 14-day trial without a card, and you can cancel at any time. Those are the figures on Booksy's own US pricing page.

The single-plan model is simple to read, and for a solo barber it is one of the cheaper options on the market. The thing to watch is that the bill grows with every chair you staff. A shop that hires its fifth barber pays Booksy almost four times what the owner paid alone.

Booksy cost by team size

Here is the Booksy subscription at five team sizes, next to what the same salon pays on a system priced per location. Both columns are list prices before tax and card processing.

Booksy prices are from its US pricing page. Reserving Core includes 3 staff logins and 300 bookings a month; Growth includes 10 staff logins, unlimited bookings, deposits and two-way SMS.

Read the table honestly. Up to about five people, Booksy's subscription is the lower number, and at one to three people it is clearly cheaper than anything we sell with SMS reminders. The lines cross at seven staff, where Booksy reaches 149.99 USD a month. From there every hire widens the gap: a ten-person salon pays Booksy 2,519.88 USD a year against 1,788 USD on Growth, or 1,428 USD billed yearly.

What are Booksy's fees beyond the subscription?

Booksy has two fees beyond the monthly plan: card processing on every payment taken through Booksy, and the Boost fee on new marketplace clients. Appointment reminders are free, and the plan includes 2,000 marketing text messages a month. Next-business-day payouts are free; payouts within 30 minutes cost 1.5%.

Processing is close to what any card processor charges, so it should not drive the decision. On 10,000 USD a month of card-reader payments with an average ticket of 60 USD, it comes to about 266 USD a month. You pay a similar amount on any system that takes cards.

How much does Booksy Boost cost?

Booksy Boost costs nothing to switch on and charges a one-time fee of 30% of the first visit's total when a new client finds and books you through the Booksy marketplace while Boost is on. Returning visits from that client are not charged again. If Boost is off, marketplace bookings carry no commission.

The math depends on your ticket size. A new client who books a 180 USD color service through Boost costs you 54 USD on that visit. Ten such clients in a month is 540 USD, which is more than a ten-person Booksy subscription. For a barbershop with 35 USD cuts, the same ten clients cost 105 USD and may well be worth it, because a barber client who returns every three weeks pays that back quickly.

The honest test for Boost is retention. If a Boost client returns four or five times, 30% of one visit is a reasonable acquisition cost. If most of them are one-time bargain hunters, you are paying a commission to serve people who will not come back.

Is Booksy worth it for a salon?

Booksy is worth it for solo barbers, independent stylists and small shops that want marketplace clients and an app their customers already use. At 29.99 to 69.99 USD a month with marketing texts included, it is hard to beat for a chair-rental barber building a book of clients.

It is a weaker fit in three situations. The first is a larger team, because the per-staff fee turns a 30 USD tool into a 200 USD one. The second is a salon whose clients come from its own website, Google profile and Instagram rather than the Booksy app, which gets little from the marketplace. The third is a salon losing money on no-shows for long services, which needs deposits set per service and a way to refill the empty slot, not more marketplace exposure.

Booksy vs Vagaro vs GlossGenius on price

The three most common salon systems in the US charge in three different ways, so the cheapest depends on your team size:

• Booksy: 29.99 USD plus 20 USD per extra staff member, with marketing texts included
• Vagaro: 30 USD for one calendar plus 10 USD per extra calendar, capped at 90 USD for seven, with text marketing, forms and a website as paid add-ons
• GlossGenius: 24, 48 or 148 USD a month billed yearly, with a flat 2.6% processing rate

For a three-person salon, Vagaro's calendars cost 50 USD against 69.99 USD on Booksy, but Vagaro's text marketing add-on is another 20 USD. For a ten-person salon, Vagaro's calendars stop at 90 USD while Booksy reaches 209.99 USD. We worked through Vagaro's add-ons at three salon sizes on our Vagaro alternative page.

When a per-location system costs less than Booksy

A flat price per location beats per-staff pricing once the team grows past six or seven people, or when you run more than one location. Reserving charges 149 USD a month per location on Growth, with up to 10 staff logins, deposits by service, a no-show risk score, two-way SMS reminders and a waiting queue that fills a cancelled slot. Three locations of eight stylists each would pay Booksy 509.97 USD a month; on our Multi-Venue plan, up to five locations cost 499 USD with unlimited logins and shared client records.

What you give up is the marketplace. Reserving has no consumer app, so new clients reach you through your website, your Google profile and Instagram. A salon that replaces marketplace discovery with its own channels usually leans on reviews, and a steady way to collect Google reviews from clients after each visit does more for local ranking than any listing inside someone else's app.

If the no-show problem is the real cost, start there. A two-hour color slot that goes empty loses more than a month of Booksy's subscription. Our salon and spa booking software ties every booking to the stylist, the chair and the real service length, and the no-show fee policy guide shows how to word the deposit rule so clients accept it.

Questions to ask before you sign up for Booksy

• How many staff members will you add in the next twelve months, and what does the bill look like then
• Do you want Boost on, and what is your average first-visit ticket
• Will you take payments through Booksy or keep your current processor
• Can you export your full client list, with notes and history, at any time
• Do you need deposits on specific services, and how are they refunded when a client cancels in time

The same list works on any booking system, including ours. Plan details and yearly prices are on pricing, and the live salon board runs on the home page without an account.

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