Booksy charges 29.99 USD a month plus 20 USD for every extra staff member, so a ten-person salon pays 209.99 USD before card fees and Boost commissions. Reserving is a Booksy alternative priced per location instead: 149 USD a month for up to 10 staff, with deposits by service, two-way SMS reminders and a booking page on your own domain. For a solo barber, Booksy is still the cheaper tool.
North Street Salon
Open 09:00 to 19:00
Chair board
Chair fitted
Deposit rule
No-show risk
Reminders
01
Booksy costs 29.99 USD a month for the account owner and 20 USD a month for each additional staff member, with every feature in one plan and no contract. That is its published US price. The subscription grows in a straight line with headcount, so the fifth barber you hire costs the same 20 USD as the second.
Reserving charges per location. Growth is 149 USD a month with 10 staff logins, deposits and SMS reminders included, and the price does not move when you hire. The two lines cross at seven people.
3 staff
5 staff
7 staff
10 staff
| Line on the bill | Booksy | Reserving |
|---|---|---|
| Base price | 29.99 USD for 1 person | 49 USD Core, 149 USD Growth |
| Each extra staff member | 20 USD a month | 0, up to 10 logins on Growth |
| New marketplace client | 30% of the first visit with Boost on | no marketplace, no commission |
| Card processing | 2.49% + 0.10 USD reader, 2.69% + 0.30 USD keyed | your provider's normal rate |
| 2 to 5 locations | one subscription per location, per staff | 499 USD for 5 locations |
Booksy figures are from its US pricing page. Reserving prices are monthly list prices; yearly billing takes Core to 39 USD and Growth to 119 USD a month. Our Booksy pricing breakdown has the full fee table and the cost at five team sizes.
02
Take an eight-chair salon with an average ticket of 120 USD. The Booksy subscription is 169.99 USD a month. If Boost brings in twelve new clients that month, Booksy takes 30% of each first visit, which is 432 USD. The total before card fees is about 602 USD, and that month the salon paid more for marketplace clients than for the software.
On Reserving Growth the same salon pays 149 USD. There is no marketplace, so those twelve clients have to find you on Google, Instagram or your own site, where the booking button now lives. If most of your new clients already come from those places, the commission line disappears. If the Booksy app is where your new clients come from, the commission may be worth paying, and you should keep it.
03
A booking engine that treats a service as a person, a chair and a real block of time, with the booking page on your own domain and the client list in your hands.
04
For a solo barber or a chair renter who wants new clients from an app people already use, no, not at 29.99 USD a month with 2,000 marketing texts included. For a salon with seven or more staff, a group with several locations, or a shop losing money on no-shows for long services, a flat per-location system is the better buy.
Then 30 to 70 USD a month is fair for what you get.
Here the price stays flat and nobody takes a cut of your new clients.
05
The apps most like Booksy for US salons and barbershops are Vagaro, GlossGenius, Fresha and Square Appointments. Each charges in a different way, so the cheapest one depends on your headcount and where your clients come from.
| App | How it charges | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Booksy | 29.99 USD a month plus 20 USD per extra staff member, 30% of a first visit via Boost | solo barbers who want marketplace clients |
| Vagaro | 30 USD for 1 calendar plus 10 USD per calendar up to 90 USD, paid add-ons | small salons that want POS, retail and payroll |
| GlossGenius | 24, 48 or 148 USD a month billed yearly, 2.6% flat processing | solo stylists and teams up to about nine |
| Fresha | 19.95 USD solo or 14.95 USD per team member, 20% on new marketplace clients | salons that want marketplace demand |
| Square Appointments | a free tier, then 49 or 149 USD per location, Square processing | shops already on Square POS |
| Reserving | 49 or 149 USD per location, 499 USD for 5 locations | teams of 7 or more and multi-location groups that want deposits |
06
Export your client list and future appointments, set up staff, chairs and services, import, then move every booking link before you stop taking bookings on Booksy. Run both for a week so nobody who booked in the app is lost.
Download your client list with phone numbers, emails and notes, and a list of appointments already booked. That file is your client base; keep it.
Enter barbers or stylists, chairs, each service with its real length, and the deposit rule for long or high-value services.
Import clients by CSV, paste the booking widget on your site, and point your Google profile and Instagram bio at your booking page.
Turn off Boost and new bookings in Booksy, serve the appointments already booked there, then cancel before the next billing date.
For a solo barber or a small shop that gets new clients from the Booksy app, yes. At 29.99 USD a month with marketing texts included it is good value. It gets expensive as the team grows, because each staff member adds 20 USD a month, and Boost takes 30% of every new marketplace client's first visit.
For one to three people, Vagaro and GlossGenius are usually cheaper on the subscription, and Square Appointments has a free tier. For seven or more staff, a per-location system costs less: Reserving Growth is 149 USD a month for up to 10 staff, against 149.99 USD on Booksy at seven people and 209.99 USD at ten.
Vagaro is cheaper from two staff up on the base price: 50 USD for three calendars against 69.99 USD on Booksy, and a 90 USD cap at seven calendars. Booksy includes marketing texts, which Vagaro sells as a 20 USD add-on. Our Vagaro alternative page works out the Vagaro bill with add-ons.
No. Booksy charges the monthly subscription and card processing on payments it handles. The 30% fee applies only to the first visit of a new client who found you through the Booksy marketplace while Boost was switched on. Bookings from your own clients carry no commission.
Yes. On Reserving Growth you set deposit and card-hold rules per service, so a long color or extension appointment can require a deposit while a quick cut does not. We take no percentage of the deposit; your payment provider charges its normal processing fee.
The same day. Create an account, pay by card, add your barbers, chairs and services, and paste the booking widget on your site. There is no sales call, and the live demo at the top of this page runs the same engine on a sample salon.
Create your account, add your barbers or stylists, chairs and services, and take bookings with deposits on your own site.
Enter the email address that runs your venue and we take it from there. One field, no card, no sales call.
By creating an account you agree to the terms and the privacy policy.