Price calculator
What does your booking software actually cost?
The sticker price is rarely the bill. Most platforms add a fee for every team member, a commission on new clients from their marketplace, and a separate charge for marketing tools. Put your own numbers in and see the difference a flat monthly fee makes.
Your monthly cost on ResNeo
Works out at 13p a booking, or 0.4% of the £5,600 those bookings are worth.
That is £42 to £109 a month less than 5 of the 5 platforms we compared, or up to £1,308 a year.
- Subscription1 calendar
- £20
Flat monthly fee. No commission on any booking, whoever the client is.
- SubscriptionIndependent plan at £14.95
- £14.95
- New client commission20% of the first booking, minimum £4 per client
- £42
- Text messages20 included each month, then 6p each
- £4.80
Subscription is per team member, so the bill grows with every chair you add.
- Subscription£20 for the first calendar, then £10 each to a £80 cap
- £20
- Marketplace commission20% of a new client’s first appointment, one time
- £42
The subscription climbs £10 with every calendar, and the Marketplace takes 20% of a new client’s first appointment. In the UK, text messaging is a paid plan on top: those prices are not published, so they are not counted here.
- New client commission35% of a new marketplace client’s first booking
- £73.50
Treatwell’s published plans start free and charge on commission instead: 35% of a new marketplace client’s first booking, then 0% on every repeat.
- Subscription£40 base, then £5 per extra team member
- £40
- Boost commission30% of the first visit, minimum £5 per client
- £63
Every feature is included in the base fee, and reminder texts are free. The cost that bites is Boost, at 30% of a new client’s first visit.
- SubscriptionThe monthly fee you entered
- £129
Phorest publishes no plan prices, so the subscription is entirely your own figure. Its text rates are published, and the cheapest of them is used here.
Figures are per month. ResNeo’s prices include VAT, while the other platforms are shown as each one publishes them, which is usually before VAT, so the real gap may be wider than it looks. Card processing fees are left out for every platform here, including ResNeo, because they are paid to a payment processor rather than to the booking software. They differ from platform to platform and by card type, so check them separately if you plan to take payment online.
One thing we should be straight about
ResNeo has its own marketplace, and it is free: no commission on the clients it sends you. But it is newer and smaller than the directories Booksy, Fresha and Treatwell run, and theirs are a real service: if one introduces you to someone who would never have found you, the commission on that first booking may well be worth paying. What this calculator shows is the cost of putting the same volume of bookings through each platform. If most of your clients already know your name, that commission is money you are paying to serve people you had anyway.
Every provider here also does things ResNeo does not, and the reverse is true too. Price is one line of the decision, not the whole of it.
Competitor prices were correct at the time of publishing (August 2026) according to publicly available information. Full sources are listed below.
How each platform builds your bill
Three charges make up almost every booking software invoice: what you pay to have the software, what you pay when the platform introduces a client, and what you pay to switch on the features you assumed were included.
| Platform | Subscription | Marketplace commission | Extras that are charged separately |
|---|---|---|---|
| ResNeo | Flat £20, £49 or £99 a month, whatever your booking volume | None, ever | Every feature is on every plan. Texts beyond your monthly allowance are 6p each |
| Booksy | £40 a month, plus £5 for each team member after the first | 30% of a new client’s first visit through Boost, minimum £5 | All features included, and reminder texts are free. Marketing blasts are 5p after the first 500 |
| Fresha | £14.95 for a single person, or £9.95 per team member | 20% of a new marketplace client’s first booking, minimum £4 | Insights, Client Loyalty and the AI concierge are each priced separately. 20 free texts, then 6p |
| Vagaro | £20 for one calendar, rising £10 per extra calendar to an £80 cap at seven | 20% of a new Marketplace client’s first appointment, charged once | 1,000 email marketing messages included, but UK text messaging is a paid plan. The branded app, website builder and forms are extra |
| Phorest | Quote only, not published | None advertised | Texts are 9.5p, 8.2p or 7p depending on tier, with 500 free a month on the top tiers. An online booking fee exists, but Phorest describes it as one the client pays to secure the slot |
| Treatwell | Both published plans start free, with commission instead of a monthly fee | 35% of a new marketplace client’s first booking, 0% on repeats | A further 2.5% processing fee applies when a client prepays online |
Card processing fees are not in this table. Every platform has them, ResNeo included, and they are paid to a payment processor rather than to the booking software. Check them separately: they vary by platform, card type and country.
Why commission adds up faster than you expect
You pay it whoever did the introducing
The fee lands on anyone booking with you for the first time through the directory. Someone who saw your window, took a friend's recommendation, or found your Instagram, then happened to tap the app, counts the same as a stranger the platform genuinely found for you.
It rises with your prices and your growth
A flat fee is the same in a quiet January and a flat-out December. A percentage takes more from every new client the busier you get, and putting your prices up puts the fee up with them.
The minimum fee hits cheap services hardest
A £4 or £5 floor on a £15 fringe trim or a £20 kids' cut is a quarter of the ticket. On low-value work the minimum, not the percentage, is what you actually pay.
The ResNeo position, plainly
We charge one flat fee a month and take nothing from your bookings. That includes bookings from the ResNeo marketplace, where every business on ResNeo gets a free listing: a new client who finds you there costs you nothing extra. It is newer and smaller than the directories above, so we will not promise it fills your diary. If your clients already know your name and you mostly need the diary, the reminders, the deposits and the client records to work properly, you should not be paying a percentage of every new face who walks through the door. If what you actually want is a big directory to find you new clients, one of the platforms above may be worth its commission, and we would rather you knew that before you signed up with us.
For the published rates side by side, worked through on real appointment prices, read salon booking software with no commission.
See ResNeo pricingSources
Where these figures come from
Important: please read
All competitor prices shown on this page were correct at the time of publishing (August 2026) according to publicly available information published by each provider. Prices, commission rates and add-on charges change without notice, vary by country, and are often negotiated individually, so the figures here may no longer be current. Phorest and Treatwell do not publish their software prices at all: those totals rest on a figure you enter yourself and are clearly labelled as your estimate.
This calculator is a guide to help you compare charging models, not a quotation, and it cannot account for promotional rates, contract terms, migration costs or the features each platform includes. Always check the current prices with each provider before you make a decision. ResNeo’s prices include VAT. Figures for the other platforms are as each one publishes them, which is usually before VAT is added, so the real gap may be wider than it looks here. All figures exclude card processing fees. ResNeo is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to any of the companies named here, and all trade marks belong to their respective owners.
The assumptions behind the maths
Every comparison rests on judgement calls. Here are ours, in full. Where a call could reasonably go either way, we have made it in the other platform’s favour.
- The one calendars slider maps to each platform’s own billing unit: bookable calendars on ResNeo and Vagaro, team members on Fresha and Booksy. Vagaro is explicit that a bookable calendar does not include front desk staff, so a business with a receptionist who takes no bookings may need an extra paid seat on some platforms and not others.
- Fresha’s Independent plan is used for a one-person business at £14.95, because that is the plan Fresha designates for one-person businesses. Its Team plan would work out cheaper at £9.95 for a single member. This is the one figure on the page where we have not taken the cheaper reading, and it costs Fresha £5 a month against a sole trader.
- Booksy states that appointment confirmations and reminders are always free, so reminder texts cost Booksy users nothing here. Its 500 message allowance and 5p overage apply to marketing blasts, which this calculator does not model.
- Booksy publishes a £40 base plus £5 per extra team member but does not spell out whether the base includes one person. We assume it does, which is the cheaper reading for Booksy.
- Fresha’s 20 free monthly messages are for automated reminders, so reminders beyond that are charged at 6p. Fresha’s separate marketing texts at 8p are not modelled.
- Vagaro charges a one-time 20% fee on a new Marketplace client’s first appointment, stated on its UK pricing page. Its UK product page separately says there are no booking fees. We follow the pricing page, and read the product page line as being about repeat bookings, which genuinely carry no fee. No minimum fee is published, so unlike Fresha and Booksy no floor is applied, which is the reading most favourable to Vagaro.
- Vagaro includes 1,000 email marketing messages a month, but text messaging in the UK is a paid plan rather than a free service as it is in the US and Canada. Those UK plan prices are not published, so no text cost is counted against Vagaro here and its total should be read as a floor. Its branded app, website builder and forms are extra too, and are also unpriced in pounds.
- Phorest publishes no plan prices, so its subscription is only the figure you type in. It does publish SMS rates of 9.5p, 8.2p and 7p depending on tier, and we apply the cheapest, which is the 7p top tier that also includes 500 free messages a month. A per online booking fee exists in the UK and Ireland, but Phorest describes it as a fee the client pays to secure the slot which is then deducted from their treatment price, so it is not charged to the business here.
- Treatwell’s own pricing page offers both its plans as "start for free" with no monthly fee, so the software fee defaults to zero and Treatwell is costed on commission alone. If you are on a paid tier, put the figure in and the row follows it. Its 2.5% fee on online prepayments is not modelled, in line with leaving card processing out for everyone.
- Marketplace commissions are one-off charges on a new client’s first booking. The calculator applies them to the number of new marketplace clients you expect each month, which is the steady monthly run rate.
- New marketplace clients are capped at your total monthly bookings, so the commission can never exceed what you could actually take.
- Card processing fees are excluded for every platform, ResNeo included.
- ResNeo’s prices include VAT. Every other platform is shown as it publishes its own figures, which is usually before VAT is added, so ResNeo is compared on the basis least flattering to itself. Promotional or introductory rates are ignored.
Sources
- FreshaSubscription, 20% new client commission (£4 minimum), text and add-on priceshttps://www.fresha.com/pricing
- BooksyBase fee, per team member fee, 30% Boost commission (£5 minimum), text priceshttps://biz.booksy.com/en-gb/pricing
- VagaroThe calendar ladder: "£20/mo. to start, with an additional £10 per calendar up to 7 calendars. The cost for 7 or more calendars is £80/mo."https://www.vagaro.com/en-gb/pro
- VagaroThe Marketplace fee: "a one-time 20% fee applies to the first appointment" when a new client books you through ithttps://www.vagaro.com/en-gb/pro/pricing
- PhorestConfirmation that plan pricing is quote only, which is why the Phorest subscription is yours rather than ours, plus its published SMS rates of 9.5p, 8.2p and 7p by tier with 500 free a month on the top tiershttps://www.phorest.com/gb/pricing/
- TreatwellPlans that "start for free", 35% commission on a new client’s first booking, and 0% on repeat bookingshttps://www.treatwell.co.uk/partners/pricing/
- ResNeoOur own plan prices and SMS allowances/#pricing
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