The Booksy alternative built for Indian salons
Booksy bills per staff member on top of the monthly plan, and Boost can take up to 30% of a new client's first visit. Salonior is one flat yearly price for the whole location — unlimited staff, every feature switched on, 0% commission on every appointment however the client found you.
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Salonior vs Booksy, honestly
Compiled from publicly available pricing and product pages; details are indicative and vary by plan, region and add-ons. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Booksy.
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| Salonior | Booksy | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Flat, fair per-location yearly plans | ~₹2,500+/month plus per-staff fees |
| Commission on bookings | 0% — forever | Boost commissions up to 30% on new clients |
| Payment gateway | Your own Razorpay (UPI, cards, wallets), 0% on top | Booksy payments ecosystem |
| Feature access | Every feature included from day one | Marketplace-first; your profile sits beside competitors |
| Support & onboarding | Live support, free onboarding & data import | Varies by plan |
Why owners choose Salonior over Booksy
Keep your Boost money
Up to 30% of a new client's first booking is a lot to pay for a client who found you on the map. With Salonior it's 0%.
A booking page, not a marketplace
Your brand front and center — clients book you, not whoever the algorithm surfaces first.
Built for India
UPI payments, WhatsApp-friendly booking links, and festive-season campaign tools out of the box.
Moving off Booksy, in order
1. Switch Boost off first
Turn Boost off a few weeks before you move so no commissionable bookings are still in flight when you close the account. Your existing clients keep booking normally throughout.
2. Bring the client list across
Booksy exports clients and appointment history. Send us the file and the import is done for you — services, staff and stylist-level history mapped, not dumped into a template for you to fix.
3. Rebuild the profile as your own page
A Booksy profile sits in a marketplace next to other salons. Your Salonior page carries your services, your team and your prices, with nobody else's promotions on it.
How to switch your salon to Salonior covers the whole move in detail.
Booksy alternative — FAQs
For most salons with more than two or three staff, yes — Booksy's per-seat pricing scales with your team while Salonior's does not. Add Boost commission on top and the gap widens. The calculator will do it with your headcount rather than an average.
No. One price covers the location, whether you have three chairs or thirty. Hiring changes your rota, not your bill.
Nothing that charges a commission. You get a Google-indexed booking page, WhatsApp and SMS campaigns to your own list, referral and loyalty tools, and review requests that push people to your Google profile — where the traffic is free.
Yes, and the flat price is the reason people ask. A solo stylist pays the same per-location price as a five-chair salon, so there is no per-seat maths to worry about as you grow.
What actually changes when you leave Booksy
Booksy's Boost programme is the line item to model first. Promoted placement is charged as a share of what a new client spends — published as high as 30% — which makes your software cost rise precisely when your marketing works. Salonior charges nothing per booking, so the cost of a busy month is the same as the cost of a quiet one.
Per-staff pricing goes too. If you have been budgeting for each new hire's seat, that calculation disappears: the Signature plan covers one location with unlimited staff.
Your booking page stops being a listing. On a marketplace your profile sits beside other salons and the ranking is not yours to control; on your own page the only business a client can book is yours.
What you should weigh honestly is discovery. If a real share of your new clients genuinely arrive through the app rather than finding you and tapping it out of habit, that reach has value — the question is whether you are paying marketplace rates for clients you would have had anyway.
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