The Fresha alternative built for Indian salons
Fresha's software looks free until the marketplace invoice lands: 20% of every new client it sends you, add-ons for loyalty and insights, and payments locked to Fresha Pay. Salonior is one flat yearly price per location, 0% commission on every booking whoever brought the client, settled into your own Razorpay account.
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Salonior vs Fresha, 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 Fresha.
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| Salonior | Fresha | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Flat, fair per-location yearly plans | Free-looking, but paid add-ons + commission make costs unpredictable |
| Commission on bookings | 0% — forever | 20% on every new marketplace client (min fee applies) |
| Payment gateway | Your own Razorpay (UPI, cards, wallets), 0% on top | Locked to Fresha Pay |
| Feature access | Every feature included from day one | Key tools (loyalty, insights, AI) are paid add-ons |
| Support & onboarding | Live support, free onboarding & data import | Varies by plan |
Why owners choose Salonior over Fresha
Predictable bills
No more 20% commission surprises when a new client books. One flat plan — Signature covers your whole location, unlimited staff. Done.
Your clients stay yours
No marketplace listing competitors next to your profile, and no platform charging you to 'bring back' your own clients.
Insights without add-ons
Reports, loyalty, and automation are included — not sold back to you module by module.
Leaving Fresha without losing a Saturday
1. Export while the account is live
Fresha lets you download clients and appointment history from the dashboard. Pull it before you cancel — we do the import for you, marketing consent flags included, so you are not rebuilding a client list from memory.
2. Point payments at your own gateway
Card payments move off Fresha Pay onto your Razorpay account at Razorpay's published rates. Deposits and no-show protection keep working; settlement runs straight to your bank with nothing taken on top.
3. Take the booking link back
Swap the marketplace link on Instagram, Google and WhatsApp for your own page. Regulars follow it within a week, and the clients the marketplace introduced are already sitting in your database.
How to switch your salon to Salonior covers the whole move in detail.
Fresha alternative — FAQs
The subscription is the small part. Marketplace commission — 20% of a new client's first booking, with a minimum fee — plus paid add-ons for loyalty, insights and AI tools are what move the real number. Run your own volume through the savings calculator before you decide.
No. Once someone has booked with you, their contact details, visit history and consent are yours and export with everything else. What you give up is the marketplace continuing to introduce new ones.
Yes. Salonior takes deposits, stores cards and charges no-show fees through your own Razorpay account, so the protection stays and the gateway relationship is yours.
Honestly, calculate it first. If the marketplace is genuinely your main source of new clients, that commission is buying you something. If most of your volume is regulars rebooking, you are paying a finder's fee for people who already know you — and that is the case where switching pays for itself quickly.
What actually changes when you leave Fresha
The first thing you notice is the bill arriving instead of the money leaving. Fresha's model funds the software through commission on marketplace-sourced clients and through paid add-ons; Salonior charges one flat yearly price per location and takes 0% of every booking, whoever brought the client. Whether that saves you money depends entirely on how much of your volume comes through the marketplace — which is worth calculating before you move, not after.
The second is where the money lands. Payments run through your own Razorpay account at Razorpay's published rates, rather than through a platform wallet, so settlement is between you and your gateway with nothing added on top.
The third is discovery, and it cuts both ways. You lose the marketplace's shopfront — genuinely useful if you are new and have no client list. What you gain is a booking page with no competing salons on it, and a client database that is yours: contact details, history and marketing consent, not a shared profile.
Migration is the practical question. Export your client list and appointment history, and onboarding plus the import is done for you rather than handed over as a CSV template. Most salons run both systems for a week before switching the booking link over.
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