SalonForge vs Booksy

Booksy publishes its pricing plainly and moves quickly. The difference is the optional commission layer for new clients, and what happens to colour.

Written by SalonForge. Every Booksy fact below is sourced and dated — checked 2026-07-24. We have tried to be fair; if anything here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.

Booksy suits you if

You want a clear published price, a large consumer app behind you, and the option to pay for new-client visibility when you want it.

SalonForge suits you if

Your columns are reasonably full and the leak is colour, the phone, or pay.

Side by side

Superscripts link to the source at the foot of the page.

	SalonForge	Booksy
Monthly subscription	£50 to £250 depending on how many of the six products you take	£40 a month for one user, plus £5 a month per additional team member, plus VAT¹
Commission on new clients	None	Optional. Their Boost layer takes 30% of a new client's first visit, minimum £5, for marketplace-sourced clients only.¹
Marketplace	No	Yes — a basic listing is included by default, with opt-out¹
Colour weighed and costed to the gram	Yes, built in	No colour-weighing or scale feature found in their published feature list²
The phone answered by AI	Yes — books into the same diary	No such feature found in their published material²
Stock deducted as it is used	Yes, at the point of use, including drinks	Yes — stock deducts automatically at checkout²
Minimum term	None	None — rolling, with 30 days' notice³

What Booksy does better

A single flat price — £40 plus £5 a head is easy to work out before you talk to anyone. We publish a range because the products are modular.
A consumer app that brings new clients — Their marketplace has a large user base. We have none. If discovery is what you need, that matters.

Where SalonForge is different

No commission layer at all — There is no version of us that takes a share of a client's first visit, because there is no marketplace to source them from.
Colour is the thing we do that nobody else here does natively — Weighing the bowl and costing it to the gram, onto the client record, is built in rather than bought in.
The phone — A voice that answers, knows your prices, and writes into the diary the desk is looking at.

Questions about Booksy and SalonForge

What does Booksy cost in the UK?

£40 a month for a single user plus £5 a month for each additional team member, plus VAT, per their UK pricing page. Boost, the new-client visibility layer, is separate and charges 30% of a new client’s first visit with a £5 minimum.

Do I have to pay Booksy commission?

Only if you switch Boost on. A basic listing is included without commission, and direct bookings are not charged. Worth knowing: turning Boost off does not cancel charges already triggered.

Does Booksy handle colour formulas?

There are client notes, as in most systems, but no weighing or gram-costing feature appears in their published feature list. If colour cost is the number you are chasing, notes will not get you there — only a scale will.

See it on your own numbers

Thirty minutes, your diary and your colour spend. We will tell you if it is not a fit — a salon that signs up for the wrong reasons leaves within a year.

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Sources

Booksy Biz — UK pricing — checked 2026-07-24
Booksy Biz — features — checked 2026-07-24
Booksy — terms of service — checked 2026-07-24

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