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Booksy pricing for hair salons and what a team of five really pays in a year

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Booksy Biz costs a hair salon a base subscription for the owner plus a monthly fee for every additional team member, with no cap, so the bill rises with each stylist you add. Boost, its new-client program, adds a one-time fee on the first visit of each client it sends. A solo stylist pays little. A salon of five or more pays several times that. Hairdressers.io is a flat $49 for one chair and $89 for up to eight stylists.

Booksy is the first name many stylists and barbers hear, and the base price looks small. The part that surprises owners is the second line on the invoice. We read Booksy's own US pricing page on October 29, 2026 and worked out what different team sizes pay. Prices change, so treat these figures as a snapshot and check the page again on the day you sign.

How much does Booksy cost for a hair salon?

Booksy Biz costs $29.99 a month for the account owner, with every feature included and no higher tiers. Each additional team member adds $20 a month. A salon of five stylists pays $109.99 a month before card processing, which is $1,319.88 a year. Taxes are extra, and there is no contract.

Team sizeBooksy subscription per monthPer yearHairdressers.io per month
1 stylist$29.99$359.88$49
3 stylists$69.99$839.88$89
5 stylists$109.99$1,319.88$89
8 stylists$169.99$2,039.88$89
12 stylists$249.99$2,999.88$199 (Studio, up to 25)

A solo stylist is the one case where Booksy is cheaper than a flat plan on the subscription line alone. The gap closes at about three people and reverses from there. By eight stylists the Booksy subscription is almost double the flat salon plan, and that is before any card fees.

How much does Booksy Boost cost?

Boost is free to switch on. When a client who found you through Boost books her first visit, you pay a one-time fee of 30% of that visit's total, capped at $100. A $120 cut costs you $36. A $350 color service hits the $100 cap.

For a color-led salon, the cap does most of the work. On a first visit worth $330 or more, you pay the same $100. The fee sounds fine until you count it against a single visit: you may never see that client again, and the $100 is gone either way. If you leave Boost off, you pay nothing, but you also give up the main way Booksy sends strangers to you.

Does Booksy charge for card payments?

Booksy has no monthly processing fee, but each card payment carries a rate. Its pricing page lists 2.69% plus $0.30 for mobile and keyed-in payments, 2.49% plus $0.10 on the Booksy Card Reader, and 2.49% plus $0.20 for Tap to Pay. Next-business-day payouts are free, and 30-minute payouts cost 1.5%.

These rates are in the normal range for card processing, so they are not a reason to avoid Booksy. They are a reason to compare the whole picture: a salon that already has a card setup it likes can keep it. Hairdressers.io does not process cards at all, which is a gap for salons that want payments inside the booking tool, and a plus for those who want to keep their existing reader.

What does Booksy cost for a team of five after one year?

For five stylists, a year of Booksy subscription is $1,319.88 before taxes and card processing. Add Boost on, say, 20 new clients with an average first visit of $150, and the Boost fees come to $900. The first-year total is $2,219.88. The same salon on a flat $89 plan pays $1,068 and no per-client share, with no marketplace app behind it.

That comparison is not entirely fair, and it is worth saying why. Booksy's consumer app is a real source of new clients in many cities, and a flat plan with a directory listing will not match it everywhere. The honest question is how many of your clients last year came from a marketplace, and what you would have paid for them. If your answer is "very few", the per-seat and per-client charges are paying for something you do not use.

Is Booksy worth it for a hair salon?

Booksy is worth it for a salon that actively needs new walk-in clients, has a small team, and is ready to pay a fee for each one the app sends. It is not worth it for a salon of regulars that is hiring, because the per-member fee grows with every chair. A third group, solo stylists who rent a suite, often does well on the base plan alone.

Three questions settle it. How many of your last 20 new clients found you through a marketplace? How many stylists will you have next year? And do you want the app to run your payments too? A yes to the first and third with a small team points to Booksy. A salon of regulars with a growing team points to a flat plan. Our Booksy alternative page walks through the switch, and Booksy competitors for hair salons compares every common option by the way its bill is built.

What you give up if you leave Booksy

You give up the consumer app, Boost, and integrated card processing. Hairdressers.io is booking, a calendar, client cards, reports and a city directory listing, and it has no point of sale. Every online booking arrives as a request you approve, which means no card is held and no deposit is taken at booking. If those are core to how you run, Booksy or a full suite is the better fit.

If they are not, the move is simple. Export your client list from Booksy, import it on any paid plan, and keep your current card reader. Set each stylist's hours and services, put the new links in your bios and on your Google profile, and cancel Booksy only after the last appointment booked there has passed. Our hair salon appointment software page covers what a flat plan includes.

A quick way to total your real software cost

Add up twelve months of the subscription, every per-member fee, every Boost charge and card processing on your actual volume, then compare that figure with the flat plan for your headcount. Most owners only look at the monthly number once, in the first week. Pull the year of statements and, if your supplier and software bills are scattered across emails, use a tool that can turn invoices into spreadsheet rows so the total is a minute of work and not an evening.

The number to compare is the cost per working stylist per month, including everything. If it climbs every time you hire, that is the model telling you what it rewards. Pick the one whose price tracks the value you actually get, then check it again each year.

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