A big ticket, a big no-show
At CA$450, a late cancel is a real loss. A phone number alone does not make a client commit.
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Microblading bookings with the touch-up already planned
A first session runs for hours, and a touch-up follows weeks later. Plan both together at booking, and protect that long first session with a deposit.
- 0% commission on every booking, including a first booking. CA$29 a month for the Founding 50, then CA$49, one price for the whole team.
- Live in 48 hours from your Fresha export: booking page, calendar and reminders. Card payments start when you are ready: connect Stripe, or keep your current card machine and record payments in Fairbooked.
What gets in the way for brow and microblading artists
The touch-up that falls away
Six weeks later the second visit is due, and you have forgotten who waits. A client who skips it leaves with unfinished work.
A percentage on a premium service
A new-client fee bites hardest on a high ticket. A fifth of CA$450 is a lot to pay for someone who found your portfolio.
How Fairbooked fits brow and microblading artists
A deposit sized for the ticket
Set a fixed deposit or a percentage on the first session, with a matching notice window. The money comes straight to you.
The touch-up, booked while she is there
Show clients your link before they leave, and let them pick the touch-up date. Reminders go by email and text.
Long slots that never overlap
Set the first session at its real length, with a buffer for cleaning down. Double-booking is blocked in the database itself.
A starting service list for brow and microblading artists
An example only. Every name, length and price here is a placeholder you change or delete when you set up your own list.
- Brow consultation30 minNo charge
- Microblading, first session2 h 30 minCA$450
- Microblading touch-up1 h 30 minCA$150
- Powder brow, first session2 h 30 minCA$480
- Brow lamination45 minCA$85
- Brow shape and tint30 minCA$45
Your maths, on a CA$450 microblading first session
Fresha lists 20% on a new marketplace client's first booking (minimum CA$6): CA$90.00. We take 0%. For an in-person card Fresha lists 2.29% + CA$0.20, Interac included: CA$10.51. A Stripe Interac tap is CA$0.15. The calculator below opens on 20 card visits a month and one person; change any number to match yours.
What would Fresha cost you, next to us?
Put in your own numbers. We work out Fresha's monthly bill from its published prices, and ours as Stripe's card rates plus our flat monthly price, and show every line of both. The figures start on an example brow and microblading artist.
You would keep
CA$946 a year
That is CA$78.81 a month, 31.9% less than Fresha.
- Fresha, per month
- CA$246.81
- With us, per month
- CA$168.00
Rates as of September 2026. Fresha can change its prices. With us means Stripe's published Canadian card rates, paid to Stripe, plus our CA$29 a month. Card reader optional for deposits and no-show fees. For in-person tap checkout, Stripe readers from about CA$79 (Bluetooth) or CA$419 (countertop, S700).
How we calculated this
LineFreshaWith us
Software subscriptionFreshaCA$29.95CA$29.95 (Independent plan)With usCA$29.00CA$29 Founding 50 price, locked 24 months, for the whole team
Card fees, in personFreshaCA$178.592.29% + CA$0.20 on CA$7,650.00 across 17 paymentsWith usCA$98.95Stripe, paid to Stripe: 9 Interac taps × CA$0.15, plus 2.7% + CA$0.05 on CA$3,600.00 of credit across 8 payments
Card fees, onlineFreshaCA$38.272.79% + CA$0.20 on CA$1,350.00 across 3 paymentsWith usCA$40.05Stripe, paid to Stripe: 2.9% + CA$0.30 on the same payments
New-client commissionFreshaCA$0.0020% of the ticket (minimum CA$6.00) × 0 new clientsWith usCA$0.000%, never charged on any booking, including a first booking
Total per monthCA$246.81CA$168.00
Savings = Fresha's total minus ours = CA$78.81 a month, times 12 = CA$945.72 a year. We assume 85% of card volume is taken in person and the rest online, that 45% of it is Interac debit in person at CA$0.15 a tap, and that the number of payments is card volume divided by your average ticket.
What this does and does not include
- Fresha's prices are the ones on its own pricing page as of September 2026, and it can change them. Check fresha.com/pricing before you decide anything.
- Fresha says its 20% new-client fee applies only to clients who first find you on its marketplace, and that returning clients pay nothing. Enter only the clients you would expect Fresha to count. Fresha also says the fee has a maximum cap that its pricing page does not state, so on large tickets we may overstate it.
- We leave out Fresha's per-tap surcharge, text messages beyond the free allowance, premium support, add-ons and terminal hardware. Every one of those makes Fresha dearer, so leaving them out favours Fresha.
- Taxes are excluded on both sides. Payout timing, chargebacks and your bank's own fees are not modelled.
- The savings estimate uses Stripe's published Canadian card rates (2.7% + CA$0.05 in person, CA$0.15 flat for Interac debit, 2.9% + CA$0.30 online), paid to Stripe directly; we make nothing on card payments. It is modelled on a typical Toronto card mix (45% Interac debit in person, the rest credit), so your real Stripe bill will differ with your own mix. Rates read from stripe.com/en-ca/pricing in September 2026; check the page before you decide.
- Card reader optional for deposits and no-show fees. For in-person tap checkout, Stripe readers from about CA$79 (Bluetooth) or CA$419 (countertop, S700).
- We launch in Toronto first. The savings estimate is modelled with Stripe's Canadian rates, in Canadian dollars. UK and US figures reuse the same Canadian model and the same subscription number in local currency as an indication only. Fresha's UK prices are unverified: we could only read them on two competitor sites.
Questions from brow and microblading artists
Something else? Ask us on the switch form and a person will answer.
Keep what you earn.
Start your own booking page, or ask us to move you over from Fresha. A named person replies on WhatsApp, usually within the hour during business hours.