A fee on clients who found you
A new client finds you on Instagram and books through a marketplace. A fee is taken on that first visit, though you earned the client.
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Your chair, your clients, no cut for a booking app
You pay the salon for the chair and buy your own colour. Your booking tool should charge one flat price, not take a slice of your clients.
- 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 chair-renting hair stylists
Colour days that eat the afternoon
A balayage can take four hours, with a gap while it sets. If the diary sees one block, a message can land in the gap.
Rent is due, even on no-shows
Chair rent is the same on a slow Tuesday. A no-show on a long colour is a hole you cannot fill by lunch.
How Fairbooked fits chair-renting hair stylists
One link that is yours
Put one link in your Instagram bio. Clients pick a service and an open time, and the booking lands in your calendar.
Deposits on long colour
Connect your own Stripe account and ask for a deposit on colour. Set the notice window you want, and we take nothing.
Real lengths for every service
Each service has its own length and an optional buffer after it. A three-hour colour blocks three hours, and toner can sit.
A starting service list for chair-renting hair stylists
An example only. Every name, length and price here is a placeholder you change or delete when you set up your own list.
- Consultation before colour20 minNo charge
- Cut and blow-dry1 hCA$85
- Single-process colour2 hCA$140
- Balayage with toner3 h 30 minCA$280
- Gloss and toner refresh45 minCA$70
- Fringe trim between cuts15 minCA$20
Your maths, on a CA$120 cut and colour toner
Fresha lists 20% on a new marketplace client's first booking (minimum CA$6): CA$24.00. We take 0%. For an in-person card Fresha lists 2.29% + CA$0.20, Interac included: CA$2.95. A Stripe Interac tap is CA$0.15. The calculator below opens on 70 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 chair-renting hair stylist.
You would keep
CA$936 a year
That is CA$77.97 a month, 31.8% less than Fresha.
- Fresha, per month
- CA$245.14
- With us, per month
- CA$167.17
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$177.492.29% + CA$0.20 on CA$7,225.00 across 60.2 paymentsWith usCA$98.00Stripe, paid to Stripe: 31.9 Interac taps × CA$0.15, plus 2.7% + CA$0.05 on CA$3,400.00 of credit across 28.3 payments
Card fees, onlineFreshaCA$37.702.79% + CA$0.20 on CA$1,275.00 across 10.6 paymentsWith usCA$40.17Stripe, 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$245.14CA$167.17
Savings = Fresha's total minus ours = CA$77.97 a month, times 12 = CA$935.64 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 chair-renting hair stylists
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.