First visits and follow-ups look alike
A first visit takes an hour, a follow-up half that. If clients pick any slot, new patients get thirty minutes and you run late.
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Appointment booking for the solo physiotherapist
You treat, write up and rebook, and cover your own front desk. Booking should take the scheduling off you, and nothing more.
- 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 solo physiotherapists
Phone tag to rebook
The next date is often agreed in the hallway and lost by your desk. A missed rebooking is lost income mid-treatment.
One no-show in a fixed day
A missed forty-five minute follow-up is hard to refill. Chasing the patient is time you could spend writing notes.
How Fairbooked fits solo physiotherapists
First visit and follow-up apart
List the assessment and each follow-up length on their own. A buffer after each gives you time to write up before the next person.
A notice window you set
Choose the notice you need, and a no-show fee once Stripe is connected. Patients agree when they book. We take no commission.
Reminders that carry the booking only
Reminders by email and text show the appointment time and service name, nothing clinical. The form asks for a name and contact details, no more.
Bodies such as the College of Physiotherapists of Ontario set expectations for records and wording, so check with yours. Fairbooked is appointment booking only. It holds no treatment records.
A starting service list for solo physiotherapists
An example only. Every name, length and price here is a placeholder you change or delete when you set up your own list.
- Initial assessment1 hCA$120
- Follow-up, 30 min30 minCA$80
- Follow-up, 45 min45 minCA$105
- Sports injury assessment45 minCA$110
- Dry needling session30 minCA$85
- Exercise programme review30 minCA$75
Your maths, on a CA$95 physiotherapy follow-up
Fresha lists 20% on a new marketplace client's first booking (minimum CA$6): CA$19.00. We take 0%. For an in-person card Fresha lists 2.29% + CA$0.20, Interac included: CA$2.38. A Stripe Interac tap is CA$0.15. The calculator below opens on 80 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 solo physiotherapist.
You would keep
CA$840 a year
That is CA$70.03 a month, 31.4% less than Fresha.
- Fresha, per month
- CA$223.12
- With us, per month
- CA$153.09
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$159.412.29% + CA$0.20 on CA$6,375.00 across 67.1 paymentsWith usCA$87.91Stripe, paid to Stripe: 35.5 Interac taps × CA$0.15, plus 2.7% + CA$0.05 on CA$3,000.00 of credit across 31.6 payments
Card fees, onlineFreshaCA$33.762.79% + CA$0.20 on CA$1,125.00 across 11.8 paymentsWith usCA$36.18Stripe, 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$223.12CA$153.09
Savings = Fresha's total minus ours = CA$70.03 a month, times 12 = CA$840.36 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 solo physiotherapists
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.