Late arrivals eat the next client
A client who is fifteen minutes late still expects the full facial. With no buffer, one late arrival delays your whole afternoon.
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Facial bookings for the solo esthetician
A facial is more than sixty minutes. There is the chat, the clean-up and the late client. Your diary should show that.
- 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 estheticians
Rebooking between visits
Skin care works as a series, but clients drift. If booking the next one needs a text and a reply, some simply stop.
A room, and nobody to cover it
You do the treatment, the laundry, the ordering and the rebooking. When the diary is a chore too, the work never ends.
How Fairbooked fits estheticians
A buffer for the room turnaround
Each service has its own length and a buffer to reset the bed and tray. Clients see a slot only when you are ready.
Rebooking from one link
Clients use the same link to pick their next treatment before leaving. Reminders go by email and text, and no commission is taken.
Deposits on longer treatments
Add a deposit and a notice window for long services or busy weeks. Connect your own Stripe account and payments go to you.
A starting service list for estheticians
An example only. Every name, length and price here is a placeholder you change or delete when you set up your own list.
- Skin consultation20 minNo charge
- Signature facial1 hCA$125
- Deep cleansing facial1 h 15 minCA$140
- Chemical peel45 minCA$120
- Dermaplaning45 minCA$95
- Back facial1 hCA$115
Your maths, on a CA$125 signature facial
Fresha lists 20% on a new marketplace client's first booking (minimum CA$6): CA$25.00. We take 0%. For an in-person card Fresha lists 2.29% + CA$0.20, Interac included: CA$3.06. A Stripe Interac tap is CA$0.15. The calculator below opens on 60 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 esthetician.
You would keep
CA$825 a year
That is CA$68.75 a month, 31.3% less than Fresha.
- Fresha, per month
- CA$219.33
- With us, per month
- CA$150.58
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$156.192.29% + CA$0.20 on CA$6,375.00 across 51 paymentsWith usCA$86.25Stripe, paid to Stripe: 27 Interac taps × CA$0.15, plus 2.7% + CA$0.05 on CA$3,000.00 of credit across 24 payments
Card fees, onlineFreshaCA$33.192.79% + CA$0.20 on CA$1,125.00 across 9 paymentsWith usCA$35.33Stripe, 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$219.33CA$150.58
Savings = Fresha's total minus ours = CA$68.75 a month, times 12 = CA$825.00 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 estheticians
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.