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Fresha alternative for tanning studios

No-commission booking software for tanning studios

Spray tans and tanning sessions booked by the slot, with reminders included and one flat price for the whole studio.

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  • 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.

Compared with Fresha

Where Fresha costs tanning studios money, and what we do instead

Each point is paired with what real Fresha users have written about it. These are reviews, not statistics.

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The 20% on new clients

A first-time spray tan client usually arrives from a search or a friend, so a 20% new-client fee on a first session is hard to justify.

On a CA$45 spray tan, Fresha lists 20% on a new marketplace client's first booking (minimum CA$6): CA$9.00. We take 0%.

“This company will rob you with 20% commission fee for ‘new clients’ even though these clients have found you on instagram ads that you are paying for.”
Fresha review on Trustpilot, April 2026
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Interac and card fees

At around CA$45 a session, a fixed fee on every card is a larger share of each booking.

On the same CA$45, Fresha lists 2.29% + CA$0.20 for an in-person card, Interac included: CA$1.23. A Stripe Interac tap is CA$0.15.

Fresha's pricing page in Canada shows one in-person rate for every card. It has no separate debit rate.
fresha.com/pricing, September 2026
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Locked in to someone else's system

Your regulars' visit pattern is your forecast. It should stay yours whichever system you use.

Export your clients, appointments, services, staff and payments as CSV whenever you like, and for 90 days after you cancel.

“…unless I pay hundreds of dollars a year, I will be completely locked out of my own account. No access to my calendar, no access to my client list — nothing.”
Fresha review on Trustpilot, September 2025

Set up in minutes

Your tanning studio menu, ready to edit

Choose Tanning studio when you sign up and we pre-fill these services. The prices are placeholders: change them, delete them or add your own.

  • Spray tan30 minCA$45
  • Express spray tan15 minCA$35
  • Tanning bed, 10 min15 minCA$15
  • Tanning bed, 20 min30 minCA$25
  • Tanning bed, 20 min (pack of 5)30 minCA$100

Savings calculator

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 tanning studio.

Country
Our monthly price

Both cover the whole team. The Founding 50 price is locked for 24 months.

Including you.

What a typical visit costs.

Total taken on cards in a month.

Clients Fresha counts as new from its marketplace. Leave at 0 if unsure.

You would keep

CA$731 a year

That is CA$60.91 a month, 33.8% less than Fresha.

Fresha, per month
CA$180.38
With us, per month
CA$119.47

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
Software subscriptionFreshaCA$39.90CA$19.95 × 2 team membersWith usCA$29.00CA$29 Founding 50 price, locked 24 months, for the whole team
Card fees, in personFreshaCA$116.222.29% + CA$0.20 on CA$4,250.00 across 94.4 paymentsWith usCA$63.72Stripe, paid to Stripe: 50 Interac taps × CA$0.15, plus 2.7% + CA$0.05 on CA$2,000.00 of credit across 44.4 payments
Card fees, onlineFreshaCA$24.262.79% + CA$0.20 on CA$750.00 across 16.7 paymentsWith usCA$26.75Stripe, 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$180.38CA$119.47

Savings = Fresha's total minus ours = CA$60.91 a month, times 12 = CA$730.92 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.

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