Everyone wants Friday at six
Demand bunches around the weekend, so Friday books out while Tuesday sits empty. Show midweek slots as clearly as the busy ones.
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Spray tan bookings timed to weekends and weddings
Spray tans take twenty minutes and bunch up on Fridays and before weddings. A no-show costs you as much as a client who comes.
- 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 spray tan artists
Short slots, steady risk
Twenty minutes at CA$50 is small alone. A dozen no-shows a month is not. An automatic fee beats texting someone who went quiet.
Prep rules nobody read
Skin that was not exfoliated, or lotion left on, changes the result. Without the prep notes at booking, you explain them at the door.
How Fairbooked fits spray tan artists
Short, tight slots
A fifteen or twenty minute service with a five minute booth buffer lets you fit more in. Two bookings cannot share a time.
Prep notes where clients read them
Write the prep steps in the service description. Clients see them as they choose, and a reminder goes out the day before.
A deposit for event tans
Ask for a deposit on bridal parties and event tans, with a notice window you set. It lands in your own Stripe account.
A starting service list for spray tan artists
An example only. Every name, length and price here is a placeholder you change or delete when you set up your own list.
- Express spray tan15 minCA$40
- Full body spray tan20 minCA$50
- Bridal party tan20 minCA$55
- Tan top-up10 minCA$30
- Mobile tan at your home30 minCA$75
- Tan and prep consultation10 minNo charge
Your maths, on a CA$50 full body spray tan
Fresha lists 20% on a new marketplace client's first booking (minimum CA$6): CA$10.00. We take 0%. For an in-person card Fresha lists 2.29% + CA$0.20, Interac included: CA$1.35. A Stripe Interac tap is CA$0.15. The calculator below opens on 90 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 spray tan artist.
You would keep
CA$543 a year
That is CA$45.26 a month, 29.3% less than Fresha.
- Fresha, per month
- CA$154.37
- With us, per month
- CA$109.11
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$102.892.29% + CA$0.20 on CA$3,825.00 across 76.5 paymentsWith usCA$56.48Stripe, paid to Stripe: 40.5 Interac taps × CA$0.15, plus 2.7% + CA$0.05 on CA$1,800.00 of credit across 36 payments
Card fees, onlineFreshaCA$21.532.79% + CA$0.20 on CA$675.00 across 13.5 paymentsWith usCA$23.63Stripe, 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$154.37CA$109.11
Savings = Fresha's total minus ours = CA$45.26 a month, times 12 = CA$543.12 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 spray tan 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.