Many short slots, each a risk
Ten and twenty minute services mean fifteen clients a day. Each no-show leaves a gap too small to sell and too long to ignore.
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Waxing bookings with honest short slots and no commission
A bikini wax is twenty minutes and a full leg is forty. Your day is a stack of short slots, so every gap matters.
- 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 waxing specialists
Reset time the diary ignores
New paper, a wiped bed and warm wax take five minutes. If the diary forgets that, you start behind with your first client.
Reminders that must stay discreet
A message about a body-area wax should read like any appointment. Nobody wants a long description on a lock screen at work.
How Fairbooked fits waxing specialists
A reset buffer on every service
Add five minutes after each service for a clean bed. The calendar will not offer the next slot until it ends.
Plain, brief reminders
Confirmations and reminders go by email and text. They carry the appointment time and service name, and say nothing more about the treatment.
A fee for the late cancel
Set a notice window and a no-show fee. A missed twenty-minute slot is no longer free, and the fee goes to you.
A starting service list for waxing specialists
An example only. Every name, length and price here is a placeholder you change or delete when you set up your own list.
- Brow shape wax15 minCA$22
- Underarm wax10 minCA$20
- Half leg wax25 minCA$40
- Full leg wax40 minCA$62
- Bikini line wax20 minCA$35
- Brazilian wax30 minCA$65
Your maths, on a CA$70 Brazilian wax
Fresha lists 20% on a new marketplace client's first booking (minimum CA$6): CA$14.00. We take 0%. For an in-person card Fresha lists 2.29% + CA$0.20, Interac included: CA$1.80. 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 waxing specialist.
You would keep
CA$636 a year
That is CA$53.01 a month, 30.2% less than Fresha.
- Fresha, per month
- CA$175.75
- With us, per month
- CA$122.74
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$120.422.29% + CA$0.20 on CA$4,675.00 across 66.8 paymentsWith usCA$66.27Stripe, paid to Stripe: 35.4 Interac taps × CA$0.15, plus 2.7% + CA$0.05 on CA$2,200.00 of credit across 31.4 payments
Card fees, onlineFreshaCA$25.382.79% + CA$0.20 on CA$825.00 across 11.8 paymentsWith usCA$27.47Stripe, 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$175.75CA$122.74
Savings = Fresha's total minus ours = CA$53.01 a month, times 12 = CA$636.12 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 waxing specialists
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.