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Booksy alternative
The Booksy alternative that takes no cut of your clients
Booksy Boost charges 30% of a new client’s first visit, capped at $100. Sessurely charges nothing on your session prices at any time. Both monthly prices are side by side below, with the month we read Booksy’s.
Free to start · charges run on Stripe · your clients are always yours
What Sessurely costs, said first
Starter is free, with no card and no clock, and it takes deposits and no-show fees once your bank is connected. We keep 2% of each, capped at $10, only when we collect one, and there is never a commission on your session prices. Pro is $29.99 a month and adds unlimited texts, packages, gift cards and session scores.
Booksy is a marketplace as well as a booking tool, so its pricing works differently: a monthly plan, plus a commission when its marketplace introduces a new client. Their published figures are in the table below, with the month we read them. Check their own page before you decide.
Side by side
What each side actually charges
Their figures are what Booksy’s own pages and public pricing documentation said in September 2026. Ours are things you can check in the product this afternoon.
| Sessurely | Booksy | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | Starter free; Pro $29.99, or $249.99 a year | $29.99, one plan |
| Commission on your session prices | None, ever | None on your own clients |
| Commission on a new marketplace client | Not applicable, we are not a marketplace | 30% of the first visit, $10 min, $100 cap |
| Fee on a deposit or a no-show fee | 2%, capped at $10 | Not published as a separate fee |
| Fee on packages and gift cards | 0% | Not published as a separate fee |
| Fee on money taken in person | 0% | Card reader hardware sold separately |
| Your clients listed next to competitors | Never, there is no directory | Yes, it is a marketplace |
| Export your client list and leave | Yes, any time | Varies, check their terms |
| Charge a no-show fee to a card on file | Yes, on your confirmation | Yes, policy dependent |
Rows marked “not published as a separate fee” mean exactly that: we could not find a published figure, so we are not inventing one. Card processing is charged by the processor on both sides.
What Booksy does that we do not
It finds you clients. That is the whole product and it is not a small thing. Booksy is a marketplace with an audience already searching it, and Boost puts you in front of people who have never heard of you. Sessurely has no audience to lend you. Every client who books you through us is someone you brought.
So the honest way to choose is this. If you need introductions and you are willing to pay a commission for them, a marketplace is the right tool and the 30% is what it costs. If your problem is that the people who already know you do not turn up, a commission buys you nothing, and you want the tool that protects the hour instead.
We built the second one.
What you get for the monthly price
Your own booking page and calendar, a real client book with notes and history, intake forms, reminders, packages and gift cards. A deposit or a card on file holds the booking. When somebody does not turn up, you mark the no-show and the fee you set is charged to the card they already agreed to, through Stripe, into your own account. No invoice and no chasing.
A no-show fee is charged only when you mark the no-show, so a client who was simply running late is never billed by mistake. A late cancel inside your window is charged automatically, under the policy the client agreed to when they booked.
Want the number for your own book? Work out what no-shows cost you →
Questions
Booksy and Sessurely: common questions
How much commission does Booksy take on a new client?
Booksy Boost charges a one-time 30% of a new marketplace client's first visit, with a $10 minimum and a $100 cap. It applies only to clients who find you through the Booksy marketplace while Boost is switched on, and only to their first visit. Clients you bring yourself are not charged a commission. Checked against Booksy's own Boost page and public pricing write-ups in September 2026.
Is Sessurely cheaper than Booksy?
Sessurely Starter is free and includes deposits and no-show fees; we keep 2% (max $10) only when we collect one for you. Pro is $29.99 a month. What Booksy charges, as its own pages published it in September 2026, is in the comparison table on this page. We have not re-checked it since, so look at their pricing page before you decide.
Does Sessurely take a percentage of my session prices?
No. There is no commission on your session prices, ever. Starter is free, and Pro is one flat monthly price. The only additional fee is 2% capped at $10, and it applies only to deposits, no-show fees and late-cancel fees. Packages, gift cards and anything you take in person are 0%. Stripe's standard card processing applies to charges, as it does everywhere.
Do my clients belong to Booksy or to me?
On Sessurely they are yours. We are not a marketplace, so there is no directory, no discovery feed and no competing booking page. We never market to your clients and never show them another practitioner. You can export your client list whenever you like and take it with you. A marketplace works differently by design: its value to you is that it introduces clients, and the commission is the price of that introduction.
Can Sessurely charge a no-show fee?
Yes. The client adds a card and agrees to your policy when they book. If they do not turn up, you mark the no-show and the fee you set is charged to that card through Stripe. No invoice and no chasing. A late cancel inside your window is charged automatically, under the policy the client agreed to when they booked.
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Keep your clients. Keep the fee.
Start free on Starter with no card and no trial clock. Bring your existing client list across, put your deposit-worthy services in first, and keep your old booking link running until you are ready to retire it.