Built for tour & rental operators — Turks & Caicos to Dubai
Fresha alternative
Fresha is free at the front, but earns from card processing and new-client marketplace fees — and puts your clients in a shared marketplace. TimeKey is a flat fee with 0% commission, and the clients stay yours.
Fresha built a genuinely useful free product, and for a lot of salons it is a fine place to start. The catch shows up later: revenue comes from card-processing fees and from “new client” marketplace fees, and your clients live inside a marketplace alongside every competitor near you. The more you grow on it, the more those percentages add up — and the harder it is to leave with your client list.
TimeKey takes the opposite position. You pay a flat monthly fee (or start free with a small commission only on your own direct online bookings) and keep 0% commission on the bookings themselves. There is no marketplace pushing your clients to the salon next door — your booking page, your website and your client list are yours. And it is more than scheduling: an AI receptionist answers on WhatsApp and the phone, and a website builder ships booking-ready.
Comparison reflects each product’s public positioning at the time of writing — check the provider’s current terms.
Why switch from Fresha
Bella Hair Studio · Book online
Cut & Colour
90 min
Choose who
Friday, Jul 11
Instant confirmation · reminder by SMS & WhatsApp
Switching is easy
Moving is straightforward: import your clients by CSV, set up your services and providers, and we help you get live — usually within a day, free.
FAQ
It depends on your mix. Fresha is free but charges card-processing fees and new-client marketplace fees; TimeKey is a flat monthly fee with 0% commission on bookings (or free to start with a small commission only on direct online bookings). If marketplace and card fees are adding up, a flat fee is usually the cheaper, more predictable plan.
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