Slotora vs Booksy
Booksy's pricing is unusually easy to read: one price, every feature, no upsell tiers. Whether it is worth £40 a month depends almost entirely on whether you need its marketplace. Every figure below comes from Booksy's own UK pricing page. Reading this in Ireland? Booksy prices Ireland separately and the difference is not only the currency: biz.booksy.com/en-ie/pricing, read on 19 September 2026, says €44 a month, €5 a month for each extra team member, a 7-day trial — and, in its own words, “we do not charge commissions or fees for any new clients or bookings”, with no Boost percentage anywhere on the page. So the subscription and Boost rows below are the British answer; on the Irish page the commission rows read 0%.
Try Slotora free| Comparison | Slotora | Booksy |
|---|---|---|
| Subscription price | £0 | £40/mo + VAT |
| Cost per extra team member | £0 | £5/mo each + VAT |
| Cost of a three-person team | £0 | £50/mo + VAT |
| Commission on bookings | 0% | 0% — unless you turn Boost on |
| Boost, their paid discovery programme | Not offered — the directory listing is free and takes 0% | Free to switch on, then 30% of a Boost client's first visit, minimum £5 + VAT — from their UK pricing page, which is the source cited below. Their features page said “Pay just 40% of the first booking (min. £10)” on the same day, 19 September 2026; we quote the pricing page and flag the disagreement rather than pick the bigger number |
| Card processing fees | 0% from us — Stripe's own fee applies, paid to Stripe | 1.29% + 20p + VAT mobile, 0.99% + 20p + VAT Tap to Pay; fast payout 1.5% |
| SMS marketing included | Pay-as-you-go credit, per-market price published | 500/mo included, then 5p each; appointment confirmations and reminders are never charged |
| Unlimited bookings | Yes | Yes |
| Waitlists, gift cards, memberships and packages | Yes | Yes |
| Custom forms and liability waivers | Yes | Yes |
| Feature tiers to upgrade through | None | None — every feature is in the one price |
| Free trial length | Not applicable — the plan is free, with no card at sign-up | 7 days, no card required |
| A freed slot posted to your own Page — and the post taken down when it fills | Yes, free. The freed time goes to your Facebook Page with a link that books that exact slot, and the post is deleted once somebody takes it. Instagram gets the same post with your logo; deleting an Instagram post needs a Meta permission we have not been granted yet, so the booking page tells anyone arriving late that the time has gone. | Booksy fills gaps too, and it is fair to say so: their features page names an Automated Waitlist that notifies clients when a time frees up, and Flash Sales, Happy Hours and Last Minute Discounts “to help fill your books during quiet or off-peak times” (read 19 September 2026). What it fills them from is Booksy — the waitlist and the marketplace. The difference is whose audience and whose surface: ours goes to the followers of your own Page, and the post withdraws itself. |
| Posting to your own Facebook Page and Instagram from inside the system | Yes, free — live since 22 August 2026 | Booksy does this too, and our earlier wording understated it. Their UK features page names “Social Media Marketing — Design your own images to post on social media, right from the app”, plus a Book Now button for Instagram and bookings from a Facebook Business page; their Polish features page goes further and says posts can be prepared and published straight from the app (both read 19 September 2026). |
Their pricing checked on their own site, 2026-09-19. biz.booksy.com
The honest caveat
If the clients you need next month are strangers, Booksy Marketplace is one of the few consumer booking apps in the UK that people open by name, and our directory is young beside it. Their price is £40 a month with every feature in it and no tier above the tier; Boost is 30% of a first visit and only runs if you switch it on. The one thing inside that £40 that we charge for separately is SMS marketing. Slotora is for the owner whose column is already mostly regulars, and who does not need to buy discovery every month.
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