A free booking system with no booking limit, no user limit and no commission
Slotora is appointment booking software for any business that works by appointment. £0 a month, unlimited bookings, unlimited team members, 0% commission. Text messages and the AI work you ask Nita for run on credits, per use; the AI phone receptionist is a prepaid pack. All of it is optional.
£0/month · unlimited bookings · unlimited team · 0% commission · SMS and what Nita makes for you run on credits · the AI phone is a prepaid pack
Who it is for
Slotora is built for businesses that sell time: salons, barbers and nail studios, but equally massage and physiotherapy, beauty and aesthetics clinics, personal trainers, yoga and pilates studios, tattoo artists, tutors, coaches and consultants. If your day is a calendar of named appointments with durations and prices, it fits.
Who it is not for
One thing worth saying plainly, because it will save you ten minutes: Slotora is an appointment booking system. If you take room or overnight bookings for a hotel, B&B or holiday let, you want accommodation software, not this — the two are called the same thing and are not the same product.
What you get for £0
Everything. There is no feature tier, no seat count and no booking allowance, because there is no paid plan to hold anything back for.
Bookings
A self-service booking page on your own link, taking appointments 24/7. Per-person working hours, split shifts, buffers, processing time, capacity-limited group sessions, recurring appointments and multi-service baskets. Clients reschedule themselves within the window you set and can cancel right up to the start time — a late cancellation is priced, not blocked. When a slot frees up with enough notice left to book it, the waitlist emails the first 25 people waiting for that day — first come, first served.
Clients
A record per client with history, spend, tags, notes and no-show count. Intake and consent forms sent by email or SMS, completed and signed on the client's phone before they arrive. Import from a spreadsheet, export whenever you like.
Money
Optional deposits, full prepayment, and no-show or late-cancellation fees, all through your own Stripe account with 0% taken by Slotora. Gift cards, prepaid passes and coupon codes are included, each redeemed with its code at checkout or at the counter. A reports dashboard shows revenue, bookings, top services and top clients.
What costs money, plainly
SMS reminders are pay-as-you-go prepaid credit — the per-text price for your market is published on the pricing page, and email reminders are unlimited and free, so SMS is never required. Nita answering guests on your booking page is free: you tick one box and she replies in their own language. What she writes or draws for you — a post, a campaign, a picture, the list of regulars worth winning back — costs credits per use, with the price shown before it runs. The AI phone receptionist is £49.99 per 100 minutes, prepaid. Card payments are not on the list: they use your own Stripe Connect account, Slotora adds 0%, and Stripe charges its standard fee directly. There is no AI subscription, and that is the complete list.
How free booking systems usually make money
It is a fair question and the answer differs by platform. Some cap bookings or seats and sell the cap away. Some are marketplaces that charge commission on clients they introduce. Some add a margin to card processing. Some paywall the features that protect revenue — deposits, no-show fees, reminders. Slotora does none of these; the revenue is the optional extras — text-message credit, the credits an owner spends on AI work, and the AI phone receptionist — sold at cost plus a thin margin, and that is why every one of those prices is published rather than quoted.
Set up today
Add your services with durations and prices, set your hours, choose a brand colour, and share the link. Fifteen minutes to a working booking page; under a day to migrate a client list from another system. No card, no contract, no minimum term.
What the limits usually are
The shape of a typical free booking plan, against Slotora. Check any competitor's current pricing page before deciding — these tiers change often.
| Slotora | Typical free plan elsewhere | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | £0 | £0 |
| Bookings per month | Unlimited | Commonly capped at 20–50 |
| Users / staff | Unlimited | Commonly 1–4 |
| Commission | 0% | 0%, or a % on introduced clients |
| Deposits & no-show fees | Included | Often paid tier |
| Reminders by email | Unlimited, free | Usually included |
| Reminders by SMS | Pay-as-you-go, price published | Often paid tier |
| Remove platform branding | Not offered — a small “Powered by Slotora” line stays on your booking page | Often paid tier |
| Export your data | CSV or JSON, any time | Varies |
| Card required to sign up | No | Varies |
“Typical” is the pattern across the free tiers we reviewed, not a claim about any one competitor.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a completely free booking system?
Slotora is free to use with no booking cap, no user cap and no commission, and no card is required to open an account. What is billable is optional: text messages, the AI work you ask for — a post, a campaign, a picture — charged in credits per use, and the AI phone receptionist. Nita answering guests on your booking page costs nothing. Card payments are not one of them — they go through your own Stripe account at 0% from us.
What is the catch?
There is no feature you will hit a wall on. The business model is that a small share of businesses buy something optional — text-message credit, credits for the AI work they ask for, or the AI phone receptionist — and every one of those prices is published. If you only ever send email reminders, Slotora costs you nothing.
Is there a limit on how many bookings I can take?
No. There is no monthly booking allowance and no cap that scales with your team, which is the limit most free plans actually enforce.
Can my whole team use it on the free plan?
Yes. Each person gets their own working hours, their own calendar column and their own limited login, at any team size, at no cost.
Can I take deposits and charge no-show fees?
Yes, as a percentage, a fixed amount or full prepayment, plus no-show and late-cancellation fees. These run through your own Stripe Connect account; Slotora adds 0% and Stripe's standard processing fee applies. Card payments are optional and off until you connect Stripe.
Does it work for a business that is not a salon?
Yes. Anything that runs on named appointments with a duration works — clinics, trainers, therapists, tutors, consultants, studios. The one thing it is not built for is accommodation and room bookings.
Start taking bookings today
No card, no trial clock, no minimum term. Export everything and leave whenever you want.