A Jane App alternative in Canada, for salons rather than clinics
Jane is a Canadian practice-management system for health practitioners, with charting and insurance billing at its core. Slotora is booking and running software for salons, spas and studios. If you are an esthetician, a lash artist or a spa that ended up on Jane because an RMT recommended it, this is the honest comparison.
Try Slotora for 14 daysTwo products for two kinds of appointment
The overlap is real but smaller than it looks:
Jane's centre
Charting, intake, insurance claims and practitioners who book by the hour. Its home page speaks to private health practitioners.
Slotora's centre
A diary for a team, a booking page clients actually use, deposits, gift cards, passes, retail at the desk and colour or lash records.
Where both fit
A massage studio, a skin clinic or a day spa can run on either; the deciding question is usually insurance billing.
Jane and Slotora, row by row
The Jane column is a summary of Jane's own pages; follow the small number to read each one.
| What you compare | Jane | Slotora |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly price in Canada | Balance CAD $59, Practice CAD $79 or Thrive CAD $99 a month, each with one practitioner; more practitioners are charged per full-time or part-time profile.1 | C$19 a month for one bookable person, C$10 for each additional one, never more than C$69 a month; C$190 a year for one person. Prices in Canadian dollars. No GST/HST is added at present. |
| How a bigger team is charged | Per practitioner profile: full-time if she books 24 hours a week or more, part-time if fewer. Balance allows one profile and 20 appointments a month.1 | Per bookable person, the same price whatever her hours, until a monthly ceiling; no limit on appointments. |
| Free trial | None. Jane offers a demo and a demo account instead.1 | 14 days with everything open, and no card to start. |
| Insurance billing | An add-on for submitting claims to insurers.1 | Not offered. Slotora does not submit claims to any insurer. |
| Text reminders (none from Slotora yet) | Included on its plans; Jane notes that SMS availability varies by region.1 | Not sent to Canadian numbers yet. Reminders and confirmations go by email. |
| Card payments | Jane Payments: 2.75% online and 2.5% in person.15 | Your own Stripe account at Stripe's Canadian rates — 2.9% + C$0.30 online, 2.7% + C$0.05 in person, C$0.15 per Interac debit — with 0% from Slotora. |
| Where client data is stored | In the regional data centre chosen at sign-up, Canada among them; reminder data may be processed in the United States.3 | In London, United Kingdom, with some providers in the United States. Slotora has no Canadian data centre. |
| Law and disputes | British Columbia law, with binding arbitration in Vancouver.2 | The law of England and Wales, and no arbitration clause. |
| The company | Jane Software Inc., North Vancouver, British Columbia.2 | Belavin Limited, registered in England and Wales. |
| Refunds of fees | Fees are non-refundable, except where Jane is in breach or discontinues the service.2 | Cancelling stops the next renewal; the period already paid runs to its end. |
Reading the two price lists
Jane's plans each include the first practitioner. Everyone after that is a licence, and the licence is half price for someone who books fewer than 24 hours a week. That suits a clinic of part-timers well, and it is generous to a physiotherapist who works three mornings.
Slotora does not ask how many hours anyone books. Each person a client can book counts once, whether she works one day or six, and the monthly total stops growing at a ceiling. A salon of full-timers is where the difference shows most.
The trial is the other difference you will feel in week one. Jane has none, so you decide from a demo; Slotora gives every Canadian business a trial with the real product, and you see the exact price for your team on the plan page before paying anything.
When Jane is the better choice
Said for Jane, from its own pages:
- You bill insurers
- If your RMTs or therapists submit claims for clients, Jane does that and Slotora does not. This alone settles it for most clinics.
- You need your records kept in Canada
- Jane stores data in a Canadian centre for Canadian accounts. Slotora's database is in London.
- You want a Canadian company and Canadian law
- Jane is in North Vancouver under British Columbia law; Slotora is a UK company under English law.
- Your clients expect texts we cannot send yet
- Jane sends text reminders where it can. Slotora's reminders to Canadian clients are emails for now.
If you move from Jane
Export your client list from Jane as a spreadsheet and bring it in through Slotora's client import: names, phone, email, notes and tags. Charts and intake forms do not travel between the two systems; keep Jane's export of them for as long as your college or your records policy asks.
Upcoming appointments come across through the diary import if you can export them with a date, a time, the client, the service and the practitioner. Clients hear nothing from Slotora about an imported appointment, so let Jane's reminders run until those visits are past.
Jane and Slotora: what Canadian owners ask
Is Jane for salons?
Jane's own home page addresses private health practitioners. Spas and esthetics clinics do use it, but its features centre on clinics: charting, intake and insurance billing.
How does Jane charge for more staff?
Per practitioner profile on its Practice and Thrive plans, at a full-time or a part-time rate depending on whether she books 24 hours a week. The Balance plan has one profile only.
Does Jane have a free trial?
No. Jane's pricing page says it does not have one, and offers a demo instead. Slotora has a trial with no card needed.
Can Slotora bill insurance for massage clients?
No. Slotora takes the payment for the visit and keeps the client's records, but it does not submit claims to insurers.
Where is my data with each one?
Jane stores Canadian accounts' data in its Canadian data centre, with reminder data possibly processed in the United States. Slotora stores it in London, with some providers in the United States.
Is either one open in Québec?
Slotora is not open to Québec businesses yet. We did not check Jane's French or Québec offer for this page.
Sources
Every Jane fact above is from one of these pages, on the day shown. Slotora's card fees are Stripe's own Canadian page.
- Jane — Pricing (Canadian prices) — https://jane.app/pricing?locale=en-CA · Read on Plans in CAD, the full-time and part-time practitioner rule, the trial, SMS and Jane Payments. The per-practitioner amounts did not render for us, so we print none.
- Jane — Terms of Use — https://jane.app/terms · Read on Contracting company, governing law, arbitration and refunds.
- Jane — Privacy Policy (updated May 2026) — https://jane.app/privacy · Read on
- Jane — Home page — https://jane.app/ · Read on
- Stripe — Pricing for Canada (Slotora's card fees) — https://stripe.com/en-ca/pricing · Read on
A salon diary, tried on your own services
Add your treatments and your team, share the booking page, and see your price on the plan page. 14 days, no card, and nothing taken from your bookings.