Salon software pricing for Canada, in Canadian dollars
Everywhere else we sell, Slotora costs nothing. Canada is the one country where it is a subscription, and this page sets out exactly what you pay, what that covers, and what happens on day 15.
Start the 14-day trialThe price
You pay for the people your clients can book, not for logins, locations or features. Add a colleague and the price moves up one step; past a certain team size it stops moving.
| Working on your own | C$19 a month |
|---|---|
| Every further person clients can book | C$10 a month each |
| A salon of three | C$39 a month |
| A team of 6 or more | C$69 a month, whatever the headcount |
| On your own, paid once a year | C$190 a year |
Prices in Canadian dollars. No GST/HST is added at present. The yearly price is 10 months of the monthly one, for a team of any size; a team of 6 or more never pays more than C$69 a month.
Who counts as a person
A person is a column in your diary that a client can choose and book: you, a stylist, an esthetician, an RMT renting a room from you. A receptionist who logs in to take payments and answer the phone, but has no diary of her own, is not counted and costs nothing.
The count is read from your team list as it stands. Switch someone off when they leave or go on leave, and the next billing period follows; there is always at least one bookable person, because the owner is the first.
What the subscription covers
There is one plan. Nothing below is held back for a dearer tier, because there is no dearer tier.
Online booking
Your own booking page, linkable from Instagram, Google and your website. Clients book without making an account, and each person's hours and breaks are respected.
Email confirmations and reminders
Sent for every booking, as many as you have, with a link that lets the client move or cancel within your rules.
Deposits and card payments
Taken into your own Stripe account in Canadian dollars. Slotora's cut of a deposit, a card payment or a booking is nothing at all.
Client records
Notes, visit history, consultation forms with signatures, and photos, kept per client and searchable.
Gift cards, passes and loyalty
Part of the plan, not an add-on. Each card or pass carries a code that is redeemed online or at the counter.
The phone app
The iPhone and Android app comes with the plan, so the diary and the counter can run from your pocket.
What the price does not cover
The things a Canadian salon owner should count separately, or should not expect at all yet.
- No text messages yet
- Slotora does not send texts to Canadian numbers yet, so reminders are email and app notifications. Several competitors below include text reminders in their monthly price, which Slotora cannot match yet; weigh that if your clients only answer texts.
- Card processing
- Stripe charges its own fee on every card payment, straight to your Stripe account, at its published Canadian rates (listed further down). We add nothing on top, and we do not process cards ourselves.
- AI work you ask for
- Pictures and posts the assistant makes for you are paid per use from prepaid credit, in Canadian dollars, with the cost shown before anything runs.
- Québec
- A salon in Québec cannot subscribe yet, at any price. Its sign-up offers the waiting list instead.
From the first day to the first bill
No card is asked for when you sign up, so nothing is charged until you choose a plan yourself.
Days 1 to 14
The trial
Everything is open: add your services and hours, share your page, take real bookings. The plan page counts the days down.
When you are ready
You subscribe
Choose monthly or yearly on the plan page of the web app and pay by card. From then on it renews until you stop it.
7 days
If the trial ends first
Nothing switches off the moment the trial runs out, or when a renewal payment fails: the salon keeps working for 7 more days, and the plan page says how many are left.
After that
The account pauses
Your booking page stops taking new online bookings. Bookings already made stay put, their reminders still go out, and clients can still use their own links to move or cancel. Your data stays, and you can still export it or delete the account from Settings. Subscribe and everything opens again.
Sales tax on the subscription
Slotora is sold by Belavin Limited, a company in England and Wales. Belavin is not registered for GST/HST, so no GST or HST is added to your subscription at present, and the line under the price says so. The Canada Revenue Agency asks a non-resident seller of digital services to register for GST/HST once its taxable sales in Canada pass C$30,000 in twelve months (source 6).
This will change when we register. From then on the rate will be the one for your province, which Slotora reads from your postal code, and the line under the price will change with it. If your own business is registered for GST/HST, keep the invoices: each one says whether any tax was charged.
Against what Canadian competitors publish
We read each competitor's own pricing page on 10 November 2026, from the address listed in the sources. Where a page did not say which dollar it meant, we say so too; where it showed us a currency other than Canada's, we print no figure for it.
Square Appointments (source 1) has a free plan for one location, and Plus at $35 and Premium at $85 a month for each location, with no limit on staff. Square includes text and email reminders in all three. Its Canadian page prints the dollar sign without naming the currency. Its own card rates sit beside the plans, because Square processes the payments itself.
Booksy (source 2) lists its subscription at $29.99 a month plus tax, and $20.00 a month for each additional staff member, charged up to the first fourteen. The page is Booksy's Canadian one, but it does not say whether those figures are Canadian or US dollars, and it does not state the trial length.
Fresha (source 3) and Vagaro (source 4) served us their pricing in pounds sterling. Vagaro's page gave the fee for each extra calendar in US dollars. We could not find a Canadian-dollar price list on either company's own site, so we do not put a figure beside theirs; ask each of them for a quote in Canadian dollars before you compare.
Read those beside the table at the top of this page. The difference that does not show in a price list is the structure: with us the price follows the number of people clients can book and stops rising at a cap, and there is no commission on any booking.
Card fees are Stripe's, paid from your Stripe balance. On 10 November 2026 its Canadian page listed 2.9% + CA$0.30 for a domestic card online, 2.7% + CA$0.05 for a card at a reader, and CA$0.15 for an Interac debit card at a reader, with Tap to Pay adding CA$0.15 to each authorisation (source 5).
Questions about paying for Slotora in Canada
Do I need a credit card for the trial?
No. You sign up with an email address and a password, and the 14-day trial starts there. A card is asked for only when you choose to subscribe.
Monthly or yearly — which should I choose?
Yearly costs 10 months of the monthly price, paid in one go. Monthly costs more over a year but lets you stop at the end of any month.
What if I take on a second stylist halfway through the month?
Add her to your team and the price moves up one step from your next billing period. The period you have already paid is never topped up or prorated, and when someone leaves and you switch her off, the next period comes down the same way.
How do I cancel?
From the plan page in the web app, which opens Stripe's billing page for your subscription. The plan stays active to the end of the period you have paid for and then does not renew. There is no cancellation fee.
Is there a commission on bookings or on new clients?
None, on any booking, deposit, gift card or pass, whether the client found you on Instagram, through Google or through us.
Which currency am I billed in?
Canadian dollars, by card, through Stripe. Your clients' deposits and payments are in Canadian dollars too, into your own Stripe account.
Sources
Every competitor figure and the tax threshold above come from these pages, opened on the date shown. If one of them says something different today, it is right and we are out of date.
- Square — Appointments pricing (Canada) — https://squareup.com/ca/en/appointments/pricing · Read on Prints “$” without naming the currency.
- Booksy — Pricing (Canada) — https://booksy.com/biz/en-ca/pricing · Read on Prints “$ + TAX” without naming the currency; no trial length given.
- Fresha — Pricing — https://www.fresha.com/pricing · Read on Served to us in pounds sterling; no Canadian-dollar price shown.
- Vagaro — Pricing — https://www.vagaro.com/pro/pricing · Read on Served to us in pounds sterling, with the extra-calendar fee in US dollars.
- Stripe — Pricing (Canada) — https://stripe.com/en-ca/pricing · Read on
- Canada Revenue Agency — Find out if you need to register (digital economy) — https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/businesses/topics/gst-hst-businesses/digital-economy-gsthst/find-out-need-register.html · Read on
Try it before you pay anything
Sign up, put in your own services and hours, and take bookings for 14 days. Subscribe from the plan page only if it earns its place.