Slotora for busy salons

Slotora vs Fresha, at six chairs

Fresha is free for one calendar and priced per person for a team, so the bill grows with the chairs. This page puts the two side by side at the size a salon actually is — with the sources and the dates we read them, and with the four things Fresha does better than us named in full.

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What six chairs costs each month

Fresha's Team plan is charged per bookable team member. A salon does not have one calendar, it has one per chair, so the figure below is Fresha's own list price multiplied by six — not an estimate.

Fresha Team, £9.95 per bookable team member: × 6 = £59.70 a month
The same list over a year: £716.40
Plus 20% once on a new marketplace client's first visit: minimum £4 per client

Slotora's salon product has no monthly fee, nothing per person and 0% commission — on bookings, deposits, prepayments and card payments. Card processing is Stripe's own rate on the salon's own Stripe account; we add nothing to it.

These are Fresha's British figures in sterling. Fresha prices by the visitor's country and served pounds to every request we made, including from outside the UK, so a reader in Ireland may be quoted something else and we are not going to convert a guess into euro.

The rows a salon asks about

Every cell in the Fresha column comes from the numbered source under the table, read on the date printed there. Where a cell says the page does not name something, that is a statement about the page — not a claim about the product.

The question	Slotora	Fresha
Monthly fee for a six-person team	Slotora: £0	Fresha: Team plan, £9.95 per bookable team member — £59.70¹
Charged per person	Slotora: No. The code that adds a colleague has no limit and nothing is charged per head	Fresha: Yes — the Team plan is per bookable team member¹
Above twenty people	Slotora: £0, and the same product	Fresha: Enterprise, at custom rates¹
Commission on a booking	Slotora: 0% on bookings, deposits, prepayments and card payments	Fresha: 0% on a returning client; a one-time 20% on a new marketplace client's first visit, minimum £4 per client¹
Card processing	Slotora: Stripe's own rate, on the salon's own Stripe account. Slotora adds no application fee	Fresha: 1.19% + £0.20 in person, 1.40% + £0.25 online, 2.20% + £0.20 keyed, 4.49% + £0.50 with Klarna¹
A marketplace that brings you new clients	Slotora: Yes, and it is free — but ours is a small directory, not a marketplace with their traffic	Fresha: Yes — that is what the one-time commission is for¹
Staff commission worked out for you	Slotora: Yes. A percentage on services and a separate one on retail, per person, with a fixed wage beside it and a monthly statement	Fresha: Commission tracking is named among their features¹
Stock and the back bar	Slotora: Yes, deducted when the visit is completed	Fresha: Retail and inventory, and an online product store, are named among their features¹
Rota and clock in / clock out	Slotora: Yes. A weekly rota per person, a different one on odd and even weeks if you need it, the salon's opening hours over everybody, and clock in and out for the team	Fresha: Timesheets and shift scheduling are named among their features¹
A front desk login that is not the owner's	Slotora: Yes, free and unlimited. She runs the whole diary, opens the client book, takes payment and refunds at the counter; the salon's takings, the settings and the price of a visit stay with the owner	Fresha: Their pricing page does not name a reception-only seat¹
Somebody renting a chair, settled	Slotora: Her guest pays into her own account, your day-close counts your cash and not hers, a refund follows whoever was paid, and a rent ledger records what each renter owes and has paid	Fresha: Their pricing page does not name a chair-rent settlement¹
More than one location	Slotora: Yes. Up to twenty addresses on one account, each with its own hours, and no fee per location	Fresha: Multiple business locations are on their plan list; some add-ons, such as the AI Concierge, are priced per location¹
Bringing your future calendar across	Slotora: Yes. Future appointments come across from your old system's appointments export, matched to your clients, services and team, and your guests are sent nothing. You do it yourself, in the browser	Fresha: They import client details and product inventory, with paid packages for more migration support for larger partners¹

What Fresha charges for and we do not

Three of these are the whole difference at six chairs. The fourth is the one a salon with renters asks about first.

The whole team, at nothing per head
A team of twelve pays what a team of one pays. Fresha's Team plan at £9.95 a member is £716.40 a year at six chairs.¹
0% on every booking, including a new client
A new client who books through Slotora costs nothing. Fresha's commission is 20% once, minimum £4, on a new marketplace client's first visit — and none on a returning one.¹
A reception seat with its own login
The person on the desk gets the diary, the client book, the card machine and a refund with the guest still standing there. What the salon took today, this month and per person stays with the owner, and so does the price of a visit.¹
The chair-rent ledger
What each renter owes you, and what she has paid, per week or per month, with arrears and how full her chair really was. In the salon account in the browser; the app shows it read-only. It records the rent, or, if she agrees, takes it from her saved card into your salon's Stripe account.¹

Where Fresha is the better buy

Two of them, and either can decide a switch. If one of them is what your salon runs on, Fresha is the honest answer today.

Their marketplace is what brings the clients, and ours is a small directory
Fresha lists a salon to consumers looking for an appointment, and the one-time commission is the price of that. Slotora has a directory too, your salon can be listed in it, and it costs nothing — no listing fee, and no commission on a client who finds you there. But it is a small directory, and the reason Fresha can charge for a first visit is that theirs works. A salon whose problem is that strangers cannot find it should be honest with itself about which of the two solves that today.¹
A till and team tools that run deeper
Retail and inventory and an online product store are on their plan list, and their Team plan includes commission tracking and timesheets. Slotora's one bill for a service, a product and a gift card is switched on salon by salon, on request, rather than for everyone, and there is no online product store. A salon that lives on its retail shelf will find more there.¹

Britain and Ireland, and which figures apply to which

One locale, two countries, and the figures in the table are the British list. That is worth being explicit about rather than quiet:¹

Every Fresha figure above is in sterling from fresha.com/pricing. Fresha prices by the visitor's country and served pounds to every request made from here, so an Irish reader may be quoted euro and this page does not guess at the conversion.
Slotora's side is the same in both: £0 and €0. There is no monthly fee and no per-person charge in any country we serve.
Card processing is Stripe's, on the salon's own Stripe account, at Stripe's published rate for its own country. Slotora takes no cut of it and never holds the money.

Sources

Fresha — pricing — https://www.fresha.com/pricing · read on 2026-10-11

Questions before you switch

Is Slotora really £0 for six chairs?

Yes. No monthly fee, nothing per person, and 0% commission on bookings, deposits, prepayments and card payments. What costs money is named on the pricing page: SMS credits, the AI phone receptionist on a fixed pack of minutes, and what the AI makes for you — a post, a campaign, a picture — charged per use with the price shown before it runs.

Can I move my existing appointments over?

Yes. Import your client list and your services first, then upload Fresha's appointments export: each future appointment lands in the right column at the right time, with its guest and service, and your guests are sent nothing — they were already told by Fresha. You do it yourself, in the browser — or upload the files on the salon account's „send us your export” screen and a person at Slotora does it for you.

Will Slotora bring me new clients the way Fresha's marketplace does?

Not on that scale, and the honest answer has two halves. We do have a consumer directory, your salon can be listed in it, and it costs nothing — no listing fee, and no commission on a client who books you from it, ever. You switch the listing on yourself and a new account starts off it, so nothing is published without you. What we do not have is Fresha's traffic, and traffic is the thing a marketplace really sells. If being found by strangers is what you are buying, that is a real reason to stay where you are.

Can I sign up now?

Yes, in the UK and Ireland. The salon account has its own sign-up, it costs nothing and there is no contract, so you can open one beside Fresha and move across when the diary is ready.

The three pages behind the rows above

Each of these is the long answer to one row in the table, with the same rule: anything not built yet is marked coming.

The rest of this product

The other pages about Slotora for busy salons.

Set up tonight, take bookings tomorrow

Register, add your services and each colleague's hours, and your booking page is live. No card, no contract, no notice period.

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Everything Slotora does for a salon

What six chairs costs each month

The rows a salon asks about

What Fresha charges for and we do not

The whole team, at nothing per head

0% on every booking, including a new client

A reception seat with its own login

The chair-rent ledger