Salonnare vs 1Kapper - which salon software fits you?

Pricing and cost model

Salonnare uses a fixed subscription you know up front. You begin for free with the free plan: EUR 0 per month for 1 staff member and 50 bookings per month, no credit card. After that you choose Starter at EUR 29 per month (EUR 348 per year) or Pro at EUR 59 per month (EUR 708 per year). No commission per appointment, no lock-in. According to their pricing page, 1Kapper uses a no-cure-no-pay model with point bundles per appointment (indicatively around EUR 26.50 per month for a pedicure bundle).^[1] As your appointment volume grows, those volume-based costs climb, while with Salonnare you know exactly what you pay each month. And with Salonnare you start truly free, no credit card. See all pricing for Salonnare for the full comparison.

Built for the Netherlands and Belgium

Salonnare is NL/BE-first and runs on EU servers (Frankfurt and Amsterdam), fully GDPR-compliant. You take payments through your own Stripe or Mollie account, with no margin from Salonnare: only the standard provider fees. iDEAL is natively supported (via Stripe Connect and Mollie), alongside Bancontact, SumUp and card payments. The point of sale applies the correct Dutch VAT (21% on services, 9% on retail) and produces an Auditfile export for the Dutch tax authority. 1Kapper is also a Dutch product, but with Salonnare the money stays in your own account and your bookkeeping is tax-authority-ready without detours.

Features and ease of use

Beyond online booking and POS, Salonnare offers client records, inventory management, email marketing and campaigns, recurring memberships (via SEPA/iDEAL), gift cards, loyalty, no-show fees and deposits, forms/intake, a GDPR Art.9 health data vault and GDPR export. All of that is included in your subscription at no extra cost. You embed the online booking widget on your own website, and your booking page carries 100% your own logo and branding: no marketplace that puts competitors next to your client. The entire interface is available in 5 languages (NL/EN/DE/FR/ES) and the modern UX gets even interns productive within an hour. See all features for the complete overview.

Switching to Salonnare

Want to migrate? Salonnare supports CSV import so your client base and data come along. You can test for free first with the free plan and only upgrade as your salon grows. Our Dutch-language support helps you during office hours, directly from a Dutch developer. No credit card, no lock-in: you always keep control of your own payout account and your own data.

Conclusion: why Salonnare wins

There is one situation where 1Kapper is worth considering: a salon with very few appointments that only wants an established nationwide reservation platform and prefers no fixed monthly fee. The no-cure-no-pay model can then work out cheaper in absolute terms. For virtually every growing Dutch or Belgian salon, however, Salonnare is the better choice, and we back that with real advantages. Your costs are fixed and predictable: start free, then EUR 29 or EUR 59 per month with no commission per appointment. Your iDEAL and Bancontact payments run through your own Stripe or Mollie account without a margin, and your VAT and Auditfile export are ready for the tax authority. You get online booking, POS, inventory, marketing automation, memberships, gift cards, loyalty, no-show fees and forms in one package at no extra cost. And you keep 100% your own branding, your own tenant database and your own data, instead of sharing discoverability on a marketplace. Is Salonnare newer? Yes. But that means modern UX, fast onboarding and a product built NL/BE-first.

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