Salonnare vs Booker - which salon software fits your business?

Pricing and cost model

Salonnare uses clear, fixed monthly prices in euros. You start free with the free plan (1 staff member, 50 bookings per month, no credit card required). After that, Starter is EUR 9.99 per month (EUR 99.90 per year) and Pro is EUR 14.99 per month (EUR 149.90 per year). No marketplace commission on your bookings (though there is a platform fee: 0.5%, min. EUR 0.30, per transaction).

According to their pricing page^[1], Booker has three plans (Starter, Accelerate and Ultimate) starting at USD 139 per month; the exact price per plan goes through their sales team. As a European salon, also factor in currency conversion. With Salonnare you see exactly what you pay up front and you can start free today.

Want to see the full picture? Check Salonnare's pricing; it is published in full on the site.

Built for Europe

This is where Salonnare makes the biggest difference. Salonnare is EU-first: the entire interface, emails and booking page are available in Dutch plus English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Turkish. iDEAL is natively supported via Stripe Connect and Mollie, alongside Bancontact, SumUp and card. The point of sale handles local VAT (21% and 9% for a Dutch salon, set per treatment and product) and offers an accounting export for your bookkeeper.

Booker is a US product from Mindbody with prices in dollars. iDEAL, Bancontact and Dutch VAT are not mentioned on its website. For a salon in the Netherlands or Belgium, Salonnare has all of this built in as standard.

Features and daily use

Salonnare covers the full salon workday at no extra cost: online booking through an embeddable widget on your own website and a dedicated booking page with your own logo, client records, inventory management, point of sale, email marketing and campaigns, recurring memberships (via SEPA/iDEAL), gift cards, loyalty, no-show fees and deposits, plus forms and intake. It all sits in one modern, fast product that gets even a trainee productive within an hour.

Clients pick one or more treatments, see available time slots per staff member and book in a few clicks. For GDPR-sensitive data there is a separate health-data vault (Article 9) and a GDPR export.

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Switching to Salonnare

Migrating does not have to be a hurdle. Salonnare supports a CSV import so you can bring your client database with you, sparing you from re-typing records and contact details. You start on the free plan without a credit card, set up your treatments and calendar, and place the booking widget on your own site.

You stay the owner of your data and your payment relationship. Your data stays yours, kept separate per salon, and your payments go through your own Stripe or Mollie account; on top of that, Salonnare charges its own platform fee of 0.5% (min. EUR 0.30) per transaction. You keep 100% of your own branding, with no marketplace pushing competitors to your own clients.

Conclusion: why Salonnare wins

Booker has been around for a long time and is part of Mindbody, a large ecosystem in the fitness and wellness industry. If you run a large, international spa chain with a strong US focus today, Booker is worth considering for its scale and American partner network.

But for a salon in the Netherlands or Belgium, Salonnare wins on the things that matter every day: a free starting point and fixed euro prices with no commission on bookings (though there is a platform fee: 0.5%, min. EUR 0.30, per transaction), native iDEAL and Bancontact, Dutch VAT with an accounting export for your bookkeeper, EU servers and GDPR, Dutch-speaking support, and a complete product (booking, POS, inventory, marketing, memberships, gift cards) at no extra cost. Add 100% of your own branding and data ownership, with a modern UX and fast onboarding. For the audience that wants to start quickly, affordably and locally, Salonnare is therefore the better choice.

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