Salonnare vs Pabau - which fits your salon?

Pricing and cost model

Salonnare starts at EUR 0 per month with the free plan (1 staff member, 50 bookings per month), with no credit card required. After that you can choose Starter at EUR 29 per month (EUR 348 per year) or Pro at EUR 59 per month (EUR 708 per year). No commission on your revenue and no lock-in. Pabau uses a per-user model according to their pricing page, indicatively around GBP 49 to 74 per user^[1]. For a small salon or solo professional that adds up quickly each month, especially as you connect more staff. With Salonnare the price stays one predictable flat amount for the whole salon. Want to try things calmly without a card first? See our pricing or jump straight into the free plan.

Built for EU salons

Salonnare is EU-first. You take payments through your own Stripe or Mollie account, with iDEAL native (via both Stripe Connect and Mollie), Bancontact, SumUp and card. Salonnare takes no margin - you only pay the standard provider fees. Data lives on EU servers (Frankfurt and Amsterdam) and the platform is GDPR-compliant. Pabau is strong in the UK market and English-only; for a European salon you then miss the native iDEAL flow and local-language nuance - exactly the things that keep your front desk and admin running smoothly every day.

Features and ease of use

Salonnare covers the full salon day: online booking via an embeddable widget and your own branded booking page, a calendar with time slots per staff member, client records, inventory, email marketing and campaigns, recurring memberships (SEPA/iDEAL), gift cards, loyalty, no-show fees, deposits, intake forms and a full feature overview. It is all included in your plan, with no add-on modules or extra fees. The interface is deliberately clean and fast, in five languages (NL/EN/DE/FR/ES), so even interns are productive within an hour. On top of that, everything is 100% your own branding on your own tenant database: your data stays yours, and there is no marketplace pushing competitors to your clients. Pabau offers a deep clinic toolkit, but that often means a steeper learning curve and a setup tuned to medical workflows.

Switching to Salonnare

Leaving Pabau or another system? Salonnare has a CSV import for your client database, so you never have to retype anything. You start today on the free plan, set up your treatments and staff, and connect your own Stripe or Mollie. No long contracts or notice periods to hold you back: because there is no lock-in, you can migrate at your own pace. Curious who is behind it? Read about us.

Verdict: why Salonnare wins

There is exactly one situation where Pabau is worth considering: a true medical clinic with heavy compliance requirements around patient records, where extensive medical charting, consent forms and before/after documentation are central. Pabau is more developed there for the UK clinic market. For virtually every regular salon and treatment practice, Salonnare is the better choice, and that is not an empty claim. You start for free and then pay a low flat fee with no commission or lock-in, you get native iDEAL and Bancontact through your own payment account, EU-based servers and built-in support, and every day-to-day feature (online booking, POS, inventory, marketing, memberships, gift cards, loyalty, intake forms) is included at no extra cost. Salonnare also has a GDPR Art. 9 health-data vault for sensitive health notes - enough for most treatment practices, just not a full medical-clinic suite.

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