Salonnare vs Planity - which salon software fits you?

Pricing and cost model

Salonnare starts at EUR 0 per month: the free plan includes 1 staff member and 50 bookings per month, with no credit card and no marketplace commission. As you grow, Starter is EUR 29 per month (EUR 348 per year) and Pro is EUR 59 per month (EUR 708 per year). No lock-in, but Salonnare does charge its own platform fee of 0.5% (min. EUR 0.30) per transaction.

Planity bundles its booking platform with Pro software. Prices are not published: you get them from an advisor, and according to their own site the subscriptions are fixed-price, with no commitment and no commission on your appointments.^[1] For a fair comparison, always run your own numbers, including any payment and deposit modules. With Salonnare you know exactly what you pay up front - and you can start for free today.

Check the full pricing to compare your monthly costs.

Built for the Dutch and Belgian market

Salonnare is NL/BE-first. iDEAL works natively through Stripe Connect and through Mollie, alongside Bancontact, SumUp and card payments. Importantly, you settle through your own Stripe or Mollie account at the standard provider fees, plus Salonnare's own platform fee of 0.5% (min. EUR 0.30) per transaction.

The point of sale calculates Dutch VAT (21% on services, 9% on retail) and you export an Auditfile for the Dutch tax authority. Planity offers deposits and a payment terminal, and its Belgian site is in French, but the fiscal fine-tuning for Dutch accounting comes built in with Salonnare. That difference alone saves you work at tax time.

Features and daily use

Both platforms cover the basics: online booking, calendar, client management and marketing. Salonnare adds a broad feature set on top: an embeddable booking widget on your own website plus a dedicated booking page with your own logo, inventory management, email campaigns, recurring memberships via SEPA/iDEAL, gift cards, loyalty, no-show fees and deposits, forms and intake, and a GDPR Art. 9 health-data vault for sensitive client information. All of it is included in the plan, with no extra per-module cost.

You tackle no-shows with deposits and no-show fees set per treatment, so your calendar stays full.

Switching to Salonnare

Switching does not have to be a hurdle. Salonnare has a CSV import so you bring your existing client base along and do not start from scratch. You can begin for free, set everything up and only upgrade once you are ready.

Because there is no lock-in, you stay the owner of your own data and payment relationships - and your own booking page shows only your salon, never your competitors.

Conclusion: why Salonnare wins

In France and Belgium, Planity has a well-known consumer marketplace, and if your main goal is to win new clients through that large booking platform, that is a genuine plus worth considering. Salonnare also has a public salon directory (in Starter and Pro) where clients find salons and book through the salon's own booking page, without booking commission, but it is newer and smaller than Planity's platform.

For most Dutch and Belgian salons the choice still lands on Salonnare, for concrete reasons. You start for free (EUR 0) and then pay a low, fixed price with no marketplace commission or lock-in. You settle through your own Stripe or Mollie account, with Salonnare's own platform fee of 0.5% (min. EUR 0.30) per transaction on top. iDEAL and Bancontact work natively, the point of sale calculates Dutch VAT and delivers an Auditfile for the tax authority. You get 100% your own branding and own your own tenant database - your booking page shows only your salon, not your competitors. And the complete feature set (online booking, POS, inventory, marketing automation, recurring memberships, gift cards, loyalty, no-show fees, forms) is included in the plan, with no extra cost. If you want an affordable, modern system tuned to the NL/BE market that keeps your data and clients in your own hands, you choose Salonnare.

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