Salonnare vs Salonkee - 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 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, no transaction margin. Salonkee sits higher according to their pricing page: indicatively around EUR 49 (Start), EUR 79 (Plus) and EUR 109 (Business) per month, plus a Payments component of roughly EUR 50 per month.^[1] For a small or starting salon that is a meaningful difference in fixed costs - in year one you pay hundreds of euros less with Salonnare, money that goes into your salon instead of your software. Check the full pricing to run the numbers for your own situation.

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, so there is no margin from Salonnare - only the standard provider fees. The point of sale calculates Dutch VAT (21% on services, 9% on retail) and you export an Auditfile for the Dutch tax authority. Salonkee supports iDEAL and Bancontact through partners such as Adyen, Klarna and PayPal, but the fiscal fine-tuning for Dutch accounting comes built in with Salonnare. For an NL/BE salon that saves manual bookkeeping and hassle around the tax return.

Features and daily use

Both platforms cover the basics: online booking, calendar, client management and marketing. Salonnare adds a broad feature set on top at no extra cost: 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. Everything runs in your own tenant database, so you stay the owner of your data and your branding is 100% yours. You tackle no-shows with deposits and no-show fees set per treatment, so your calendar stays full. The modern interface is so logical that even interns are productive within an hour.

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.

Conclusion: why Salonnare wins

Salonkee is an established name with years of experience in Belgium, Luxembourg and beyond, and positions itself as the #1 salon management app in Belgium. If your main need is a large, existing booking marketplace and a brand that is already widely rolled out, Salonkee is worth considering in that specific case. But for the target audience - the Dutch or Belgian salon that wants control over costs, data and payments - Salonnare wins on the points that really matter. You start for free at EUR 0 with low fixed pricing (Starter EUR 29, Pro EUR 59) and no commission or lock-in, while Salonkee, according to their own pricing page, sits indicatively from around EUR 49 plus a Payments component. You settle through your own Stripe or Mollie account, so there is no middleman margin. iDEAL, Bancontact, Dutch VAT (21%/9%) and the Auditfile export for the tax authority are built in, with Dutch-speaking support and EU servers under GDPR. You get online booking, POS, inventory, marketing automation, recurring memberships, gift cards, loyalty, no-show fees and forms at no extra cost, in your own tenant database with 100% your own branding - no marketplace pushing competitors to your clients. Anyone choosing for their NL/BE salon today chooses the more modern, more affordable and fairer option with Salonnare.

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