Salonnare vs Setmore - salon ERP versus generic booking tool

Pricing and cost model

Salonnare has a free plan forever (1 staff member, 50 bookings per month) with no credit card needed. After that it is Starter at EUR 29 per month (EUR 348 per year) and Pro at EUR 59 per month (EUR 708 per year). No commission on your revenue and no lock-in. Setmore offers a free tier and paid plans, with pricing on their official pricing page^[1]. Those rates are listed indicatively in US dollars, so expect exchange rates and possible currency fees on your statement - something you avoid with Salonnare's euro pricing. See the full pricing or start right away with the free plan.

Built for the Netherlands and Belgium

The biggest difference is the fit for our market. Salonnare is fully available in Dutch (plus EN/DE/FR/ES), runs on EU servers in Frankfurt and Amsterdam and is GDPR compliant. Clients pay with iDEAL (native via both Stripe Connect and Mollie), Bancontact, SumUp or card. Setmore is English first and US oriented by origin. iDEAL and Bancontact are not obvious native payment options, and the software has no Dutch VAT logic or Auditfile export for the tax authorities. For your point of sale, Salonnare automatically applies 21% VAT on services and 9% on retail, and you export an Auditfile straight to your accountant.

Features and ease of use

Setmore is strong at self-booking with a clean booking page and calendar sync, but it remains a generic booking tool. Salonnare is a complete salon ERP: online booking with an embeddable widget and your own booking page carrying your logo, plus client records, inventory, email marketing and campaigns, gift cards, loyalty, recurring memberships (SEPA/iDEAL), no-show fees and deposits, forms and intake. For salons that handle health data there is a GDPR Article 9 health-data vault and a GDPR export, so you stay compliant without separate tools.

Switching to Salonnare

Want to switch? Salonnare offers a CSV import for migration, so you bring along your client base and data without retyping everything by hand. You start with the free plan and only upgrade when you need more. Dutch-language support is provided during office hours by a Dutch developer, so you get answers in your own language instead of a US help center in another time zone. Read more about who is behind it on about us.

Conclusion: why Salonnare wins

If you work in a niche outside beauty (coaching, classes, consultancy, general services) and mainly need a simple, free booking system with self-booking, Setmore is worth considering. But for a salon in the Netherlands or Belgium, Salonnare wins convincingly, and that is not about empty promises but about real advantages. You pay a fixed, predictable price in euros (free tier, Starter EUR 29, Pro EUR 59), with no commission and no lock-in. Clients pay with iDEAL and Bancontact, your point of sale automatically applies 21% and 9% VAT with an Auditfile export for the tax authorities, and your data sits on EU servers in line with the GDPR. Instead of separate tools you get one complete salon ERP - online booking, POS, inventory, marketing automation, memberships, gift cards, loyalty, no-show fees and forms - with 100% your own branding and your own tenant database. Plus Dutch-language support in the same time zone. That fit for our market matters more to this audience than Setmore's generic breadth.

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