Salonnare vs TimeTailor - which salon software fits your salon?

Pricing and cost model

The biggest difference is in how you pay. Salonnare uses fixed, predictable subscriptions: a genuinely free free plan at EUR 0 per month (1 staff member, 50 bookings per month), Starter at EUR 29 per month (EUR 348 per year) and Pro at EUR 59 per month (EUR 708 per year). No credit card needed to start on Free, no commission on your revenue and no lock-in. According to its positioning, TimeTailor uses a different model: free for manually entered appointments, plus indicatively around 3.9% on online bookings.^[1] A percentage per online booking looks small, but it grows with your revenue: the busier your salon is online, the more you hand over. With Salonnare you never pay a percentage on your treatments, so your pricing stays predictable no matter how many clients book online. For a growing salon that quickly saves hundreds of euros per year.

Built for the Netherlands and Belgium

Salonnare runs on EU servers (Frankfurt and Amsterdam), is fully GDPR-compliant and speaks Dutch. Payments go through your own Stripe or Mollie account, so you offer iDEAL natively (via both Stripe Connect and Mollie), alongside Bancontact, SumUp and card. Salonnare takes no margin: you only pay the standard provider fees. The point of sale (POS) calculates the correct Dutch VAT (21% on services, 9% on retail) and produces an Auditfile export for the tax authorities. That saves you and your accountant a lot of manual work at filing time. TimeTailor is European, multilingual booking software, but these specific Dutch tax and payment features are not the core of the product. This is exactly where Salonnare makes the difference for the NL/BE market.

Features and ease of use

Salonnare combines online booking with a complete salon ERP. You get an embeddable booking widget for your own website plus a dedicated booking page with your logo and branding. Clients choose one or more treatments, see time slots per staff member and book in a few clicks. You also get client records, inventory management, email marketing and campaigns, recurring memberships (SEPA/iDEAL), gift cards, loyalty, no-show fees and deposits, forms and intake, a GDPR Art.9 health-data vault and GDPR export. All of that is in the subscription, with no extra costs. TimeTailor focuses on the booking process itself; Salonnare's Dutch all-in-one depth goes beyond calendar and online booking alone. The modern interface is also so clear that an intern is productive within an hour.

Switching to Salonnare

Switching does not have to be a hurdle. Salonnare offers a CSV import so you migrate your existing client base in one go. Start on the free plan to try everything, set up your treatments and staff, then activate your own booking page. Because there is no lock-in, you can always leave again with your own data. You also work in your own tenant database with 100% your own branding: no marketplace that pushes competitors to your clients. We recommend switching during a quiet week and first testing your features and booking settings before you go live.

Conclusion: why Salonnare wins

Fair is fair: TimeTailor's model can be attractive if your salon hardly books online. You then pay nothing for your manually entered appointments and only hand over a percentage on the online bookings you actually receive. For a quiet, starting salon with no online traffic, that can temporarily work out cheaper than a fixed subscription. But for the vast majority of Dutch and Belgian salons, Salonnare wins, and we back that up with real advantages. Your price is fixed and predictable (free up to EUR 59 per month) with no commission that scales with your revenue. iDEAL, Bancontact, VAT 21%/9% and the Auditfile export for the tax authorities are built in, not an afterthought. You keep 100% of your own branding and data ownership, get Dutch-language support and a complete all-in-one suite (POS, inventory, marketing automation, memberships, gift cards, loyalty, no-show fees, forms) at no extra cost. As soon as your salon gets busier and online booking really takes off, a commission model is precisely the more expensive option. That is why Salonnare is the better choice for the NL/BE audience.

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