Booksy is a large salon and barber booking app with a huge consumer marketplace, great for 1:1 appointments and getting discovered. But it is appointment-first: capacity-managed group classes, memberships and punch cards are not its native ground, and the marketplace Boost takes a cut of new clients. If classes and memberships are your business, Class Booking runs them natively, on your own brand, with no marketplace commission.
Why studios switch
Studios rarely leave Booksy over one missing feature. The reasons we hear are cumulative: a bill that grows faster than the studio does, a system shaped for operators much bigger than an independent studio, and support that turns slow exactly when bookings are on the line. Class Booking is deliberately built for the studios those trade-offs squeeze hardest.
Booksy is built for 1:1 appointments. Selling capacity-managed classes, class packs and unlimited memberships side by side is what class businesses live on, and it is what appointment-first tools handle awkwardly. Class Booking is class-first: capacity, waitlists and auto-promotion are the core.
Booksy's Boost charges 30% of a new client's first visit, capped at around $100, per their public pricing (July 2026). Class Booking has no marketplace and no referral fee, every booking is 100% yours.
A member keeps the same weekly spot in the same class, with a waitlist behind it. Booksy is appointment-first; a reserved-recurring-seat subscription in a weekly class is not documented.
The Booksy marketplace that brings you clients also shows them every other business nearby. On Class Booking, your booking page runs on your own domain and promotes only you.
Booksy is a US and Poland-oriented consumer platform. Class Booking is built in Denmark and hosts all data in the EU, one less international-transfer question in your GDPR paperwork.
Side by side
No spin. Both columns reflect public pricing and published features at the time of writing.
| Class Booking | Booksy | |
|---|---|---|
| Group classes with capacity & waitlists | Native, capacity, waitlists, auto-promotion | Appointment-first, classes bolted on |
| Fixed spot (reserved recurring place) | Yes, same spot held every week, with waitlist | Not documented |
| Memberships & punch cards for classes | Unlimited memberships, class packs, punch cards side by side | Memberships & packages, appointment-oriented |
| Pricing model | €10 / £8 / $13/month flat, 0% booking fees | $29.99/month + $20/team member, + 30% Boost on new clients (per their public pricing, July 2026) |
| Marketplace referral fee | None, no marketplace | 30% of first visit on Boost (cap ~$100) |
| Who owns the client relationship | You, own domain, own brand, no cross-promotion | Marketplace also promotes nearby businesses |
| 1:1 appointments | Native, durations, buffers, rooms, intake forms | Excellent, Booksy's core strength |
| Consumer marketplace reach | No, your brand only | Large consumer marketplace |
| Family membership on one subscription | Yes | Not documented |
| Payments | Your own Stripe account | Booksy-processed payments |
| EU GDPR-compliant hosting | Yes, Denmark | Limited (US/Poland-oriented) |
| Data migration | Done for you | Not documented |
Honest take
We're not the right fit for everyone. Here's when you should stay with Booksy.
Tell us when you want to switch. We export your members, classes, schedules and active subscriptions from Booksy, import them to Class Booking, sit on a video call with you to verify everything looks right, and switch your domain over the weekend. Your customers don't notice.
Yes, that is the core of the product. Capacity management, waitlists, auto-promotion, memberships and punch cards are all native. Booksy is appointment-first, where classes are bolted on. If group classes and memberships are your business, Class Booking is built for it.
Booksy's Boost charges 30% of a new client's first visit, capped at around $100, per their public pricing (July 2026). Class Booking has no marketplace and no referral fee, every booking is 100% yours. If marketplace discovery is a big channel for you, factor that in honestly before switching.
If 1:1 appointments dominate and marketplace discovery matters, Booksy is a fair choice. The moment classes, memberships or punch cards matter, a weekly stretch class, a course, unlimited members, Class Booking's class-first engine and own-brand booking pay for themselves. Class Booking also handles 1:1 treatments natively.
Yes, we import your clients, their contact details and upcoming appointments, and recreate packages and memberships so nobody loses what they paid for. Booksy-processed payment methods do not move 1:1, so members re-enter their card once on first login on Class Booking, and we provide an email template you can send the day before.
Yes, the Booksy marketplace listing is exclusive to Booksy. New clients find you through your own site's SEO instead. For an established brand that is usually fine; if consumer discovery is your bottleneck, weigh it honestly before switching.
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