Fresha is a salon and spa giant with a huge marketplace — and it's expanding into fitness. But its DNA is appointments, not capacity-managed classes. If classes, memberships and punch cards are core to your business, Class Booking runs them natively, on your own brand, with no marketplace commission.
Why studios switch
Fresha is subscription-free, but new clients who find you through its marketplace carry a one-time commission, and card payments run through Fresha's processing. "Free" has a business model.
Fresha's fitness-and-recovery features are recent. Capacity management, waitlists and class-pack pricing don't have the depth of a system built class-first.
The Fresha marketplace that brings you clients also shows them every other studio nearby. On Class Booking, your booking page is yours alone.
Selling unlimited class memberships, intro offers and punch cards alongside each other is what class businesses live on — and what appointment-first tools handle awkwardly.
Many Fresha features assume Fresha-processed payments. Class Booking runs on your own Stripe account — your money, your processor relationship.
Side by side
No spin. Both columns reflect public pricing and published features at the time of writing.
| Class Booking | Fresha | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | €10 / £8 / $13/month flat, 0% booking fees | Subscription-free + one-time fee per marketplace client + card processing (per their public pricing, July 2026) |
| Group classes with capacity & waitlists | Native — capacity, waitlists, auto-promotion | Recent addition, appointment-first DNA |
| Memberships & punch cards for classes | Unlimited memberships, class packs, punch cards side by side | Geared to salon services and session packs |
| 1:1 treatments & appointments | Native — durations, buffers, rooms, intake forms | Excellent — Fresha's core strength |
| Salon POS & retail stock | Not our focus | Deep (retail, stock, commissions) |
| Who owns the client relationship | You — own domain, own brand, no cross-promotion | Marketplace also promotes nearby businesses |
| Payments | Your own Stripe account (Apple/Google Pay included) | Fresha-processed payments power most features |
| Contract | Monthly rolling, cancel anytime | No subscription to cancel — fees per activity |
Honest take
We're not the right fit for everyone. Here's when you should stay with Fresha.
Tell us when you want to switch. We export your members, classes, schedules and active subscriptions from Fresha, 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.
No — and that's deliberate. Class Booking costs from €10/month flat with 0% booking fees and no marketplace commission. Fresha is subscription-free but monetises through a one-time fee on marketplace-sourced clients and payment processing. Busy class businesses usually come out ahead on a flat price.
Yes — we import your clients, their contact details and upcoming appointments. Gift-card balances and packages are recreated so nobody loses what they've paid for.
No. Class Booking has no marketplace — your booking page runs on your own domain and promotes only you. New clients find you through your own site's SEO, not a shared feed that also lists your competitors.
If treatments dominate and you want retail/POS depth, Fresha 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 pays for itself.
Yes — pay per hour, per session or per attendee, with one-click export. Commission-based retail pay (a salon speciality) is not something we do.
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