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The self-hosted Booksy alternative

Slotly: Self-hosted appointment booking that refuses a second booking for a slot already taken, even when two people try at the same moment. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying Booksy every month.

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Stop renting Booksy.

Rented Booksy $29.99 per month + tax, plus $20 per month for each additional team member; 14-day trial; "No hidden or extra fees" ^[1] billed every month, for as long as you use it; your data in their cloud

Yours

Slotly

$99 once · self-hosted · your data on your server

4 months of Booksy costs what Slotly costs once.

Buy once

How we counted: The single-provider subscription; every additional team member is another $20 a month on top, so a four-person salon pays $89.99 before tax. Slotly is one payment for any number of staff.

How Booksy pricing grows

Booksy meters by TEAM MEMBER: $29.99 for the first, $20 a month for each one after, forever.

“$20/month each”, their own page, read 2026-08-30

What Booksy does that we don't

Booksy is a consumer marketplace as well as a booking tool — clients find and book businesses inside the Booksy app.

“No hidden or extra fees”, their own page

Who should stay with Booksy

Stay with Booksy if the marketplace matters — new clients discovering you inside their app — or you want payments and no-show protection handled by the vendor. Slotly is booking on your own website and server; nobody discovers you through it, and it processes no payments.

What Slotly deliberately doesn't do is on its product page.

Why owning beats renting Booksy.

One payment

No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.

Your data stays on your server

It never lives in Booksy's cloud.

No plan ceilings

Records and users are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.

It keeps working if the vendor doesn't

Self-hosted software can't be sunset or repriced out from under you.

The fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up and apply updates yourself. See the product page for its limits, and the full Slotly vs renting comparison.

Questions about moving off Booksy.

Does it take payment online?

Yes, if you switch on card payments with your own Stripe account: a service can take its deposit, or the full price, by card while the customer books, on Stripe's own page, and the money goes from Stripe to your bank. Slotly never sees the card and takes no cut. Without card payments, deposits are quoted and tracked in admin, and your own payment link (Stripe, PayPal or any page) is shown beside the amount due.

What do automatic reminders need?

One cron line enables them. Email goes through SMTP or PHP mail(), and texts, for customers who ask, through your own SMS gateway.

Can I run group classes?

Yes — set a capacity and multiple people can book the same slot.

MySQL or SQLite?

Either — MySQL for shared hosting, SQLite for a local trial.

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Sources

Booksy: price checked 2026-09-03, source“'$29.99 per month' ... '+ tax' ... '$20 per month each' ... 'No hidden or extra fees' ... '14 day trial period' ... 'No commitment required. You can cancel anytime.'”

Competitor prices change, so always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown. This vendor is tracked in the Price Observatory: every figure verbatim, dated, re-checked quarterly.

Replace Booksy with Slotly.

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