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The self-hosted Fresha 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 Fresha every month.

Own Slotly for $99 Try the live demo

Stop renting Fresha.

Fresha Independent €11.95 per month; Team €7.95 per team member monthly; Enterprise custom; card processing 1.29% + €0.20 per transaction; a one-time fee on brand-new clients who arrive via the Fresha marketplace (amount not on the pricing table) Slotly is $99 once, runs on your own server, and never invoices you again.

How Fresha pricing grows

Fresha meters by TEAM MEMBER per month, then by PROCESSING on every payment, then a fee per new marketplace client.

“€7.95 per team member monthly”, their own page, read 2026-08-30
What Fresha does that we don't

Fresha is a marketplace as well as a booking tool — clients discover salons inside its app — with integrated payments and terminals.

“No fee ever applies to your returning clients”, their own page
Who should stay with Fresha

Stay with Fresha if marketplace discovery and integrated card payments matter more than the monthly fee — for a salon that wants new walk-ins from the app, its model is a fair deal. Slotly is booking on your own site and server; nobody discovers you through it.

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

Why owning beats renting Fresha.

One payment

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

Your data stays on your server

It never lives in Fresha'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 Fresha.

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.
Better together
Slotly is part of the Studio Suite
4 apps for one price, $127 less than buying them separately.
$199once

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Sources

  1. Fresha: price checked 2026-09-03, source“'€11.95 per month' ... '€7.95 per team member monthly' ... 'Custom rates' ... '1.29% + €0.20 per transaction' ... 'One-time fee applied to brand new clients who discover your business via the Fresha marketplace'”

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.

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