The self-hosted Vagaro 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 Vagaro every month.
Stop renting Vagaro.
Vagaro £20/month for one location with 1 bookable calendar, then £10 more per calendar up to £80 for 7 or more (UK page; each beside a struck-through figure £10 higher). Multiple Locations shows no price ('Contact Multi-location Team'). One monthly price, cancel anytime Slotly is $99 once, runs on your own server, and never invoices you again.
Vagaro meters by bookable calendar per month at a single location - £10 for each calendar after the first - and prices multi-location businesses only through its sales team.
“£ 30 £ 20 / mo* 1 bookable calendar”, their own page, read 2026-09-26
Vagaro is a consumer marketplace with integrated payments and a free card reader for its merchant service.
“Free card reader when you sign up for Vagaro Merchant Services”, their own page
Stay with Vagaro if marketplace listing and integrated card processing are worth a monthly fee per bookable calendar — for a salon that wants new walk-ins, that can be a fair trade. Slotly is booking on your own website; it brings no clients and takes no cut.
What Slotly deliberately doesn't do is on its product page.
Why owning beats renting Vagaro.
No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.
It never lives in Vagaro's cloud.
Records and users are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.
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 Vagaro.
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Sources
- Vagaro: price checked 2026-09-26, source“One Location Here's what you'll pay: £ 30 £ 20 / mo* 1 bookable calendar ... £ 40 £ 30 / mo* 2 bookable calendars ... £ 90 £ 80 / mo* 7 or more bookable calendars ... *Cancel anytime with no cancellation fees ... Multiple Locations ... Contact Multi-location Team”
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.