Fresha alternative for waxing salons
Brow, lip, leg and bikini waxing on short, back-to-back slots, one flat price for every esthetician, and no fee on the first visit.
Compared with Fresha
Each point is paired with what real Fresha users have written about it. These are reviews, not statistics.
A first-time waxing client often comes in from a search or a friend, so a 20% new-client fee on the first visit is hard to justify.
On a CA$50 wax appointment, Fresha lists 20% on a new marketplace client's first booking (minimum CA$6): CA$10.00. We take 0%.
“This company will rob you with 20% commission fee for ‘new clients’ even though these clients have found you on instagram ads that you are paying for.”
A 15-minute brow wax pays the same fixed card fee as a full-leg appointment, and short tickets feel it most.
On the same CA$50, Fresha lists 2.29% + CA$0.20 for an in-person card, Interac included: CA$1.35. A Stripe Interac tap is CA$0.15.
Fresha's pricing page in Canada shows one in-person rate for every card. It has no separate debit rate.
Your regulars rebook every few weeks. Their history is the business, so it should leave with you.
Export your clients, appointments, services, staff and payments as CSV whenever you like, and for 90 days after you cancel.
“…unless I pay hundreds of dollars a year, I will be completely locked out of my own account. No access to my calendar, no access to my client list — nothing.”
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Savings calculator
Put in your own numbers. We work out Fresha's monthly bill from its published prices, and ours as Stripe's card rates plus our flat monthly price, and show every line of both. The figures start on an example waxing salon.
You would keep
CA$781 a year
That is CA$65.07 a month, 33.9% less than Fresha.
Rates as of September 2026. Fresha can change its prices. With us means Stripe's published Canadian card rates, paid to Stripe, plus our CA$29 a month. Card reader optional for deposits and no-show fees. For in-person tap checkout, Stripe readers from about CA$79 (Bluetooth) or CA$419 (countertop, S700).
Savings = Fresha's total minus ours = CA$65.07 a month, times 12 = CA$780.84 a year. We assume 85% of card volume is taken in person and the rest online, that 45% of it is Interac debit in person at CA$0.15 a tap, and that the number of payments is card volume divided by your average ticket.
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Same promise on every page: 0% commission and one flat price for the whole team.
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