Fresha was the free one. In November 2026 its own pricing page lists Independent at $19.95 a month and Team at $14.95 per bookable person — plus a one-time 20% commission, minimum $6, on a client who is new to you and finds you through the Fresha marketplace. Three people is $44.85 a month, $1,615 over three years. Here is that math next to a page that costs $49 once.
The free plan Fresha was known for is not on its pricing page any more. What is there:
Fresha is the cheapest of the three on the subscription, and we will say so plainly: three people cost $44.85 a month, against $50 flat at Squire and $69.99 at Booksy. What changed is the premise. A shop that joined for “free software” is now on a per-person subscription, and the reviews of the change date it to 2025 with the last free accounts ending in 2026 — which is why a shop that checks its card statement this month often finds a line it did not expect. The second charge is the marketplace: 20% of a new client’s first visit, minimum $6, once per genuinely new client.
The marketplace fee is shown per month because it tracks your best months, not your worst: at 20 new clients a month and a $35 first cut it is $140 a month, $1,680 a year — more than the subscription itself. It is charged once per genuinely new client, and a client who books through your own link, your Instagram or Facebook never triggers it. That is exactly why the page is worth having: it is the channel where the fee cannot follow you. The $6 minimum matters on cheap services — a $25 beard trim still pays $6, not $5.
Same job, two products: putting your cuts, your prices and your phone number where a client looks before they book.
| Fresha | ShopLaunch | |
|---|---|---|
| List price today | Independent $19.95 a month · Team $14.95 per bookable person | $49 / $199 / $499, once |
| 3 people | $44.85 a month — $538.20 a year | $0 a month |
| 5 people | $74.75 a month — $897 a year | $0 a month |
| What you pay in year 2 | $538.20 at three people | $0 |
| Free plan | None — withdrawn in 2025–26 | Not a subscription at all |
| Fee on a new client | 20% once on a marketplace new client, $6 minimum | 0% — we take nothing from a client you booked |
| Your page | A booking profile on fresha.com, inside their marketplace | A page on its own URL with your prices, linking to your booking |
| Fees on your sales | No Fresha order commission; card processing is its processor’s rate | None — we do not touch your sales |
| Calendar, deposits, reminders | Yes — this is what the plan is for | No. The Book button opens the calendar you have |
| Client list and marketing | Yes | No. We collect no client data at all |
| Term | Monthly on its pricing page; ask what term applies before you sign | No contract |
| Leaving early | Nothing to cancel on a monthly plan — ask about annual terms | Nothing to cancel |
| Where the page lives | On Fresha’s domain, tied to the subscription | A URL and files you keep |
| Time to live | Sign up, add services and staff, publish | 24 hours from a completed form |
Fresha figures are the monthly list prices on fresha.com/pricing, read 11 November 2026, before tax and before card processing. “Bookable person” is Fresha’s own unit — check whether it counts you, a chair renter and an assistant the way you count them. A shop on a legacy or promotional price pays something else.
This page would be dishonest if it claimed to replace the product. It replaces one line on the invoice.
Fresha is the one of the three we would most often tell a small shop to keep, because its per-chair price is the lowest and its marketplace does bring people in. The argument here is narrower than “cancel Fresha”: it is that the page is not the calendar, that you have been paying for both, and that the page is the half you can own for $199 once. Keep the calendar. Point the page at it.
Not a Fresha profile with a search box over it — the shop’s own page, with the shop’s own prices. Scroll it in the frame, then open it on your phone.
Live sample · Miller & Sons Barbershop.
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Nothing on that page holds a calendar. The Book button opens whatever booking address the shop already uses — for this sample, a plain call button. That is the whole point: the page is the part you own, the calendar stays wherever it already works.
Not a template you fill in. We take your hours, prices and photos, build each piece, and hand back files and a live link.
One form, five minutes. Live the next business day. No app for you or your clients, no monthly fee, and no cut of a booking.
The page and the price list are the Local Pack. Nothing here is a subscription, and nothing renews.
Less than two months of the cheapest booking app.
Page + menu + posters + posts.
Everything, plus 30 days of us on call.
Payment is taken by Polar Software, Inc., our merchant of record, on their checkout page — we never see your card. By ordering you agree to our terms and refund policy. The files are yours to keep and reprint.
No. Fresha’s own pricing page in November 2026 lists Independent at $19.95 a month for one bookable person and Team at $14.95 a month per bookable team member, plus a one-time 20% commission (minimum $6) on a client who is new to you and finds you through the Fresha marketplace. The free plan it was known for is gone; published accounts of the change date it to 2025, with the last free accounts ending in 2026. If you joined years ago for “free software”, check your card statement.
For the customer-facing page, yes. For the calendar, no. We do not sell a booking system, card payments, deposits, reminders or a client list, so a shop that needs those keeps Fresha — or Booksy, Squire, a paper diary — and buys the page from us.
On the subscription it is, and we say so on this page: three people cost $44.85 a month against $69.99 at Booksy. The comparison is not Fresha against a page — it is the page line inside Fresha against a page you own. Keep Fresha for the calendar and take $1,615 of three-year subscription off the part that is only a price list. If you would rather keep one invoice, keep it; this page is for the shop that wants the front door to be its own.
It is a one-time commission on a client who is genuinely new to you and books through the Fresha marketplace — 20% of that first visit, with a $6 minimum, and nothing on their second visit. A client who books through your own link, your Instagram or Facebook never triggers it, which is the reason a page on your own URL is worth having. Ask Fresha in writing which booking each charge came from.
Yes, and that is how it is meant to be used. The Book button opens your Fresha booking page, so a client who taps it lands in the calendar you already run. Nothing is migrated, nothing is re-entered and no slot is double-booked, because our page never holds a calendar.
Polar Software, Inc., our merchant of record, takes it on their checkout page. Your card details are entered there, never on this site, and they handle the receipt and the tax. We never see your card number.
The per-person ladder, the three-year totals, the marketplace fee and the five questions to ask Fresha, on one A4 page.
The same method, applied to the restaurant platforms — eleven of them, priced over three years.
Everything on one page: the 2026 cost comparison · the fee calculator · the barbershop landing.
Send your shop once. We build the page, the menu, the posters and the posts, and hand it back the next business day. The calendar stays where it is.