You are probably here because you are on Booksy and wondered what else is out there. Straight to the point: the real difference is not the feature list, it is who owns your clients.
On a marketplace, your profile is not yours
Booksy, Treatwell and Fresha all work the same way: you bring the business, they bring the shop window. In exchange they keep a cut of every new client who arrives through it, between 20% and 30% depending on the platform. And the monthly fee usually goes up with every extra staff member.
One thing only becomes obvious the day you want to leave: the profile with your photos, your services and your reviews lives inside their website, not yours. Your clients found you there, and there they stay. After years of work you still have no address of your own to send anyone to.
Here the website is yours
What you build on BookflowR is your website: your domain, your photos, your prices and your brand. Bookings happen inside it, so the client who books is yours from day one. If you ever decide to leave, you take the site and the client list with you, because they are yours.
- Your own domain, yourbusiness.com, with the security padlock included.
- You build it by dragging blocks, no coding needed.
- Appointment or table diary, with your team, your hours and your holidays.
- An AI assistant that answers and books for you on WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook.
- Automatic reminders so people stop standing you up.
- Client records, passes, waiting list and a digital menu if you run a restaurant.
What you pay in each place
On a marketplace you pay for three things: the subscription, an extra per staff member, and a percentage of every new client. That percentage is exactly what eats your margin once business picks up.
Here you pay a subscription and nothing else. Not a cent of what you charge your clients, not now and not when you take payments online. There is a free plan to start, the first paid one is €12.99 a month and the team plan, with up to eight professionals, is €29.99.
What Booksy has that you will not find here
Let us be honest, otherwise this page is worthless: a marketplace is a shop window with people already inside. If someone searches “hair salon near me” in their app, they can find you without knowing you exist. That does not happen here, because BookflowR is not a directory: it is your website.
What we do instead is make your site show up on Google on its own — with your hours, your services and your map exactly where Google looks for them — and let you send your link on WhatsApp, put it on Instagram or stick it on the door. It is slower at the start. But what you build is yours and pays no toll.
Plenty of people do both for a while: they stay on the marketplace while their own website gains traction. That seems reasonable to us, and you do not have to choose today.
How to move across without losing an afternoon
You do not have to copy anything by hand. Send us the link to your Booksy profile and we pull your details, your services with their prices, your opening hours and your photos. We build the site, you see it finished, and it goes live when you say so.
Setting it up costs nothing. You can create your free account and do it yourself, or ask us to build it for you.