Find your salon’s fit

Phorest is the established, salon-only system with the deepest multi-site tooling of the group. The honest comparison is maturity and support against colour costing, the phone, and a one-year contract.

Treatwell is a booking marketplace first. The comparison is really a question about your business: are you buying new clients, or running the ones you have better?

Booksy publishes its pricing plainly and moves quickly. The difference is the optional commission layer for new clients, and what happens to colour.

Both are UK salon software with online booking on your own site and an AI receptionist. SalonIQ brings marketing tools and a big customer base; Daviana a monthly contract and colour costing built in.

Posh, Moneypenny, Answer.co.uk, SinglePoint, Ansacom and an AI receptionist compared on price per call and per minute, booking and hours, with a worked example.

Fresha, Booksy, Phorest, SalonIQ, Vagaro and Daviana compared on price, contract and new-client fees, with a worked cost example, and what Timely still does better.

Fresha, Booksy, Timely, SalonIQ and Daviana compared on commission, price and notice period, and what Treatwell still does better.

Fresha, Treatwell, Timely, SalonIQ and Daviana compared on price, contract and Boost-style new-client fees, and what Booksy still does better.

Fresha, Timely, SalonIQ, Booksy and Daviana compared on published price, contract and new-client fees, and what Phorest still does better.

Both weigh the colour bowl and cost it. Vish plugs into the booking system you already use; ColorLab sits on the same record as the Daviana diary and till.

Timely and Daviana both skip the marketplace, so neither takes a cut of a new client. The comparison is Timely's low weekly price and marketing tools against colour costing and the phone answered by voice.

Vagaro starts at £20 a month for one calendar and is cheaper for a small team. Since July 2026 it takes 20% of a new client's first marketplace booking in the UK. Daviana has no marketplace, answers the phone by voice and costs colour.

Zenoti is built for salon, spa and medspa chains and its UK guide says to budget £400+ a month per location. Daviana is £25 to £120 a month by team size, with no minimum term, and costs colour to the gram.