The Fresha alternative where your clients stay yours.
Looking for a Fresha alternative? Fresha is built around a marketplace. Skedful is built around your business. Your clients, your booking page and your data stay yours: one flat subscription with nothing charged per booking, no listing beside the business down the street, no nudges toward somebody else's brand. One calm operating system for service businesses.
On a marketplace, the platform sits between you and every booking. Skedful removes that middle layer. Here is what changes the day you switch.
Your clients came for you. Keep it that way.
Your client list is yours
Marketplace platforms typically hold the client relationship: bookings, contact details and history live under their brand. On Skedful, clients book you on your page, every record belongs to your business, and you can export it all any day.
One flat price, nothing per booking
Skedful is one flat subscription: a first-time client costs you exactly what a regular does, nothing on top, whatever your booking volume looks like that month.
Never listed beside competitors
Your Skedful booking page shows your work, your services and your real availability, and nobody else's. There is no directory suggesting "similar professionals" to the client you spent years earning.
Intake and consent, built in
Send consent and intake forms clients sign before they arrive, and keep notes and photos on every session. The paperwork side of the business runs itself.
A calendar that defends itself
Automated SMS, WhatsApp and email reminders cut no-shows, and a smart waitlist offers freed slots to the right clients in order. You stay with the client in front of you, not with the phone.
Move every client without losing a single booking.
Bring your client list over and the page takes it from there. Most businesses switch between two bookings.
Bring your client list
Export your client list from your current account and import it into Skedful yourself, on any plan including Starter. Names, numbers and notes come across. Upcoming bookings do not transfer yet, which is why most businesses switch between two bookings.
Point people at your own page
Set up your services and hours, then share your new booking page in your bio and DMs. From now on every booking lands under your name, not inside a marketplace profile.
Turn on the automations
Pick a reminder schedule, switch on the waitlist, and let the calendar defend itself. From day one, cancellations refill and no-shows get rarer.
- Import your client list from a CSV on any plan, Starter included
- Your client data is yours to export, whenever you like
- Skedful never takes a fee on a booking, first-time or returning
- 30 days free, no card, cancel in two clicks
Skedful next to Fresha, on the numbers we can show you.
Prices taken from the vendors' own pricing pages, on the date noted under the table. Where we could not verify a figure we say so instead of printing one.
| Yes/No | Skedful | Fresha |
|---|---|---|
| Price per month (one professional) | $19 Starter | Per team member (see their pricing) |
| Booksy is cheaper than us for a solo pro, and its single tier includes everything. Fresha's pricing page shows rates for the visitor's own region; we could not verify a US figure from outside the US, so we do not quote one rather than print a number we have not seen. | ||
| Price for a 10-person business | $49 flat | Per team member × 10 |
| Booksy is $29.99 + $20/month per additional team member. Skedful's $49 Studio plan covers your whole team at one flat price, however many people, with no per-seat charge. Fresha's Team plan is also per team member. Read this as a scale argument, not a blanket one: Booksy's per-seat model is cheaper than us for most small teams, and only crosses our flat price at around seven people. | ||
| Commission on a booking | None, ever | Marketplace new-client fee (opt-in) |
| Read this one precisely, because the headline version of it is wrong. All three take 0% on your own direct and repeat bookings. Fresha's and Booksy's fees apply only to their opt-in marketplace products, which you choose to switch on. The honest difference: with Skedful there is no path in which a booking costs you a percentage, because no such mechanism exists. | ||
| SMS / WhatsApp included | 150 / 600 / 2,000 per month by plan | 20 free per month, then metered |
| Skedful: 150 on Starter, 600 on Pro ($39), 2,000 on Studio ($49). Email reminders are unlimited. These are caps, not "unlimited", and that includes ours. | ||
| Free trial | 30 days, no card | 7 days |
| Marketplace that brings you new clients | No | Yes |
| This is our biggest gap, and it is a deliberate one. Fresha lists 130,000+ partner businesses; Booksy Marketplace claims 44 million clients. Skedful has no discovery network at all. Clients come from your own booking link, site and socials. That is the trade for never charging a percentage. If what you need is new-client traffic rather than a calendar, they do something we do not. | ||
Checked against each vendor's own pricing page on 15 July 2026. Monthly subscription, one professional unless stated.
You would be giving up the marketplace.
Fresha's marketplace does put you in front of people who have never heard of you, and Skedful has nothing like it. We are the booking page for the clients you already earned, not a directory that finds you new ones. That is a real trade, and it is the one thing worth thinking hard about before you move.
And the flat price is not a slogan: Starter is $19 a month, Pro $39, Studio $49, the same whether you take ten bookings or a hundred. Pricing
Take your clients off the marketplace.
Start free for 30 days. Bring your list, keep every relationship, and run your business under your own name.