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 download client and booking records in a CSV ZIP. Never-paid accounts can export once every seven days.
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.
Bring your clients and upcoming bookings with you.
Preview your CSV imports, check the results and share your new booking page when you are ready.
Bring your client list
Import clients and upcoming bookings from CSV on every plan, including Starter. Add services and staff first, match bookings to existing clients by email, and review the preview before importing. Past visits, payments and consent forms do not transfer. The import itself does not send reminders or sync bookings to Google Calendar.
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
- Download your client records as a CSV ZIP; never-paid accounts can export once every seven days
- 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) |
| Skedful Starter is $19 per month; waitlist automation and consent forms require Pro at $39. Booksy's quoted $29.99 tier includes those features, so compare the plan you need, not just the entry price. 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. | ||
| Price for a 10-person business | $49 flat | Per team member × 10 |
| Booksy's quoted rate is $29.99 + $20/month per additional team member, or $209.99 for ten people. Skedful Pro is $39 for up to three professionals, and Studio is $49 for a team of any size. Fresha's Team plan also bills per member. Compare the total for your team and the features included in each plan. | ||
| Commission on a booking | None, ever | Marketplace new-client fee |
| All three take 0% on your own direct and repeat bookings. Fresha charges a one-time fee for new clients who discover you through its marketplace; Booksy Boost is an optional marketplace product. Skedful has no booking commission mechanism. | ||
| Appointment reminders and marketing texts | 150 / 600 / 2,000 per month by plan | Allowance varies by region; see pricing |
| 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. Booksy’s US pricing page, checked on 4 October 2026, lists free appointment confirmations and reminders plus 2,000 marketing SMS per month. Marketing SMS are a separate allowance, not a reminder cap; this source does not establish WhatsApp support. | ||
| Free trial | 30 days on Starter, no card | 7 days |
| Marketplace that brings you new clients | No | Yes |
| This is our biggest gap, and it is a deliberate one. Fresha and Booksy run consumer marketplaces; Skedful has no discovery network. Clients come from your own booking link, site and socials. If what you need is new-client traffic rather than a calendar, they do something we do not. | ||
Baseline checked on 4–14 October 2026; Booksy US pricing rechecked on 4 October 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.