Why does this page not show one total for Booksy?

Because Booksy publishes no Australian price, so half their bill is in US dollars. Rather than pick an exchange rate ourselves and pass the result off as what Booksy charges, the table shows their figures as they publish them and converts only at the Reserve Bank’s published daily rate, with that rate and its date printed beside the number. Your own bank adds a margin on top of that, so the real cost is a little higher again.

Sometimes. It costs nothing to switch on and only charges when it brings you someone new, so if your column has gaps it can be the cheapest marketing you have. The question is what happens once you are busy: 30% of every new client’s first visit is a permanent tax on growth, and it is the reason most people comparing Booksy end up here.

Does Bookka charge commission on new clients?

No. Your marketplace profile is part of the subscription and a client who finds you through Bookka costs nothing extra, on their first booking or any after it.

Can I move my clients across from Booksy?

Yes. Export your client list, send us your service menu, and we will set up your services, prices, hours and team before you go live.

What does Bookka include that Booksy does not?

An online shop with shipping, a social media scheduler with AI-written content, and — on the Executive plan — a Google and Meta ads manager and an AI booking assistant. Booksy includes loyalty cards, gift cards and email and text marketing in its subscription, which is genuinely simpler than the tiered rivals.

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A Booksy alternative, priced in Australian dollars

Booksy publishes no Australian pricing — its AU business site redirects to US dollars — and Boost takes 30% of a new client’s first visit. Bookka is A$39 a month flat, in AUD, with no commission.

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Switch if

You are paying per chair and giving Booksy 30% of every new client Boost sends you, and you would rather not be billed in US dollars.

Stay on Booksy if

Boost is genuinely filling your column. It reaches further than Bookka’s marketplace, and a 30% one-off on a first visit can still pay for itself.

How the two price lists differ

Start with the thing that is easy to miss: Booksy does not publish an Australian price list. It has an Australian business site — booksy.com/biz/en-au, which announces itself as the "au" market — and that page carries no prices and no link to any. Add /pricing to it and you get a 404. Ask for pricing another way and you land on biz.booksy.com, quoted in US dollars: US$29.99 a month for the first person and US$20 for everyone after them, plus tax. There is a UK site with pounds on it. There is no Australian one.

We are not going to convert those figures for you and present the result as what Booksy charges. Pick your own exchange rate and you get a precise-looking Australian number that Booksy has never charged anybody. So on this page Booksy’s figures stay in the currency Booksy published them in, and the comparison shows what we can stand behind rather than a total we made up.

Bookka is A$39 a month for up to five people and A$69 for up to twenty, billed in Australian dollars by an Australian company, with your marketplace listing included and no commission on new clients. Booksy’s Boost takes 30% of a new client’s first visit, capped at US$100.

Why salons leave Booksy

The reasons people actually give, in the order they tend to give them.

Priced in US dollars, with no Australian list: US$29.99 for the first team member and US$20 for each one after, plus tax — and what that lands on your card in a given month depends on the exchange rate and your bank. Bookka is A$39 or A$69, the same number every month.
Boost takes 30% of a first visit: Boost is free to switch on and then takes 30% of a new client’s first appointment, capped at US$100. It is genuinely optional, and for a new chair it can pay for itself. But 30% is the highest new-client commission of any platform on this page, and Bookka’s is zero.
Per-head pricing from the second person: The base price covers one person. A five-chair shop is US$29.99 + four lots of US$20. Bookka includes five people at A$39 and twenty at A$69.
Card rates are the highest here: Booksy publishes 2.69% + US$0.30 on mobile and keyed-in payments and 2.49% + US$0.10 on its card reader. Bookka uses Stripe’s Australian rates — about 1.7% + A$0.30 online with a 1.3% platform fee, and no Bookka fee at all on in-person payments.
No online shop, social scheduler or ads manager: Booksy’s included feature list has no retail shop, no social post scheduler and no advertising manager. Bookka has all three, the last on the Executive plan.

Bookka and Booksy, line by line

Every figure below comes from the pricing Booksy publishes itself, read on 2026-10-01. Where they publish nothing, this says so rather than guessing.

Pricing and features: Booksy compared with Bookka
Booksy	Bookka
What it costs
Base subscription
US$29.99/moBooksy · covers one team member, plus tax	A$39.00/moBusiness — flat, whatever the team size
Each extra staff member
+US$20.00/moevery additional person	Includedup to 5 on Business, then A$14.95/mo
Each extra location
Not publishedBooksy does not describe multi-location pricing on its pricing page.	Included1 on Business, then A$19.95/mo
New-client marketplace fee
30%Boost — of a new client's first visit · capped at US$100.00	Includedno commission, ever — the marketplace is included
Card processing (online)
2.69% + US$0.30mobile payments and keyed entry	1.7% + A$0.30 + 1.3%Stripe plus the Bookka fee — about 3% all in, paid into your own Stripe account
Card processing (in person)
2.49% + US$0.10Booksy Card Reader; Tap to Pay is + $0.20	0% Bookka feeonly Stripe's terminal rate, 1.7% + A$0.10
What is an extra
Your own booking website
IncludedBooksy Profile, part of the single plan	IncludedBooking page and marketplace profile included — not a custom-domain website
Email and SMS marketing
IncludedEmail and text marketing included; the US page publishes no message allowance	IncludedQuota included, then $10 per 100 texts
Social media scheduling
Not offeredNo social scheduler in the included feature list	IncludedIncluded, with AI-written content
Loyalty program
IncludedLoyalty Cards	IncludedBookka Rewards, included
Gift cards
IncludedOnline Gift Cards	IncludedIncluded on every plan
Online shop with shipping
Not offeredNo retail or online shop in the included feature list	IncludedIncluded, on your booking page
Xero accounting sync
Not offered	On ExecutiveNative, included on Executive
Business analytics and reports
IncludedStats and reports	IncludedIncluded
Google and Meta ads manager
Not offered	On ExecutiveIncluded on Executive
AI booking assistant
Not offered	On ExecutiveIncluded on Executive, with $10 a month of credit
Monthly software costWhat each provider bills for a three-person business at one location, running marketing, loyalty, gift cards and an online shop, on Bookka Business: subscription, add-ons and any message top-ups. Card processing and commission are counted separately, because they scale with takings rather than with the software.
US$69.99+Booksy publishes no per-message price for texts.	A$49.00/moBookka Business A$39.00 + text top-ups A$10.00 · no commission, ever · card processing 1.7% + A$0.30 + 1.3%

Comparison reviewed October 2026 from publicly available information; features and pricing may change. Figures are as published by each provider, excluding taxes and card processing unless noted. Booksy publishes no Australian pricing, so those figures are shown in the currency published and are not converted. Booksy is a trademark of Booksy International sp. z o.o.. Bookka is not affiliated with Booksy.

Where these figures came from (1 source)

biz.booksy.com — read 2026-10-01

The part a price list cannot show you

The table can only compare what you can buy on both sides. These come with Bookka Business and Booksy does not offer them at all, so they never appear as a line — and they are the ones that decide whether a client books again.

Bringing new people in

Being found, being chosen, and being talked about — without paying a commission on the people it works on.

Online shop with shipping: Included, on your booking page
Social media scheduling: Included, with AI-written content

Start free

On Bookka Business, $39 a month. See both plans.

Moving across from Booksy

You do not have to pick a day and jump. The overlap is the point.

1
Export what you have
Pull your client list out of Booksy and send us your service menu — a screenshot of the price list is enough. You do not need to tidy it first.
2
We set it up for you
Services, prices, durations, opening hours and your team, entered and checked before you go live. You look at it and tell us what is wrong.
3
Run both, then switch the link
Keep Booksy going while appointments already in it play out. When you are happy, point your booking link, Instagram and Google profile at Bookka. Nothing gets cancelled and rebooked.

Booksy and Bookka, answered

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Booksy does not publish an Australian price anywhere we can find. It has an Australian business page, and that page carries no pricing at all and no link to any; the /pricing path under it returns a 404. The pricing you are shown instead is the US one — US$29.99 a month for the first team member and US$20 for each additional one, plus tax. We have deliberately not converted those figures into Australian dollars, because the result would be a precise-looking number Booksy has never charged anyone. Ask Booksy directly for an Australian quote before you compare.

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A Booksy alternative, priced in Australian dollars

How the two price lists differ

Why salons leave Booksy

Bookka and Booksy, line by line

The part a price list cannot show you

Bringing new people in

Moving across from Booksy

Export what you have

We set it up for you

Run both, then switch the link

Booksy and Bookka, answered

Comparing a few at once?

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