Your chairs, your clients, your booking page.
Fresha and Treatwell look free until they charge you for new-client bookings and card processing, and put your regulars in their marketplace. Book them on your own page instead.
Live example: Fade & Co Barbers
The maths
Here's what it's quietly costing you.
Set it to your own numbers. This is money off work you already do.
Drag the sliders. Defaults reflect a typical barber / salon — adjust them to your own numbers.
What the platforms take
£395 / month
That's a year
£4,742
Own Your Trade
£49 / month flat
You'd keep
£4,154/yr
Illustrative. Compares platform commission against the Growth plan's flat monthly fee; excludes card fees, which both sides pay.
See it in action
This is the real thing — try it right here.
Not a screenshot. Place a real test booking below, then look at what the owner sees.
This is the live dashboard the owner sees — every booking lands here in real time, so you run your day without juggling apps.
Straight comparison
Own Your Trade vs Fresha vs Treatwell
No spin. Filter by what matters to you, and see where the money goes.
| OWN·YOUR·TRADE | Fresha | Treatwell | |
|---|---|---|---|
| On a £20 new-client booking | ✓You keep all £20 | £6 taken (20% fee, £6 minimum) | £7 taken (35% fee — c. 42% once VAT is added) |
| New-client booking fee | ✓None | 20%, minimum £6 a head | 35% — and charged even if you cancel the appointment |
| Card processing | ✓Standard Stripe fee only | Their rate, marked up | Their rate + subscription |
| Your clients in a marketplace | ✓No — they're yours | Listed & marketed to | Listed & marketed to |
| Branded booking page | ✓Yes (Growth up) | Their template | Their template |
| Support | ✓A real local developer | In-app support | Account team |
What that adds up to
You keep £2,000+ a year
— against one flat fee from £29 a month.
New-client booking fees and marked-up card processing on a steady book of clients typically run into four figures a year.
Pricing for barber / salons
One flat fee. Pick your level.
Starter
The ordering or booking system, live on a subdomain of ours. No custom site build.
No setup fee · yourname.ownyourtrade.co.uk
- ✓Online ordering or booking system
- ✓Live owner dashboard (orders / bookings)
- ✓Secure card payments via Stripe, straight to your bank
- ✓Hosted on a subdomain we provide
- ✓No commission — one flat monthly fee
- ✕Custom-built website
- ✕Your own domain name
Growth
Your own branded site on a proven system, on your own domain — live in under 2 weeks.
+ £149 one-off setup · yourbusiness.co.uk
- ✓Everything in Starter, plus:
- ✓Your own branded version of a proven system
- ✓Your own domain name, set up for you
- ✓Built for your trade specifically — live in under 2 weeks
- ✓Keep your menu, services, prices, hours and photos fresh — unlimited content updates, included
Established
Growth, plus an ongoing design partner — quarterly improvements, honest reviews, same-day support.
+ £149 one-off setup · yourbusiness.co.uk
- ✓Everything in Growth, plus:
- ✓A small design tweak on us, every quarter — a layout change, photo refresh or minor new feature
- ✓A quarterly design & performance review — real analytics on how the site's doing, what it's winning you, and 2–3 specific next steps
- ✓Priority support — a real person, same day
One flat monthly fee. No commission, ever. A branded site on your own domain is included from Growth up — Starter is the system only, on a subdomain. We don't sell a website without the system. Bigger design or layout changes are easy too — arranged as a simple one-off whenever you want one.
Get started
Own your barber / salon bookings.
Tell me how you take appointments now and I'll come back with a straight answer on whether owning it yourself saves you money. Keep £2,000+ a year — or don't, and I'll tell you that too.