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Hourbook vs Booksy
Both let your clients book online and keep your team’s diary in one place. The big difference is how you pay: Booksy takes a cut when it brings you a new client, while Hourbook is one flat monthly price with no commission, ever.
- Monthly subscription
- Booksy:£40 a month, plus £5 a month for each extra team member, plus VAT
- Hourbook:One flat price for your plan, whether you have 1 or 3 people on Basic
- New clients from their marketplace
- Booksy:Optional Boost: 30% of the first visit (minimum £5) plus VAT
- Hourbook:No marketplace and no commission, ever
- Card payments
- Booksy:1.29% + 20p plus VAT per payment, if you take payments through Booksy
- Hourbook:Not yet: keep your own card reader (online payments are coming, with no commission)
- Text messages
- Booksy:Reminders free; 500 free marketing texts a month, then 5p each
- Hourbook:Email reminders on Plus and above; text reminders are coming
- Setting it up
- Booksy:You set it up yourself (7-day free trial)
- Hourbook:We set it up for you, with your services, team and hours
- A website
- Booksy:Not part of the plan on their pricing page
- Hourbook:A website designed for your business, with booking built in (quoted separately)
Booksy’s details are from their own pricing page, checked on 16 October 2026. Prices change, so check the latest there.
Booksy may suit you better if
- You want an app your clients can find you in, and Boost to bring in new faces
- You want card payments and no-show protection in the same system today
Hourbook may suit you better if
- You'd rather not pay extra for every team member you add
- You don't want to pay 30% of a new client's first visit
- You want someone to set it up for you, and maybe build your website too
What Booksy’s commission costs you
Change the numbers to match your business.
Ones found through Boost
What a new client usually spends
Your bookable team, including you
A month, if you want it counted (optional)
New-client fees to Booksy in a year
£1,944
£16.20 per new client, £162 a month, including VAT.
Hourbook Basic plan in a year
£300£25 a month, no commission
That’s £1,644 a year you’d keep.
Booksy charges 30% (minimum £5) on the first visit from each new client who finds you while Booksy's Boost is switched on, plus VAT, according to their pricing page on 16 October 2026. Boost is optional. With it switched off, Booksy charges no commission.
This counts the new-client fee only, not card fees or extras. Those fees pay for clients Booksy finds for you, and Hourbook doesn’t list you on a marketplace.
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