Honest comparison · No spin

Mane vs Booksy. Side by side.

If Booksy is taking 30% of your "Boost" revenue, charging your clients to book, or marketing your own client list to your competition — read this.

The real cost of Booksy

Booksy is cheap on the sticker.
Expensive in the fine print.

Booksy advertises $29.99/mo. Most barbers think that's the bill. It isn't.

Sample Booksy bill — solo barber, 100 cuts/mo, 5 Boost first-visits
Booksy Pro plan$29.99
Payment processing (~2.49% on $5,000)$124.50
Boost commission — 30% of $400 first-visit revenue$120.00
"Reactivation" fees on existing clients misclassified as newvaries
True monthly cost~$274/mo + variable

And every dollar of Boost revenue trains Booksy to send your client to your competitor next time. You're paying to lease your own client list.

Side by side

Same chair. Different math.

Mane Booksy
Monthly base[Mane price]$29.99 base
Per-staff add-onincluded+$20/mo each
Marketplace commission ("Boost") on first visits$0~30%
Client-side booking fee$0$0 (but Boost)
Existing-client misclassified as newneverwidely reported
SMS remindersincludedincluded
No-show depositsone-tap togglesupported
You own your client listalwaysmarketed to competitors
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Migrate your Booksy listfree, 24 hrs
Built bya working barbera Polish startup ($230M raised)
From a real Booksy refugee

"I migrated 619 clients in one weekend."

Booksy was charging me to keep my own clients. The Boost commission on first-visits was the breaking point — they were marketing my book to other barbers and skimming 30% on the people who came back. Mane gave me my list back. I was running my own bookings on a Monday.
— Christian G. Flair, working barber, Royal Palm Beach FL · founder of Mane
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Questions? christiangflairbiz@gmail.com · (561) 888-5567