Bookodile vs Booksy

Free at one location with up to two active booking spots and 40 bookings a month, every add-on included. Not a trial — a plan a small business stays on. More

Subscription only — one paid plan in every market. The only free period is the trial: 14 days in the United States, 7 days everywhere else that publishes one, no card required. Source

No commission, no new-client fee, no per-booking charge. The bill is the subscription and nothing else. More

None on bookings from your own link, QR code or the Instagram, Facebook and Google buttons, and none on marketplace bookings while Boost is off. With Boost on, a one-time fee on a new customer's first completed visit: 30% in the United States (minimum $10, maximum $100), 30% in the United Kingdom (minimum £5, plus VAT), 30% in Spain (minimum €4, maximum €50, plus IVA), 45% net in Poland, 40% in South Africa, 0% in Brazil. Ireland, France and Germany publish no figure. Tips and add-ons are excluded, and a claims process refunds a customer who was already yours. Source

Every add-on is free and included — reminders, reviews, vouchers, the waiting list, multi-location, forecasting. Nothing is sold separately. More

The subscription carries forms, the waitlist, gift cards, memberships, packages, reports and Reserve with Google at no additional charge, and a monthly marketing-text allowance — 2,000 in the United States, 500 in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 100 in Spain, France, Poland and Germany. Sold separately: texts beyond that (5p in the United Kingdom, 5c in Ireland, 10 groszy net in Poland), card readers ($53.10 or $219.85 plus shipping in the United States), Fast Payouts at 1.5%, a $20 chargeback fee in the United States, and the Boost commission. Source

There are no plans and no tiers. Every account, including a free one, has every feature. More

One plan with every feature; there is no higher tier to move to. The split is by device instead: memberships, packages, gift-card creation, shifts, inventory, cash registers, staff commissions and resources are only in the web and tablet version, not the phone app. Source

Monthly, no minimum term, no cancellation fee. Paying yearly is optional and costs ten months. More

Monthly, no commitment, cancel any time. Cancelling is done by emailing support, and an App Store subscription cannot reduce its user count in place — cancel and buy a new one. In Poland, switching Boost off takes a month's notice and only the owner can ask. Source

Bookodile does not take your customers' money. The payment-tracking add-on records what you were paid; payment stays between you and the customer. More

Booksy Payments: online and keyed cards, Tap to Pay, card readers, Booksy Pay, Klarna in the United States, next-business-day payouts at no charge and 30-minute Fast Payouts at 1.5%. United States 2.69% + $0.30 online or 2.49% + $0.10 with a reader; United Kingdom 1.29% + 20p + VAT; Ireland 2.6% + VAT. A United States business can instead pass a 3.5% + $0.10 platform fee to the customer, except in seven states. Source

bookodile.com/book/your-business, with your logo, colour, services and hours. One page per location. More

A public profile on booksy.com with a share link and a QR code. The QR code expires if nobody uses it for a year, or if the business name changes. Source

One snippet embeds the whole flow in any site — WordPress, Wix, Squarespace or hand-built — inline or behind a Book-now button. A QR code is generated for print. More

A JavaScript booking button or widget script for any site or CMS that allows custom scripts to be inserted. The article says Booksy gives no further help with implementing it. Source

A name plus an email or a phone number. No account, no app, no password. A web portal shows customers every booking they hold, if they want it. More

A customer can book from a browser through the booking link, but the documented path is a Booksy account — sign-up by email plus a text verification code. Deposits and cancellation fees cannot be charged to a customer without an account, and a review needs a booking made from one. No article describes booking without an account. Source

Combo services chain stages into one booking, and the extras you configure are offered during booking, in more than one round. Customers do not pick arbitrary pairs from the catalogue — you decide which combinations exist. More

Customers can select several services in one booking when the business allows it, add extras during booking, and book Combo Services — a bundle of services sold as one item, priced as the sum of the parts or a custom figure. Source

Each stage of a combo can have its own team member, its own duration and its own room, booked back to back. Each person is blocked only for their own stage, never for the whole visit. Staff move the whole visit in one step, at times that fit every person in it. More

Combo Services come in two types. 'Sequence' runs services one after another with optional breaks between them; 'Parallel' starts every service at the same time and, in the article's words, involves more than one staff member. Only the Parallel type is documented as multi-staff. No article says a Sequence combo can put each stage with a different team member, or how long each person is blocked. Source

Rooms, chairs and equipment with a capacity and their own hours. A service can need a resource alone, a person alone, or both, and capacity is enforced when the booking is made. More

Resources are assigned to services 'just like you would a staff member', with their own working hours, for rooms and equipment; web and tablet only. The documented effect is that two services sharing a resource cannot be booked at the same time. A capacity above one, and booking a resource with no person, are not documented. Source

Events with a capacity and a registration list for one-off things; a recurring class is a service on a resource with a capacity, so it fills up and stops. More

No class or event product. Two adjacent features: Group Booking, created by the business only, for 2–10 people on the same service, which customers cannot make themselves and which No-Show Protection does not cover; and per-service Parallel Clients, a maximum number of customers a slot stays bookable up to. Source

A service can be priced per team member, or per category such as Junior and Senior, and the customer sees which is which. More

Service variants: a variant carries its own price and is assigned to selected team members, so the same service can cost a different amount per person. Source

A service can take a different time per team member. Leave someone blank and they use the service's own duration. More

The same variants carry a duration, so a service can take a different time per person. Source

A buffer after every service blocks the person and any resource it used. Enforced on the booking page and in the booking API. More

Padding time before or after a service, blocked in the calendar for preparation or cleaning. A separate processing time leaves a gap in the middle of a service that another customer can book. Source

A cancellation is offered automatically to whoever has waited longest for that service, with a three-hour countdown. Confirming books them straight in. More

Customers join from the customer app. On a cancellation Booksy texts everyone waiting with a link to book, first come first served. It does not hold a spot or book anyone automatically. Source

Your team can create a repeating series from the calendar — weekly, every two weeks or monthly, up to 52 visits. Customers cannot book a recurring appointment themselves. More

The calendar feature page lists recurring appointments for repeat customers. No help-centre article describes how they are set up or whether customers can book one themselves. Source

Minimum notice, maximum advance days, slot interval, auto-confirm or approval, and a cancellation window — one set of rules per business. More

Advance booking limits and same-day cut-offs, automatic confirmation on or off, a reschedule window, booking intervals down to five minutes per service, and self-booking switched on or off per service. Mobile services always need manual confirmation. Source

Customers cancel from the confirmation email, outside your cancellation window. Rescheduling is cancel and book again; there is no one-step move. More

From the customer's Booksy account or app. The business can limit when a customer may reschedule. Booksy's business article says customers can cancel at any time; its customer article says the cancellation window is set by the business and fees may apply — the two disagree. Source

No card on file and no deposits, because Bookodile does not process payments. A no-show is recorded on the customer, not charged. More

Deposits — part or full prepayment, minimum $5 — and cancellation fees against a card on file, optionally charged automatically at the end of each day, set per service. Needs Mobile Payments, does not cover group bookings, and cannot be charged to a customer without a Booksy account. Source

Extras are offered while booking, per service or per category, in up to several rounds, with an optional discount for adding them. More

Add-ons offered during booking; the price and length of the appointment adjust automatically. An add-on cannot be booked on its own. Source

No marketplace. Your booking page carries only your business, and no competitor is shown beside you — which also means it sends you no new customers.

The centre of the product: the business profile is listed on booksy.com by default. Search visibility can be switched off for 7 days, after which it comes back on; the permanent switch removes the profile and, per the help centre, means no customer can book. The marketplace feature page says visibility can be off while booking still works — the two pages disagree. Source

No consumer app. Customers book in the browser, and a web portal lists every booking they hold with any Bookodile business. More

Booksy for Customers on iOS and Android, free for customers, with the marketplace, booking, the waitlist and reviews inside it. Source

English, Slovak, Czech and Vietnamese, set per business. What your customers read and what you read in the dashboard are separate settings. More

The customer app lists English, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian, and the website resolves in the same set. There is no Slovak, Czech or Vietnamese for customers; the Slovak, Czech and Vietnamese addresses on booksy.com redirect to the United States English site. Source

Every time is shown in the business's own zone, including on your dashboard. A customer in another zone sees both clocks before they confirm. More

The time zone follows the business address and is changed by contacting support. A customer account works in one country only. Nothing is published about how times are shown to a customer in another zone. Source

Your logo, a second logo for dark backgrounds, a logo that links back to your own website, your brand colour with a contrast check, and a banner strip. No custom CSS and no custom domain. More

Cover photo, logo, description and portfolio photos on a booksy.com profile. No custom domain, fonts or CSS are documented. Source

The hosted page follows the customer's device. The embedded widget stays light on purpose, so it matches the website it sits in. More

Neither the profile page nor the online-booking page mentions a dark theme for the customer's view, and the help centre has nothing on it.

No Reserve with Google or Instagram integration. Your booking link goes in your Google profile, your bio or a post like any link.

Reserve with Google, free in every Booksy country (not for Shared Locations, and search visibility must be on); an Instagram Book Now button as an official Meta partner; a Facebook Book Now button that needs Business Manager, a catalogue, an ad account and a pixel; a TikTok link; and bookings from Google's AI Mode. Source

Day, week and month. Drag a booking to a new time or a different person, block out time, add a walk-in, filter by person or service. A visit with several services moves as one — dragged in the calendar, or from the booking dialog, which offers only the times that fit everyone in it. More

Day, week, month and list views, a fit-to-page view of every team member, drag and drop to reschedule, time-off blocks, colour schemes, and shifts on web and tablet. Source

No native app. The dashboard is a web app that installs to a phone's home screen and works there. More

Booksy Biz on iOS and Android for the owner and the team. Team members are invited by email and manage their own calendar, customers and checkout. Source

Any number of locations in one account, each with its own team, hours, services and booking page, and a group dashboard that totals them. More

One account per location, merged by support so one login switches between them. A Shared Location is for several independent businesses at one address, not for one business with several. The price of a second location is not published. Source

Owner, Manager, Employee and Receptionist ready-made, or build a role and set each permission by hand — including whether someone sees only their own bookings, customers and figures. More

Five fixed levels — Owner, Manager, Reception, Staffer and Basic Staffer — plus a few per-person switches for seeing and booking all calendars, the customer database and checkout. No custom roles. Source

Revenue, bookings, average value and cancellation rate; twelve months charted; top services; team ranked by revenue; per location or across all. Forecasting and revenue split are included add-ons. More

Bookings and cancellations, sales and revenue, transactions, occupancy, customers, marketing, team performance, commissions and tips, stock. The feature page says over 50 built-in reports. Downloads on web; the phone app emails a key set as a spreadsheet. No forecasting report is documented. Source

A monthly competition on bookings or revenue that the whole team sees, with a winner per category if you want one, results frozen and emailed on the 1st, and a Hall of fame. Revenue amounts stay hidden from the team unless you show them. An included add-on. More

A staff performance report shows one team member at a time — stats, appointments, sales and reviews — to owners and managers. Other roles cannot view reports, though a manager can show or send someone their own; no ranking against colleagues is documented. Source

No point of sale, no stock, no payroll. A walk-in is a booking. More

Checkout with cash registers, Tap to Pay, card readers, Booksy Pay and Klarna in the United States; an inventory module with orders, deliveries and stock counts; automatic commission rates at checkout with a commissions report. Cash registers, inventory and commissions are web and tablet only. No payroll product is documented. Source

Email confirmations, reminders the day before and two hours before, cancellations and follow-ups — all included, in your business's language. Text messages are built but not switched on. More

Booking reminders go by text 24 hours before at no cost, or by push to customers with the app; emails and push notifications are always free. Marketing texts draw on a separate monthly allowance. Source

No bulk email or text campaigns. An automated win-back sequence for customers who drift away, and promotions shown on the booking page, are included add-ons. More

Text and email marketing: automated templates — a welcome after the first visit, a rebook invitation at three weeks, win-back, birthday and holiday — plus custom blasts, capped at four messages per customer per 30 days, a social-post creator and digital flyers. Texts come out of the region's monthly allowance. Source

Collect a review after each visit, publish on your booking page when you choose, reply in public or privately, and ask happy customers for a Google review in the same email. More

Verified reviews requested automatically about 30 minutes after the appointment, with a 30-day window, shown on the profile; the owner can reply; existing reviews can be imported by support; removal only for a breach of the terms. Nothing is published about asking for Google reviews. Source

Gift vouchers, discount codes, promotions and upsell discounts, all included. No packages or memberships, and vouchers are issued by you rather than sold online. More

Gift cards sold online through Mobile Payments, packages and memberships (web and tablet), promotions — Flash Sale, Happy Hours, Last Minute Discount — Premium Hours for a higher price at peak times, and loyalty stamp cards. No discount-code feature is documented. Source

Bookings are pushed into Google Calendar as they are made, moved or cancelled. One direction only — Google events do not block your availability — and no Outlook. More

A one-time import: export Google or Apple Calendar as an .ics file of up to 5,000 events and upload it, and the events become walk-ins. No live one-way or two-way sync is documented. Source

A consent checkbox in your own wording, invoice details that can be optional or required, and a notes field. No custom intake forms and no e-signatures. More

Custom consent forms, liability waivers and questionnaires, stored on the customer's card, plus per-service questions to the customer. Whether a form can be signed is not stated. Source

Export bookings and customers to CSV whenever you like — the list is yours. No import tool yet, and no public API. More

Export is by request to support: the United States article covers the customer list; the Polish article a full export within five business days. Import: customers from phone contacts or a spreadsheet, and calendars as .ics. No public API or webhooks are documented. Source

Email support, included, with the documentation at bookodile.com/docs behind it. No phone line. More

24/7 live chat in both apps plus email, and a free data-transfer service that moves customers and upcoming appointments in at sign-up, with video tutorials behind it. No phone line and no paid onboarding are documented. Source