Who Booksy is for
Booksy is a consumer marketplace first and booking software second. Its business product, Booksy Biz, is sold to beauty and wellness businesses — its help centre's worked examples run from hair and nails to massage and tattoo — and in Poland it has a medical directory as well. It is not a class or event product; nothing in its help centre describes one. Its business site has a version and a price list for nine countries, with the United States as the reference market — its Canadian page says it describes the United States feature set. Slovakia, Czechia and Vietnam are on none of its country lists, and an account can only book within its own country.
Bookodile is a booking system, with a website built from it, and nothing else: no directory, no card processing, no till. It is for a business whose people are priced or timed differently, where a room or a piece of equipment is the real limit, where one visit can involve two people, and where the customers it wins are its own at no fee. Those are the rows above where the two differ most.
The pricing model, in practice
Booksy charges one subscription per business, with one user inside it, and then a fee for every additional user: in the United States $29.99 plus $20 a user a month, in the United Kingdom £40 plus £5, in Ireland €44 plus €5, each before tax. There is no free plan; the trial is 14 days in the United States and South Africa and 7 days elsewhere. Card processing is charged per transaction at the rate on each regional pricing page.
Then there is Boost. It is off until switched on, and with it on Booksy takes a one-time commission on the first completed visit of every new customer the marketplace brings. Its pricing pages put it at 30% in the United States, up to $100; 30% in the United Kingdom with a £5 minimum, plus VAT; 30% in Spain, up to €50, plus IVA; 45% net in Poland, up to 250 zł net; 40% in South Africa, up to R1500. The help centre adds minimums the other pricing pages leave out: $10 in its United States article, €4 plus IVA in Booksy's Spanish help centre, and 25 zł net in its Polish help centre, which also adds VAT on top of the net commission, a lower 35% net rate on request and a month's notice to switch Boost off. The Irish, French, German and Brazilian pricing pages show no Boost at all and say no commission is charged for new clients. Bookings through your own profile link are not charged — Booksy's Polish help centre extends that to the profile's QR code and the Facebook, Instagram and Google buttons, while its English articles name the link and the Instagram and Facebook buttons pointed at it — and Booksy documents a claims process for a customer it counted as new who was already yours.
Bookodile charges per location plus per booking spot that actually took a booking that month — a spot being one appointment you can run at the same time as another. People who take no bookings are not counted, and there is no commission on anything. SMS, sent with the SMS messages add-on, need a paid plan and are billed per SMS, capped each month. It is free at one location with up to two active spots and 40 bookings a month; the figures for your country are on the pricing page and the model is explained in What Bookodile costs.
Which is cheaper depends on how many users you pay Booksy for and on whether Boost is on. Put your own numbers into both before deciding; the case for Bookodile is in the rows above, not in the bill.
Two services, two people
Booksy's bundle is a Combo Service, and its set-up article documents two types. In Sequence, services run one after another, with optional breaks between them. In Parallel, every service starts at the same time and, in the article's words, involves more than one staff member; the Polish version adds that each service is assigned to a different team member. The price is the sum of the parts or a custom figure. That is the whole of what is published about more than one person in a booking: it covers services that happen simultaneously. Nothing says a Sequence combo can put its first stage with one person and its second with another, and nothing describes how long each person is blocked. Booksy's processing time is a different thing — a gap inside one service that another customer can book while the same person is still serving the first. This page does not guess at the rest.
In Bookodile the same visit is a combo service: stage one with one person, stage two with another, as one booking. Each stage carries its own team member, its own duration and its own room if it needs one, and each person is blocked only for their stage. The customer books once and receives one confirmation.
Switching from Booksy
- Customers. Booksy exports your customer list on request to its support team. Bookodile has no import tool yet; customers are created the first time they book, and your team can add anyone by hand.
- Bookings. Outside Poland, Booksy documents no bookings export. Bookodile does not import bookings either; run the two side by side until the Booksy calendar empties out, then switch the link.
- Your profile and listing. Your Booksy profile stays on booksy.com for as long as the subscription runs. Search visibility off lasts 7 days before it comes back on; the permanent switch removes the profile. The subscription is cancelled by email to Booksy support. Bookodile's page is bookodile.com/your-business and carries only you.
- Your booking link. Every place the Booksy link lives — Google Business profile, Instagram bio, your website — gets the new one. Bookodile generates a QR code for the counter.
- Reserve with Google, Instagram and Facebook buttons. These are Booksy integrations; Bookodile has no equivalent. Your Google profile can still carry the booking link as its website or appointment link, and Campaign tracking, an included add-on, gives ready-tagged links for Google, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok and counts the bookings each one brings.
- Reviews. Booksy's reviews live on its profile; the Polish export includes them, the United States article covers the customer list only. Bookodile starts collecting its own after each visit.
- Payments, deposits and cancellation fees. If you take them through Booksy, you will need another way. Bookodile records payments; it does not take them.
- Gift cards, packages and memberships. Bookodile has gift vouchers and discount codes, but no packages or memberships; anything outstanding is honoured outside the system.
Where each one fits
Choose Booksy if you want a marketplace sending you customers and accept a share of their first visit for it, card payments and no-show fees inside the booking, a till with stock and commissions, marketing texts included, a native app for the team, or a booking page in Russian.
Choose Bookodile if you want the customers you win to be yours at no fee, a free plan for a small business, booking without an account, two people in one visit each blocked only for their own part, every location in one account, or a booking page in Slovak, Czech or Vietnamese — three languages Booksy does not have, in three countries where it does not operate.
Book buttons on Google, Instagram and Facebook#
No Reserve with Google or Instagram integration. Your booking link, bookodile.com/your-business, goes in your Google profile, your bio or a post like any link. Campaign tracking, an included add-on, gives ready-tagged links for Google, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok and counts the bookings each one brings.
Booksy
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