Starta.one
Booksy gives you a calendar and a marketplace, but the client conversation still runs through you or your receptionist: confirm, remind, reschedule, win back the ones who drifted off. In Starta.one, StartaAI takes that work on.
Booksy is a booking platform with a marketplace in the US and Poland (44 million users). Businesses pay $29.99/month base + $20/month per additional staff member + 2.49–2.69% payment processing + 30% commission on new marketplace clients (min. $10–$100).
Starta.one takes the client admin work off you: StartaAI answers, books, reminds and wins back the ones who drifted off — in the channel the client already uses. The difference with Booksy isn't the number of checkmarks: it builds one product for 44M users, so it decides for you how a salon should work.
Everything you do in Booksy exists in Starta.one too. So the table below isn't about who has more checkmarks — it's about what happens when your salon isn't built the way the vendor assumed.
| Feature | Starta | Booksy |
|---|---|---|
| Who handles client messages | | |
| How you manage your business | | |
| When your rules aren't standard | | |
| Online booking | | |
| Calendar & scheduling | | |
| CRM / client database | | |
| AI assistant | | |
| P&L reports | | |
| Loyalty program | | |
| SMS notifications | | |
| Salary management | | |
| Inventory | | |
| Mobile app | | |
| When your business grows | | |
| Whose payment processor | | |
| Whose brand the client sees | | |
| Who owns the clients | | |
Starta.one Lite — free, unlimited bookings
Starta.one Pro — from €6.29/mo for one specialist or €10.79/mo for up to 5 staff (annual billing), +€1.26/mo per additional
$29.99/month for one person + $20/month per additional staff member + payment processing fees (2.49–2.69%) + 30% Boost commission on new marketplace clients (min. $10–$100)
Extra: Biz+ for multi-location ($79.99+/month), card readers ($53–$220), fast payouts (1.5%). A 5-person team pays $110+/month before processing fees.
Booksy starts at $29.99/month for one person and scales to $110+/month for a 5-person team — before processing fees and Boost commissions. Starta.one Lite is genuinely free, and Pro starts from €6.29/mo for one specialist or €10.79/mo for up to 5 staff (annual billing).
Booksy prices verified: June 2026
Booksy writes a single product for a marketplace spanning several countries. That's not negligence — it's just that your payout scheme, your package format or your chair rental don't fit into that roadmap, and the answer to them is "no" or "someday". In Starta.one you describe your rules in chat and work by them, not by someone else's.
Every spreadsheet next to Booksy appeared because something was missing: expense tracking, a real P&L, payroll. Starta.one calculates those in the same place your bookings live, so there's nothing left to reconcile by hand.
StartaAI answers messages at 11pm and on Sundays, carries the conversation through to a confirmed booking, reminds the day before and writes to the ones who drifted off. Booksy only reminds people who already booked — everything else stays on a person.
StartaAI handles the clients. That leaves you running the business — also by conversation.
A traditional system hands you tools and leaves the work with you: the calendar is there, but the client conversation, confirmations, reminders and winning back the ones who drifted off are done by you or your receptionist.
Booksy also decides how your salon should work — one product for 44M users. Starta.one takes the client admin work on itself: StartaAI does it, and you get the result and run the business by conversation.
Starta.one is assembled from blocks — services, staff, slots, payments, packages, equipment rental, group classes, walk-ins. The assistant composes your configuration from them in a conversation, so most "non-standard" setups come together right away. If a block doesn't exist, you'll hear that straight, not "someday". Message us in the chat before you sign up and we'll tell you whether it already works.
Booksy gives you a marketplace for finding new clients plus booking tools.
Starta.one gives you what Booksy lacks: a built-in AI assistant, full P&L with expense tracking, proper payroll management (not just commissions), a genuinely free Starta.one Lite plan, and no marketplace or transaction commissions. Plus — your clients stay yours, with no competitor ads.
Starta.one Pro — from €6.29/mo for one specialist or €10.79/mo for up to 5 staff (annual billing), +€1.26/mo per additional. Lite — free.
Booksy starts at $29.99/month for one person + $20/month per additional staff + 2.49–2.69% per transaction + 30% marketplace commissions. Switching from Booksy to Starta.one is free.
Booksy allows client data export. Import your database into Starta.one, and the AI assistant will set up services, schedule, and your booking page in minutes — no manual rule reconfiguration needed.