Day 1 — you keep taking bookings
Your Booksy account stays open and stays the system of record. We set up your services, your hours, your staff and your New York tax rate, and you carry on as normal. Nothing switches today.
CRM & appointments → compared
Digital Crochet vs Booksy
Both sides, from Booksy’s own pricing page and ours. Including the parts where they win.
$49 to $349 a month · no per-staff fees · cancel any month
Straight answer first
What Booksy is good at.
Booksy is built for the solo barber and the small chair-renting shop, and it is very good at it. The marketplace genuinely sends new clients, the booking site is strong out of the box, and a one-person business pays $29.99 a month for all of it. It also moves your data across for free and gives you a person to do it with, which is more than we can say today.
If that describes you — a one- or two-chair shop that wants new clients found for it — buy theirs. The rest of this page is for the owner it does not describe.
The numbers
Same salon, same month, two bills.
| Booksy | Digital Crochet | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 staff | $69.99 | $49 Starter |
| 5 staff | $109.99 | $129 Growth |
| 10 staff | $209.99 | $129 Growth |
| 15 staff | $309.99 | $129 Growth |
| Per-staff fees | $20 per additional user, per month | None, on any plan |
| Cut of card payments | 2.49% + $0.10 card reader · 2.49% + $0.20 Tap to Pay · 2.69% + $0.30 in-app or keyed | None — we do not process payments |
| Contract length | Month to month, no long-term contracts | Month to month, cancel any month |
| Can you export your data | Not stated on their pricing page | In one click Coming |
| Your clients when you switch | Free Booksy Marketplace listing; optional Boost charges 30% of a new client’s first visit | Yours. No marketplace, no commission, nothing between you and them |
Booksy prices are before tax, from its published rate of $29.99 a month plus $20 per additional user. Boost is optional and off unless you turn it on.
Our column quotes the plan that size of business would buy: Starter at three, Growth from five up. Every plan has unlimited staff — the staff count does not force the plan. Starter has no packages or memberships; if you sell those it is Growth at $129 at every size, and Booksy includes them at the prices above. Figures checked 17 September 2026. Competitors change their pricing; tell us if you spot a stale number.
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Where Booksy beats us.
At five staff Booksy is cheaper: $109.99 against our $129. That is their per-staff fee not having caught up with our flat price yet, and in that one column the cheaper bill is theirs.
And Booksy imports your client list for free today, with a person helping you do it. Ours is not built. Coming is an honest badge, not a working feature, and if moving your data this month is what decides it, Booksy does that and we do not.
Either side of five staff the arithmetic is ours — $69.99 against $49 at three, $209.99 and $309.99 against $129 at ten and fifteen — plus a percentage of every card sale that we do not take.
Switching from Booksy
What the move actually looks like.
Nobody in this market publishes this. Here is ours, including the part that is not built.
Day 3 — your clients come across Coming
Automatic client import is not built yet. Coming When it is, it will be free, and this is the day it runs. Until then we agree a date and move your list by hand, and we will tell you honestly how long yours will take before you sign anything.
Day 7 — you stop paying two bills
You work a full week on ours with Booksy still open behind you. If the week goes badly you have lost nothing. If it goes well, you cancel Booksy — month to month, so there is nothing to buy your way out of — and the second bill stops.
Your clients keep their history, their notes and their appointments. We never list them anywhere, never contact them on our own behalf, and never charge you for one of them booking with you.
Straight answers
The questions people actually ask.
Is Digital Crochet cheaper than Booksy?
Not at every size, and the table above says exactly where. At five staff, no — Booksy is $109.99 against our $129. At three, ten and fifteen we are cheaper, and we take no percentage of your card sales.
What does “no per-staff fees” actually mean?
Hire a fifth stylist, a tenth, a fifteenth — the bill does not move. $49, $129 or $349 a month depending on the plan, whoever is on the floor.
Do you take a percentage of my card payments?
No, because we do not process them. You keep your own processor and your own rate, and we take nothing. That also means we cannot fix a bad rate for you — we are simply not in that transaction.
Can you import my client list from Booksy?
Not automatically yet. Client import is not built. Coming When it ships it is free. Today we agree a date and move the list by hand, and we tell you how long yours will take before you commit to anything.
What is not built yet?
The AI voice agent, online booking pages, SMS reminders and win-backs, the AI assistant, client import, and payment processing of any kind. Every one of those carries a Coming badge everywhere it appears on this site, including on this page.
Am I locked in?
No. Month to month, cancel any month. There is no contract to buy your way out of and no cancellation fee.
See it before you pay for it.
Call or send the form. We’ll show you the app, answer the awkward questions, and you decide after that. Month to month, cancel any time.