A booking fee looks small next to a monthly subscription, right up until the calendar fills. Here are the four charges worth understanding before you commit your calendar to anything.
The parts that decide it and the ones that quietly cost you
Per-booking charges
A fee on each appointment. It scales with success, which is the wrong direction.
Per-seat pricing
A price per member of staff, so hiring someone raises your software bill.
New-client commission
A cut of clients who came through their marketplace, sometimes indefinitely.
Marked-up processing
A margin added on top of the card rate, quietly, on every payment taken.
What it should cost
Booking is a feature of your website. On your own site there is no per-booking fee at all.
The alternative
A site with booking built in, designed and built for you at no cost.
HOW WE DO IT
Three steps, no cost to find out
1
Tell us what you sell
Products, services, or something priced per job. A few minutes is enough.
2
We design and build it
The site and the store together, wired to your payment account and tested.
3
You decide
See the finished shop working before you commit to anything.
QUESTIONS
Before you ask
Is a per-booking fee normal?01
It is common, and it is the charge that grows fastest. A busy month costs you more in software precisely because it was a good month.
How do I avoid commission on my own clients?02
Take the booking on your own website rather than through a marketplace. A client who found you is yours, and nobody should be charging you for them twice.
What does it cost?03
The design and the build cost nothing. You pay only the standard costs every website has: domain, hosting, software license. No design fee, and we take no cut of your sales.
Why would this be free?04
The free-design program is operated through Instinctor Design Academy. Academy-trained designers build real business websites under senior professional supervision, and every site is reviewed before you see it.