Fresha takes 20% on new clients. NeetoCal takes 0%, always.
Fresha retired its free model in 2025. It now charges a subscription (Individual $19.95/month, Team $14.95 per member per month) plus a 20% commission (minimum $6) on new clients who book through its marketplace, plus card processing fees. NeetoCal takes 0% platform commission, lets you bring your own gateway, and is free.
NeetoCal platform commission on every booking
Bookings and team members, with your own gateway
Fresha new-client commission, plus subscription and processing
Where Fresha layers fees,
NeetoCal stays at zero.
Here's exactly what changes when you switch
Fresha is a polished salon and spa platform, and its marketplace can bring in new clients. But its cost is layered: a per-member subscription, a 20% commission on new marketplace clients, and processing fees on every card payment. NeetoCal is a free scheduling platform that never takes a commission and lets you keep your own processor.
Keep 100% of every booking
Fresha charges a 20% commission (minimum $6) on new clients who book through its marketplace, so you pay an acquisition cost on top of any marketing you already did. NeetoCal takes 0% platform commission on every booking, new client or returning, forever.
Every dollar of every booking is yours; NeetoCal never takes a cut.
A 20% fee (minimum $6) applies to new clients from the Fresha marketplace.
No subscription,
no per-member fee
Fresha now bills a subscription: Individual $19.95/month or Team $14.95 per team member per month, on top of commission and processing. NeetoCal gives you unlimited team members free, with no required subscription.
No required subscription and no per-member charge to add your team.
Per-member subscription, layered on commission and processing fees.
SMS reminders without the add-on
Fresha treats SMS as an extra cost, a paid add-on on top of its subscription, commission and processing fees. NeetoCal sends email and SMS reminders free through your own Twilio or Telnyx account, so you pay only your provider's standard message rates.
Email and SMS reminders through your own Twilio or Telnyx account.
Text reminders are an extra cost on top of subscription and fees.
Bring your own gateway
Fresha processes payments through its own system at per-transaction fees (around 2 to 3%), with hardware and SMS as extra costs. NeetoCal lets you connect Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay, UPI, Apple Pay and more, pay only your processor's standard rate, and keep the rest.
Connect your own processor and pay only its standard rate.
Per-transaction fees, plus charges for SMS and hardware.
Contracts, routing and packages, free
NeetoCal adds contracts with e-signatures, routing forms, session packages, intro pages and round robin on the free plan, useful for clinics, coaches and service teams. Fresha is tuned for salon and spa workflows and does not offer contract e-signatures or question-based routing.
Signed agreements, lead routing and bundles, with no upgrade.
No contract e-signatures or routing forms.
No forced account to book
Booking through Fresha generally requires clients to create a Fresha account. NeetoCal lets clients book in a couple of clicks with no account required, on a page mapped to your own custom domain, with OTP verification to keep spam out.
Clients book without signing up, on your branded domain.
Booking generally requires a Fresha account.
A cost you can actually forecast
Fresha's total is a moving target: subscription plus commission plus processing plus SMS, all scaling with volume. NeetoCal is one clear number: free, with a single optional $5/user/month upgrade to remove branding. Your scheduling cost does not grow with your bookings.
Free regardless of volume; $5/user/month only to remove branding.
Subscription, commission and fees that climb as you grow.
So… what's the catch?
Fair question. "Free" usually means a trial clock, a booking cap, or a wall you hit in week two. None of that here. NeetoCal is built by Neeto (BigBinary), a profitable, 100% self-funded company that earns across a whole suite of products, not by nickel-and-diming schedulers. Every scheduling feature is genuinely free, with no booking limits and no per-seat charge. The single paid upgrade ($5/user/month or $30/user/year) removes the small NeetoCal logo and lets you add custom CSS. That's the entire paywall. Read our pricing philosophy.
Typical time to migrate from Fresha
Booking limits on the free plan
Cost to add your whole team
NeetoCal vs Fresha, feature by feature
Platform commission
- NeetoCal
- 0% always
- Fresha
- 20% on new marketplace clients
- NeetoCal
- None required
- Fresha
- $14.95/member or $19.95/mo
- NeetoCal
- Free
- Fresha
- Per-member subscription
Bring your own payment gateway
- NeetoCal
- Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay, UPI, more
- Fresha
- Fresha processing only
- NeetoCal
- Free
- Fresha
- Free
- NeetoCal
- Free
- Fresha
- Free
- NeetoCal
- Free
- Fresha
- Not available
Round robin (standard + priority)
- NeetoCal
- Free
- Fresha
- Not available
- NeetoCal
- Free
- Fresha
- Not available
Client books without an account
- NeetoCal
- Free
- Fresha
- Fresha account required
- NeetoCal
- Free
- Fresha
- Limited
Intro / landing pages per link
- NeetoCal
- Free
- Fresha
- Not available
OTP verification / spam blocking
- NeetoCal
- Free
- Fresha
- Not available
- NeetoCal
- Free (your provider)
- Fresha
- Paid add-on
- NeetoCal
- Free
- Fresha
- Free
- NeetoCal
- Free
- Fresha
- Free
Calendar sync (Google/Outlook/iCloud)
- NeetoCal
- Free
- Fresha
- Free
- NeetoCal
- Free
- Fresha
- Limited
- NeetoCal
- Free
- Fresha
- Free
- NeetoCal
- $5/user/mo or $30/yr
- Fresha
- Higher tiers
Disclaimer: Information on this page is based on publicly available data at the time of writing. Features, pricing, and limits may change. Please refer to each provider's official pricing page to confirm the latest information.
Every scheduling feature is free
The only thing you ever pay for is removing NeetoCal branding. No seat fees, no feature walls.
Free plan
- Unlimited scheduling links
- Unlimited team members
- Round-robin (standard + priority)
- Payment collection — 0% commission
- Packages, intro pages, custom domain
- Form routing, contracts, API, SMS
Pro plan
- Everything in Free, plus:
- Remove NeetoCal branding
- Add your own custom CSS
- Cancel anytime
On Fresha, a five-member team pays about $897 a year in subscription alone ($14.95/member/month), before the 20% new-client commission and per-transaction fees. The same team on NeetoCal is $0 with 0% commission; removing branding is an optional $5/user/month.
Good software works alone.
Great software works together.
You have clients and they need to book and pay you. The difference between the work you trained for and the work nobody warned you about is a booking page, a payment link, and automated reminders. And who's doing the admin disguised as work at 9pm on a Tuesday. Before NeetoCal, it was you. After NeetoCal, it isn't.
They came for the price.
They stayed for the product.
NeetoCal simplifies appointment management for therapists and clients, while integrated features streamline our workflow and enhance counseling services.
Thank you so much for working on a fix very quickly. That shows a lot about Neeto and their customer service. I use a lot of your tools and can't wait to use even more! All the products are very useful for a small business like mine to grow. Thank you!
I will pay for every single service because the price is honest and the service is great.
Please, please, never ever stop what you are doing, it is fantastic for the small person trying to get something going... I for one tell everyone about Neetocal as a "lean startup" way to get going.... From one tech founder to another, I know the days can be long, but you have one user who is really delighted by what you've brought to the table... thanks for this!
What a cool pricing philosophy! Would love to see more of this consumer driven approach to generating growth and brand awareness.
Neat, simple and fairly priced!
You've added round robin scheduling to the basic plan as well and it works smoothly.
NeetoCal vs Fresha: FAQ
Is NeetoCal a good Fresha alternative?
Yes, especially if you want to keep what you earn. NeetoCal takes 0% platform commission, lets you use your own payment gateway, and needs no subscription for your team. Clients book on your own branded page without creating an account, and SMS reminders, contracts, packages and routing forms are all free.
Does NeetoCal take a commission like Fresha?
No. NeetoCal takes 0% platform commission on every booking. Fresha charges a 20% commission (minimum $6) on new clients who book through its marketplace, on top of its subscription and processing fees.
Is Fresha still free?
No. Fresha retired its free model in 2025. It now charges a subscription (Individual $19.95/month, or Team $14.95 per team member per month), plus a 20% commission (minimum $6) on new clients who book through its marketplace, plus card processing fees. NeetoCal's free plan includes unlimited bookings, unlimited team members and payments at 0% platform commission. The only paid upgrade is removing NeetoCal branding, at $5/user/month or $30/user/year.
Can I use my own payment processor?
Yes. NeetoCal connects to Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay, UPI, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Dodo Payments and more, so payments go to your own account and you pay only your processor's standard rate, with 0% platform commission. You can also add tips, taxes and discount codes, and issue refunds. Fresha processes payments through its own system, at per-transaction fees of around 2 to 3%.
Do clients need an account to book?
Not on NeetoCal. Clients book in a couple of clicks without creating an account, on a booking page you can map to your own custom domain. Optional OTP email verification and spam protection keep fake bookings out. Booking through Fresha generally requires clients to create a Fresha account.
What does NeetoCal add that Fresha doesn't?
On the free plan, NeetoCal includes contracts with e-signatures, routing forms, standard and priority-based round robin, intro pages for each booking link, and OTP email verification with spam blocking, none of which Fresha offers. It also lets clients book without an account, lets you bring your own payment gateway at 0% platform commission, and sends SMS reminders through your own Twilio or Telnyx account instead of charging for a paid add-on.
Will Fresha bring me new clients that NeetoCal will not?
It can. Fresha runs a consumer marketplace where new clients can discover and book you, and that exposure has real value. The trade-off is a 20% commission (minimum $6) on each new client who books through it. NeetoCal doesn't have a marketplace. Instead, it gives you your own branded booking page on your custom domain that you can share anywhere or embed on your website, with Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel and UTM tracking to measure your own marketing. Every client you bring in, new or returning, costs 0% commission.