Salon software that takes no cut of your bookings
A flat monthly fee, whatever you bill. The arithmetic behind that — and the one thing a commission genuinely buys that a subscription does not.
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Is there salon software that doesn't take commission on bookings?
Yes. Salon software is sold two ways: a flat subscription that costs the same whatever you bill, or a marketplace that takes a percentage of bookings it sends you. Subscription pricing is predictable and gets cheaper per booking as you grow. Commission pricing costs nothing up front but scales with your success, and it is buying you something different.
The two ways salon software gets paid
Almost every option resolves to one of two models, and the difference is not really about price — it is about what you are buying. A subscription buys you software: a diary, a till, customer records, and a bill that looks the same in a quiet month and a busy one. A marketplace buys you customers: it lists your salon to people searching for a treatment near them, and takes a percentage when one of them books. Confusing the two is what makes the comparison feel impossible.
- Subscription — a fixed monthly or yearly fee, unaffected by how much you bill
- Per-branch or per-seat — a subscription that grows with the size of the business, not its revenue
- Marketplace commission — a percentage of bookings the platform sends you
- Payment processing — a separate charge from whoever moves the money, under every model
What a commission actually buys
It buys demand, and that is worth saying plainly rather than sneering at. A marketplace has an audience of people looking for a salon who have never heard of yours, and it puts you in front of them. If a platform sends you a customer you would never otherwise have met, a percentage of that first booking is a marketing cost, and often a rational one. The question is not whether commission is exploitative. It is how many of the bookings you are paying commission on were customers you already had.
- Genuinely new customers: the commission is an acquisition cost, and may be cheap
- Your existing regulars, rebooking through the platform: you are paying to keep a customer you already had
- Walk-ins you send to the platform yourself: the same, with extra steps
- The cost is invisible in a way a subscription is not — it arrives as a smaller payout, not a bill
What Salvoro charges, and what it does not do
Salvoro is a subscription and takes no percentage of anything. Eight hundred rupees a month covers one branch, or eight thousand for a year; each additional branch is five hundred a month. WhatsApp messaging, GST billing, memberships and loyalty are included rather than sold as tiers on top. The trial runs thirty days and does not ask for a card. What that price does not include is demand: Salvoro has no consumer marketplace and no app that customers browse, so it will not introduce you to anyone.
- No commission on bookings, and none on products, memberships or tips
- The same bill in your best month and your worst
- Your booking link and QR code are yours, pointing at your own page
- Customer records belong to the salon, not to a platform that sits between you
Working out which is cheaper for your salon
The comparison is a single sum, and it is worth doing with your own numbers rather than anyone's marketing. Take the bookings a marketplace actually originated last month — not your total, only the ones it introduced — and multiply by the commission rate. Compare that with a flat subscription for the same month. Then repeat it for the month you hope to have next year, because the subscription figure does not move and the commission figure does.
- Count only genuinely new customers the platform introduced, not every booking made through it
- Add payment-processing fees to both sides — they apply either way
- Run the sum again at the volume you are aiming for, not the one you have
- Remember a marketplace's introduction is one-off; a subscription is ongoing, and so is the diary
Common questions
- Does Salvoro take any commission on bookings?
- No — none on bookings, and none on products, memberships or tips either. The subscription is the whole of what Salvoro charges, so the bill is the same in your busiest month and your quietest.
- Will Salvoro bring me new customers?
- No. There is no consumer marketplace, no discovery app and no directory. Bookings come from your own link, your QR code and your own marketing. That is the real trade against a commission platform, and it cuts both ways.
- When is paying booking commission actually worth it?
- When the platform introduces customers you would never otherwise have reached, and you count only those. For a brand-new salon with no list, that can genuinely be the cheapest route to the first hundred clients.
- Are payment processing fees included?
- No. Whoever processes your payments charges for it, under every pricing model including this one. Any software implying processing is free has moved that cost somewhere less visible rather than removed it.
- Is it really a flat fee if I have several branches?
- Not a single flat figure, no. ₹800 a month covers one branch and each additional branch is ₹500 a month, so three branches is ₹1,800. It is still flat in the sense that matters — it does not move with how much you bill.
What it doesn’t do
Worth knowing before you start, not after.
- Salvoro will not bring you customers. There is no consumer marketplace, no discovery app and no directory — it runs the salon you already have, and the bookings come from your own link, your QR code and your own marketing.
- Payment processing is still charged by whoever processes the payment. No software makes that free, and any that implies otherwise has moved the cost somewhere else.
- The flat fee covers one branch. Additional branches are ₹500 a month each, so a chain does not pay a single flat figure.
- For a brand-new salon with no customer list, a marketplace's commission may genuinely be the cheaper way to find the first hundred clients. That is a real trade-off, not a reason to avoid the question.
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