Vagaro advertises $30/month — then adds $10 per staff member, paid add-ons for texting and marketing, and a cut of every card payment. We build you your own app instead: your brand, your clients, online booking, memberships, and Stripe payments straight to your bank. One price. Yours forever.
Ten minutes: tell us how you book and bill today, and we'll tell you exactly what your app would include and its fixed price. No pressure, no obligation — and if the math doesn't beat your current platform, we'll say so.
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A local youth boxing gym runs on an app we built. Members sign up on a wall-mounted iPad in 3 minutes — photo, digital waiver, saved card. Stripe bills every family automatically, receipts go out by text, and the owner gets a daily summary on his phone. No booking platform, no per-member fees.
And the monthly fee is only the start. Booksy takes up to 30% of a new client's first visit — one barber reported it firing on clients he was already cutting. Fresha charges 20% (min $6) when your regulars book through their marketplace. And putting your own name on the app? That's a $100–$250/month add-on on Vagaro and Mindbody — one to three years of that fee alone equals our entire price.
| Booking platform | Your own app | |
|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | ~$4,000–5,400 | $3,500 + optional care plan |
| Year 2 and on | ~$4,000–5,400 / yr, forever | $1,188/yr care plan — or $0* |
| New-client marketplace fees | 20–30% of first visit | $0 — your clients are yours |
| Per-staff fees | $10–40/mo each | None — same price at 2 staff or 10 |
| Your brand on the app | +$100–250/mo add-on | Included |
| Your client list | Lives on their platform | Yours, exportable anytime |
| Who fixes bugs & hosts it | Their support queue | $99/mo care plan — we handle it all |
| Changes & features | Wait for their roadmap | 1 hr of changes/mo in the care plan |
*Standard card processing (Stripe, 2.9% + 30¢) applies either way — no markup from us. The $99/mo care plan covers hosting, monitoring, backups, bug fixes, and one hour of changes each month. Optional, cancel anytime — cancel it and the app keeps working, because it's yours. Cancel Vagaro and you lose everything.
10-minute call. You show us how you book and bill today. We scope your app and give you a fixed price — from $3,500.
We build it in weeks, not months. Booking, memberships, payments, text reminders — trained on how your business actually runs, in your language if your clients need it (our gym app is fully bilingual).
You own it. Your clients book under your brand, payments land in your Stripe, and the monthly platform bill is gone for good. Keep us on the $99/mo care plan if you want it hosted, monitored, and improved — or run it yourself. Either way it's yours.
You get a fixed quote before we write a line of code, and you pay nothing until the scope is agreed. Worried about being stuck if we disappear? You can't be — you own the code, the Stripe account, and the client list, so any developer can take over. And if the math doesn't beat what you're paying now, we'll tell you to keep your platform.