The best Salonkee alternatives for Luxembourg and Belgium

Short answer

The realistic Salonkee alternatives for a salon in Luxembourg or Belgium are Fresha, Salonify, Treatwell Pro, Planity, TIMIFY, Phorest and Shore, and only the first five are worth a serious look from Luxembourg. Fresha wins on card fees and payout speed, Salonify on a flat per-location price with Luxembourg tax handling, and Treatwell Pro on raw subscription cost if your book is mostly regulars.

What Salonkee actually does well

Start here, because the honest answer is that most people leaving Salonkee are leaving for one specific reason rather than because the product is bad.

Salonkee's marketplace reach in Luxembourg and Belgium is real. salonkee.lu is a working consumer booking portal with its own city pages, not a thin directory, and Salonkee describes itself as the undisputed leader in Luxembourg, Belgium and Switzerland. It is a Luxembourg company, Salonkee S.A., registered at Rangwee in Luxembourg City, with a Luxembourg phone number and local teams in six countries. Its back office runs in five languages including Dutch and Italian, which fits Belgium and Switzerland properly where Planity has no Dutch at all. And it publishes its prices, 59, 89 and 119 euros a month, which puts it ahead of Planity, Phorest and Shortcuts on buyer transparency before you even compare features.

Its no-show mechanics are also the best of the regional players: you choose between requiring a deposit and keeping a card on file, the rule can target a single client group such as new clients only, and its own terms reference cancellation windows of 12, 24, 48 or 72 hours set per salon.

Why operators look for a Salonkee alternative anyway

Four reasons come up repeatedly, and all four are visible in Salonkee's own published material.

The pricing unit is not published. Nowhere on the pricing page does it say whether 59, 89 and 119 euros are per salon, per calendar or per employee, or how many calendars a tier includes. You cannot cost a six-chair salon from public information.

The published prices do not cover Luxembourg. The pricing page scopes 59, 89 and 119 euros to Germany, Austria and Belgium. There is no published Luxembourg price, and none for Switzerland, the Netherlands or France either.

Deposits cost more than the headline. Deposits and card on file require the Salonkee Payments add-on at 35 euros a month, and that add-on can only be attached to SMART or PRO. The cheapest deposit-capable configuration is therefore 89 plus 35, that is 124 euros a month, not 59.

Card fees, payout timing and the contract term are all absent. Salonkee publishes no card transaction fee, no terminal price and no payout schedule, and its terms and conditions contain no clause on subscription term, notice period or auto-renewal. Public reviews report a fixed one-year commitment that the sales conversation did not flag. If you are evaluating Salonkee, get those four numbers in writing.

1. Fresha, the best Salonkee alternative on cost of money

Fresha publishes what Salonkee does not. In-person card payments cost 0.89 percent plus 10 cents, online 1 percent plus 20 cents, Bancontact 0.79 percent plus 10 cents, and payouts are set to daily by default. Software is 14,95 euros a month for one bookable team member or 9,95 euros per bookable team member on Team, and the marketplace new client fee currently shows as Free on the euro-area pricing page.

The deposit tooling is deeper than Salonkee's: fixed or percentage deposits, a no-show fee as a percentage of the appointment, card on file, automatic cancellation if the deposit goes unpaid within one to seventy-two hours, overrides per service and rules targeting new clients or clients with a prior no-show.

The caveat matters in this region. Belgium and Luxembourg appear on neither of Fresha's published Tap to Pay country lists, and its Luxembourg marketplace landing page returns a 404. Confirm card acceptance for your own country before you migrate, and remember the bill grows with every chair.

2. Salonify, the flat-price Luxembourg alternative

Disclosure: Salonify is built by TTA Technologies, which also publishes thinking.lu. Against Salonkee specifically it answers three of the four complaints above. The pricing unit is published and it is per location, 29 euros for up to two staff, 59 for up to ten, 99 for unlimited. The till and card payments are included in every plan rather than sold as a 35 euro add-on, so a deposit-capable setup is 59 euros rather than 124. And the card rates are published, 2.9 percent plus 10 cents on a standard EU card, 3.4 percent on premium and corporate cards, 4.4 percent on non-EEA cards.

It is also the only tool in this comparison with Luxembourg VAT at 17, 14, 8 and 3 percent pre-configured, French and German receipts and a CSV and PDF export built for a fiduciary. The booking page runs in 12 languages.

Where Salonkee still wins: its consumer marketplace brings bookings and Salonify's does not, at nothing like the same scale. Salonify also publishes no payout schedule, which is the same gap Salonkee has, and its card rate is more than triple Fresha's. There is no free plan and no self-service trial since November 2026. Side by side detail is in Salonify against Salonkee.

3. Treatwell Pro, cheapest if your clients already know you

Treatwell charges 29 euros a month per location in Belgium and 35 in the Netherlands, with unlimited team members. For a ten-chair Brussels salon that is less than a third of what Salonkee's deposit-capable configuration costs, and Treatwell's Benelux consumer demand is genuinely larger.

The trade is 35 percent plus VAT of the first booking from every new marketplace client, with no minimum and no published cap, and a client counts as new again after 365 days without a Treatwell booking. Repeat clients, imported clients and your own direct, Google and social bookings are all zero percent, so the model rewards a salon that already has a full book and punishes one trying to buy growth. Marketplace listing is mandatory on the entry plan, and the Dutch FAQ states plainly that Treatwell does not sync with any other management system, as your exclusive partner. There is no Treatwell presence in Luxembourg at all.

4. Planity, the Belgian and French alternative with no price tag

Planity is the biggest French-speaking booking marketplace, with 60 000 partner salons, a stated 15 million users and a till certified NF525 in France and TSE compliant in Germany. The terminal tier pays out by daily bank transfer, which is better than anything Salonkee publishes.

It swaps one transparency problem for a worse one. Salonkee at least publishes tier prices without the unit; Planity publishes no price at all in France, Belgium or Germany. There is no Dutch booking page, so Flanders is out, and Planity does not operate in Luxembourg. As of its last funding announcement it had 1 000 Belgian partners against Salonkee's regional base, so in Belgium check local partner density before you move for the reach.

5. TIMIFY, the cheap multilingual calendar

TIMIFY is the only vendor here with a free tier and a complete published euro price list: zero euros for Classic, then 9 euros a month for one resource rising to 132 for eight or more, one month minimum term, and a booking widget in 14 locales including French, German, Dutch and Italian. Luxembourg is in its country coverage and it bills in euros by SEPA direct debit from a German GmbH.

It is only an alternative if your Salonkee complaint is price. There is no card on file, no no-show fee charging and no late-cancellation enforcement, no till, no retail, no stock and no staff commission. If deposits are why you are shopping, TIMIFY cannot replace Salonkee.

6. Phorest, the upgrade if no-shows are the whole problem

Phorest has the strongest deposit enforcement of any vendor in this market. It stores the client card whether the booking arrived online, by phone, at the counter or in the salon app, sets deposits per service, raises them for new clients and repeat offenders, and charges late cancellation and no-show fees automatically. PhorestPay is live in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands and Finland with payouts in one working day.

For a Benelux buyer the problem is coverage and price opacity. Phorest sells into the Netherlands but has no go-to-market in Belgium, France or Luxembourg, and it publishes no price for any of seven tiers and no card rates either. You would be leaving Salonkee's undisclosed pricing unit for a vendor that discloses nothing at all.

7. Shore, the German-speaking option with a 12 month term

Shore publishes a per-location price list, 49,90 euros a month for Booking on annual billing, 69,90 with marketing and 119,90 for the All-in-One tier including the till, plus a 14 day trial you can start without a sales call. Marketing automation and review collection sit in the mid tier rather than as add-ons, and the accounting prep exports to DATEV.

Two things make it a weak Salonkee alternative in Luxembourg. The annual plan carries a 12 month minimum term cancellable with 14 days notice to the end of the term, which is the lock-in people leave Salonkee to escape. And its published market list is German-speaking plus Spain, France and the United States; Luxembourg and Belgium coverage is not clearly stated, so ask before you commit.

What to ask before you leave Salonkee

Four questions, in writing, from whichever vendor you are considering and from Salonkee itself:

1. Is the price per location, per calendar or per employee, and what does my actual team size cost?
2. What is the card rate in person and online, and when does the money reach my bank?
3. What is the minimum term and the notice period, and what happens at renewal?
4. How do I export my client list, my appointment history and my revenue data if I leave?

Salonkee's terms describe no export mechanism on termination, only deletion after twelve months of inactivity, and Planity exports the client file only after an email request from the registered manager's address. Ask question four first.

For the full field including vendors that do not serve Luxembourg, see our 2026 salon software ranking, and for the numbers alone, what salon booking software costs. Vendors who want a listing or a price correction can get listed.