Salonify against Salonkee

Short answer

Choose Salonkee if the booking demand on salonkee.lu is worth more to you than price transparency, and Salonify if you want a published per-location price, the till and card payments in every plan and Luxembourg VAT already configured. Both are Luxembourg companies, both do deposits properly, and the decision comes down to whether you are buying software or buying clients.

Disclosure: Salonify is built by TTA Technologies, which also publishes thinking.lu. Salonkee is a competitor. Every number below comes from the vendors' own pages, linked at the foot of this page.

What each one costs

The sharpest line in that table is the last-but-three. Salonkee's GO tier at 59 euros cannot take a deposit or hold a card, because those live in the Payments add-on, and that add-on attaches only to SMART or PRO. The cheapest Salonkee configuration that can protect a booking is 89 plus 35, that is 124 euros a month. On Salonify the same capability is in the 29 euro Starter plan.

The counterweight is the pricing unit. Salonify says per location and shows a staff ceiling per tier. Salonkee's pricing page never says whether 59, 89 and 119 euros are per salon, per calendar or per employee, and never says how many calendars a tier includes. For a six-chair salon, Salonify is calculable and Salonkee is not.

Deposits and no-shows, compared properly

Both do this better than most of the market, and they do it differently.

Salonkee lets you choose between requiring a deposit and keeping a card on file, and the rule can target a single client group, for example new clients only. Its own terms and conditions reference cancellation windows of 12, 24, 48 or 72 hours set by each salon. Card on file is the real advantage: for a regular you trust, holding a card is far less abrasive than demanding money up front.

Salonify takes a deposit with the remainder payable in the salon, sets the free cancellation window in hours, retains a configurable percentage on a late cancellation and a separate percentage on a no-show, and allows stricter rules on individual services. It does not document a card-on-file flow, which is the gap.

So: if your no-show problem is first-time clients booking expensive services, both work. If it is regulars who cancel at four hours' notice and you would rather keep a card than take their money in advance, Salonkee has the mechanic Salonify does not.

Payments and the money that actually leaves your account

Salonify publishes its rates: 2.9 percent plus 10 cents on a standard EU card, 3.4 percent plus 10 cents on premium and corporate cards, 4.0 percent on UK cards, 4.4 percent on non-EEA cards and 2 percent on top for currency conversion. Cash is free. The till runs on an Android phone with Tap to Pay and on a PC, with all-in-one hardware still listed as coming soon.

Salonkee publishes no card rate, no terminal price and no payout schedule. Its Payments product names two terminals, the AMS1 and the S1 F2, supports Apple Pay and Google Pay, and costs 35 euros a month as an add-on, but what a transaction costs is a sales conversation. Neither vendor publishes how fast money reaches your bank, which is a fair criticism of both. If you want that published, Fresha sets payouts to daily by default and prints its rates.

Languages, countries and the marketplace

Salonkee operates in seven countries, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France, with a consumer portal per country and a back office in five languages including Dutch and Italian. salonkee.lu is a working booking destination with its own city pages, and Salonkee calls itself the undisputed leader in Luxembourg, Belgium and Switzerland. No per-country salon count is published, so that leadership claim is the vendor's own, but the portal is real and it brings bookings.

Salonify runs a booking page in 12 languages with multi-currency and serves Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain and Portugal. Its consumer marketplace is small. Nobody should switch to Salonify expecting it to fill chairs.

That is the actual trade. Salonkee sells you demand plus software and will not tell you the unit price or the card rate. Salonify sells you software at a published price and leaves client acquisition to you.

Luxembourg specifics

Salonify is the only one of the two that publishes Luxembourg-specific tax handling: VAT rates at 17, 14, 8 and 3 percent pre-configured, receipts in French and German, and a CSV and PDF export organised by VAT rate and payment method for a fiduciary. Salonkee is a Luxembourg company with Luxembourg phone support and AWS hosting in Luxembourg, which is worth something, but its published pricing does not cover Luxembourg at all.

Contract and exit

Salonify is month to month, cancel from the dashboard, with a 17 percent discount for annual billing. There is no free plan and no self-service trial since November 2026, a trial comes from the sales team only.

Salonkee's terms and conditions contain no clause on subscription term, notice period or auto-renewal, and public reviews report a fixed one-year commitment that was not raised in the sales conversation. The terms also describe no data export on termination, only deletion after twelve months of inactivity, and there is no public API. Salonify's Enterprise tier publishes a REST API and outgoing webhooks.

Before you sign either, ask for the term, the notice period, the card rate and the export path in writing.

Who should pick which

Pick Salonkee if you are in Luxembourg or Belgium, you have empty slots to fill, and the bookings from salonkee.lu are worth more than the 124 euros a month a deposit-capable setup costs. Pick it also if card on file for regulars is the mechanic you need.

Pick Salonify if your book is reasonably full, you want one published number per location rather than a quote, you need Luxembourg VAT and French and German receipts out of the box, and you do not want the till and deposits sold to you as a 35 euro add-on.

If neither convinces you, the full 2026 ranking has eight more, the wider Salonkee alternatives list covers five others with a Benelux angle, and the price table puts every published figure in one place.