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Software profile Salon and booking

Phorest

nDevor Systems Ltd trading as Phorest IE

Phorest is an Irish salon and aesthetics platform with the deepest deposit and no-show tooling in this comparison, including card on file, per-service deposits and automatic late-cancellation fees. It publishes no price at all across seven tiers, which makes a sales call the only way to find out what it costs.

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Phorest website, captured on 2026-11-11
Screenshot of Phorest, captured 2026-11-11. Source: https://www.phorest.com/

Best for

Established salons and aesthetic clinics in Ireland, the UK, Germany or the Netherlands that want serious deposit enforcement and a real marketing suite

Strengths / Weaknesses

Strengths

  • Stores the client card at booking whether the booking came in online, by phone, in person or through the salon app
  • Deposits can be flat or percentage, set per service, and raised for new clients or repeat no-shows
  • Late cancellation and no-show fees are charged off the stored card, not chased by hand
  • PhorestPay is live in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Finland, the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Arab Emirates, which is the widest European payment footprint here
  • Payouts land in one working day with live transaction tracking
  • German site covers KassenSichV and TSE compliance, so the fiscal till question is answered for Germany
  • Genuine clinic depth with consultation forms, patch test rules and treatment records, plus payroll and commission

Weaknesses

  • No price is published for any of the seven tiers, every plan ends in a request-a-quote button
  • PhorestPay card rates are not published either, so the total cost of ownership is unknowable before a sales call
  • No go-to-market in France, Belgium or Luxembourg, so a Luxembourg operator buys into a market Phorest does not cover
  • The booking page and back office language list is not published, which matters for a multilingual clientele
  • SMS is billed per message at 9.5 down to 7 cents depending on tier, and the currency of those cents is not stated
  • Two different no-show reduction figures appear on its own site, 69 percent on the features page and 49 percent on the online booking page, neither with a method

Pricing

Plan Price Unit Note
Starter Price on request price on request SMS charged at 9.5 cents per message
Grow Price on request price on request SMS charged at 8.2 cents per message
Ultimate Price on request price on request SMS charged at 7 cents per message
Elite Price on request price on request 500 SMS included, then 7 cents per message

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Verdict

Phorest has the best deposit and no-show machinery of any vendor here and a payment product that actually works in several European countries, with payouts in one working day. If your salon is in Dublin, London, Cologne or Amsterdam and you want deposits enforced automatically, it belongs on the shortlist. The problem is commercial, not technical: seven tiers with no prices, no published card rates, and no coverage of France, Belgium or Luxembourg. Treat the first call as a negotiation and get the card rate, the SMS currency and the contract term in writing.

Other Salon and booking software

Fresha Fresha Salons that take a lot of card payments and want the cheapest processing plus a marketplace that currently charges nothing for new clients €14.95 8.6 Salonify Salonify Luxembourg and Benelux salons that want deposits, a till and card payments in one flat subscription with no per-booking commission €29 8.2 Planity Planity Salons in France, Belgium or Germany that want the largest French-speaking consumer demand pointed at their calendar Price on request 7.8 Salonkee Salonkee Luxembourg and Belgian salons that want marketplace demand plus card on file, and accept that the fees and the contract term are only disclosed in a sales call €59 7.5 Booksy Salons in Germany, Ireland, France, Poland or the United Kingdom that want every feature in one tier and a lot of included SMS €35 7.2 Treatwell Pro Treatwell Pro Multi-chair salons in Belgium, the Netherlands or France that want real European consumer demand and accept a 35 percent cut of first bookings €29 6.9

Where we write about it

Where these numbers come from

  1. [1] Phorest pricing page, seven quote-gated tiers and SMS rates accessed 2026-11-11
  2. [2] Phorest features, 69 percent fewer no-shows claim accessed 2026-11-11
  3. [3] Phorest online booking, deposits and 49 percent fewer no-shows claim accessed 2026-11-11
  4. [4] PhorestPay, country availability and one working day payouts accessed 2026-11-11
  5. [5] About Phorest, 155000 professionals and 11000 businesses accessed 2026-11-11
  6. [6] Phorest privacy notice, nDevor Systems Ltd, Dublin accessed 2026-11-11
  7. [7] Phorest Germany, KassenSichV and TSE compliance accessed 2026-11-11

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