Fresha charges a commission on new marketplace customers, plus card fees and extras by use. BeNotely costs a flat $29 a month, takes 0% of your bookings, and includes a real website. There's a free plan too.
30 days of everything included. Cancel any time.
What each one includes, feature by feature.
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No card needed. Set up in minutes.
Real quotes from real people.
No add-on tiers and nothing charged by use. Every plan runs on the same toolkit.
Customers book day or night from your booking page or your website, with reminders sent automatically.
A full site on your own domain, drafted from your services and photos, with booking on every page.
Deposits, card on file and no-show protection, built into the booking flow.
Answers questions and books appointments from your real calendar, even on the free plan.
A customer list that fills itself with every booking, and exports whenever you want it.
Campaigns with smart audiences and an honest reach count, included in the subscription.
All built with the engine every account includes. Open one to see the pages, then book a time on the live site.
No card to begin with, and nothing to undo if you change your mind. Set BeNotely up, take real bookings, and see how it fits your business.
Sign up with an email and password. Under a minute, 30 days with everything switched on.
Name your business, add your services and hours, and bring your customer list across. A guided setup walks you through it.
Publish your booking page and website, share the link, and the bookings come to you.
Would you like a hand? Every new account is offered a free 15-minute setup call, and you can talk to us any time before you commit to anything.
Getting started, pricing and the fair print, in plain words.
There isn't a catch so much as a trade. Software funded by marketplace commission earns more when it sends you customers, so the platform has a reason to keep your customers looking at the platform. BeNotely earns from a flat subscription instead, which means we only do well if the software itself is worth paying for. Your customers are simply yours.
No. Your business isn't listed beside competitors, and you don't pay a commission on a customer. Your booking page and website are your own, and everyone who books through them belongs to you. You win new customers through your own website, your Google listing and your own marketing, and you keep everything they spend.
No. BeNotely takes 0% of your bookings on every plan. You pay a flat subscription, or nothing at all on the free plan. When a customer pays a deposit, the standard card-processing fee applies - the same as any card payment anywhere - and the rest lands in your own account. BeNotely adds nothing on top and earns from the subscription, not from a cut of your work.
Yes. Export your list from your current system (Fresha, Timely, Square and most others do it in one click) or paste it straight from a spreadsheet into Customers → Import. The columns are recognised for you, duplicates are skipped, and a last-visit column comes across too. Anyone not on the list takes seconds to add, and a record creates itself the first time someone books. Nothing is ever locked in: your customer list exports whenever you want it.
There's a real free plan for one person: online bookings, your website and the AI assistant, no card required. Paid plans start at $29 AUD a month for one person taking bookings and from $69 for a team, GST included. Every new account starts with 30 days of everything switched on.
Yes, and without a card. Every new account starts with 30 days of everything switched on, so you can set it up properly, take real bookings and see how it fits your business before paying anything. There are no lock-in contracts and you can cancel any time. Every new account is also offered a free 15-minute setup call if you'd like a hand.
Yes. It's built in Melbourne, and it shows in the details: pricing in Australian dollars with GST included, text messages to Australian mobiles, support from people who know the local market, and your money paid into your own Australian bank account.
Free for 30 days with everything switched on. No card, no lock-in contracts, and your booking page can be live in minutes.
Free for 30 days · No card needed