Is Soopaspace a good alternative to Fresha?

Q: Is Soopaspace a good alternative to Fresha?

Soopaspace gives you a booking page of your own that lists only your business, your own client list, and the money and marketing side in the same app.

A Fresha alternative for solo salons and groomers

Quick answer

Looking at Fresha alternatives? Soopaspace gives you your own booking page, your choice of how clients pay and one clear price. From £9.99 a month billed yearly.

A page that is only yours, and clients who book you

Looking at alternatives to Fresha? Here is how Soopaspace is built: your own booking page that lists only your business, your own client list, and the money and the marketing in the same app.

What you get with Soopaspace

Your own branded booking page that lists only your business
You choose how clients pay: card, cash or bank transfer
Quotes, invoices, expenses and a tax-year summary you can download
Client notes, reminders and win-back marketing
One clear price for bookings, payments, invoices and clients

1Your page

A booking page that lists only your business

Your booking page shows your services, your photos and your prices, and nobody else’s. Each service has its own length and price, and clients pick a day and see only the times you are free. Put the link in your bio, or download a QR code for the counter.

A page that lists only your business
A service for each thing you offer, with a photo and a price
One link for your bio, on any platform
A QR code for your booking page, for print or the counter

Find out moreTurn your Instagram bio into bookings

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Your booking page: clients pick a day, see only the times you are free, and book in a couple of taps.

2Getting paid

Paid the way you choose, into your own account

Card payments go into your own Stripe account. Cash and bank transfer sit alongside, and you choose which ways to offer for each thing you sell. A longer appointment can take a fixed deposit by card when it is booked, with the balance shown as due on the day.

Card through your own Stripe account
Cash and bank transfer, marked paid in one tap
Different ways to pay for different things
A fixed deposit per service, taken by card at booking

Find out moreTake bookings without forcing anyone to pay by card

A nail technician painting a client’s nails

Appointment, 90 min£60.00

A £15.00 deposit is taken now by card. The remaining £45.00 is paid on the day.

Pay £15.00 deposit

Deposits at booking: the client pays the deposit by card to secure the slot, and the rest on the day.

3Your client list

Every client’s colour and history, kept with you

Each client has their own page with every visit in date order, what it cost and the answers they gave when booking. Add private notes as you go, a colour formula, a patch test date or a preference, and they are there the next time that client books.

Every visit and what it cost, in date order
Answers from booking, kept with the client
Private notes on every client, only you see them
A client list that builds itself from your bookings

Find out moreA simple CRM for the self-employed: every client, remembered

A hairdresser mixing hair colour in a bowl with foils laid out on a kitchen table

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Sam R.

Client for 2 years · 31 visits

£1,240

Booked and paid · £406 weeks ago
Note: prefers mornings7 weeks ago

Every client on one page: visits, notes and spend, with the history in date order.

4Regulars

Regulars on their own rhythm

Set a client to repeat every three weeks, every six, or any gap you choose, and the next appointments are already in the diary. A reminder email goes out before each one, with a link to move it within the notice you set.

Repeats every few weeks, or any gap you choose
A reminder email before every appointment
Clients move or cancel within the notice you set
Move one visit without touching the rest

Find out moreSet a repeat booking once, and let it run

An older woman smiling at her new haircut in a hand mirror in her living room, the hairdresser standing behind her

Lucy Bennett · Root colour and blow-dry

Every 6 weeks

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7 Nov
09:30
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19 Dec
09:30
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30 Jan
09:30
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13 Mar
09:30

A reminder email goes out before each one

A regular on a six-week repeat, with the next appointments already in the diary.

5Bringing people back

Gift vouchers and a warm hello, from your own page

Sell gift vouchers on your page in amounts you choose, with the code coming off the price at checkout. When regulars go quiet, Soopaspace drafts a friendly email for you to read, change and send, only to the clients who agreed to hear from you.