SalonRadar and Treatwell: an honest comparison for salon owners

Salon owners often ask us how SalonRadar compares with Treatwell, and it is usually someone who is already on Treatwell and has just opened an invoice. It deserves a straight answer, including the parts where the answer is "they do that and we do not".

A warning before we start. We make one of the two products, so read this as you would anything written by an interested party, and check the facts that matter to you. We have linked the public sources we used and noted the date.

They are two different kinds of thing

Treatwell is first of all a consumer marketplace. People in many European countries open it to find somewhere to get their hair or nails done, and salons pay to be found there. The salon software (calendar, point of sale, reminders) comes with it.

SalonRadar is first of all salon software: calendar, team schedules, client records, service menu, stock, reports. Every salon gets a public booking page, and those pages are listed in a directory that is young and still growing city by city.

That difference explains nearly everything below. A marketplace charges for introductions, because introductions are what it sells. Software charges, or in our case currently does not, for the tool.

What it costs

Treatwell's partner pricing varies by country and plan. As one public reference point, its Dutch partner pricing page, as we read it on 19 September 2026, listed a Starter plan at €35 per month, a 35% commission on new clients introduced through the marketplace, 0% commission on repeat bookings, and a 2% processing fee on online prepayments. Your market and your contract may differ, so ask Treatwell for the terms that apply to you.

The first 25 salons to join SalonRadar get a founding account: €0 per month and 0% SalonRadar booking commission for the life of that account, on new clients, repeat clients and clients you already had. Salons that join after the founding places are gone will be on a paid plan. We do not take a commission per booking under either.

	Treatwell	SalonRadar
Main strength	Large consumer marketplace that brings new clients	Salon management software with your own booking page
Monthly fee	Subscription, varies by market and plan	€0 for founding accounts (first 25 salons)
Commission on new marketplace clients	Yes, varies by market	None
Commission on repeat clients	0% on the public page we checked	None
Online prepayment	Available, with a processing fee	Available; you pay the payment processor's fee and nothing to SalonRadar
Consumer reach	Established in many European cities	Young directory, growing

Where Treatwell is stronger

If you have just opened, have empty chairs, and are in a city where people really do search Treatwell, a marketplace can fill your book faster than anything you could do alone. Paying a commission once for a client who then comes back for years can be a very good deal. Treatwell has been doing this for well over a decade, and we are not going to pretend a young directory matches that reach.

Where SalonRadar fits better

When most of your clients are already yours

An established salon fills most of its book with regulars and word of mouth. For that salon the question is less "who will bring me clients?" and more "what do I need to run the day, and what does it cost?". A flat €0 with no commission is a simple answer to the second part.

When you need the back office as well as the front desk

SalonRadar includes things that owners usually end up running in spreadsheets: stock with per-service recipes and consumption per specialist, equipment that cannot be double-booked, pricing by seniority level, signed client contracts and guardian consent for under-age clients, email campaigns that only reach clients who opted in, and reports down to a daily cash close-out. We have not compared these line by line with Treatwell's current feature set, and you should, against whatever you use most.

When you groom pets

Pet grooming is a first-class category here, with pet profiles on the client card and services restricted by size, coat and breed.

When you want your data to stay portable

You can export a client's full record from their page at any time, and leaving costs nothing because you never paid anything.

You do not have to choose on day one

Nothing stops you running both: Treatwell as a channel for new faces, SalonRadar for the calendar, the client records and the regulars. That is a reasonable setup and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise. If you want to try it, you can import your services, hours, staff and photos from your public Treatwell profile in a few minutes and see how your menu looks on our side without retyping it. For a full move, we have written up what migrating seven years of history involved.

How to decide

Take your last three months and count two things: how many clients were new and came through the marketplace, and what you paid in total to get them. Divide one by the other. If that cost per new client looks fair for what those clients go on to spend, the marketplace is earning its keep. If most of your bookings were regulars and the total still stings, you are paying marketplace prices for a calendar.

Either way you will have a number, which beats a feeling. Our twelve questions for comparing salon software cover the rest.

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Treatwell is a trademark of its respective owner. SalonRadar is not affiliated with, endorsed by or partnered with Treatwell. Third-party pricing was taken from the public page linked above on 19 September 2026 and may have changed since, or may differ in your country. Confirm current terms directly with Treatwell.