Tajming vs Fresha: which booking app actually keeps your money?

I should tell you up front: I am not a neutral reviewer. I am Marko, the person who built Tajming. So read this knowing where I stand, and I will try to be fair anyway, because if I am not, you will notice within the first paragraph and close the tab.

Here is how Tajming started. The barbershop I have gone to for years was supposed to be my first web design client. I showed them the finished site and they liked it, then they asked: "and people can book an appointment right here, right?" My honest first answer was no, they can only contact you. Then I stopped and thought: why would I send my own client off to some other app, a competitor, when I could just build the booking myself? That is the whole origin story. Tajming is not revolutionary. But it is mine, I stand behind it, and it exists to help small service businesses run a calmer day.

So let me put it next to Fresha properly.

What Fresha is genuinely good at

Fresha is a serious, global product, and pretending otherwise would be silly. If you want these things, Fresha is a strong choice and I will happily say so:

A marketplace that brings new faces. Fresha runs a consumer marketplace. People browse it looking for a salon, and your business can show up there. That is real discovery you do not have to create yourself.

Payments built in. Fresha processes card payments, deposits, and tips directly. If you want booking and card payment under one roof, that is convenient.

It scales further than I do. Inventory, multi location chains, advanced reporting. If you are a ten chair operation across three cities, Fresha has tools for that.

If discovery through a marketplace and integrated card payments are the main things you want, you can stop reading and go to Fresha with my blessing. I built Tajming for a different kind of owner.

The part that costs you

Here is where I want you to read the fine print, because it is easy to miss.

Fresha's subscription is only the start. On top of it, Fresha charges a 20% commission on new clients who find you through their marketplace (with a minimum fee), plus payment processing of roughly 2.19% plus a fixed amount per transaction. Fresha also removed its free tier in 2025, and pricing is in US dollars, so what you pay shifts with the exchange rate.

None of that is hidden exactly, but it adds up in a way a flat number does not. A 20% cut on a new client is one fifth of that visit gone, every time the marketplace is the one who introduced you.

What Tajming does instead

Tajming is a flat monthly subscription and nothing more. Basic is 14 euros a month, Pro is 24 euros a month, and there is a 30 day free trial before any of that. No commission, ever. Not on new clients, not on returning clients, not on anything. Whatever you charge, you keep.

A few other deliberate choices:

Your clients are yours. Tajming does not sit between you and the people you serve, and it does not list a competing salon next to your name. Your booking page is your brand, not a stall inside someone else's market.

You charge the way you already charge. Cash, your existing card terminal, whatever you use now. Tajming handles the booking, not your money, so there is no processing cut.

Your data leaves with you. One click gives you a CSV of every client, appointment, and service. If you ever leave, you take everything. I think that is just basic decency.

The price you see is the price you keep. If I ever change pricing, existing customers stay on their rate. You will not get a quiet increase email a year in.

Support is a person, and that person is me. Built in Osijek, answered the same day, in Croatian or English. Not a ticket queue, not a bot.

So which one should you pick

Let me be straight, including against my own interest.

Choose Fresha if your main goal is marketplace discovery for brand new clients, you want card payments built into the same tool, or you run a larger multi location business that needs heavy reporting. Those are real strengths and Tajming does not try to copy them.

Choose Tajming if you already have clients and simply want them to book themselves without calls, you want one predictable flat bill with no percentage skimmed off the top, and you would rather email a real person in Osijek than open a support ticket. That is most of the small salons and barbershops I talk to.

If that second description sounds like your shop, the trial is genuinely free for 30 days and takes about five minutes to set up. Try it, and if it is not for you, export your data and go, no hard feelings.

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