Marketplace + booking
Fresha
Subscription-free salon and spa booking with a large consumer marketplace, monetized through card processing and new-client fees.
What it does
Fresha is one of the most widely used booking and business platforms for salons, spas, and barbershops, and it stands out because the core software is free: there is no monthly subscription. Instead Fresha earns from payment processing, optional paid marketing, and a fee on new clients it sends from its consumer marketplace, where clients can discover and book you directly. You get a calendar, online booking, automated reminders, deposits and no-show protection, POS and integrated card payments, product inventory, and reporting in one place.
AI features
Checked on Fresha’s own pages, October 13, 2026
Fresha's AI Concierge is the most complete AI front desk in a single add-on: it answers calls and client messages, books, moves and cancels in the live calendar, and drafts or posts review replies. The AI campaign writer is in the base product; the add-on is metered.
AI pricing: AI Concierge is an optional $99.95 a month per location (200 call minutes and 500 messages included, then $0.60 a minute and $0.04 a message). AI campaign writing and the AI review summary are in the base plans, from $19.95 a month.
Answers calls 24/7, books, reschedules and cancels in the live Fresha calendar, answers common questions, takes messages or transfers calls, and handles several calls at once. It always says it is an AI.
Pricing: $99.95 a month per location with 200 minutes and 500 messages, then $0.60 a minute and $0.04 a message. Where: Launched May 2026 in English-speaking markets first.
- Fresha: AI concierge: “AI Concierge is an AI-powered phone receptionist built into Fresha.”
- Fresha pricing page: “$99.95 per location, monthly 200 mins included per location, then $0.60 per extra min 500 messages included per location, then $0.04 per extra msg”
- Fresha blog: Fresha AI concierge launch: “AI Concierge will launch across English-speaking markets first, with additional language support rolling out internationally.”
Answers client SMS and in-app messages with the same abilities as on the phone, including booking, and stops as soon as a staff member takes over.
Pricing: Part of the AI Concierge add-on.
- Fresha help center: How AI concierge responds to messages in client connect: “AI Concierge has the same capabilities on chat as it does on the phone.”
- Fresha blog: Fresha AI concierge launch: “manage client messaging across SMS and in-app chat”
An Enhance button in the email and text campaign builders writes or refines the copy with AI.
Pricing: Included; campaign sends billed as usual.
- Fresha help center: Create text message blast campaigns: “Click the mention icon (@) to add client details and Enhance to write your content with AI.”
- Fresha help center: Create email blast campaigns: “Click Enhance to write your content with AI.”
Drafts replies to new Fresha and Google reviews in the business's tone; the owner approves each one or sets rules to post them automatically.
Pricing: Needs the AI Concierge add-on.
- Fresha: Online reputation: “AI reply features require the AI Concierge add-on.”
- Fresha help center: Reply to reviews using AI concierge: “Review and publish each reply yourself, or enable automatic replies so eligible reviews are responded to on your behalf.”
Fresha describes it as AI: when a client asks for a fully booked team member, it moves a flexible any-team-member booking to another qualified person to free the slot. Fresha's smart pricing and waitlist run on rules you set.
Pricing: Included.
- Fresha blog: Fresha AI powered intelligent scheduling beauty wellness: “Dynamic Reassignment, a new AI-powered capability that automatically redistributes flexible appointments between suitable team members in real time.”
- Fresha pricing page: “Smart pricing automatically adjusts your online service prices during specific days and times you set.”
- Fresha: Scheduling: “Fresha's Intelligent Waitlist automatically fills last-minute cancellations”
Reads Fresha and Google reviews and highlights recurring themes; included in every plan.
- Fresha help center: Track your rating and review performance: “The AI-powered review summary analyses client feedback to highlight common themes”
AI tools to write and refine the salon's Fresha website ($15.95 a month add-on).
- Fresha help center: Smart website overview: “Customize beautiful designs with powerful AI tools”
Generates a service menu with descriptions, structure and price suggestions.
- Fresha blog: Fresha sets new standard AI support nova: “professionals can generate complete service menus instantly with AI assistance, optimising descriptions, structure and pricing”
Clients can find open Fresha appointments through ChatGPT and Claude and finish booking in Fresha's checkout. A discovery channel, not an owner tool.
- Fresha blog: Fresha chatgpt claude beauty wellness bookings: “to discover available services through Fresha before completing their booking through our secure checkout experience”
Not found on October 13, 2026: AI business assistant.
Pricing
Free software, pay via card processing and new-client marketplace fees
Pricing signals are indicative and change often. Confirm current pricing with the vendor.
How SalonAI fits
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