SQUARE APPOINTMENTS ALTERNATIVE
Looking for a Square Appointments alternative?
Square Appointments and Owneli both run bookings, payments and client records for appointment businesses. Below: what each publishes about price, contracts and your client list, with sources and dates, and exactly what moves across if you switch.
Short answer
Owneli is one: online booking, payments, client records, forms and memberships for salons, spas and clinics. Square publishes a free plan and two paid plans per location; Owneli’s prices are not published yet, and its terms are the same for everyone: no commission on clients you bring, no contract, export your clients any time.
Side by side
| Owneli | Square Appointments | |
|---|---|---|
| Published pricing | Not published yet. Ask the Owneli team. | Free plan at US$0 a month per location; Plus US$49 and Premium US$149 a month per location. In Canada, $0, $35 and $85 (the Canadian page does not name the currency). Plus and Premium have a 30-day free trial. |
| Contract and cancelling | No contract. Cancel any time; nothing is billed after you cancel. | You can “cancel or switch plans anytime”, says its pricing page. |
| Exporting your client list | Export your clients any time: Clients, then Export, as a spreadsheet. | Customers, then Customer directory, then Import / Export, then Export customers, as a CSV. Saved cards move only to another PCI DSS Level 1 processor, through Square Support. |
Owneli’s terms
The same for every business, in three lines.
No commission on clients you bring
The clients you import, and the clients who book through your own booking links and website, carry no commission. Card payments carry a processing fee, which is not published yet.
No contract
Cancel any time. Nothing is billed after you cancel.
Export your clients any time
Clients, then Export, downloads your client list as a spreadsheet whenever you like.
Read the guide: Export your clients any time
Moving from Square Appointments
Owneli’s importer recognises Square’s customer export and appointment history. Email subscription status comes across as email consent, and the memo as the client’s notes.
Import from Fresha and other systems
Bring clients, services, products, team, memberships, packages, gift cards, loyalty balances, appointments and sales from Fresha, or from CSV and Excel exports of other booking tools, with a dry run first and a one-click undo.
Read the guide: Import from Fresha and other systemsExport your data
Download your whole client list, or a filtered part of it, as a spreadsheet, and any report as CSV, Excel or PDF.
Read the guide: Export your data
What Owneli includes
Online booking with no client account
Clients choose services, a professional and a time on your booking page in a few taps. They need no account and no app.
Read the guide: Online booking with no client accountDeposits, cards on file and no-show fees
Ask for a deposit or a card at booking, and charge late-cancellation and no-show fees under the policy the client agreed to.
Read the guide: Deposits, cards on file and no-show feesIntake and consent forms
Build intake, consent and survey forms with conditions, scores and signatures, send them before a visit, and make a form required before a service can be paid for.
Read the guide: Intake and consent formsBefore and after photos
Add before, after and progress photos to a client’s profile, compare two side by side, and choose who on the team can see them.
Read the guide: Before and after photosMemberships that renew
Monthly, quarterly or annual plans with included sessions or a wallet balance, charged automatically. A declined renewal is retried, and members can ask to pause.
Read the guide: Memberships that renewCommission
Fixed or tiered commission per person, a choice of when packages and memberships pay it (when sold, when redeemed or split), and a record of why each commission was paid.
Read the guide: CommissionPayroll preparation
Generate a pay run each period with hours, wages, tips and commission, freeze it, and give your accountant read-only access or send them the figures.
Read the guide: Payroll preparationEnglish, French and Spanish
Each team member works in their own language, booking pages switch language, and clients get emails and texts in their preferred language.
Read the guide: English, French and Spanish
What Owneli does not do yet
Worth knowing before you choose.
- Prices are not published yet. Ask the Owneli team about pricing for your business.
- Saved cards, forms, consents and photos do not come across in an import, and a membership’s billing does not resume mid-cycle on its own.
- There is no App Store app yet. On an iPhone, Owneli runs in Safari and installs to the home screen; on Android, Owneli for Business and Owneli: Book Appointments are on Google Play.
- Data is stored in the United States (Amazon Web Services, northern Virginia), whatever country the business is in.
Questions
Can I import my clients from Square Appointments?
Yes. Get your client list out of Square Appointments (the table above shows how), then upload it to Owneli’s importer. Each column is matched before anything is written, a dry run shows what will be created, and the import can be undone.
What does not come across when I switch?
Saved cards, forms, consents and photos. Card details move between processors, never through a file, so clients add their card again through a secure link.
Does Owneli take a commission on my clients?
No commission on clients you bring: the clients you import, and the clients who book through your own booking links and website. Card payments carry a processing fee, which is not published yet.
How do prices compare with Square Appointments?
Owneli’s prices are not published yet. Square Appointments’s current prices are on its own pricing page, linked under Sources.
Sources
Facts about other companies come from their own public pages on the date shown. Prices and plans change; check their current page before deciding.
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