Booking software with no commission. Your clients stay yours.
You get online booking, reminders, staff diaries, client records and a booking website of your own. It costs £149, £229 or £349 a month depending on the size of your business. There's no setup fee and no commission on bookings, and you can export your whole client list whenever you like.
Prices don't include VAT. Venakis isn't VAT-registered, so none is added.
Three things you can check before you sign up.
Most booking software asks you to trust it with your client list. Here's what happens to yours, in writing.
Your client list is yours
You own your client records, including the legal right in the list itself, and the terms assign to you any right we might have in it. We only process your clients' data on your instructions and we never market to them.
Terms of Service, section 11Take all of it, any time
Export every client, appointment, payment and note as CSV and JSON, free, as often as you like. We publish the field names so another system can load the files. Export still works for 60 days after you leave, even if you've stopped paying.
Data Ownership and ExitPrices are published in full
There are three prices, set by business size. There's no setup fee and no commission. You pay monthly and can leave at the end of any month. If we change a price, you get 30 days' notice and can leave before it applies.
Prices and what is includedSee your day on one screen.
The Owner HQ opens on today's bookings and anything that needs your attention. It also compares the last 30 days with the 30 before. Clients book through your own website, and those bookings go straight into the same diary.
One package, three sizes.
Your band is set by the size of your business: the number of locations, staff and bookings a month.
A single salon, barbershop or clinic.
- 1 location
- Around 10 staff
- Around 500 bookings a month
- Dedicated backend available, +£99 a month
A busier site, or two sites.
- 2 locations
- Around 25 staff
- Around 2,000 bookings a month
- Dedicated backend available, +£99 a month
A small group.
- Around 5 locations
- Around 100 staff
- Around 10,000 bookings a month
Prices don't include VAT. Venakis isn't VAT-registered, so none is added. The figures are a guide to size and you can go over them. If you do, your service carries on as normal and we'll agree a move to the next band with you. There's no commission on bookings. Full pricing, including the optional dedicated backend →
See your own booking site before you pay anything.
Choose your business type and how you want the site to look. In most cases we build a first draft straight away and email you a link. If someone needs to check it first, we'll let you know and reply by email.
Read the small print.
Here are the same questions answered by each company's published terms. Their wording is quoted exactly, with links, next to ours.
Who else can use your client data
You are the controller of the personal data in your clients' records and we are the processor. We only process it on your documented instructions. We don't use it for our own purposes or sell it, and we never market to your clients.
“Fresha shall have access to Partner's data, including Partner and Client personal data (as set out in the Data Processing Addendum) and business information (including Partner's business license; VAT, GST or other tax registration, and office address), during and after the term of this Agreement.”
“in respect of Partner Clients' personal data including any personal data forming part of Fresha AI Concierge Data, the Partner is the data controller, Fresha is the data processor, other than where Fresha uses the contact details of Partner Clients for the purpose of providing Fresha Clients with information on their booking history with Partners in which case the Partner and Fresha each act as independent data controllers”
Definition in the same document: “"Partner Client" means a client who books Partner Services or orders a Product directly with you through any means other than through the Fresha Booking Services or Fresha Store and whose details are stored on your Partner Account”
“in respect of Fresha Clients' personal data, the Partner and Fresha each act as independent data controllers”
Definition in the same document: “"Fresha Client" means a client who books Partner Services through the Fresha Booking Services or is a user of the Fresha Platform”
Commission on returning clients
There's no setup fee and no commission on bookings taken through the service.
“we only charge a 35% commission on first bookings made by new clients we bring you from the marketplace.”
“A New Booking is where a Customer: … was added to your Customer Database more than 365 days ago, but hasn’t had a Booking where you successfully provided your services to them (a Successful Appointment) in the last 365 days”
Quoted word for word from each company's published terms and pricing pages, as they read on 26 September 2026. Terms change, so follow the links for the current wording.
Run by a small team.
Venakis is run by a small team. We write the software and look after the servers ourselves, and we answer the support emails too, so when you get in touch you're talking to the people who built it.
That has limits, and they're written down. Support is by email only, with no set hours or promised response times, and there's no phone line. If you need guaranteed response times or round-the-clock support, Venakis isn't the right fit, and it's better to say so now.
What we commit to
- If clients can't book, fixing that comes first
- Updates on critical and high-priority issues until they're fixed
- 99.5% availability each month, with credits if we miss it
- The right to leave for free if we miss it three months in six
- Continuous backups with 3 days of point-in-time recovery
The Service Level Agreement has the details, including what doesn't count.
Also works for
The same system also handles class and table bookings, and the setup is much the same.