ReserveBee or Salonized? What suits your salon best?

Salonized is software built specifically for salons, hairdressers and wellness practices, with more than 15,000 salons as customers across the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and France. For a salon that needs nothing beyond salon management, that's a sensible choice. But anyone wanting to look wider, or looking for a lower entry price, should compare Salonized honestly against ReserveBee.

Three key differences at a glance

What Salonized does well

Salonized is built around a salon's specific working rhythm, and it shows: reviewers praise the intuitive setup wizard and the clear calendar. Customer support scores highly (4.8 out of 5 in review aggregation), with live chat, phone, email and even weekend availability. Functionally it packs a lot of salon-specific capability by default: inventory management, financial and VAT reporting, gift cards, loyalty points, dynamic pricing and two-way Google Calendar sync. For salons that want to acquire clients through a marketplace, the Treatwell integration is a ready-made addition.

Where ReserveBee makes the difference

That specialisation is also the limitation: Salonized isn't usable outside the beauty industry. A sports club, rental business or educational institution simply isn't what it's built for, while ReserveBee's objects and bundles work just as well for a hair salon as for a padel court. Pricing differs too: Salonized has no free tier, so even a new salon with a handful of appointments a month pays at least €21 a month from day one, plus extra per employee and location. Reviewers also report the price can climb considerably over time: one user cited going from €29 to €55 a month over two years. There's also no dedicated mobile app: Salonized is web-based, and multiple reviewers explicitly ask for an app for use at the salon counter. ReserveBee scales with your revenue instead: you pay per reservation, not a fixed amount that can rise every year regardless of usage.

A worked pricing example

Say you're starting a small salon with 15 appointments a month, still building up your client base.

Grow your salon to a team of 3 stylists with 200 appointments a month? At Salonized you'd land on the Basic plan (€39) plus 2 × €7.50 for extra employees, so €54 a month. At ReserveBee, that volume on the Professional plan costs €18 plus €0.10 per appointment above the first 100, so €28 a month, with no per-employee surcharge. For a new salon with few appointments, Salonized still charges the full base price, simply because there's no free or pay-as-you-go alternative. ReserveBee costs nothing in that same situation, and from there scales gradually with your revenue instead of in fixed steps per employee or location.

Switching from Salonized to ReserveBee

Salons switching from Salonized usually bring years of customer data, appointment history and treatments with them. We're happy to help you migrate that archive for free, so your customers don't lose their history and you can carry straight on without manually retyping data. Salonized-specific features like the Treatwell integration or the gift-card system are translated to the closest ReserveBee equivalent, and where it isn't a perfect one-to-one match, we talk through upfront what that difference means for your workflow. We also help rebuild your treatment variants and pricing, so your calendar is correct from day one. Prefer to start yourself right away? You can: start a free trial and you're live within minutes.

Personal contact, not just a system

ReserveBee is a Dutch company: you talk directly to the small team that builds the system, not a support desk passing along a ticket. Want to make more than just your salon services bookable, say workshops or renting out a treatment room to a colleague? ReserveBee offers that flexibility within the same system, while Salonized isn't built for it.

Who should choose ReserveBee?

Are you a salon that only needs salon-specific features like inventory management and a Treatwell integration, and don't mind a fixed monthly price from day one? Salonized is a focused choice. Would you rather start without minimum costs, aren't (exclusively) a salon, or want a system that makes rooms, equipment or other objects bookable alongside appointments through bundles? Then ReserveBee is the broader, more affordable choice. Running a nail studio alongside a separate massage room you'd also like to rent out on its own? ReserveBee combines that effortlessly within one system. We help you migrate your services, customers and calendar for free.

Also worth a look: ReserveBee vs Fresha or ReserveBee vs SuperSaaS.