Salon and spa booking
Looking for a Fresha alternative for a medical spa?
Fresha is generally positioned as booking software for salons, spas and wellness businesses. Medical aesthetic clinics typically start looking when they need clinical documentation, product traceability and consent handling that a beauty-industry booking platform is not designed around.
Why clinics start looking
- Injectable and device treatments have no structured place to be charted.
- Marketplace-style discovery does not match a clinic's referral and consultation model.
- Consent, intake and clinical photos sit outside the appointment record.
- Product usage and lot numbers are tracked on paper or in a spreadsheet.
Verify before you move
Confirm these with Fresha directly — the answers decide your timeline more than any feature comparison does.
- What are the current fees on new-client bookings, payments and messaging?
- What does a full data export include, and how are client contact details handled?
- Are your clients listed on a marketplace, and what happens to those listings if you leave?
- Where is your consent and photo documentation stored today?
What Med Spa Management does
Charting built around aesthetic treatments
Unit-by-site maps and lot/expiry capture for neurotoxins, product and volume by region for fillers, device and setting records for energy treatments, and protocol steps for facials and peels — on one patient timeline rather than in free-text notes.
Per-location pricing
Plans are priced per location, not per provider and not per patient record, so adding a part-time injector or a new treatment room does not change the subscription.
Built for clinics, not a marketplace
Patients belong to your clinic record, not to a discovery platform. Booking runs from your own site with consultation gating, provider qualification and room or device availability applied to every slot.
Retention that runs off the record
Rebooking intervals are set per treatment, so lapse queues, follow-up sequences and rebook-at-checkout prompts all reflect what the patient actually had done.
Common questions
- Why do medical spas move off salon booking software?
- Usually because of documentation rather than scheduling. Once a clinic is delivering injectables or energy device treatments, it needs unit and lot capture, device settings, versioned consent and linked photos — a different record shape from a salon appointment.
- Will switching lose my client list?
- Export clients, appointment history and any stored notes before you move, and check what contact details the export includes. We import structured patient and appointment data from those files.
- How does Med Spa Management charge?
- Per location, with no per-provider fee and no commission on bookings. Compare that against the total of subscription plus per-booking and per-message fees on whatever you use today.
Run a side-by-side trial
Chart your five highest-volume treatments in both systems before you decide. Pricing is per location, so the cost of the trial does not change with your roster.