GlamUare vs Fresha
Fresha The largest beauty booking platform globally, built around a consumer marketplace that sends new clients to salons in exchange for a commission. GlamUare is booking and business software for salons, studios and independent beauty professionals in Australia, Ireland and the UK, where every business gets its own public profile page and keeps its own clients.
Structural claims below were verified from page source on 2026-08-13. We do not quote Fresha’s prices here because they change — check their current pricing.
Where Fresha is the better choice
- Genuinely the best consumer discovery in the category — if you want a marketplace to bring you new clients, this is the one that works.
- Deep feature set, mature product, very large review base.
- Real-time availability feeds into Google, which is driving fast-growing AI-assistant bookings.
Pick Fresha if: You want a marketplace to find you new clients and you are happy to pay for that on a per-client basis. Fresha is better at that than we are — we do not run a consumer marketplace.
Verified differences
Each of these is checkable yourself. We have said how.
Fresha publishes profile pages for businesses that never signed up. These "lite venue" pages carry the line that the business "is not currently affiliated with or partnered with Fresha", and route visitors to nearby Fresha-paying venues.
Check it: Open a fresha.com/lvp/ URL and read the disclaimer, then scroll to the "venues nearby" block.
Fresha operates roughly 1.19 million of these non-customer pages, against roughly 85,000 pages for actual paying venues.
Check it: Count the <loc> entries in the lite-venue-pages and salons sitemaps linked from fresha.com/robots.txt.
Every published GlamUare business gets a public, indexable profile page with structured data, at glamuare.com/shop/{business}.
Check it: Open any GlamUare profile page and view source — the LocalBusiness JSON-LD and the page text are in the served HTML, before any JavaScript runs.
Questions
Is GlamUare a Fresha alternative?
- Yes, for the booking, calendar, payments and client-management side. The difference is discovery: Fresha runs a consumer marketplace that introduces new clients for a fee. GlamUare does not — we give each business its own public profile page and booking link, and the clients that come through it are yours.
Can I move my clients from Fresha to GlamUare?
- Yes. Export your client list from Fresha and import it during setup. Bring your service menu and prices across at the same time.
Does Fresha charge commission on my own clients?
- Fresha distinguishes between clients you bring and clients the marketplace introduces, and prices them differently. Check fresha.com for their current fees — they change, and a comparison page quoting a stale percentage is worse than no number at all.
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