What does a website with online booking cost?
If you take appointments, you pay for more than a website. Here are the parts, and how to keep the total down.
The parts you pay for
- The website: a builder’s subscription or a designer’s fee, plus a domain name (often around $10 to $20 a year).
- The booking tool: many businesses pay a separate scheduling app every month, and some charge more for each extra staff member or for taking payments.
- Card payments: if clients pay a deposit or the full price when booking, the payment processor takes a fee on each payment. With Stripe in the US it’s about 2.9% + 30¢.
- Your time: keeping two tools in step, and linking one to the other.
One plan or two subscriptions
A website and a separate booking app means two bills, two logins, and a “Book now” button that sends people to another site. A website with booking built in keeps clients on your own pages and your own address, and costs one subscription.
A separate app is still the better choice if you need things like classes with seats, memberships, packages of sessions or text reminders.
What it costs with Digitally Boosted
Online booking comes with the Business plan: $24 a month billed yearly, or $29 month to month, with the website, hosting, your own domain and AI writing included. Each service can be free to book, take a deposit or be paid in full. Payments go through Stripe on your own account, straight to your bank; Stripe charges its usual fee and we take nothing on top.
Costs people forget
- No-shows: an empty hour costs more than any subscription. A deposit when booking helps; see how to cut no-shows with deposits.
- Fees per staff member as your team grows.
- Price rises at renewal: check what you’ll pay in year two.
Questions
Only for services that take a payment. Free bookings need nothing else; for deposits or full payment, you connect a Stripe account from your website’s page, which takes about 10 minutes.
Yes. Add each person with their own hours, days off and services, and clients can pick one or “Anyone available”. There’s no charge per person.
Start with a free trial, no card needed. Starter is $12 a month billed yearly, or $15 month to month; Business is $24 or $29. Sales tax is added where it applies. See pricing.
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