Gostelo vs Sessurely

Gostelo is booking and scheduling for solo operators and small service businesses — barbers, salons, beauty studios, mobile mechanics, tutors, cleaners, and anyone whose calendar is their business. WHAT YOU GET • Your own booking page in 60 seconds. Pick a subdomain (yourname.gostelo.com) — customers book online without downloading anything. • Real-time dashboard. Today's bookings at a glance, swipe through the week, push notifications the moment a new booking lands. • Automatic SMS reminders. Cut no-shows. Customers confirm or cancel by text 24 hours before their appointment. • Customer list that builds itself. Every booking creates a record. Add notes, mark VIPs, block problem clients. • Full schedule control. Weekly hours, vacation blocks, buffer time. Customers only book slots you've opened. • Custom intake forms. Ask the questions that matter — allergies, preferences, vehicle make — right at booking. NO COMMISSIONS No per-booking fees. No upsells. The free tier covers everything most one-person businesses need. PRIVACY FIRST We don't sell your data. SMS goes out from your business name, not ours. No Gostelo ads on your booking page. Sign up takes a minute. Share your booking link, fill your calendar.

You cannot sell Tuesday at 2pm twice. An hour is the one thing you sell that expires. If nobody books it, or somebody books it and never turns up, that hour is gone and so is the money. Restaurants, hotels and airlines worked this out long ago. The person working alone, who feels it hardest, never got the tools. Sessurely does three things. It fills your hours, protects them, and makes sure you get paid for them. Free to start and free to stay. No card. No countdown. Nothing switches off later. FILL YOUR DAY Your own booking page, with your name on it and not ours, so people can book at 11pm instead of texting you. Add as many services as you like, each with its own length and price. Set the hours you actually work. Keep a waitlist, so you know who wants a slot the moment one opens. Nudge clients you have not seen in a while, or send someone an invite with the message already written. PROTECT YOUR DAY Reminders and confirmations go out on their own, by email and by text. When you are ready, take a deposit when they book, or keep their card on file without charging it, and only charge for a no-show or late cancel when your own rules say so. With Pro, every client gets a score based on whether they actually turn up, and you get a heads up when someone looks likely to bail, in time to act. GET PAID PROPERLY Sell blocks of sessions up front, not one at a time. Sell gift cards from your page. Take payment in person with Tap to Pay on iPhone: they tap a card, phone or watch against yours and it is done, no reader to buy and nothing to carry. Available in the United States. The money lands in your own Stripe account, and we take nothing on what you collect in person. KNOW YOUR CLIENTS A proper client book with notes, history, and what each person has spent with you. Pull them in from your phone contacts. Get their forms filled in before they arrive. And the numbers that matter: who turns up, who comes back, what you earned. ONE SET OF RULES PER SERVICE A four hour tattoo and a thirty minute chat should never share the same rules. Set the deposit, the fee and the notice period per service and leave it. Your client sees it before they book, so you never have to bring it up. MADE FOR ONE PERSON, ON PURPOSE This is not a salon system with the extra chairs taken out. Nobody to manage, no seats to buy, no charge per head, no plan you grow out of. One of you, one calendar, one price. FREE MEANS FREE Your booking page. Unlimited services. Your hours. A calendar that stays in step. Your client book. Contact import. Forms. A waitlist. Email reminders and confirmations. 100 texts a month to U.S. numbers. Deposits, card on file and no-show fees. Your Today screen, widgets and Apple Watch. YOUR CLIENTS PAY NOTHING TO BOOK No booking fee at the checkout. They pay you for the work, and that is the end of it. ONE PRICE FOR PRO, AND NOTHING ABOVE IT Pro adds unlimited texts, packages, gift cards, session scores, a daily briefing, analytics and Tap to Pay on iPhone. ON THE APPLE THINGS YOU ALREADY CARRY A countdown to your next appointment on the Lock Screen. Your whole day on Apple Watch. Ask Siri what is next. It keeps step with Apple Calendar. Face ID keeps your book to yourself. FOR ANYONE WHOSE CALENDAR IS THEIR LIVING Tattoo artists, hair stylists, barbers, nail and lash techs, personal trainers, coaches, consultants and photographers. WHERE THE MONEY GOES Straight into your own Stripe account. We never hold it, and we take nothing from your session prices, your packages, your gift cards, or anything you take in person. The only thing we take is 2%, capped at $10, on the deposits and no-show and late cancel fees we collect for you. Your client list is yours to take with you. Your time is what you sell. Sessurely makes sure you get paid for it. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Service Terms: https://www.sessurely.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.sessurely.com/privacy