One link is your whole setup: a real website clients book from and a calendar that stays full — when someone cancels, your waitlist fills the slot on its own. Free to schedule. Turn on payments whenever you want, and only pay a slice when you get paid.
A real storefront at your own link — photo, sessions, prices, hours, a shop, your story. No site to build or host. You get a QR code too: hold it up after a session and they rebook on the spot.
A client cancels, the slot doesn't sit empty — Autofill texts your waitlist and whoever grabs it first is in. Your day stays full without you lifting a finger. This is the part Venmo and a paper calendar can't do. (A paid feature — needs a waitlist, naturally.)
Take payment your own way — cash, Venmo, whatever — BlockSide never handles the money, just a small flat fee per booking. Or turn on payments: booking holds half the price to confirm the spot, the balance is paid at the session, and it lands in your bank in two days — BlockSide takes 0.5–1.5% of what you collect. Your call, one tap.
A real website at your own link, and a QR code to hold up after a session so they rebook on the spot.
A cancellation texts your waitlist and the first to claim takes the hour. Your day stays full on its own.
Hold a card to confirm the spot. A late cancel or no-show is covered — and every charge has a one-tap waive.
Group classes and one-off events live on the same page, with tickets and door check-in built in.
Clients see every booking, receipt, and saved practitioner in one place — by email, no app to download.
Money runs through your own Stripe account and lands in your bank in two days. BlockSide never holds it.
Clients can save a time they wanted but couldn't get. When that time opens up, BlockSide texts everyone who saved it, and whoever answers first books it.
You mark a cancellation and that's it. The texting and the booking happen on their own, while you're with your next client.
Your photo, your sessions and prices, packages, classes, hours, insurance, a status note — all on one link. Built from what you type in; no site to design or host. (Below: a sample page.)
The big platforms are built for salons and teams — and priced for them. For a solo pro, their scale is the problem. Here's the honest comparison.
| Square | Booksy | Vagaro | BlockSide | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly fee | Free solo; paid for teams | $29.99 + $20/staff | $30 + $10/calendar | $0 — no monthly |
| Platform cut | — | 30% of a Boost client's 1st visit | — | 0.5–1.5% on card payments; a small flat fee on cash |
| Who holds your money | Square | Booksy | Vagaro | You — your own Stripe |
| A marketplace? | No | Yes — pooled with everyone | Yes — pooled with everyone | No — your clients are yours |
| App for clients | App | App | App | None — just a link |
| Waitlist auto-refill | No | No | No | Yes — fills cancellations itself |
Competitor figures from their own published pricing (Oct 2026). Processing fees are separate for everyone and go to the processor.
I'm a licensed massage practitioner. I tried the big booking tools and they all wanted a monthly fee, a cut of my clients, and for me to be one tile in their marketplace — built for a salon with ten chairs, not one person in one room.
So I built the thing I wanted: a real page on my own link, my own Stripe account, and a waitlist that fills my cancellations while I'm with the next client. No monthly fee. You only pay a small slice when you actually get paid.
— Johnathan Stanley, LMT · founder
Pick what you do at signup and your page starts with the right sessions and consent form. Massage is the most built-out; the engine is the same for all of them.
Free to set up. No monthly. You only pay a slice if you turn payments on — and only on money you actually collect.
Free up to 10 booked hours a week.
Book more than 10 hours in a week and it's 2% of the extra — billed once a month to a card on file. We don't change how your clients pay you.
Then a slice — only when you get paid.
Card processing is Stripe's normal rate, paid straight to Stripe — same as Square. It never comes out of the client's payment.
Early members keep a lower rate. No subscription.
Intake is health info, and the second we store that we're on the hook for HIPAA. We'd rather get the money and the booking right than half-do a bunch of things.
Keep whatever you already use for intake. BlockSide handles the booking and the money.
Two days, straight to your bank, automatically. You never have to request a payout.
No. Payments run through your own Stripe account — you own it, you control it, and the money settles straight to your bank. BlockSide only takes its small slice as a fee; it never sits on your funds.
If you book clients one-on-one, yes. Massage, personal training, acupuncture, yoga and pilates, esthetics, chiropractic, physical therapy, reiki, coaching, nutrition — you pick what you do at signup and your page starts with the right services and consent form. Classes and group sessions work too.
No. They sign in with their email — that's their account. No app, no password, nothing to download. A phone number is optional (only if they want text reminders).
Every charge has a waive button. Stuff happens, and the app shouldn't be the one deciding.
Yours to set — you're in control. Pick your cancellation window (12, 24, or 48 hours), how many free reschedules clients get (0, 1, or 2), and what happens when the waitlist fills a freed slot (keep the late fee, or refund the original). Outside your window, cancelling is free; inside it, or a no-show, is a late fee of the full session price — and every charge still has a one-tap waive if you'd rather not.
Free to join and schedule. No monthly. When you turn payments on, your first 30 days are free — full Autofill, 0% platform fee. After that you pay a small locked-in slice of what you collect, only when you actually get paid (card processing is Stripe's, paid to Stripe). Don't want the paid plan? Switch to free scheduling anytime — 10 booked hours a week, then 2% on the overage. A month you don't work costs nothing.
When you turn payments on, you get full Autofill — card-on-file, no-show protection, waitlist auto-refill — with a 0% platform fee for 30 days. Real bookings, real money to your bank; BlockSide just doesn't take its slice yet.
Nothing you have to do. On day 31 your rate simply switches on — 0.5–1.5% depending on when you joined, only on money you collect. Prefer to keep it free? Switch to the scheduling plan anytime (10 booked hours a week, then 2% on the overage).
Classes are the same as your one-on-one rate — no surprise. A one-time event has a small launch fee (1% of the full house, $25–$200) plus 1.5% as tickets sell, and your money lands as people buy, not after the event.
Takes about fifteen minutes. Free to set up, and your first 30 days of payments are on us. Not much reason not to.
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