Cobbtree for Business
Book.
Manage.
Grow.
One system for the whole visit: the booking, the diary, the payment, the client record, the next visit. This is the real Cobbtree product, shown with sample data for a busy salon.
- Early Founders Access: first 20 businesses, 6 months free
- Then From £19 + VAT a month
- No setup fee
The diary
Built for the chair, not a category
Hair. Nails. Skin. Barbering. Whatever the treatment, the diary works the same way.
Cobbtree runs across every treatment-based business - see how it fits yours.
One connected system
Follow one booking, start to finish.
Sample data for a busy salon - the same appointment, all the way through, not eight separate features.
01
Emma books online
Emma Morgan finds the salon on Google, books Cut & Blow Dry with Sophie for 10:00 - the diary shows the real gap, not a guess.
02
It lands on the diary
Sophie's column updates instantly. No phone call, no double entry.
03
Emma gets a reminder
A notification lands the day before, and again the morning of - the same booking, followed through.
04
Her record is already there
Prefers Sophie. Fine hair, asks for a blunt fringe. Patch test on file for colour. Staff see it before she sits down.
05
She pays on the way out
£48, card, on the same ticket as the visit - no separate till system to reconcile.
06
The visit counts toward her next reward
Loyalty updates the moment the payment clears - no end-of-month spreadsheet.
07
Cobbtree asks how it went
A review request goes out after the visit - only clients who actually sat down and paid can leave one.
08
It shows up in reporting
Sophie's revenue, the salon's Saturday, Emma's lifetime spend - all the same record, not a separate export.
Book.
New clients need to find you and book without a phone call. Existing clients need it to be just as easy.
Cobbtree Marketplace
People already looking nearby can find you.
Your listing shows up on Cobbtree with real photos, real services and real availability. The booking lands straight on your diary - it's an instant booking, not a request you have to approve. The relationship is yours from the first visit.
Marketplace
Online booking
A time that is actually free.
Clients pick from the real diary - the same one Sophie sees at the chair. Cobbtree checks staff schedules, service duration and any patch test requirement before it lets the booking through.
Book a time
A website that takes bookings
Not a brochure. A live site, built from your real data.
The Maidstone and Canterbury sites both have a Cobbtree site under their own name - services, team, hours and reviews, pulled live from the same account. It updates the moment you change a price or add someone to the team, and the free Cobbtree subdomain is included. A custom domain of your own is a small paid add-on, billed once a year.
Manage.
The floor day, run from one place.
The diary, the till and the client record are the same system - not a booking tool in one tab and a card machine in another.
The diary
Move a booking. Block lunch. The chair stays honest.
Bookings land from the marketplace, your site and the app, live, into the same diary your team is looking at. A time moves, lunch is blocked, and nobody is writing it down twice.
The till
Take payment before they leave the chair.
Card, cash or a split, and retail on the same ticket as the visit - powered by Stripe. A service stays on the ticket until it is taken. Money pays out to your own bank account. Cobbtree never holds your takings.
Protect your time
A late cancellation doesn't have to be a free hour.
Set a notice window and a fee. Cancel inside it, and Cobbtree charges the card the client saved when they agreed to your policy. Take a deposit at booking, or save a card on file, so a no-show is charged automatically - not chased.
Client records
Every client's record, in one place.
Preferences, patch test status and spend follow them. Whoever's at the desk sees the same record, not a sticky note.
Consultations and patch tests
Build the questions you actually need to ask.
Custom forms, completed on a client's phone before they arrive, with a signature captured at the end. Mark a service as needing a patch test and Cobbtree checks for one before the booking goes through, with a clear override for staff when it is needed.
Team and locations
Run two sites. Cobbtree treats it as one business.
One client list, one team, one set of reports - add a location whenever you're ready, billed at the same monthly rate per site. Roles, permissions and a PIN lock the till between clients. Reporting splits by location whenever you need it to.
Messaging
A direct line to the client, tied to their record.
Clients message the salon straight from their booking confirmation or their account - no separate app, no phone number to save. Every message sits against that client's file, next to their appointments, notes and history, so whoever replies has the full picture, not just the last text.
One inbox for the whole team, not each stylist's personal phone.
Reschedule or confirm a booking from inside the same thread.
Automatic reminders and confirmations use the same channel, so replies land in one place.
Messaging
Moving day.
Switching from Fresha
Moving from Fresha is easy with Cobbtree - your clients, services, team and history come with you, not just your logo.
01
Export from Fresha
Download your client list, services, team and appointment history from Fresha - a few clicks on their side, no support ticket needed.
02
Upload to Cobbtree
Drop the export into Cobbtree. Clients, services, team members and appointment history import automatically.
03
Check what needs a decision
Anything Cobbtree can't map with confidence - a duplicate client, an unusual service name - is flagged for you to confirm before it goes live.
04
Go live on your own time
Nothing switches over until you say so. Run Cobbtree alongside Fresha for as long as you need to be sure.
Coming from Booksy or somewhere else? The same import handles a standard client/service export - talk to us if your file looks different and we'll walk it through with you.
Grow.
A visit that goes well should turn into another one.
Cobbtree keeps that loop running on its own.
Notifications
The right message, at the right moment.
Booking confirmations, reminders, loyalty milestones and waitlist openings go out automatically - no one has to remember to send them.
Reviews
Proof from people who actually sat down.
Only clients who visited and paid can leave a Cobbtree review. Bring in your Google Business reviews too, and reply to them, without leaving Cobbtree.
Reporting
See which days, which people, which services.
Revenue, bookings, cancellations and wages due, broken down by day, branch, staff and service - the same figures your team is working from.
Loyalty
A reason to book the next one.
Run stamps, points or tiers - on their own or together. Cobbtree updates a client's progress the moment their payment clears, so nobody has to remember to mark it down.
- Stamps
- Book a set service enough times and the next one is free or discounted - simple to explain at the desk.
- Points
- Every pound spent earns points, redeemable against any future visit or retail.
- Tiers
- Regular, Gold, VIP - unlock better rewards the more a client visits, automatically.
Emma is Regular on 420 points today.
Rewards
Cut & Blow Dry stamp card
Emma Morgan
Buy 8 Cut & Blow Drys, get the next 50% off
5 more visits to a free reward - Cobbtree stamps this automatically the moment the payment for a matching visit clears.
The Cobbtree app
Your whole business, in your pocket.
The same app your clients use to book has a business mode for you and your team - sign in with your salon account and run the floor from your phone: diary, till, messages, loyalty and reporting, no laptop required.
Full diary
Move, cancel or check in a booking from the chair.
Take payment
Card, cash or a split, with a receipt sent on the spot.
Message clients
Reply without leaving the app or handing over your own number.
Loyalty & stamps
Add a stamp or check a balance mid-appointment.
Reporting
Today's takings and this week's numbers, on the go.
PIN switching
Each team member locks in with their own PIN, not a shared login.
Each team member locks in with their own PIN or Face ID, so the till stays theirs and no one else's login.
Today
Tue, 15 Sept 2026
Cut & Blow Dry
10:00
Skin Consultation
10:30
Facial
11:30
BIAB
13:00
Transparent fees
One flat subscription. Fees you can actually predict.
0% on returning clients. A one-off 10% + VAT fee applies only the first time a customer visits you through Cobbtree - after that, they're free, for as long as they come back. That's roughly half Fresha's 20% new-client commission, and there's no equivalent Boost fee to opt into like Booksy's.
Estimate your monthly cost
Subscription £19/mo + VAT. Excludes Stripe's own processing fee. Estimate only.
How Cobbtree compares
Every competitor figure below is sourced. Tap the next to a figure to see where it came from and when it was checked.
Fresha and Booksy change their pricing - check their own pages if you're deciding based on this.
| Cobbtree | Fresha | Booksy | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Software | From £19/month | From £14.95/month (solo)iFresha UK pricing, verified via independent UK pricing review (GBP) Verified 11/09/2026. Fresha's own pricing page geo-detects currency; it returned USD ($19.95) when checked directly. GBP rate corroborated by multiple independent UK sources rechecked in 2026. View source | £40/month + VAT (one user)i |
| Team | Every team member included | £9.95 per bookable team member/monthiFresha UK pricing, verified via independent UK pricing review (GBP) Verified 11/09/2026. Same geo-pricing caveat as the solo subscription figure above. View source | + £5/month + VAT per extra team memberi |
| New clients | 10% + VAT, once - free after that (about half Fresha's 20%) | 20% one-time commission on a new client's first Fresha Marketplace booking. Free on returning clients.iFresha official pricing page Verified 11/09/2026. The 20% rate and "free on returning clients" policy are stated directly on Fresha's own pricing page. The exact minimum fee is quoted there in USD ($6); UK sources put the equivalent minimum at roughly £4-5. View source | Boost is optional: 30% one-time fee (minimum £5) on a new client's first visit. Off by default, no fee on returning clients.i |
| Card payments | Stripe's own rate only - no Cobbtree markup | Separate card processing fee, plus a device to buy for in-person paymentsiFresha official pricing page Verified 11/09/2026. Fresha's official page lists in-person Fresha Payments at 2.29% + $0.20/transaction and a terminal device "from $139". UK third-party sources report a different in-person rate (around 1.19-1.29% + 20p); the exact current GBP rate could not be pinned to a single figure at time of writing, so it is described qualitatively rather than with a specific percentage. View source | Mobile payments 1.29% + 20p + VAT/transactioni |
| Website | A generated site included | A direct booking link, not a generated websitei | A marketplace profile, not a generated websitei |
| Till | Full till included. Retail, Tap to Pay, splits. No extra POS fee. | Checkout to log a sale. A card terminal is extra.iFresha official pricing page Verified 14/09/2026. Fresha's pricing page lists in-person card as needing a terminal device to buy. Checkout records a sale. It is not a full till with retail, Tap to Pay and splits included in the monthly plan. View source | Mobile payments in the subscription. Not a full till.i |
Cobbtree Pricing
Early Founders AccessPick by team size. No feature you have to hunt for.
No hidden add-on packs - every plan covers booking, the diary, payments, your website and reporting from day one. The difference is how many people can work on the diary at once.
Cobbtree One
1 team member
£19 / month + VAT
First 20 approved businesses: 6 months of this plan free, then £19/month + VAT. This replaces the standard 60-day trial. No setup fee. Not free forever.
- A client list with no ceiling
- As busy as you want to be
- Clients book themselves
- New clients find you
- The till at the chair
- Loyalty in Apple Wallet
- Retail products on the till
- Stock you can actually trust
- See what actually makes money
- Sell the gift. Keep the client.
- Courses paid up front
- Clients who come back every month
- When you are full, you are still filling
- Proof from people who sat down
Cobbtree Studio
Unlimited team members
£29 / month + VAT
First 20 approved businesses: 6 months of this plan free, then £29/month + VAT. This replaces the standard 60-day trial. No setup fee. Not free forever.
- Team members
- A client list with no ceiling
- As busy as you want to be
- Clients book themselves
- New clients find you
- A website that takes bookings
- The till at the chair
- Loyalty in Apple Wallet
- Retail products on the till
- Stock you can actually trust
- See what actually makes money
- Sell the gift. Keep the client.
- Courses paid up front
- Clients who come back every month
- When you are full, you are still filling
- Proof from people who sat down
- A reason to come back
Questions
Common questions
Getting started
How long does it take to set up?
Add your locations, services and team, and most salons are ready to take bookings the same day. Early Founders Access gives the first 20 approved businesses 6 months of Cobbtree free. That replaces the standard 60-day trial - you do not get both.
Can I move from Fresha?
Yes - upload your Fresha export and Cobbtree imports your clients, services, team and appointment history automatically, flagging anything it needs you to check before it goes live.
Booking & the diary
Can clients book online?
Yes - from your Cobbtree site, from the Cobbtree marketplace, or from a direct link, straight onto the same diary your team uses.
Can I run more than one location?
Yes - add as many locations as you need on one account, with staff able to work across sites and reporting that splits by location. Each active location is billed at the plan's monthly rate.
Payments & fees
How much does Cobbtree charge on card payments?
Card payments cost 1% of the transaction, capped at £3 - the same rate on every payment, on top of Stripe's own processing fee. Cobbtree doesn't set or take a cut of Stripe's fee.
Can I take a deposit or charge for a late cancellation?
Yes - set a deposit on any service, and set a cancellation notice window with a fee. If a client cancels inside the window, Cobbtree charges the card they saved when they agreed to your policy.
Clients & loyalty
What loyalty options are there?
Stamps, points and tiers - turn on any combination, set your own thresholds and rewards, and Cobbtree updates a client's progress automatically after every paid visit.
Can clients leave reviews?
Only clients who visited and paid can leave a Cobbtree review. Google Business Profile connection is coming soon.
Book. Manage.
Grow.
First 20 approved businesses get 6 months of Cobbtree free. That replaces the standard 60-day trial. Then From £19 + VAT a month. No setup fee.