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Salon booking software built for Australia.

Trimelo is salon booking software built for Australian hair salons and barbershops. Manage online bookings, staff calendars, payments, client records, reminders and marketing, with AI SMS backfill for cancelled appointments.

Side by side

Dimension
Trimelo
Fresha (published AU)
Subscription shape
Graduated AUD per-seat rates that step down at 5, 16 and 31 licensed seats.
Independent A$44.95/mo or A$29.95 per bookable staff on team plans (published AU rates).
AI gap-fill
SMS waitlist backfill included from seat one.
AI Concierge A$99.95/location/month (published add-on).
Commission
None — no marketplace exists on Trimelo.
Marketplace commission may apply when new clients come through Fresha’s consumer channel. Excluded from Trimelo’s dollar calculator because it is not like-for-like.
Migration
Fresha CSV import ships in the product. Full export any time.
Export first, then trial — do not cut the Instagram link until a real week has run.

Subscription shape

Trimelo

Graduated AUD per-seat rates that step down at 5, 16 and 31 licensed seats.

Fresha (published AU)

Independent A$44.95/mo or A$29.95 per bookable staff on team plans (published AU rates).

AI gap-fill

Trimelo

SMS waitlist backfill included from seat one.

Fresha (published AU)

AI Concierge A$99.95/location/month (published add-on).

Commission

Trimelo

None — no marketplace exists on Trimelo.

Fresha (published AU)

Marketplace commission may apply when new clients come through Fresha’s consumer channel. Excluded from Trimelo’s dollar calculator because it is not like-for-like.

Migration

Trimelo

Fresha CSV import ships in the product. Full export any time.

Fresha (published AU)

Export first, then trial — do not cut the Instagram link until a real week has run.

Fresha figures are published AU rates mirrored in our pricing-data source. Verify on Fresha’s site before you decide. Booksy/Timely dollars are not quoted here.

  • Built for AU hair salons and barbershops
  • Graduated rates in AUD, no booking commission
  • SMS backfill included from seat one
  • Import from Fresha, Timely or Square

What Australian salons need from booking software

A public booking page with client sign-in, real-time availability and optional group or party bookings.

A staff calendar that cannot double-book under pressure, with roles that work for employed teams and chair-renters sharing a floor.

Deposits and card-on-file protection for late cancels, at pass-through AU Stripe rates with no client-facing platform fee.

Reminders that actually go out (unlimited transactional SMS/email) plus marketing campaigns within a monthly email allowance — confirmations and reminders are never metered against that allowance.

Support for Australian time zones and phone numbers, with the Privacy Act 1988 and Spam Act 2003 governing how client data and commercial messages are handled.

Decision criteria for salon owners

How does the next stylist change the bill, and does the marginal seat rate fall as the team grows?

Do you already own demand (Instagram, Google, walk-ins), or do you need a marketplace to send strangers? If you need marketplace discovery, Fresha-class tools still win that channel — concede it and stay, or run both strategies deliberately.

When colour clients cancel the day before, does the slot get offered by text automatically, or does the front desk chase a list by hand?

Can you leave with a full client CSV tomorrow without negotiating an exit?

The Trimelo difference for salon owners

Graduated AUD rates — each lower rate applies only to seats in its band, so growth earns a lower marginal seat price without repricing earlier seats.

Zero booking commission, ever. Trimelo runs no marketplace, so there is no lead-referral cut to switch on later.

AI SMS backfill included: cancelled slots are offered to the waitlist one client at a time, while you stay behind the chair.

Import from Fresha, Timely, Square or CSV. Full export any time.

Pricing shape you can hold us to

Seats 1–4 are A$19.95 each/month; seats 5–15 are A$14.95; seats 16–30 are A$11.95; and seats 31–50 are A$11.03. Rates are graduated by band. Enterprise Max uses an A$299 base, plus A$7/staff and A$49/location, with an A$699 minimum. Annual billing includes 2 months free. A 14-day free trial applies.

The price on the card is the price you pay — we do not bury a second AI SKU for the core gap-fill loop. Fresha’s published AI Concierge add-on is A$99.95/location/month for comparison of packaging shape, not as a claim about your current invoice.

How to migrate a salon book without chaos

Export clients and services from your current tool. Import into Trimelo on trial; rebuild opening hours and staff skills before you invite live bookings.

Keep the old booking link live for a few days if you want a soft cutover. Move Instagram, Google and Linktree only after you have taken real appointments and confirmed the new booking and backfill workflows.

Train the team on deposits and fee consent once: those terms snapshot at booking time and are what gets charged later.

Turn on marketing campaigns only after transactional reminders are confirmed — reminders are unlimited; campaign email is the metered allowance.

Run the numbers on your chair count, then start a 14-day trial.

14-day free trial · Cancel any time