Choose Square Appointments if
You take card payments in person, you want the till, the terminal and the diary from one vendor, and you have one or two locations. That is a coherent way to run a salon and Square does it well.
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Looking for a Square Appointments alternative? It is priced per location.
Square Appointments is free for a single location at 2.6% + 15c in person, then $49 a month per location on Plus at 2.5% + 15c, and $149 on Premium at 2.4%. If you already take card payments on Square it is a very sensible choice. The meter is the location, so a three-shop salon group on Plus is $147 a month. Book Business is $39 for all of them.
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Product design preview · Book has not shipped. All plans, integrations and screens are proposals.
Book has not shipped yet.
Book is not available yet. These are proposed screens, features and prices—not a beta or a live booking service. The interactive diary uses fictional data; no appointment, message, deposit or customer record leaves this page.
Side by side
Centilio Book and Square Appointments, honestly.
List prices as published on the vendor's public pages on 7 September 2026. Check their page for today's figure and tell us if we are out of date.
Historical comparison imported from Fable’s 7 September 2026 research. Vendor plans and billing periods differ; these figures are not a current quote. Confirm the provider’s pricing before deciding.
| Centilio Book | Square Appointments | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free, then $19 a month; Business $39 for every location | Free (1 location); Plus $49 per location; Premium $149 per location |
| Three locations | $39 on Business | $147 on Plus |
| Card processing | Through Bill and your country's partners | 2.6% + 15c free, 2.5% Plus, 2.4% Premium |
| Point of sale and hardware | Not built, not planned | The reason to buy it |
| Free plan | 1 staff calendar, unlimited bookings | 1 location, unlimited bookings |
| The booking becomes a customer record | In Relate, on every plan | A customer directory inside Square |
| Retail stock, payroll, gift cards | Not built | All available, and well made |
| Available today | No. Not built | Yes |
If you switch, later
What moving from Square Appointments will take.
Choose Centilio Book if
You have three or more locations and the per-location price has become the decision, or you do not need a point of sale and are paying for one.
- Export the future appointments first. They are the only irreplaceable thing in a booking tool. Get them out of Square Appointments before the subscription lapses, with the customer's name, email and phone on each one.
- Rebuild the services before the diary. Durations, buffers, who can do what and which need a deposit. Get those right and the appointments import cleanly.
- Run both for a fortnight , with the old booking link redirecting to the new page, so nothing is taken in a diary you have stopped looking at.
- Disconnect the calendars deliberately. Revoke the old tool's calendar access on each account rather than only cancelling the plan, or it keeps writing to a diary nobody is watching.
Questions
About switching.
Are these comparisons fair?
They are meant to be. Every price was read from the vendor's own pricing page on 7 September 2026 and each page says plainly when the other tool is the better buy — which for a single user is most of them.
Which is the closest competitor?
Zoho Bookings, on logic: another suite, another "it is already next to your CRM" argument. It is priced per user and it works today; Book is priced per business and does not exist yet.
Which one would you use today?
Cal.com if you are one person, Setmore if you are up to four, Acuity if you want one polished thing and do not mind the calendar bands, Square if you are a salon that already takes card payments on Square.
Next for you
What people add after Book.
What the booking touches on its way through: the record, the deposit, the reminder and the room.
The proposed shared record connects these products as they launch. Follow each product page for its current stage.
Be told when Book opens.
Wave 2 is the next build after the live tools. Leave your name and you will hear before the announcement — and tell us what your no-show rate is today, because that is the number we intend to move.