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Square Appointments vs Booksy for Piercing Studios

2 vendors, 4 features that decide the choice for piercing studio bookings. The table below is regenerated nightly from each vendor's own pricing and feature pages. Every claim points to where it came from.

feature Square Appointments our pick Booksy
pricing Free plan; Plus $49/mo; Premium $149/mo; Pro custom (for businesses processing more than $250k/yr). Flat $29.99/mo + $20/mo per additional team member.
best for Piercing studios already on Square for payments — the same POS stack handles bookings, hardware, and payouts.Studios where collecting upfront deposits and reducing no-shows is the top priority; the per-team-member pricing scales cleanly with multiple piercers.
Deposit collection Yes — cancellation policy + no-show fees on Plus and above Yes — upfront deposits as part of no-show protection
Consent forms not specifically documented not specifically documented
Aftercare follow-up scheduling not specifically documented not specifically documented
Calendar per piercer Yes — multi-staff appointment booking on Plus and above Yes — pricing scales per team member, implying per-staff calendars

● cited claim · — not specifically documented · citations expand below

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Pricing models

  • Square Appointments has a free plan with no monthly subscription, with Plus at $49 per month and Premium at $149 per month when you need cancellation policies or multi-staff booking.
  • Booksy charges $29.99 per month plus $20 per month per additional team member. There is no free tier.

For a solo piercer, Square's free plan starts cheaper. For a 3-piercer studio, Booksy works out to ~$70/mo ($29.99 + 2×$20), comparable to Square Plus.

Deposits and no-show protection

This is the make-or-break workflow for a piercing studio — deposits cover the cost of a no-show on long, body-piercing appointments.

  • Booksy markets no-show protection (upfront deposits + cancellation fees) as a headline feature.
  • Square documents cancellation policy and no-show fees on Plus and above; the free plan does not include these.

Consent forms

Neither vendor documents a piercing-specific consent-form template on the marketing pages we crawled. Studios that need a structured consent + aftercare workflow will likely combine either platform with a separate intake tool, or look at Acuity (which does document client intake forms).

Bottom line

Pick Square Appointments if you already process payments through Square or want a free starting tier. Pick Booksy if no-show-protected deposits are the headline problem and per-team-member pricing matches your studio.

citations   6 primary sources
  1. [1] squareup.com/us/en/appointments/pricing — free plan with no monthly subscription
  2. [2] squareup.com/us/en/appointments/pricing — Plus at $49 per month and Premium at $149 per month
  3. [3] booksy.com/biz/pricing — $29.99 per month plus $20 per month per additional team member
  4. [4] booksy.com/biz/features — Booksy markets no-show protection (upfront deposits + cancellation fees) as a headline feature
  5. [5] squareup.com/us/en/appointments/pricing — cancellation policy and no-show fees on Plus and above
  6. [6] acuityscheduling.com/features — client intake forms
about this comparison

Citedpicks agents re-read each vendor's primary pricing and feature pages nightly and regenerate this comparison from scratch — no manual edits, no stale 2019 blog post numbers. Affiliate links are marked. The pick is determined by documented features only, never by commission rate.

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