Booksy is a consumer booking app with software attached: about $29.99 a month, rising with team size, plus 30 percent of the first booking each new marketplace client makes and a $49.99 Boost tier to be seen. Here is the honest side by side.
| PainTrace | Booksy | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $29, flat, everything included | About $29.99, more with team size |
| New client commission | Zero, ever | 30 percent of a first marketplace booking |
| Visibility | Your own page, your own Google presence | Boost placement sold at about $49.99 |
| Whose brand your clients see | Yours, fully | Booksy app and profile |
| Built for | Massage, bodywork and wellness first | Barbers and beauty first |
| SOAP notes and outcomes | Charts, sign and lock, pain trends, superbills | Not the focus |
| No show protection | Deposits, saved cards and fees included | Prepayment tools available |
| Your data if you leave | Full CSV export anytime | Export requires support help, per user reports |
On paper the prices nearly match. In practice Booksy is a marketplace first: the app brings a new face, takes 30 percent of that first booking, and keeps your profile in a feed beside every other business in town. PainTrace takes the opposite deal at the same price: no marketplace, no commission, and every tool pointed at your own list, your own reviews, and your own Google presence.
Booksy is genuinely good at high volume walk in trades. A massage practice needs different bones: intake with a pain baseline, charts that sign and lock, outcomes over months, superbills for insurers, and buffer time between hands on sessions. That is the whole reason PainTrace exists.
Export your client list from Booksy, import the CSV into PainTrace in one click, set your services and hours, connect your own Stripe or Square, and your branded booking page is live at yourname.paintracebooking.com. Your clients and your data stay yours on the way in, and they stay yours if you ever leave.