From Booksy to goldenhour.

Why artists make the switch

What you'll get here.

• Subscription drops $10–$70/mo

  Booksy runs $30–90/mo depending on plan + add-ons. Founding cohort on goldenhour is $19.99/mo, held for as long as you stay subscribed; standard is $39.99/mo. Same flat-fee model, lower number.

• Your booking page, not a marketplace listing

  Booksy shows your services next to every other artist in town. We render your branded page (book.yourbrand.com) with no competing listings, no upsells to other businesses, no "see related artists" sidebar.

• Mobile-first wedges Booksy lacks

  Travel zones with per-zone fees, GPS check-in for insurance, masked-number SMS chat (your real phone stays private), in-home setup checklist. Booksy supports mobile artists but with much lighter tooling.

• AI features included (opt-in)

  Growth analyst, intake-form TL;DR, voice-note transcription, auto-tag suggestions. None of these are Booksy features.

Where they win today

What you'd give up.

Honest list. If any of these are deal-breakers, stay on Booksy: we'd rather you be on the right tool for you than churn from us in 30 days.

• Marketplace discovery

  Customers find Booksy listings by searching in the Booksy app. If a meaningful slice of your acquisition comes from that channel, you'd lose it on the switch. (Most artists who switch tell us their marketplace traffic was thin anyway: but worth checking your last-90-days source breakdown.)

How to export from Booksy

Pull your data out.

1. Sign into Booksy's web dashboard at biz.booksy.com (the iOS app doesn't have the export surface).
2. Left nav → Clients. Top of the list, click the "..." (more) menu → "Export to CSV." File downloads instantly.
3. Left nav → Calendar → top-right menu → "Export appointments" → pick last 12 months → CSV. Longer history is rarely useful.
4. Left nav → Services. Booksy doesn't have a clean CSV export here: screenshot the table or copy/paste into a doc. We can also recreate from your public Booksy listing.
5. Settings → Forms → your intake forms. Booksy lets you export each form as a PDF. Send the PDFs.
6. Upload the client and appointment CSVs under Settings → Import. Bring the screenshots to the setup call, or email support@goldenhourhq.com if a step blocks you.

Stuck on any step? Email support@goldenhourhq.com. We've done Booksy exports before: happy to screen-share through the part that's blocking you.

What we import

Clean ingest.

The importer reads Booksy's export directly. Upload it in Settings, and re-upload whenever you like: rows are matched on the id Booksy gave them, so the same export twice does not create anything twice. The one exception anywhere is a client with no email address on an export that carries no client id of its own, which has nothing stable to match on and comes in again; the import check flags those before you commit to it.

• Client list: name, phone, email, birthday, notes, VIP/regular flag
• Appointment history: date, service, status, price, no-shows
• Service catalog (recreated from public listing or screenshot)
• Intake form questions (recreated from PDF)
• Booking notes
• Cancellation + no-show history (powers no-show-risk classifier)

What needs reconfiguring

Five-minute jobs.

Stuff that can't come over via CSV: usually because each platform structures it differently. We walk through each on the setup call (or via email).

• Stripe Connect: Booksy uses their own processor (Booksy Pay). Customers re-enter cards on first booking through goldenhour.
• Booking-page slug: claim a new handle on goldenhourhq.com or point a custom domain CNAME at us. Booksy doesn't support custom domains today, so this is a net upgrade.
• Booksy marketplace listing: Booksy will keep showing your old listing until you delete it. Keep both live for 30 days to migrate existing-customer traffic, then delete.
• Loyalty / promotions: Booksy's promo configs don't export cleanly. We recreate in our promo-codes + loyalty engines post-import.

The money side

What you'll save.

• Subscription: Booksy $30–90/mo → goldenhour $19.99/mo (founding) or $39.99/mo (standard). Net savings: $10–$70/mo.
• No platform commission either way: both are flat-fee.
• Stripe processing: 2.9% + 30¢ online on goldenhour (Stripe passthrough). Booksy Pay has similar rates but they vary by plan; check your last 3 invoices for the apples-to-apples comparison.

See full pricing detail at /pricing.