AI AgentAn alternative to Booksy for Miami businesses
Miami · Fort Lauderdale
If you are searching for this it is because you already pay for a booking system and something does not add up. Before selling you anything, it is only fair to say what Booksy genuinely does well, because it does, and where it hurts many owners. Then you decide.
What Booksy is genuinely good at
- It brings you new customers. It has its own marketplace, with people searching for a barber or salon nearby. That has value, and we do not do it.
- Lots of people know the app. Your customer already has it installed.
- The calendar works. It is a mature product and does its job.
If your problem is that nobody knows you and you need new customers from a directory, a marketplace serves you and we are not your answer. Said straight.
What owners dislike
- The commission on customers arriving through their marketplace. On top of the monthly fee, they take a cut of that first appointment.
- It shows other salons to your own client. The person opens the app to book with you and sees five of your competitors on the same screen.
- The calendar does not answer the phone. The seven-p.m. call is still lost.
- The relationship goes through the app. Your customer is the platform's customer too.
What we do differently
- We answer the phone. With a real voice, at any hour, in English or Spanish. No booking app does that.
- No commission and no marketplace. Your customer books with you and sees nobody else.
- Your customer information is yours. It lives in your dashboard, separated from any other business.
- We set it up for you, in person. We do not send you an empty dashboard to fill in yourself.
How to choose between the two
The useful question is not which is better, it is what you are missing. If you are short on new customers and do not mind the commission, stay with the marketplace. If your customers already know you and what slips away are the calls, the messages and the hours when nobody answers, that is what we solve.
And you can have both. Some businesses stay on their platform for new customers and add the agent so they stop losing what already comes in.
What we do
The AI agent
It is what we do first and what we do best. It answers your website chat and your business phone with a real voice, in English and Spanish, around the clock: it answers what they ask, quotes your prices, takes the person’s details and books the appointment in the calendar. And you see all of it in your dashboard.
- Website chat and phone with a real voice, 24/7
- Spanish and English, depending on who writes or calls
- Books the appointment in your team’s calendar
- Your dashboard: every conversation, every call with its recording and summary, your clients, your schedule and your locations
Business systems
Online store, catalog, orders, inventory, a client portal with its own login and an admin dashboard. Built and delivered for real: the system behind ADB Automotive, with 812 products loaded, and the one behind Essence Glow Spa.
Websites
Designed and built by us, with the agent already inside. If you already have one, the agent plugs into yours. Work delivered: ADB Automotive, Essence Glow Spa and Novael Health.
WhatsApp automation
The same agent, answering on your business WhatsApp as well: it replies to the usual questions, takes details and books, with nobody on your team watching the phone. It is set up in your business as one more channel for the agent.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best alternative to Booksy for a barbershop in the United States?
It depends on what you are missing. If you need new customers from a directory, a marketplace is the right tool. If your customers already know you and what you lose are calls and messages after hours, you are better served by an agent that answers the phone and the chat and books on its own, with no per-customer commission.
Booksy or Fresha, which one suits me?
Both are calendars with a marketplace and they resemble each other more than either resembles what we do. The real question is whether you are paying to attract new customers or to stop losing the ones already looking for you. For the first, a marketplace works; for the second, an agent that answers.
Do I have to leave the platform I use today?
No. Some businesses keep both: the platform to attract and the agent to answer what is being lost today. We look at it with you, based on where your customers come from.
Do I keep my customers if I switch?
Your customer information in our dashboard is yours and you can take it with you. Whatever sits inside another platform depends on that platform's rules, and it is worth checking them before moving anything.
Do you bring me new customers too?
Not through a directory: we have no marketplace. What we do is make sure none of the people already looking for you slip away, which in most businesses is where the money currently being lost comes from.
Want it in your business?
Tell us about your business in writing and we send you a real quote the same day: what it costs to set it up and what it costs per month. No lock-in contract.