Stop letting Squire charge your clients to book
Squire hits clients with a £1 booking fee and a £3 waitlist fee - on top of charging you 2.9% + 30p per card transaction. Setora is £39/month flat. No fees to you. No fees to your clients.
The real numbers
What Squire actually costs each month
Note: Squire charges your clients to book through its marketplace.
Solo barber (Independent plan)
Squire
£20/mo sub
+ ~£48 in client booking fees
Setora
£39/mo
No per-staff fees. No commission.
Your clients absorb ~£48/month in fees just to book with you.
3-chair shop (Pro plan)
Squire
£30/mo sub
+ ~£144/mo in client fees + £20 payroll fee
Setora (all-in)
£39/mo
No per-staff fees. No commission.
Your clients pay ~£144/month in fees
5-chair shop (Executive plan)
Squire
£60/mo sub
+ ~£300/mo in client fees + £35 payroll
Setora (all-in)
£39/mo
No per-staff fees. No commission.
Clients pay ~£300/month in fees
Squire pricing from getsquire.com/pricing. Client booking fee (~£1) and waitlist fee (~£3) sourced from The Rosemont Barbers FAQ and Contrary Research. Client fee estimates based on 4 bookings/week per chair. Payroll fee: 0.5% of payroll, estimated at industry averages. Setora: £39/mo per location excluding VAT. All figures from public sources, February 2026.
Data portability
Getting out of Squire
No public API - no programmatic extraction
Squire has no public API. There is no way to programmatically pull your booking history, client records, or revenue data out of the platform.
30-day window after cancellation
Once you cancel, you have 30 days to retrieve your data - and only via support. There is no self-serve export. Miss the window, and your data is gone.
Inbound migration only
Squire has a migration service to help shops move in. There is no equivalent service to help you move out. Need help? See our data portability guide.
What’s different day-to-day
Client fees
None. No booking or waitlist charges.
Data export
Self-serve CSV anytime, no 30-day window
Contract
Monthly, cancel anytime
What Squire does well
We’re not going to pretend Squire is a bad product. Here’s where credit is due:
- Barbershop marketplace. 7.6 million clients on the Squire app. For shops that rely on new client discovery, the marketplace is a genuine asset.
- Instagram and Google booking. Direct booking from your Instagram profile and Google Business listing is included on all plans - a feature Setora doesn’t currently offer.
- Well-funded with serious engineering. Squire has raised $165M. The product has depth - payroll, Squire Capital lending, same-day transfers, and hardware.
- Barbershop-specific finance. Automated payouts, Squire Capital business loans, and same-day bank transfers are genuinely useful for established shops with payroll to run.
Squire makes sense if marketplace discovery is essential to your business. But the fee structure - applied to your clients - creates friction that’s hard to control. Setora gives you bookings, payments, and management at £39/month flat.
No card required. Cancel anytime.
Three steps. One day. Done.
Export your data from Squire
Under GDPR, Squire must let you download your client list, booking history, and service data. We’ll show you exactly how.
Set up your Setora account
Add your services, staff, and opening hours. Customise your booking page. Takes about 20 minutes.
Import clients and go live
Upload your client data, share your new booking link, and start taking appointments. Same day.
Before you switch
Squire holds your data for 30 days after cancellation. There is no self-service export - you need to contact support to retrieve it. We recommend requesting your full data export before you cancel. Setora provides CSV downloads of your client and appointment data at any time.
Squire's card reader works with their system. Setora supports Stripe Terminal hardware for in-person payments. If you have existing Squire hardware, you would need new terminals - contact us and we can walk you through the options.
Google reviews belong to your Google Business Profile, not to Squire. They stay with your business when you switch - no matter what booking software you use.
Squire has a consumer marketplace app. Your existing clients who book directly through your link can be moved to Setora easily - send them your new booking link. Clients who find you through Squire's marketplace may need to be redirected, but most of your regulars book directly.
Squire's marketing says no long-term commitment, but the Order Form you sign may lock you into an annual term. Check your specific agreement before cancelling. Setora is month-to-month with no annual commitment required.
Your Squire booking link is on Squire's domain - you can't take it with you. With Setora, your booking link is at your own domain or a setora.co.uk subdomain. Update your Instagram bio, Google Business Profile, and any other places you share your booking link.
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Squire pricing sourced from getsquire.com/pricing. Client booking fee (~£1) and waitlist fee (~£3) sourced from The Rosemont Barbers FAQ and Contrary Research (research.contrary.com). Transaction processing rate (2.9% + 30p) sourced from Squire’s published payment terms. All figures last verified February 2026. Setora pricing excludes VAT. If anything has changed, let us know and we’ll update this page.
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