Free until it isn't — then it is a percentage, forever.
A commission model reads well on the pricing page: nothing up front, you only pay when you get work. The bill arrives as a share of every client the tool decides it introduced — and that share does not stop after the first visit unless the tool says so.
You'll recognise this if…
- Your monthly cost rises exactly when you have a good month
- You cannot easily say what a new client cost you
- Clients found you inside someone else's marketplace, next to your competitors
- Discouraging clients from rebooking through the tool feels like the rational move
- The better you do, the more you pay — with no ceiling
- Your listing sits beside competitors bidding for the same client
- Terms you don't control decide which bookings count as theirs
- The client relationship is mediated by a platform with its own interests
- 0% commission. What a client pays you is what reaches your account, minus your processor's own fee
- One flat monthly price, published in full — read it in ten seconds
- No marketplace, no competitors on your page. Clients arrive through your link and your brand
- Month-to-month. If it stops earning its keep, leave and take your data
What moving actually involves
Import your services and your client list from a spreadsheet, check how they landed, then share your new booking link. Nothing changes for your clients until you send them the new link — so you can set everything up and look at it first. Your old tool keeps working while you do.
Zeitlup is month-to-month, so the decision is reversible. If it isn't right, export everything and go.
When not to bother
A marketplace does bring you strangers, and that is genuinely worth paying for if you have no other way to be found. Zeitlup does not do that — it runs the booking for clients who already know you exist.
Using something else?
Set it up before you switch anything over
Start free, import your services and clients, and look at the result. Your current tool keeps working while you do.