Solaryx vs Treatwell
Treatwell is a booking marketplace with an agenda attached. Solaryx runs the salon: the beds, the counter, the customer file, compliance. Not really the same purchase.
The short answer
Treatwell is an acquisition channel first, good at putting your salon in front of someone looking for a slot tonight, and you pay per new customer. It is not built to run a solarium. The usual answer is not either-or: keep it as marketing if it pays for itself, and run the salon on Solaryx.
Feature by feature
The same eighteen criteria for every software we compare, including the ones where we come up short.
| Criterion | Solaryx | Treatwell |
|---|---|---|
| Built specifically for tanning salons | ||
| Starts, times and stops the beds itself | ||
| Phototype assessment and signed customer declaration | ||
| Session history and legal intervals between sessions | ||
| Lamp hours and equipment maintenance tracking | ||
| Session packages, prepaid minutes and subscriptions | ||
| Point of sale with products and stock | ||
| Loyalty points and gift cards | ||
| Online booking, open 24/7 | ||
| Email, SMS and WhatsApp reminders | ||
| Staff planning and leave | ||
| Several sites on one shared customer file | ||
| Salon website included | ||
| Belgian accounting export and VAT report | ||
| French, Dutch, German and English, with support in Belgium | ||
| No commission on your bookings or your new customers | ||
| Consumer marketplace that sends you new customers |
Legend: a check means included as standard, a dash means partly covered or dependent on the plan, a cross means not available.
Based on information published by each vendor, last checked in August 2026. Offers change: confirm with them before you decide. Product and company names belong to their owners.
Where Treatwell is the better choice
It brings in new customers
That is the whole product and it works, at a cost per new customer. If your problem is an empty agenda rather than a messy one, that has real value. We do not do it and do not pretend to.
Consumers already know it
It is a familiar name in Belgium and the Netherlands, in French and in Dutch, with an app people already have on their phone.
Where Solaryx is the better choice
Four things a salon software written for hairdressers cannot do for a solarium.
The beds are part of the software
Relay boxes start each bed, run exactly the time that was sold, then ventilate. Nobody watches a clock, and no free minutes are given away.
Belgian compliance is built in, not a checklist
Phototype assessment, signed declaration, minimum interval and eID reading all happen at the counter, automatically. When the rules change, the change reaches you through the included updates.
One system instead of three
Booking, point of sale, stock, loyalty, planning and reporting run in one tool, on one customer file. Nothing to reconcile at closing between an agenda, a till and a spreadsheet.
A Belgian price from a Belgian team
A fixed subscription per salon, no commission on your bookings. Invoicing, VAT and exports follow Belgian rules, and support answers in French, Dutch, German or English.
Questions we get
Yes, and plenty of salons do exactly that. Treatwell stays a paid acquisition channel while Solaryx runs the salon, and every booking from your own site or counter costs you nothing.
Yes. Your customer list and future appointments are imported during the setup. Depending on what your current tool lets you export, migration is either included or billed once per site.
Compare with something else
Or let us run the comparison on your own numbers: your beds, your sites, your current tools.