Dayfill

Square Appointments alternative

Dayfill and Square Appointments, compared

Dayfill is AU$110 a month, GST included, flat, for the whole business, with every feature included, no commission and no new-client fees, including on clients who find you on the Dayfill marketplace, where listing is free. Clients book on your own brand, and payments go to your own Stripe account.

Square Appointments has a free plan for a single location, and paid plans of AU$40 (Plus) and AU$90 (Premium) a month per location, with no limit on staff. Its card processing fees are separate from the subscription.

Square Appointments figures from Square Appointments' Australian pricing page, checked 22/10/2026.

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Side by side

Monthly subscription

Square Appointments
Free: AU$0 for a single location. Plus: AU$40 a month per location. Premium: AU$90 a month per location. No employee limit. Square's page doesn't say whether GST is included
Dayfill
AU$110 a month, GST included, flat, for the whole business

Brand-new clients from a marketplace

Square Appointments
No marketplace or new-client fee is listed on Square's pricing page
Dayfill
No commission and no new-client fee, including on the Dayfill marketplace

Card payments

Square Appointments
Square's own processing: 1.6% in person and 2.2% online (1.9% in person for sellers who signed up before 30 May 2024 and aren't on a paid plan)
Dayfill
Your own Stripe account, at Stripe's standard fees. We add nothing

Text messages

Square Appointments
Text reminders are part of the plans; Square's page lists no per-message price
Dayfill
4c a segment, GST included, itemised on your invoice

Branding clients see

Square Appointments
See Square's pricing page
Dayfill
Your business's name and colours on the booking page and messages

Who should stay on Square Appointments

We'd rather you didn't switch if:

  • You run one location and want a free plan. Square's free plan costs less than Dayfill's AU$110 a month, GST included, so if you don't need the extra features, stay.
  • You already take payments on Square hardware and want bookings, point of sale and card processing from one company.
  • You want one company to process your card payments, rather than your own Stripe account.

Switching is a checklist, not a leap.

You keep trading the whole time, and you approve the result before a single client sees it.

  1. 1

    Export from your current system

    Download your clients, services, appointments and open gift vouchers from your current booking system's own export tools. Ten minutes, and it keeps working while you do it.

  2. 2

    Upload it yourself, or we will

    Upload your exports in Setup → Import. Prefer us to do it? Send them over and we will, free.

  3. 3

    You check it first

    Walk through your calendar side by side before anything goes live. Nothing switches until you say it's right.

  4. 4

    Go live when ready

    Point your booking link at the new page. Clients book on a page with your name and colours, with no other shops on it. Migration is free.

Square Appointments figures read from its own pages on 22/10/2026; where a page doesn't say, we say so rather than guess. Square Appointments is a trademark of its owner; Dayfill isn't affiliated with it. Prices change, so check Square Appointments' Australian pricing page for current ones.