Solaryx vs Salonkee
Salonkee is well established in Belgium and Luxembourg for hair and beauty salons. Solaryx covers the same ground for tanning salons, and adds the beds and the Belgian UV rules on top.
The short answer
Salonkee is a credible Belgian option and gets the basics right: agenda, online booking, point of sale, reminders. It is built for hair and beauty. A solarium has requirements that never come up in those trades: starting and stopping the bed itself, a phototype file with a signed declaration, a minimum interval between two sessions, lamp hours per bed. That is where Solaryx is a different product, not a cheaper one.
Feature by feature
The same eighteen criteria for every software we compare, including the ones where we come up short.
| Criterion | Solaryx | Salonkee |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| Bancontact and SEPA direct debit | ||
| 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.
Comparison based on information published by each vendor, last checked in July 2026. Offers change regularly: confirm the current details with them before you decide. Product and company names belong to their respective owners.
Where Salonkee is the better choice
A wide network and a booking platform
It covers hair, beauty and wellness across a large network of salons, and its consumer platform can send you clients. Solaryx has no marketplace.
A bigger company behind it
More people, a larger support team and a longer track record outside the tanning trade. We are a small Belgian team, which cuts both ways: you get the founders on the phone, not a call centre.
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 installed in your salon start each bed, run exactly the time that was sold, then ventilate. No member of staff watches a clock, no free minutes are given away, and a session can never run longer than what the customer paid for and the law allows.
Belgian compliance is built in, not a checklist
Phototype assessment, the signed customer declaration, the minimum interval between two sessions and eID reading all happen at the counter, automatically. When the rules change, we build the change into the product and it reaches you through the included updates.
One system instead of three
Booking, point of sale, products and stock, loyalty, staff planning and reporting run in a single tool, on a single customer file, across every one of your sites. Nothing to reconcile at the end of the day 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 and no cut on your new customers. Invoicing, VAT and accounting exports follow Belgian rules, and support answers in French, Dutch, German or English.
Questions we get
No. Solaryx also runs beauty and wellness centres, and the UV part is optional. Where there are beds, they are controlled and the legal checks run by themselves; a site without beds sits on the lower plan. Tell us your setup and we will price it.
Yes. Your customer list and your future appointments are imported as part of the setup. Depending on your current provider and what it lets you export, migration is either included or billed once per site, confirmed with your quote.
Compare with something else
Or let us run the comparison on your own numbers: your beds, your sites, your current tools.