Solaryx vs Treatwell
Treatwell is a booking marketplace with an agenda attached. Solaryx is the system that runs the salon: the beds, the counter, the customer file and Belgian compliance. They are not really the same purchase.
The short answer
Treatwell is an acquisition channel first. It is good at putting your salon in front of someone looking for a slot tonight, and you pay for that per new customer. It is not built to run a solarium: no bed control, no phototype file, no interval between sessions, and a customer relationship that partly belongs to the platform. The usual answer is not either-or: keep Treatwell 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 | ||
| 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 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 channel has real value. Solaryx does not do this and does 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 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
Yes, and plenty of salons do exactly that. Treatwell stays a paid acquisition channel, Solaryx runs the beds, the counter, the customer file and compliance. Every booking that comes through your own site, your reminders or your counter costs you nothing.
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.