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 according to its public pricing 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 nineteen 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 and prepaid minutes | ||
| 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 | ||
| Register keeps working offline and recovers after a power cut | ||
| Belgian eID card reader at the counter | ||
| 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.
Solaryx's marketplace is Horamia: no commission on the bookings it brings, and an audience still growing, smaller today than the large platforms'.
How we compared: each competitor's cells come from its own public website and pricing pages, checked in August 2026. Where we could not confirm that a feature is missing, we mark it as partly covered rather than absent.
Where Treatwell is the better choice
It brings in new customers
That is the whole product and it works. According to Treatwell's public pricing, you pay for each new customer it brings. If your problem is an empty agenda rather than a messy one, that has real value. Horamia, where Solaryx lists your salon without commission, is younger and still reaches far fewer people.
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 solarium needs that general salon software was not built for.
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. Treatwell stays a paid acquisition channel next to Horamia, where Solaryx lists your salon without commission, while Solaryx runs the salon. Bookings from your own site, Horamia or your counter carry no commission.
Yes. Your full session history comes over during the setup, with your old services and beds matched to the new ones, and customers keep their language, notes and skin type. 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.