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BOOKSY vs NELSY
Booksy serves a wide range of beauty and wellness professionals. Nelsy is built specifically for independent nail techs who grow their client base on social media and want a booking tool that works around their brand — not around a marketplace.
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Booksy operates as both a booking platform and a client-facing marketplace. This means clients can discover your business through Booksy's directory — useful for reaching new clients who aren't already following you.
Booksy serves a broad range of professionals across hair, nails, beauty and wellness. The platform is generalist by design, which means it's not specifically optimised for the workflow of an independent nail tech building an Instagram audience.
Nelsy doesn't operate a client marketplace. Instead, your Nelsy booking page belongs entirely to your business — branded with your name, linked from your Instagram bio, and bookable without any Nelsy branding in the way.
Every client who books through Nelsy is booking directly with you. Nelsy is a scheduling, deposit and payment tool — not a middleman between you and your clients.