A salon, spa, studio, or clinic sells time with a person or a room. Onsuki is built for that first, with booking in the plan and no fee from Onsuki on payments to your own account, and it also sells products online and at checkout. Shopify is built for selling products: booking needs a separate app on top of the store, and Shopify adds its own fee on each payment here.
This page compares the two from each company's public pages, checked on 2 November 2026. Prices and terms change, so check Shopify's site before you decide, and tell us at support@onsuki.com if anything here is out of date.
Why choose Onsuki over Shopify
- Most of what you sell is time: appointments, classes, courts, or rooms.
- Clients pay by GCash, QR Ph, or bank transfer, with no extra fee on each payment.
- Booking, payments, staff, and products are in one plan, priced in pesos.
Side by side
| Compared | Onsuki | Shopify |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Bookings and payments for service businesses, plus products | Selling products; booking through an app from its App Store |
| Price | ₱3,250 a month per location, or ₱2,600 billed yearly, in pesos, with booking included | From ₱1,350 a month billed yearly, or ₱1,550 monthly, plus a booking app: the three we read charge $13.99 to $299 USD a month |
| Payments in the Philippines | To your own GCash, QR Ph, or bank account with no fee from Onsuki; cards through PayMongo | Shopify Payments is not offered here, so a provider such as PayMongo, plus Shopify's own fee on each payment |
| Shopify's fee on each payment | None | 2% on Basic, 1% on Grow, and lower on the higher plans, on top of the provider's fee |
| Staff calendars, packages, memberships | Built in, on every plan | Through apps |
| Free trial | 7 days, no credit card | 3 days free, then ₱59 a month for 3 months |
Payments: what Shopify adds
With Onsuki, clients pay to your own GCash, QR Ph, or bank account and you approve each receipt, with no fee from Onsuki. When you want cards online, you request PayMongo from Settings. See how to take GCash and QR Ph payments.
Shopify Payments' list of countries leaves out the Philippines. A store here takes payments through another provider, such as PayMongo's Shopify app, which takes cards and GCash. Shopify then adds its own fee on every payment made that way: 2% on Basic and 1% on Grow, on top of what the provider charges.
Booking: an app on top of the store
Onsuki's booking site, team calendar, deposits, packages, and memberships are all in one plan. Products sit beside your services, sold online and at checkout, with stock at each location.
Shopify points service businesses to booking apps in its App Store, such as Cowlendar, BookThatApp, and Sesami. Each is a separate subscription billed in US dollars: their paid plans run from $13.99 to $299 a month. The store and the app are two bills and two places to set things up.
What Shopify is built for
Shopify is built for stores whose main business is products, with booking added through an app. Onsuki starts from the booking and adds products beside it.
Getting started
Send us your price list and a link to your store, and we set up your services, products, and team, usually within one working day. Try Onsuki free for 7 days with no card, see Pricing, or compare every booking app.
