Reservio takes a commission on every payment. Aforo doesn't.

Yes. According to its own pricing page, checked on 21 August 2026, every online payment carries a Reservio commission ranging from 3% on the free plan to 1.19% on the Pro plan, plus a fixed fee per transaction.

That commission is Reservio's own and comes on top of what your payment provider already charges you, so the same payment pays twice.

On €3,000 a month of classes, that 3% is €90 a month that doesn't appear in any price list, because it's taken payment by payment rather than once a month.

With Aforo, payments go through your own Stripe or Redsys account and Aforo adds no commission at all, neither on the cheapest plan nor when your studio grows.

You only pay the monthly fee and whatever your payment provider charges.

Yes, and it's the migration we know best because we've already done it: the first studio to use Aforo in production came from Reservio.

We brought over its catalogue of classes and courses, its customers with their contact details and its booking history, and the switchover happened without losing anything along the way.

That migration is now part of the setup and is included in the price, at no extra cost.

We do it ourselves from your account's export and leave your timetables and rules configured. All you do is check that everything is in its place before you start selling.

If something in your account can't be exported cleanly, we tell you before you sign up, not when there's no going back. The switchover happens whenever you choose, usually between terms.

As of 21 August 2026, it scores 4.6 from 142 reviews on Capterra and 4.0 from 111 on Trustpilot, with 13% of ratings at one star.

It's a good score, but you should look at what the people who complain are complaining about, because the same patterns keep coming up.

There are complaints about paid text messages that never reach their destination and about the booking cap on the plan, which hides the details until you upgrade.

Managing group classes is its weakest point, with a score of 3.7 out of 5 on GetApp.

That last point fits with what the company says about itself: its official profile describes it as software for beauty and wellness, not for studios.

If you sell places in a group rather than appointments, that's the part that will hurt you most.

It has a free plan that goes up to 40 bookings every 30 days, and from there it moves up through paid plans.

But the real cost is in the commission. As of 21 August 2026 its online payments carry its own commission, from 3% on the free plan to 1.19% on the Pro plan, plus a fixed fee per transaction.

That commission is paid on top of your payment provider's. The highest percentage is on the free plan, so the plan that costs nothing is the one that takes the most from each payment.

A studio taking €3,000 a month on the free plan would be leaving €90 a month in that commission alone.

That is more than three times the cost of Aforo's entire Taller plan, before paying any subscription at all.

Aforo costs €29, €49 or €69 a month excluding VAT and adds no commission to any booking.

Yes. As of 21 August 2026 its free plan allows up to 40 bookings every 30 days, which for a small studio may seem enough at first.

The detail that changes the maths is in the payments: on that free plan, every online payment pays Reservio a 3% commission plus a fixed fee, on top of what the payment provider already takes.

So it's free as long as you don't take payments online, and as soon as you start, it stops being free without the word changing.

Aforo has no free plan and its plans start at €29 a month, but it charges no commission per booking on any of them.

Which one works out cheaper depends on how much you take, not on which one is called free: below about €970 a month in online payments the free plan comes out better, and above that it stops doing so.