OneBookPlus vs Timely
The all-in-one salon software alternative

How OneBookPlus goes beyond appointment booking

Timely is excellent at what it does, online booking, calendar management, and client appointment reminders for salons and beauty businesses. But your business doesn't stop when the appointment ends. You still need to send invoices, track who owes you money, categorise expenses, manage GST, and understand whether you actually turned a profit last month. Timely doesn't cover any of that, so you end up stitching together a booking tool, an accounting app, and maybe a spreadsheet for client notes.

OneBookPlus brings booking, invoicing, client management, and real accounting into a single platform designed for Australian sole traders. Instead of your appointment living in one system and your invoice in another, every booking flows naturally into an invoice, every payment matches to your bank feed, and every client's full history, appointments, purchases, notes, lives in one CRM.

Feature deep dive

Unified client CRM: In Timely, a client is a name with appointment history. In OneBookPlus, each client profile holds their booking history, every invoice and payment, outstanding balances, communication notes, and preferences. When a regular walks in, you see their full relationship with your business at a glance, not just their last three haircuts, but whether they paid on time, what products they've purchased, and any notes you've left for yourself.

Booking-to-invoice automation: When an appointment completes, OneBookPlus can generate the invoice automatically based on the services booked, including any add-ons or retail products added during the visit. Payment links are included, and when the client pays, the transaction reconciles against your bank feed. No manual data entry. No copying amounts between apps. The whole chain from booking to banked income is one unbroken flow.

Bank feeds with AI categorisation: Connect your business bank account (via Basiq) and every transaction is pulled in and categorised automatically. Product supplies from your wholesaler, rent, insurance, software subscriptions, the AI learns your spending patterns and sorts them into the right categories. Come BAS time, your GST figures are already done.

Who should switch

• Solo beauty professionals paying for both Timely and a separate accounting tool like Xero or Wave, you can replace both with one subscription.
• Salon owners who want real financial visibility, profit and loss, cash flow, GST obligations, not just a booking calendar.
• Service businesses that need client relationship tracking beyond appointment history, purchase patterns, balances, and communication notes in one profile.

Stay with Timely if: you run a multi-location salon with complex staff rostering, you rely on TimelyPay terminals at the chair, or you sell a wall of professional retail and need its deeper stock, purchase-order and per-product margin tooling.

Getting started

Migration takes about ten minutes. Export your client list from Timely (Clients > Export) and import the CSV into OneBookPlus. Connect your bank account for automatic transaction feeds. Set up your service menu with pricing and default durations. From your first booking in OneBookPlus, every appointment generates an invoice, every payment reconciles automatically, and your books stay current without a second platform.