Square Books Appointments. Orhuk Books Facilities.

Square Appointments is built for one-on-one service bookings: hair, massage, personal training. Orhuk is built for facilities with multiple resources — courts, rooms, lanes, beds. If you're booking a facility space (not just a person), Orhuk's resource model, memberships, and waiver system are purpose-built for you.

Why Operators Switch to Orhuk

Square isn't built for facility resource scheduling.

Square Appointments assumes each booking is with a person — a stylist, a massage therapist. Every appointment slot is tied to one staff member. If you operate courts, studios, or fitness spaces with multiple simultaneous resources, Square doesn't have a data model for it. Orhuk's core is multi-resource: book a tennis court, a yoga room, or a massage bed — each with availability, pricing, and occupancy independent of who provides the service.

Memberships, class packs, and recurring revenue need a different foundation.

Square Appointments handles individual appointments and one-time bookings. Orhuk is built for facilities that run memberships, class packs, session credits, and monthly recurring passes. When your revenue model is 60% memberships and 40% drop-in, you need a system designed for that. Orhuk handles auto-renewal, seat reservations within memberships, credit balances, and tiered membership levels — all native.

You own your payments and your facility's data in Orhuk.

Square processes all payments through their platform and keeps the transaction relationship. Orhuk uses Stripe Connect — you create your own Stripe account during setup (5 minutes). Your customers' payment data, all transaction history, and the payment relationship belong to your business. If you ever leave Orhuk, your Stripe account moves with you. Square's transaction data stays with Square.

Frequently Asked Questions

I run a salon with multiple treatment rooms. Why isn't Square Appointments enough?: Square Appointments is built to book people, not spaces. Each slot is tied to a specific stylist or therapist. If you want to show 'Treatment Room A is available 2–3pm' without locking it to a specific person, or if you want customers to book a room and assign a therapist later, Square can't do that natively. Orhuk's core model is facilities and resources — book a room, a court, a lane. Staff scheduling is separate. This matters even more with memberships.
How does pricing compare to Square at volume?: Both are free to start with no monthly subscription. Square charges its standard card processing rate (typically 2.9% + $0.30 online) and stops there — but it has no memberships, class packs, or waiver tools. Orhuk adds a flat 3% per transaction on top of your own Stripe processing, and in exchange you get the full facility platform: multi-resource scheduling, memberships, credits, and built-in waivers. At $10k/mo in bookings, Orhuk's platform fee is a flat $300 — the same 3% whether you do $1k or $100k. Card processing is separate and runs through your own Stripe account at standard rates.
Does Orhuk handle memberships and class packs that Square doesn't?: Yes, completely. Orhuk has native recurring memberships (auto-renewing monthly passes), session packs, and credit balances. When a member books, their credit deducts automatically. If your facility model is 60% membership revenue, you need this built in — not bolted on.
Does Square have digital waivers?: No. Square has no waiver system. Orhuk's digital waivers are fully built in — customers sign during the booking flow, with SHA-256 signature verification permanently linked to their profile. Essential for fitness, sports, and wellness facilities.
Can I import my customers from Square?: Yes. Export your contacts as CSV from Square and import them into Orhuk. Email, phone, and name all carry over. Past booking history stays in Square's records. Active memberships need to be recreated in Orhuk — for most facilities, about 15–20 minutes of setup.