How do I move from Booksy to Covered Beauty?
Ask Booksy’s UK support team for a copy of your client list, then upload it on Covered Beauty’s Data export and import page. Paste your treatments from your Booksy profile, or ask us to put them on. Bring the bookings already in your diary across with our bookings template, then change the booking link on your Instagram and website. Keep Booksy until you’ve checked everything. Rather not do it yourself? Send us what Booksy sends you and we’ll do the move for you.
We make Covered Beauty, so this guide is about moving to us. What Booksy lets you export comes from its own help centre, linked below, and what our upload does is what it does today.
What can you export from Booksy?
Ask Booksy’s support team
- Email Booksy’s UK support team at info.gb@booksy.com and ask for a copy of your client list with contact details. That’s what Booksy’s UK help centre says to do.
- Ask for it as a CSV file, as that’s what our upload takes.
- Ask for your upcoming appointments in the same email, so you can bring those across too.
Good to know
- Booksy’s UK help article on this says to email its support team. It doesn’t say what kind of file they send or how long it takes.
- That article only mentions the client list, so check with Booksy what else they can send.
Source: Booksy UK help: How do I obtain a copy of my client list, checked 24 October 2026. Menus change, so if a button has a different name, search Booksy’s help centre for exporting your clients.
What comes across, and how?
Everything you need to take bookings, and where each part goes.
| What you’re moving | How it comes across |
|---|---|
| Clients | Ask Booksy for your client list, then upload it. Names, emails and phone numbers come across. |
| Treatments | Paste them from your Booksy profile, or we put them on for you. |
| Bookings already in your diary | Copy them from your Booksy calendar, or from a file Booksy sends, into our bookings template. Or add them in your diary. |
| Opening hours | Set them on Opening hours in a minute, or we put them on with your treatments. |
| Saved cards | Cards don’t come across from any system. Clients add a card when they next pay a deposit. |
| Gift vouchers and packages | Tell us what clients have already paid for and we’ll help you carry it over. |
| Signed consultation forms | These don’t come across, so keep copies. Pick from our ready-made forms and clients sign them before their next visit. |
How do I bring my clients across?
- Get your client list from Booksy as a CSV, as above.
- In Covered Beauty, open Data export and import. It’s under Setup in the menu.
- Under Migrate from another booking system, choose Import clients, pick your file and press Import CSV.
- Check the summary. It shows how many clients were added or updated, and any rows that didn’t go in, with the reason.
We look for three things, under the headings most systems use:
- a name, headed Name or Client name, or First name and Last name (or Surname)
- an email, headed Email or Email address
- a mobile or phone number, headed Mobile, Mobile number, SMS number, Phone or Phone number
The file needs a column for each of the three, and each client needs a name and an email or phone number. If your file uses other headings, copy those three columns into our client template, which is on the same page, and upload that.
Clients are matched by email, so uploading the file again updates them rather than adding them twice. Notes come across from a column headed Notes. Other columns, such as birthdays or gender, stay in your export. Clients start as not opted in to marketing, unless your file has a column headed Marketing consent.
What about the bookings already in my diary?
Ask Booksy for your upcoming appointments when you ask for your client list, or copy them from your Booksy calendar. Then bring them across with our bookings template, on the same Data export and import page:
- Bring your clients and treatments across first. Each booking is matched to a client by their email, and to a treatment by its name.
- Download the appointments template and fill in a row for each booking: the client’s email, the treatment’s name exactly as it is on your menu, and when it starts, like 15/11/2026 14:30. How long it takes, its status and a note are optional.
- Save it as CSV, choose Import appointments and press Import CSV.
Times are read as UK time, with the day first. Each booking takes the treatment’s price from your menu. The template doesn’t record a deposit a client paid in Booksy, so put it in the note. Upload each file once: uploading the same file again adds the bookings twice.
Clients with no email address can’t be matched, so add their bookings in your diary. Only a few weeks of bookings? It can be quicker to add them all there. Or email us the file and we’ll put them in for you.
Clients with an email get your usual reminders before each booking, as if you’d booked them in yourself.
How do I add my treatments?
Two ways, whichever’s quicker for you:
- Paste your price list. Copy your treatments and prices from your Booksy profile and paste them into Paste your own price list on Treatments. Each line with a price becomes a treatment, with its time if the line has one, or an hour, marked so you can change it. Nothing goes on until you’ve checked the names, prices and times.
- Let us do it. Tap Set it up for me on the welcome screen, or on Treatments while it’s empty, and tell us where your prices are and the days you work. A link to your Booksy page is fine. We put your treatments and opening hours on and email you when they’re done, usually the same day.
A treatment that’s already on your menu isn’t added again, so you can paste a longer list in later.
How long does the move take?
- Getting your data out. Booksy sends your client list by email, so ask for it first. Its help centre doesn’t say how long that takes.
- Uploading it. Keep the page open until it shows the summary. A long file, like thousands of clients or years of bookings, takes longer.
- Your treatments. A few minutes to paste and check them. Or we put them on for you, usually the same day.
- Your booking page. The welcome screen takes a few minutes, and it tells you if anything’s missing before your page can take bookings.
So you can be taking bookings on Covered Beauty the day you start, with Booksy still running until you’ve checked everything.
What should I tell my clients?
- Your new booking link. Copy it from Share booking page and put it in your Instagram bio, on Facebook, on your Google Business Profile and on your website, in place of your Booksy link.
- That their bookings are safe. Once you’ve brought them across, clients with an email get a reminder from your salon’s name before each one.
- How to book from now on. They pick a treatment and a time on your page, with no account to make. If you take deposits, they pay by card as they book, straight into your own Stripe account.
Check Booksy won’t send its own reminders for the same bookings as well, so nobody gets two.
Once your bookings are across, something like this works on Instagram, WhatsApp or a text:
Quick update: we’ve moved our bookings. You can book online here: [your link]. If you’ve already got an appointment with us, it’s still in and you’ll get a reminder before it. Any questions, just message me.
Rather we did the move for you?
We will. Send us what you’ve got from Booksy, and we’ll bring your clients and bookings across and put your menu and opening hours on.
- Start your free trial. On the welcome screen, under Already got a menu somewhere?, open Moving from another booking system?, pick Booksy and tap Help me move. Dean, our founder, hears you’re moving straight away.
- Email your Booksy export to hello@covered.technology.
- For your menu, tap Set it up for me and tell us where your prices are and the days you work. We put them on, usually the same day.
We don’t charge for it. Your first 7 days are free, with no card needed.
Before you leave Booksy
- Keep Booksy until you’ve checked that your clients and every future booking have come across. Then change your booking link everywhere.
- Keep a copy of your Booksy export somewhere safe.
- If Booksy’s marketplace brings you new clients, work out what they’re worth to you before you leave it.
Weighing up the cost? Read Covered Beauty vs Booksy, with both prices side by side and where each figure comes from.
Questions about moving from Booksy
How do I get my client list out of Booksy?
Booksy’s UK help centre says to email its support team at info.gb@booksy.com for a copy of your client list with contact details. When it arrives, upload it on Covered Beauty’s Data export and import page.
What if the file from Booksy won’t upload?
Our upload needs a CSV with a name column (or first and last name), an email column and a phone or mobile column. If the headings are different, copy those columns into our client template and upload that. Or email the file to hello@covered.technology and we’ll do it for you.
Can I keep using Booksy while I move?
Yes. Keep Booksy running until your clients and future bookings are in Covered Beauty and you’ve checked them. Then change the booking link on your Instagram, Facebook and website.
Does it cost anything to move from Booksy?
No. We don’t charge for moving you, and Covered Beauty is free for 7 days with no card needed. After that it’s £9/month for one person or £19/month for up to five, with no booking commission.
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