WellnessLiving vs Vagaro: Which is a better fit?

Eric J.: My name is Eric. I'm the managing director and office manager for Body Basics Wellness Center in Reisterstown, Maryland. Our company is about one to 10 employees, and I would rate WellnessLiving a five. We currently use WellnessLiving as our CRM, which is our customer relationship database. It basically holds all of our customers. We book appointments, schedule appointments. We do all of our transactions through the application. We also are able to produce reports, track sales. We do marketing from it. Another of other features that we use internally, we're able to communicate with clients through email, through text message pretty seamlessly. We also use it to do marketing campaigns through social media as well as through email outlet. What else we use it for? We also use it for our reviews. Customer reviews are done in WellnessLiving similar to what they would do in a Google Review. So, we use all of those things on a day-to-day basis. The thing I like most about WellnessLiving is it's very user-friendly. It was easy to interface with it or integrate it into our current network. Not a lot of ramp-up time to get it really going in initial setup and implementation of it. The staff was very friendly, very patient, but also worked to expedite the process of getting us up to speed, so we could launch quicker than our anticipated date. I also liked the layout of the application. The functionality is very easy to learn. It's not cumbersome. The navigation around the site is pretty fluent. It's very flexible and it was easy for us to train our staff and for us to really learn it in a very quick time. The thing I dislike, or it's a little frustrating, is when you have some issues, maybe functionality or something else going on, there is a little difficulty getting a response quicker than you would like. So I know they're working on that, but that turnaround time can be a little bit frustrating, just waiting to hear back from the staff or the management there. So, that's been the most challenging thing. Again, I know they're working on it. They use a community form for you to put new issues and bring up current issues to see if other people have brought those issues forward, and you can look in that form to see if there's answers for your issues, but that's probably one of the most difficult things is reaching out to them and then taking a while for them... I say a while, but at least twenty-four, about forty-eight to seventy-two hours sometime, before you hear something back from them.

Chermaine C.: My name is Chermaine. I'm a small business owner. My business is Kemetic Aesthetics. We have about nine employees. We're in the health and fitness/yoga industry, and I would give it a three. Mind Body previously and Acuity Scheduling. And I chose Vagaro because it was a lot easier for clients to book appointments. So the reasons I chose Vagaro is it is a simpler system compared to other scheduling platforms that clients can book their appointments and is fairly reasonable. So a good value for the price versus Mind Body as they were increasing their rates. Basically all I had to do was download the software. I was able to export a lot of the data from other platforms that we're using, like the client data. And it's very easy to get it integrated with the website and also share it with clients, the link. So it wasn't a difficult process at all to get started. I would definitely say that it is a very easy to use, user-friendly software system that clients like booking appointments with. And also it's like a no frills, very simple. So if you were looking for more features, I would maybe not use Vagaro, but if you wanted something simple and that the clients really enjoy then that was a good value. Vagaro is good for that.