Compare pricing for the top salon software products with the highest value-for-money and functionality ratings.
We hear from software buyers time and again that two of their top considerations when investing in a new salon solution are price and functionality. Budget is a constraint for most businesses, but affordability alone doesn't make a product valuable—it must also offer the functionality you need.
In this report, we've ranked the most valuable salon software products based on user reviews: those with the highest marks for both functionality and value for money. We also break down the starting cost and relevant pricing details for each product.
Top salon software rated on value for money and functionality
The graphic below shows salon products that have the highest value-for-money and functionality ratings based on user reviews in Capterra's salon software directory. Products are arranged in increasing order of their value-for-money rating (bottom to top) and functionality rating (left to right).
Note: While products in the top-right zone of the graph rank higher in terms of both functionality and value-for-money ratings, all products in this graph are top-rated.
Price comparison for top-rated rated salon software
Comparing pricing and features for multiple software solutions can prove to be a difficult task. We have created a table to highlight how different salon software products stack up against each other in terms of starting pricing, free trials, and free versions, allowing you to compare these products all in one place.
The products in the above table are taken from the scatter plot (for which the pricing information is available publicly). These products are arranged in alphabetical order, and the pricing included in this table is for the entry-level/lowest-priced offering found on vendor websites as of Feb 20, 2023.
1. Sign In Scheduling
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Dashboard in 10to8
Sign In Scheduling (formerly 10to8) is a solution designed for spa and salon businesses of all sizes. The software allows clients to book available slots and make payments online. It enables salons to automate SMS and email reminders to keep a check on no-shows. You can also track client activity and staff schedules using the software.
Starting price: Starts at $7.20 per user per month, billed annually. Forty appointments included.
Features available at a higher price: Advanced versions of Sign In Scheduling offer staff logins, custom branding on the website, and advanced accessibility.
2. Acuity Scheduling
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Appointment booking in Acuity Scheduling
Acuity Scheduling by Squarespace is a cloud-based appointment booking solution which enables businesses to manage their appointments online. The solution caters to individuals as well as businesses of all sizes. Acuity Scheduling offers features such as customizable intake forms, third-party application calendar synchronizing, embeddable calendars, and group scheduling.
Starting price: Starts at $14 per month with an annual subscription.
Features available at a higher price: Advanced versions offer advanced shipping, advanced discounting, and abandoned cart recovery.
3. AgendaPro
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Online bookings in AgendaPro
AgendaPro is a cloud-based scheduling software that enables businesses in streamlining their appointment management process such as bookings, reminders and no-show management. The solution also helps businesses understand their customers better, through reports, feedbacks and surveys to target their customers with specific services accordingly.
Starting price: Starts at $19 per month, billed monthly. Up to one professional included.
Features available at a higher price: Advanced version includes 15 professionals.
4. BookingPress
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Scheduling in BookingPress
BookingPress is an appointment booking system that helps businesses in managing appointments and staff calendars. It offers features such as appointment scheduling, bookings with calendar view, online payment processing, group appointments, coupon code generation, reminders and notifications.
Starting price: Starts at $69 per year, billed annually and supports one site.
Features available at a higher price: Advanced version support up to 20 sites.
5. Boulevard
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Front-desk management in Boulevard
Boulevard is a software solution designed for beauty salons. The tool offers features including appointment management, a self-booking portal, a scheduling calendar, and a point of sale for payments. It enables owners to manage inventories, client profiles, and marketing and generate sales reports.
Starting price: Starts at $175 per month.
Features available at a higher price: Advanced versions offer engineering support, service level agreement, and dedicated customer success manager.
6. DaySmart Salon
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Appointments in DaySmart Salon
DaySmart Salon, formerly known as Salon Iris, is a salon management solution designed to cater the needs of beauty businesses of all sizes. It caters to businesses of all sizes in the beauty industry such as salons, nail salons, and hair salons. It offers features such as employee management, loyalty programs, appointment scheduling, and booth rental management.
Starting price: Starts at $29 per month, billed monthly. One user included.
Features available at a higher price: Advanced features include unlimited users.
7. Envision Salon & Spa
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Dashboard in Envision Salon & Spa
Envision Salon & Spa software is a business management solution that caters to spa and salons of all sizes. Envision offers features such as appointment setting, review management, inventory management, and reporting. Envision lets you manage appointments, automate reminders and notifications, manage reviews and feedback.
Starting price: Starts at $125 per month, billed monthly. Ten users included.
Features available at a higher price: Advanced version supports 10 users.
8. EZnet Scheduler
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Google calendar integration in EZnet Scheduler
EZnet Scheduler is a cloud-based appointment scheduling software which enables users to access their appointment details through any web-enabled device. It helps businesses avoid double bookings, reduce no-show appointments, optimize employee efficiency, and manage resources.
Starting price: Starts at $60 per month, billed monthly. Starting plan accommodates up to one user.
Features available at a higher price: Advanced plan includes up to 50 users.
9. Fresha
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Booking calendar in Fresha
Fresha is a subscription-based booking solution for businesses of all types. The software offers appointment scheduling tools for various types of businesses such as salons, spas, and tattoo and piercing parlors. It offers a mobile app for Android and iOS platforms. It offers features such as financial reporting, in-store and online management of product inventory, managing marketing promotions, and payment processing.
Starting price: Fresha is free to use. However, it charges for the first appointment for every new client. It also charges a processing fee per transaction.
Features available at a higher price: All features are available for free.
10. GlossGenius
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Analytics in GlossGenius
GlossGenius is a booking solution that caters to salons of all sizes. The software offers features to support client management, staff scheduling, payment processing, online booking, and email marketing. It allows you to build a custom website, send out appointment reminders, and provide customer support over call, text, and email.
Starting price: Starts at $24 per month.
Features available at a higher price: The advanced version is available only via invitation from an existing member; however, all features are included in all the plans.
11. GoFrugal
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Insights in GoFrugal
GoFrugal is a point-of-sale solution designed to support salons and spas that have their presence in multiple locations. GoFrugal’s salon billing software allows you to manage business operations such as appointment scheduling and processing payments. It allows you to set up occasional offers and loyalty membership cards redeemable at multiple locations and provides a centralized dashboard.
Starting price: Starts at $225.35 per annual license. Starter, standard, and professional pricing plans are suited for businesses with up to five billing counters. For businesses that have more than five points of sales, customized pricing is available.
Features available at a higher price: Advanced versions offer features such as inventory management, reporting, sales management, and multiple store management.
12. Mangomint
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Appointment management in Mangomint
Mangomint is a tool designed for salons and spa businesses. The software offers features including calendar management and scheduling, online booking, client management, staff management, inventory management, and multi-location reporting. It enables users to incorporate information about their clients, products, gift cards, and notes from their previous booking system.
Starting price: Starts at $165 with a monthly subscription. Includes up to 10 service providers.
Features available at a higher price: Advanced versions support unlimited service providers, waiting room, and advanced data import.
13. Meevo
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Marketing in Meevo
Meevo is a salon and spa management solution which provides features to simplify client management, manage business operations, and design marketing strategies. It offers features like membership management, appointment booking and reporting to manage clients. It provides a marketing suite which enables users to manage social media accounts and online presence.
Starting price: Starts at $139 per month with a monthly subscription and includes five users.
Features available at a higher price: Advanced versions offer support up to 15 professionals, 5000 text messages, and unlimited emails.
14. Microsoft Bookings
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Appointment booking in Microsoft Bookings
Microsoft Bookings is an online appointment booking and scheduling software solution for small businesses. It is available as part of Microsoft 365. It allows customers to book appointments on the platform and send confirmation emails and calendar invitations. Customers can make appointments directly from your website. It provides a single view of all the bookings and also offers tools to customize your website as per your brand.
Starting price: Starts at $6 per user per month, billed annually.
Features available at a higher price: Advanced versions of Microsoft Bookings include advanced threat protection and mobile device management.
15. Reservio
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Schedule management in Reservio
Reservio is an appointment scheduling and online booking solution for businesses of all sizes. The software offers features such as custom domain, permissions management, booking management, staff notifications, and attendance management. It lets you keep track of client no-shows, send SMS reminders, manage appointment history, and generate reports for staff performance.
Starting price: Starts at $9.23 per user per month, billed annually. It includes 200 bookings in the base plan.
Features available at a higher price: Advanced versions of Reservio include memberships, custom messages, and gift cards.
16. Reservo
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Reports in Reservo
Reservo is a scheduling software designed for various types of businesses, including beauty salons. The software offers features including inventory management, commission calculation, online reservations, statistics, and finance monitoring. It lets you obtain commissions for your employees. Reservo also helps you keep control of the inventory. It lets you send promotions to your customers.
Starting price: Starts at $20 per month, and unlimited users are included in all the plans.
Features available at a higher price: All features are available in all the plans.
17. Salon Booking
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Appointment calendar in Salon Booking
Salon Booking System is a solution that is designed for hair salons, beauty centers, spas, and other similar businesses. It allows businesses to manage their reservations, employees, customers, and payments in one place. Salon Booking offers features for customer management, including the ability to view appointment history and preferences.
Starting price: Starts at $73.77 per year, paid annually.
Features available at a higher price: Advanced version includes email priority support, as well as a mobile web app for staff members.
18. SimplyBook.me
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Dashboard in SimplyBook.me
SimplyBook.me is an online booking system for all service-based industries such as events, entertainment, health and fitness, and beauty and wellness salons. The software offers features that allow users to send out reminders via text or email, accept payments, and accept online bookings.
Starting price: Starts at $8.25 per user per month, billed annually. Fifteen users are included in the base plan.
Features available at a higher price: Advanced versions of SimplyBook.me offer gift cards, point of sale, and HIPAA compliance.
19. Square Appointments
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Appointment management in Square Appointments
Square Appointments is a cloud-based appointment scheduling software solution that enables business owners to manage their appointments online. Square Appointments is designed for a variety of businesses, including hair and beauty salons, health and wellness providers, and professional services. With Square Appointments, businesses can create an online booking page that allows customers to book appointments, reschedule or cancel appointments, and receive confirmation emails and reminders.
Starting price: Starts at $35 per location, per month, billed monthly.
Features available at a higher price: Advanced versions offer custom permissions, resource management, team sales reports, staff commission management.
20. Vagaro
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Reporting in Vagaro
Vagaro is a cloud-based salon, spa, and fitness business management solution. It enables business owners to book appointments and manage their facilities, staff, and clients. It offers features to manage client databases, bookkeeping, payroll, inventory, and send email and text notifications to clients, along with automated email marketing. The solution lets clients create personalized customer profiles with their contact information, booking history, and service feedback.
Starting price: Starts at $25 per month and includes one bookable calendar.
Features available at a higher price: Advanced versions of Vagaro offer features such as custom forms, feedback surveys, an online store, a website builder, a check-in app, and payments.
21. vcita
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Manage clients in vcita
vcita is a cloud-based solution for small businesses using which entrepreneurs and business owners can manage their client engagements from any device anywhere. The software offers features to manage appointments, process and accept online payments, share documents, plan and execute marketing campaigns, and manage client portals.
Starting price: Starts at $19 per user per month, billed annually.
Features available at a higher price: Advanced versions of vcita offer business performance reports, customized and automated campaigns, and Zapier integration.
22. WellnessLiving
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Scheduling in WellnessLiving
WellnessLiving is a cloud-based business management solution that caters to wellness studios of all sizes. The software offers features such as online booking, POS, payroll, reputation management, email/SMS marketing suite, and rewards program. It allows users to set automated reminders, users can send email and text reminders to students so that they are aware of their class time.
Starting price: Starts at $59 per user per month, billed annually.
Features available at a higher price: Advanced versions offer SMS notifications, wait lists, customer review manager, and custom dashboards.
23. Clover
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Dashboard in Clover
Clover is designed to help businesses of all sizes, including restaurants, retail stores, and other service-based businesses, manage their operations more efficiently. Clover also integrates with a range of third-party applications and services, including accounting and bookkeeping tools, marketing and loyalty programs, and online ordering and delivery platforms.
Starting price: Starts at $50 per month, billed monthly.
Features available at a higher price: Advanced versions support itemized returns and exchanges and provides 14” touchscreen display terminal and 7” customer-facing display.
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