Best Salon Software in 2026

Vagaro is business-management software made by Vagaro, Inc. for beauty, wellness, fitness and other service businesses. The company states that more than 100,000 businesses use it every day, that 300,000 professionals rely on it, that it has processed US$40 billion in payments and that it has been in business for 17 years. Its customers range from independent operators to multi-location brands.

The product covers the calendar, online booking, point of sale, client forms, memberships, inventory and marketing, and a consumer marketplace through which clients find businesses. Vagaro states that it takes nothing from revenue booked online or through its marketplace, which separates it from marketplace-led rivals. Pricing is built per bookable calendar, counting only staff who perform services, so front-desk employees do not add cost.

Much of the functionality is sold as add-ons: text marketing, forms, a website builder (MySite), a branded client app, a check-in app, live streaming, file storage, a QuickBooks integration and a Data Lake connector each carry a separate monthly fee. Card processing is provided through Vagaro Merchant Services, registered as an ISO of PNC Bank, with a free card reader offered on a 12-month processing commitment. The total monthly cost for a salon that adopts several add-ons can therefore be well above the headline base price.

Fresha is operated by Fresha.com SV Ltd and describes itself as the world's largest booking platform for beauty and wellness, trusted by more than 120,000 businesses, with a marketplace of more than 25 million customers looking to book. It is widely used by salons, barbers, nail studios and spas, particularly outside the United States.

The business software includes the calendar, point of sale, team profiles, shift scheduling, tips and permissions, automated email and app notifications, and online booking through direct links, Facebook and Instagram. The marketplace is the main acquisition channel: listing is free, and Fresha charges a one-time fee when the marketplace brings a new client, with no fee on returning clients.

Its current plans are Independent, for a one-person business with a single calendar column, and Team, charged per bookable team member, with an Enterprise tier for businesses of more than 20 team members. Optional modules include an AI Concierge for client messaging, client loyalty, Google rating prompts, a team chat, an Insights reporting module, a Data Connector and a Smart Website, each with a monthly fee. Automated texts and WhatsApp messages beyond a monthly allowance, and marketing texts, are charged per message. The pricing page lists card payment processing as an optional add-on without stating rates.

Boulevard is developed by Boulevard Labs, Inc. and is aimed at appointment-based businesses at the upper end of the market: medspas, salons, spas, barbershops, massage and nail businesses, plus multi-location, franchise and enterprise operators. Its positioning is the client experience, with self-booking, client profiles, memberships, loyalty and the Boulevard Duo point-of-sale device, which is required for card processing.

Recent additions listed by the company include an AI receptionist called Beau, which answers calls, books clients and captures leads, a Buy Now, Pay Later option, and an ePrescribe module for medspas announced on 14 April 2026. Its lending product, Boulevard Capital, won a FinTech Breakthrough award in March 2026. The company states HIPAA, SOC 2 and PCI Level 1 compliance.

Pricing is per location. The Essentials plan is limited to one location and five bookable providers; Premier and Prestige allow unlimited professionals; Enterprise is quoted. Boulevard Offset allows a business to pass a 3% card fee to clients while paying 1% itself. Boulevard offers a demo rather than a free trial, and its entry price is several times that of tools aimed at independent stylists, which places it out of reach for many small salons.

GlossGenius is booking, payments and business software for beauty, wellness, medspa, health and fitness professionals. The company presents its story through the partnership of twins Danielle and Leah Cohen-Shohet and states that more than 100,000 businesses use it.

Plans are split into two families. Beauty and Wellness plans (Standard, Gold and Platinum) scale from a single professional to teams of ten or more with unlimited members, while Medspa and Aesthetics plans (Practice Essentials and Practice Advanced) add charting and clinical tools. All plans include 24/7 online booking, free data transfer and payout options; same-day payouts Monday to Thursday are free, with an extra 1.8% for instant payouts. Its newest products are AI agents, including a Growth Analyst, Marketer and Reception agent.

GlossGenius publishes flat card rates rather than plan-dependent ones, citing 2.4% plus 15 cents for in-person payments and 2.9% plus 30 cents for online invoices. Its pricing page displayed some rate fields as unfilled placeholders at the time of review, so buyers should confirm processing rates in the contract. Additional locations cost the plan price less 15% and are arranged through sales.

Mangomint is salon and spa software for hair salons, spas, nail salons, medspas, barbershops and massage studios. Its front-desk automation centres on Mira, an AI receptionist that answers calls and texts and books, reschedules and cancels appointments.

Instead of named tiers, Mangomint charges a base price per location plus a fee per user, and sells optional modules separately: a business phone line with calling and texting from any device, marketing credits in bands, and payroll with QuickBooks sync and tax filing for each location. Onboarding, data transfer and support are included at no charge, and there are no contracts.

Mangomint publishes its card-processing rates, 2.45% plus 15 cents in person and 2.90% plus 30 cents for virtual payments, with custom rates for large businesses. The pricing page offers a free trial but does not state its length. Compared with marketplace-led products, Mangomint offers no consumer marketplace, so new-client acquisition relies on the salon's own channels.

Square Appointments is the booking product of Square, whose trademarks belong to Block, Inc. It combines an appointment calendar and online booking with Square's point of sale, payments, banking, payroll and loans, which makes it a common first system for stylists, barbers and small salons.

Three plans are offered. The Free plan, aimed at solo professionals, includes online booking, appointment reminders and unlimited staff calendars. Plus adds cancellation and no-show fees, multi-staff booking and a waitlist; Premium adds resource management, service cost tracking and a future-bookings report for larger salons. Square Pro offers custom pricing and processing for businesses processing more than US$250,000 a year.

Card rates fall with each plan: tap, dip or swipe costs 2.6% plus 15 cents on Free, 2.5% plus 15 cents on Plus and 2.4% plus 15 cents on Premium, while manually entered or card-on-file payments cost 3.5% plus 15 cents on every plan. Square's strengths are its free entry point and broad ecosystem; its limitations for salons include fewer salon-specific tools, such as colour formulas and tiered commissions, than dedicated vendors, and no consumer marketplace comparable to Booksy or Fresha.

Zenoti is a cloud platform for salon, spa, medspa, barbershop and fitness businesses, focused on multi-location chains and franchises. It began in 2010 as ManageMySpa in Hyderabad, India, founded by brothers Sudheer and Dheeraj Koneru, who were running Latitudes Health Club and Tangerine Spas and were dissatisfied with the software available to them. It lists a US office in Bellevue, Washington, and it lists offices in Australia, the UAE, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the UK, the Philippines and France.

Zenoti states that it is trusted by more than 30,000 businesses in more than 50 countries. The platform covers appointments, billing, inventory, memberships and customer relationships, and adds AI agents, lead management, automated reputation management and business intelligence. AI agents require the AI Plus package, and voice, SMS and messaging usage is billed on consumption with optional base packs.

All pricing is quote-based and, for multi-location brands, customised to the footprint. That makes Zenoti a strong option for chains needing central control, but less suited to single salons, which will find simpler tools faster to set up and easier to price.

Phorest is salon software founded in Ireland in 2003 by Ronan Perceval, who had worked as a receptionist in a busy Dublin salon. The company states that more than 12,000 salons, spas and aesthetic clinics use Phorest, representing more than 155,000 professionals across Ireland, the UK, the US, Canada, Australia and Europe. It describes itself as GDPR and HIPAA compliant.

Phorest is aimed at established salons and clinics, and SMS messaging is a priced component of every plan. All plans include unlimited devices and unlimited staff. Separate plans exist for salons (Starter, Grow, Ultimate and Elite) and for aesthetic clinics (Core Aesthetics, Elevate Aesthetics and Elite Aesthetics).

Prices are not published; every plan requires a quote. The pricing page states that Phorest does not offer a free trial but provides a full product demo. SMS rates are published per plan and fall on higher tiers, although the page does not state their currency.

Booksy is a booking platform and marketplace for beauty services, describing itself as the largest and fastest-growing booking platform for beauty, with more than 44 million users and more than 750 employees. It is mobile-first and markets dedicated versions for barbers, hair salons, nail salons, lash and brow studios and hair braiders. Its business tools cover online booking, calendar, client management, no-show protection, payments, marketing and loyalty cards, and it offers an AI receptionist.

Booksy's business model combines a low subscription with marketplace fees and payment processing. The subscription is US$29.99 a month plus US$20 for each additional staff member, with all features included and no contract. Its Boost feature promotes a business in the consumer app; when a new client books through Boost, the business pays 30% of the first visit, capped at US$100. Appointment confirmations and reminders are free, and 2,000 SMS marketing messages a month are included.

Card rates are 2.49% plus 10 cents on the Booksy Card Reader, 2.49% plus 20 cents for Tap to Pay and 2.69% plus 30 cents for mobile or keyed payments; fast payouts within 30 minutes cost 1.5%. Booksy suits individual professionals well but has fewer back-office tools, such as payroll and tiered commissions, than products built for employee-based salons.

Meevo is salon, spa and medspa software from Millennium Systems International, which presents it as "Meevo Powered by Millennium".

The current release centres on MeevoIQ, a set of AI advisors: a Front Desk Advisor that answers calls and books appointments, a Marketing Advisor for upsell offers and an Insights Advisor for performance dashboards. Other modules include online booking with automated reminders and waitlist-based cancellation filling, MeevoPay point of sale and payments, email and social marketing, client intake forms, real-time reporting, and medspa tools with charting, compliance, lot and expiration tracking and voice-to-chart documentation.

Meevo emphasises US-based support, onboarding specialists and dedicated customer success managers. Its website does not publish prices and directs buyers to a demo; no free trial is advertised. Meevo is usually evaluated alongside Zenoti and Boulevard by larger salons and spa groups rather than by independent stylists.

SalonBiz, developed by SalonBiz, Inc., is salon software built for employee-based salons and states that it has been trusted by salons for more than 40 years, with thousands of salons across North America. It covers online booking, scheduling, point of sale, payments and memberships, inventory, marketing, reporting, and team and commission management, including payroll and performance tracking.

SalonBiz has a stylist app that gives service providers appointment alerts, client history, colour formulas, goals and retail tracking. It has a native integration with Aveda, including Aveda Plus Rewards and automatic product and pricing updates, and Aveda salons qualify for a complimentary subscription offer. It integrates with DemandForce, Listen360, Textel, Vish and QuickBooks.

Pricing is tiered by number of service providers, from US$160 a month, with plans requested by quote; staff beyond 20 on the Premium plan are added in blocks of ten for US$55 a month per block. Using SalonBiz Payments reduces the subscription by US$25 to US$45 a month depending on plan. There is no long-term contract. The tiering by provider count means the entry plan starts at two providers, making it a poor fit for solo stylists.

Timely is appointment and business software for salons, spas and other beauty businesses. EverCommerce, a US provider of software for service businesses, lists Timely among its recent acquisitions. Timely publishes prices for Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Ireland, Canada and the United States.

The product covers online booking, calendar, client records, SMS reminders and campaigns, point of sale and TimelyPay payments, which are included in the Base, Build, Elevate and Innovate plans with only processing fees charged on top. Payments are available in Australia, New Zealand, the US, the UK and the EU. SMS allowances renew monthly and further messages are charged at the plan's SMS rate; SMS campaigns are available in a narrower set of countries.

Plans are priced by team size, and part-time staff are charged at the same rate as full-time staff. The pricing page's structured data lists an entry price of US$26 a month for the United States. Timely has no long-term contracts, but its smaller US presence and the absence of a consumer marketplace make it a more natural fit for salons in Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

Mindbody is business software for fitness, wellness and beauty businesses, owned by Playlist, which its pricing page names as Mindbody's parent company. Although best known for studios and gyms, Mindbody has dedicated offerings for hair salons, nail salons, lash studios, barbershops, day spas and medspas, and lists businesses on the Mindbody app, which it says gives access to more than 3 million monthly shoppers.

Three plans are offered. Starter covers business management, integrated payments, branded booking widgets, a business website, an app listing and basic reporting. Accelerate adds advanced analytics, room and resource management, promo codes and premium add-ons. Ultimate adds automated email and text campaigns, a 24/7 AI front desk for missed calls, a sales pipeline and retention analytics. All plans include unlimited users.

Mindbody does not publish prices; every plan requires a conversation with sales. Its strength is a combined class-and-appointment model, useful for businesses that mix salon services with fitness or wellness classes. For a pure hair salon, its class-oriented design and quote-only pricing are drawbacks compared with salon-first vendors.

Rosy Salon Software is a cloud-based scheduling and management suite for salons and spas, founded by former salon and spa owners. It describes itself as the first cloud-based salon software, launched nationally in 2009. Its pricing scales with the number of service providers who need their own calendar.

Every plan includes online client scheduling from a website or Facebook page, appointment scheduling, mobile access, Reserve with Google integration, inventory management with low-stock alerts, a mobile web app, a reporting engine with more than 60 reports, product reservations, salon point of sale with cash drawer and gift cards, and rewards and referrals. Optional premium features include automated email marketing, enhanced text messaging, mass email marketing, client images and text confirmations. RosyPay is its integrated payment service, and its booth rental software serves suite and chair-rental businesses.

The single-provider plan is listed at US$29 a month with the RosyPay discount. Rosy's interface and feature set are more traditional than newer competitors, and it has no consumer marketplace or AI receptionist; its appeal is a low, predictable cost for small salons.