Vagaro prices its subscription per bookable calendar – every person who takes appointments has one, so the invoice follows your rota. Beside it sits the Vagaro Marketplace: your business is listed there automatically once the profile is complete, and a one-time share of the first appointment applies when a client books you through it. Salon Wizard is built the other way round: one plan with the team inside it, and no marketplace to be referred from or charged for.
from €7.00 per month
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Subscription per bookable calendar Every person taking appointments needs a bookable calendar, and the subscription scales with them
Only additional locations carry a fixed, transparent surcharge.
| Criterion | Salon Wizard | Vagaro |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Fair flat price – monthly or yearly | Subscription per bookable calendar, with the MySite website builder, a branded app, text marketing and email beyond the included allowance billed on top |
| Staff | Unlimited in the Team plan – no extra charge (Solo and Solo Plus: one person) | Every person taking appointments needs a bookable calendar, and the subscription scales with them |
| Booking page & website | Yes – a booking page in every plan, the full website from Solo Plus | A booking site of its own is the MySite add-on, billed on top of the subscription; the subscription itself carries a booking widget for a site you host elsewhere – alongside a listing in the Vagaro Marketplace |
| Data ownership | German servers, GDPR, your data | A global booking platform; where your records are stored follows its own privacy terms |
| Third-party ads & competition | No ads, and no other business on your page – our lists run alphabetically or by distance, never by rank | The marketplace shows businesses near the searcher, so competitors appear in the same result list |
We take no share of any appointment, first or fiftieth. On your ordinary bookings Vagaro takes none either – that is not where the two of us part company. The share falls once, on the first appointment with a client the Marketplace sends you; here nothing falls at all, because there is no marketplace to send anyone. If that reach is what you are buying, it is a fair trade – simply not one we ask you to make.
Your guests book on your own page under your brand, and that page is part of the plan. At Vagaro a site of your own is the MySite add-on, billed on top of the subscription; what the subscription itself carries is a booking widget for a site you host elsewhere – and the marketplace listing beside it, where the salons of your street turn up under the same search.
Your client records sit on servers in Germany and belong to you. Where a global platform stores yours, and under which arrangements, is set out in its own privacy terms – worth reading before the data has moved rather than after.
Staff are included in the Team plan. Where billing runs per bookable calendar, every person who takes appointments adds to the invoice before serving a single client. Here a growing team does not move the price, and only additional locations cost a fixed, transparent surcharge.
Sign up, name your salon, add your opening hours – no payment details.
Set up treatments with duration and price, then add your staff. Included in the Team plan at no extra cost.
Your page goes live and guests book under your brand – every appointment is yours.
Leaving a platform that is a marketplace and a scheduling tool at once changes two things in the same moment – and a third one on the invoice.
Instead of a subscription per bookable calendar, one plan carries the team. Taking somebody on becomes a staffing decision again rather than a software decision, and a quiet month costs exactly what a busy one costs.
No referral share falls on a new client, because there is no referral to charge for. What that also means belongs on the page: nobody is selling you a new face either. Your page is found through your own channels, and in a small way through plan-it-now's own trade and place lists, which carry the businesses on our software and advertise for nobody.
A website builder, a branded app, a card terminal – with a platform each of those is its own line: a fixed monthly add-on, or a device, or free if you also let them process your payments. Here the plan covers the software, and everything at the counter stays your own arrangement with whoever you already pay for it. The branded app is the honest gap: Vagaro sells one, we build none at all. Your guests book in the browser under your brand, with nothing to install – a deliberate limit, not a cheaper version of the same thing.
Online booking around the clock, the calendar, staff scheduling (in the Team plan), services with duration and price, and client records with history and recurring appointments (from Solo Plus). Your own booking page comes with it, and the whole team sits in the Team plan at no extra cost.
The marketplace reach and the point-of-sale side of the platform. Vagaro sells card readers and terminals and settles payments; we do none of that and offer no certified point-of-sale system, so cash trade will keep needing the device you use now. And an app under your own name in the stores: Vagaro sells one, we build none. Booking here happens in the browser, which needs no installation and also gives your guests no icon on their home screen. The listing that put you in front of strangers goes as well – your own page has to earn that traffic.
Not on your ordinary appointments. According to Vagaro's own pricing page a one-time share applies to the first appointment when a client finds you through the Vagaro Marketplace, and appointments with that client afterwards carry nothing further. So it is a fee for a referral rather than a cut of your day.
We deliberately name no figure – other people's prices change, and an outdated claim about a named provider would be unfair. The model is the part that lasts: the subscription is priced per bookable calendar, so each additional person who takes appointments is a step up. The current amount is on Vagaro's pricing page.
No. Staff are included in the Team plan whatever the size of your team. Only additional locations cost a fixed surcharge, and it stands on our pricing page before you decide anything.
The borrowed kind, yes. Someone searching a marketplace for a salon nearby, with no name in mind, will not meet you there after the switch. Your own page serves first the people who already know you, and nobody else's offer stands on it. plan-it-now, where that page lives, does list businesses by trade and by place – alphabetically, or by distance from the place searched, with no ratings and no paid slots – so a little of that search exists here too, on a very different scale.
Vagaro bills per bookable calendar and prices several things on top of it: the MySite website builder and a branded app as fixed monthly add-ons, text marketing by volume, and email marketing above the allowance the plan includes. Card readers it advertises free with its own merchant services. Salon Wizard charges one plan with the team inside it, and a fixed surcharge per additional location. A branded app is something we do not offer in any form – booking here runs in the browser.
Ask for the export before you cancel, while your access still exists. What a platform releases, and in what format, it decides itself; that is not a promise we can make on its behalf. Afterwards you set up records, services and opening hours here.
Yes – for as long as the Vagaro subscription runs, because the listing is part of that plan. Keeping the profile therefore means paying both for a while: it keeps catching new faces while your regulars move across to your own page. Pick one calendar as the leading one so the two cannot double-book you, and end the old plan when the traffic has moved.
That is decided by the country you invoice in. The question is whether your law requires a certified security device for electronic point-of-sale systems, and from when – in Germany, for example, that is the case for cash trade with an electronic point-of-sale system. Vagaro sells card readers and terminals. Salon Wizard is deliberately not a point-of-sale system and settles nothing: we plan appointments and keep the client record; we do not write invoices, and whatever stands on your counter stays.
A comparison answers the price question. It does not answer the question of fit. What each plan contains is on the pricing page – how Salon Wizard works in the day-to-day of your trade is what the vertical pages beside it show, each with the services, routines and examples that are usual there.