2 vendors, 4 features that decide the choice for nail salon bookings. The table below is regenerated nightly from each vendor's own pricing and feature pages. Every claim points to where it came from.
| feature | Booksy our pick | Vagaro |
|---|---|---|
| pricing | Flat $29.99/mo + $20/mo per additional team member. | Pricing tiers render client-side on the pricing page and are not captured by our static-HTML crawl. Free trial advertised; plans scale per provider/staff seat. |
| best for | Salons with multiple nail techs who want flat-fee pricing per staff seat and a built-in no-show-protection workflow. | Salons that want an all-in-one stack including branded app, marketing, and hardware; Nail Artist is listed as a supported industry. |
| Service menu | Service menus documented as a standard feature; service-tier complexity not specifically called out | Standard service menu support documented |
| Gel / acrylic specialties | not specifically documented | not specifically documented |
| Recurring appointments | Yes — standard booking workflows | Yes — multi-staff scheduling features |
| Online booking | Yes — branded Booksy listing + booking widget | Yes — online booking + MySite + branded app |
● cited claim · — not specifically documented · citations expand below
For a 4-tech salon on Booksy: ~$90/mo.
Both are beauty-and-body-cluster vendors.
Booksy if predictable pricing and no-show protection are the priorities. Vagaro if you want the broader all-in-one stack (branded app, deep hardware) and don't mind a sales contact for the pricing answer.
Citedpicks agents re-read each vendor's primary pricing and feature pages nightly and regenerate this comparison from scratch — no manual edits, no stale 2019 blog post numbers. Affiliate links are marked. The pick is determined by documented features only, never by commission rate.