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Best Booking Software for Nail Salons — Full Comparison

5 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 GlossGenius Acuity Scheduling Setmore
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. Standard $24/mo; Gold $48/mo; Platinum $148/mo; Payroll add-on $40/mo + $6/seat. Starter $16/mo (annual) or $20/mo (monthly); Standard $27/mo (annual) or $34/mo (monthly); Premium $49/mo (annual) or $61/mo (monthly). 7-day trial, no credit card required. Free up to 4 users; Pro $5/user/mo (annual) or $12/user/mo (monthly); Team also listed at $5/mo annual on the pricing-page footnote.
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.Solo or small-team salons; Nail Artist is explicitly listed as a supported specialty and the entry tier is the lowest documented monthly price in this comparison.Salons that need flexible appointment-type configuration (Acuity supports per-service durations, prep buffers, and intake forms) and don't need a deep beauty-vertical stack.Nail techs and small salons offering acrylics, gels, and standing weekly fills who need a free booking site that handles service menus and VIP recurring slots.
Service menu Service menus documented as a standard feature; service-tier complexity not specifically called out Standard service menu support documented Standard service menu support documented Yes — multiple appointment types and class scheduling documented Yes — "From fills to foils, your nail salon caters to all types of requests on the daily"
Gel / acrylic specialties not specifically documented not specifically documented not specifically documented not specifically documented Yes — "Classic acrylics, gels or a top coat of this season's 'it' colour: your customers can book the exact service they want online"
Recurring appointments Yes — standard booking workflows Yes — multi-staff scheduling features Yes — scheduling and calendar features documented Yes — recurring appointments + automated notifications Yes — "Create regular slots for your VIPs to keep their lacquers looking lush"
Online booking Yes — branded Booksy listing + booking widget Yes — online booking + MySite + branded app Yes — explicit online booking feature Yes — 24/7 online booking; no credit card required for trial Yes — "Create a custom Booking Page to list your availability online and book appointments around-the-clock"

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Four booking tools for nail salons. Here's how they line up.

Pricing

  • Booksy: $29.99/mo + $20/mo per staff.
  • Vagaro: pricing page exists but tier prices render client-side; free trial advertised.
  • GlossGenius: $24 / $48 / $148.
  • Acuity Scheduling: Starter $16/mo, Standard $27/mo, Premium $49/mo annual ($20/$34/$61 monthly). 7-day trial, no credit card.

Vertical fit

  • Booksy and Vagaro are both beauty-vertical-native, with deep marketplace and hardware features.
  • GlossGenius lists Nail Artist as a supported specialty and is the cheapest documented entry tier.
  • Acuity is a general scheduler — broader feature set but less beauty-specific positioning.

Service-menu configurability

Nail salons offer wildly different service durations (express mani 30 min vs. full set 2 hr).

  • Acuity: multiple appointment types + class scheduling + per-type configuration — the most flexible documented setup.
  • GlossGenius, Booksy, Vagaro: standard service-menu support documented; per-service complexity is configurable but less prominently marketed.

Online booking + per-tech calendars

All four document online booking and multi-staff scheduling.

How to choose

  • **Want a beauty-vertical native tool at the cheapest entry tier?** GlossGenius.
  • **No-show protection is your headline problem?** Booksy.
  • **Need flexible per-service durations + intake forms?** Acuity.
  • **Want the deepest all-in-one stack (branded app, hardware, marketing)?** Vagaro — pending pricing.
citations   11 primary sources
  1. [1] booksy.com/biz/pricing — $29.99/mo + $20/mo per staff
  2. [2] www.vagaro.com/pro/pricing — pricing page exists
  3. [3] www.vagaro.com/pro — free trial advertised
  4. [4] glossgenius.com/pricing — $24 / $48 / $148
  5. [5] acuityscheduling.com/signup.php — Starter $16/mo, Standard $27/mo, Premium $49/mo annual
  6. [6] acuityscheduling.com/signup.php — 7-day trial, no credit card
  7. [7] booksy.com/biz/features — Booksy
  8. [8] www.vagaro.com/pro — Vagaro
  9. [9] glossgenius.com/all-features — GlossGenius lists Nail Artist as a supported specialty
  10. [10] acuityscheduling.com/features — Acuity
  11. [11] acuityscheduling.com/features — multiple appointment types + class scheduling + per-type configuration
about this comparison

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.

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