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Every number from their own pricing pagesRead this before you pick a booking app.
What the other apps actually cost once you're past the advertised tier, who ends up owning your address and your client list, and how a flat $29/month compares. Named names, sourced numbers.
Booking software for barbers
The three traps in barber booking software are marketplaces, POS systems, and tier gates. Here's how to pick one that leaves the business yours.
Read the guide → Updated 2026-08-24Salon POS systems
Most salon POS software is priced for a retail floor with staff. What each platform charges to take a payment, and when a solo stylist is buying a register they will never open.
Read the guide → Updated 2026-08-24What booking apps cost
Booksy, GlossGenius, Vagaro, Square and CNL side by side, with every figure taken from the vendor's own published pages and dated.
Read the guide → Updated 2026-08-24Salon software pricing
What premium salon software actually costs, taken from each vendor's own pricing page, and why half of it will not tell you without a sales call.
Read the guide → Updated 2026-08-24Salon website builder
Which booking platforms give you a real website on your own domain, which give you a page on theirs, and what each one charges for it.
Read the guide → Updated 2026-08-28Salon branding
A booking address ending in the software company's name advertises their brand, not yours. What GlossGenius's own help centre says about custom domains, and what owning the domain changes.
Read the guide → Updated 2026-08-24Barber POS systems
Most barbers shopping for a POS need a card reader and a book, not a retail register. What each platform charges to take a payment, from their own published rates.
Read the guide → Updated 2026-08-24Nail salon software
What nail salon software actually costs a solo tech, taken from each platform's own published prices, and why your own domain matters more for nails than for almost any other trade.
Read the guide → Updated 2026-09-23Nail salon POS systems
What a nail salon pos system should actually cost a solo tech: hardware versus subscription, why card processing rates barely move, and where Booksy's 30% Boost fee actually lands on nail-sized tickets.
Read the guide → Updated 2026-09-23POS for beauty salon
Most systems that rank for "pos for beauty salon" are built for a multi-station floor. What a solo lash, brow, hair, skin or nail pro actually needs, and what it really costs at 60 appointments a month.
Read the guide → Updated 2026-09-23Massage booking software
Most massage booking software is priced for a spa with staff, or a marketplace that takes a cut of a client you already have. Here's what a solo massage therapist actually needs, and what six platforms charge for it at each vendor's own published price.
Read the guide → Updated 2026-09-23Tattoo booking software
Tattoo-niche booking tools charge more for one artist than CNL's flat $29. Here's what a solo artist actually pays, and what $29 a month gets you instead.
Read the guide → Updated 2026-09-23Salon software for booth renters
A booth renter's booking software should be theirs alone: what that actually costs across GlossGenius, Vagaro, Booksy and Square, verified at each company's own price page.
Read the guide → Updated 2026-08-22GlossGenius alternative
GlossGenius's advertised price and its real price are two different tiers. CNL has one plan, because nothing is being withheld.
Read the guide → Updated 2026-08-21Vagaro alternative
Vagaro sells the calendar, then sells you everything around it separately. At CNL the website is the product and $29 is the whole bill.
Read the guide → Updated 2026-08-22Booksy alternative
Booksy's marketplace works both ways. Every client who opens it to book you is browsing your competitors, and CNL puts your book on your own address.
Read the guide → Updated 2026-08-21Square Appointments alternative
Square Appointments exists to feed Square's checkout stack, and every booking page lives at a square.site address. CNL builds yours on your own domain.
Read the guide → Updated 2026-08-24Mindbody alternative
Mindbody publishes a $79 per-location floor and no tier prices at all. What that means for one pro, and what CNL charges instead.
Read the guide → Updated 2026-09-23Fresha alternative
Fresha's free plan is gone. Independent is $19.95 a month, Team is $14.95 per bookable team member, and most articles written about it are out of date.
Read the guide → Updated 2026-09-24Lash and brow booking software
What GlossGenius, Booksy, Vagaro and Fresha actually charge a solo lash or brow artist, and why a two-to-three-hour full set on a fourteen-day fill cycle needs different protection than a haircut.
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