Mangomint vs Boulevard: Pricing, Features and Which One Fits

What does Mangomint cost?

Mangomint's pricing page, read on September 25, 2026 and again on September 28, shows a single plan: $120 per month per location, plus $10 per user. That comes to $130 per month for a one-person account at one location. Additional locations are $120 per month each. Our Mangomint pricing comparison with Vagaro sets the same per-user bill against a per-calendar model.

The counting rule matters more than the headline. Mangomint's FAQ on that page is blunt about it: anyone with a profile counts as a user, including front desk employees, not just the people performing services. A six-provider salon with two receptionists is an eight-user account at $200 per month, not a six-user account at $180.

Three add-ons sit outside the location and user prices. Phone is $70 per month per line. Marketing starts at $30 per month and is sold as message credits. Payroll is $50 per month plus $8 per worker. Appointment confirmations and reminders by text and email are included at no extra charge, unlike platforms that meter them, and Mangomint takes no cut of appointments booked through the platform.

Onboarding and standard data transfer are free, there are no contracts, and you can cancel at any time. Booth renters using your account count as users, which is worth modeling if you run a hybrid floor.

Why do some pages still quote Mangomint at $165?

Because Mangomint used to publish two price lists, and some pages still copy the older one. Portrait Care's Boulevard alternatives page, dated September 25, 2026, printed Mangomint Essentials at $165, Standard at $245 and Unlimited at $375 when we read it on September 27, 2026, while Mangomint's own pages that week showed $120 per location plus $10 per user.

This is the part some roundups still get wrong, and it changes what a buyer should do next.

On August 19, 2026, Mangomint's HTML pricing page carried a banner reading “New simplified pricing: Get more features for less” and described the $120 plus $10 per user model above. The footer of that same page told automated tools to read a Markdown version at mangomint.com/pricing.md instead. That Markdown version, fetched the same day, still served the previous structure: Essentials at $165 per month for two to ten service providers, Standard at $245 for up to twenty, and Unlimited at $375. Additional locations on those tiers were $95, $135 and $175.

The two documents also disagreed on who gets counted. The Markdown mirror stated that only staff who provide services count, and that front desk staff, owners and managers do not. The HTML page stated that anyone with a profile counts. Those were opposite rules for the same product, published by the same company, on the same day.

That explains a pattern across the search results for this comparison: the roundups quoting Mangomint at $165 per month were not careless, they were reading the version Mangomint pointed machines at. When we read both versions again on September 28, 2026, they matched: $120 per location and $10 per user, with anyone who has a profile counted as a user. What it means practically is that the price you are quoted is the one thing here you should confirm in writing before signing. This article does not claim to know which list Mangomint honored, only that both were live on August 19, 2026.

Figure 2. The same Mangomint account priced from the two price lists Mangomint had live on August 19, 2026: $160, $220 and $300 a month at 4, 10 and 18 people on the $120 plus $10 per user list, against $165, $165 and $245 on the pricing.md tiers. Only the $120 plus $10 per user list remained on September 28, 2026.

What does Boulevard cost?

Boulevard publishes three named plans plus a bespoke Enterprise tier. Read on September 25, 2026 and billed monthly, Boulevard's pricing page displayed Essentials at $159 per month for up to five providers, Premier at $325 per location normally and $260 on the limited-time offer, and Prestige at $455 per location normally and $364 on the offer. Billed annually, Essentials was $143, Premier $293, or $234 on the offer, and Prestige $410, or $328 on the offer. The asterisk footnote describes the Premier and Prestige prices as a limited-time fall offer for new customers only.

The plan caps are where the money is. According to the same page, Essentials allows up to five providers, counted as bookable calendars, with 250 free texts, 1,000 free email blasts and 50 GB of storage. Premier lifts the cap entirely and keeps the allowances at 250 texts and 1,000 email blasts with 50 GB. Prestige bundles the Forms add-on, 2,500 texts, 10,000 email blasts and 100 GB. The sixth provider in a single location is therefore a $166 per month decision at the normal monthly price, or $101 on the offer, not a small one.

Add-ons are priced separately: Forms starts at $65 per month per location, and QuickBooks sync is $45 per month per location. Email blasts beyond the included allowance are a penny each. Boulevard also carries HIPAA, SOC 2 and PCI Level 1 compliance, and requires its own Duo point-of-sale hardware to process payments.

One reconciliation worth recording, because published figures for Boulevard vary across the web. The page offers an annual billing toggle labeled as a 10% saving. Ten percent off the $176 list monthly price it showed on August 19, 2026 is $158.40, which is where the widely repeated “Boulevard starts at $158” figure comes from. That is arithmetic on Boulevard's own numbers rather than a fourth price, and it is stated here as arithmetic, not as a quote from the page. On September 25, 2026 the same toggle took Essentials from $159 to $143. Portrait Care's Boulevard alternatives page still printed “$158/mo per location Essentials” when we read it on September 27, 2026.

If Boulevard is the system you are leaving, our Boulevard pricing and alternatives guide compares seven platforms on price and billing unit.

Mangomint vs Boulevard: which is cheaper?

At one location billed monthly, Mangomint and Boulevard stay within $30 of each other up to five people, Mangomint costs less from six to 20, and Boulevard costs less above 20, or above 14 on its limited-time offer for new customers, according to both pricing pages read September 25, 2026.

For a single location, Mangomint vs Boulevard is a straight line against a staircase. Mangomint rises $10 with every person added. Boulevard sits flat at $159 until the sixth provider, then jumps to $325 and stays there no matter how many people you add.

Setting the two published models against each other gives a crossover between 20 and 21 people: $120 plus $10 per user reaches $320 at 20 users, just under Boulevard's normal $325 Premier price, and $330 at 21. Below that, Mangomint is cheaper, and clearly so down to six people; at the small end, where a three-person team pays $150 against Boulevard's $159, the two stay close, and Essentials is the lower bill at four and five providers. Above 20, Boulevard's flat ceiling wins, and the gap widens with every hire.

Table 1. Monthly software subscription in US dollars for one location, billed monthly, from mangomint.com/pricing and joinblvd.com/pricing, both read September 25, 2026. Every person is counted as a provider with a bookable calendar: Mangomint also bills front desk and other profiles, while Boulevard's Essentials limit counts only bookable calendars. The offer column is Boulevard's limited-time price for new customers.

Figure 1. Published monthly software cost by team size, single location. Mangomint's per-user line crosses Boulevard's Premier tier after 20 people, or meets its offer price at 14. Sources: mangomint.com/pricing and joinblvd.com/pricing; all read September 25, 2026. Counting rules differ and are not interchangeable: Mangomint's current page counts anyone with a profile, its pricing.md tiers counted service providers only, and Boulevard's Essentials limit counts providers. The solid Boulevard line is the normal monthly price; the dashed line is its fall offer for new customers.

Two caveats keep this from being a like-for-like quote, and both cut against a simple reading. Mangomint counts front desk staff and Boulevard's Essentials limit counts providers, so a reception-heavy business reaches the crossover sooner than the chart suggests. And Boulevard's figures in the text above are normal prices, so a new customer taking the limited-time offer shifts the crossover down to 14 people, where both cost $260, as the offer column shows.

Example: five stylists and a front desk manager who takes no appointments, at one location, billed monthly. Mangomint bills six users, $180 a month, while Boulevard's Essentials limit counts the five bookable calendars, so the bill stays $159; Boulevard's page does not say whether other logins are limited (both pages read September 25, 2026).

Multi-location changes the shape again. Mangomint charges $120 per additional location plus the per-user fee, so two sites with eight people each is $240 for locations plus $160 of users, or $400 per month. Two Boulevard Premier locations, on the first plan that marks multi-location support, come to $650 at list, or $520 on the offer. The per-location model is not automatically the expensive one, but it is the one that punishes small satellite sites.

How do the feature sets actually differ?

Both platforms cover the core well: calendar, online booking, client records, point of sale, reporting, memberships and packages, automated marketing and multi-location support. Choosing on those is unlikely to separate them. If point of sale is the deciding feature, the salon POS software guide goes deeper than either vendor page does.

• Boulevard leans harder into clinical and enterprise work. ePrescribe, HIPAA-compliant records, an API, franchise and enterprise offerings, and a published Offset program for sharing card fees with clients are all listed on Boulevard's pages, read September 27, 2026.
• Mangomint leans into operational polish and cost transparency. Free onboarding and data transfer, no contracts, unlimited appointment notifications, retail and inventory included rather than sold as an add-on, and a pricing page you can read without booking a demo.
• Boulevard requires you to book a demo to get started, with no public self-serve trial on the pricing page. Mangomint publishes a free trial link directly.
• On the legacy Mangomint tiers (the pricing.md list of August 2026), memberships, Express Booking, the virtual waiting room and HIPAA compliance were all unavailable on the entry plan. If you end up quoted on those tiers, check which of them you actually need.

Clinical and medical work sits outside what this comparison is useful for. If you need charting against a medical record or prescribing, compare each vendor's clinical tools on its own pages; this article is not the right guide for that decision.

What do they charge to take a payment?

Mangomint's published in-person card rate is 2.45% plus 15 cents, while Boulevard's starts at 2.65%, or as low as 1% under its Offset program, according to the two pricing pages read September 25, 2026.

Mangomint publishes its card rates plainly: 2.45% plus 15 cents for in-person transactions and 2.90% plus 30 cents for virtual ones, with custom rates available to higher-volume businesses (read September 25, 2026). You can bring your own processor, but doing so disables Express Booking, self checkout, cards on file and deposits, which is a meaningful trade.

Boulevard does not publish a fixed processing rate on its pricing page, only a starting one: “Starting at 2.65% or as low as 1% with Boulevard Offset” (read September 27, 2026). It offers volume-based discounts on request and promotes Offset, under which clients pay a 3% fee on credit card transactions and the business pays 1%. Payouts are batched by business day and typically land two business days later. If processing cost is central to your decision, Boulevard is the one you have to ask for your rate, and you should ask with a current merchant statement in hand.

This is a real gap in any Mangomint vs Boulevard cost model built from public pages alone. On a salon turning over $40,000 a month in card volume, a half-point difference in rate is $200 per month, which is larger than the entire software gap between the two platforms at most team sizes.

Which one should you choose?

Most of the Mangomint vs Boulevard decision reduces to two questions: how many people will hold a login in twelve months, and do you need clinical features. Answer those and the rest follows.

Pick Mangomint if you run one location with six to about 20 people (six to 13 against Boulevard's offer), or three or fewer, you want the price before you speak to a salesperson, and inventory and free notifications matter to you. The per-user model rewards small, service-dense teams. If you are cross-shopping the mid-market, our Vagaro pricing and GlossGenius pricing comparisons cover the two platforms buyers most often line up beside these. For a free starting point, our Square Appointments pricing comparison covers its per-location plans.

Pick Boulevard if you have four or five providers and few other logins, more than about 20 people in a location, need location-level billing across sites, or you need clinical features, an API or enterprise reporting. The flat per-location ceiling is the right shape for a growing floor. Spa operators weighing the same trade-off may find the best spa management software roundup and the spa booking software page a closer fit.

Whichever way you lean, get the quote in writing and confirm the staff counting rule. Given that Mangomint counts every profile and Boulevard's Essentials limit counts bookable calendars, that is not a formality.

Where Twizzlo fits, and where it does not

Twizzlo, web-based online booking and appointment scheduling software for appointment-based service businesses, is a different shape from both sides of the Mangomint vs Boulevard question. Business Pro is $29.99 per month per business, flat, with unlimited bookings, employees, locations and customers, 50 SMS a month and a 30-day money-back guarantee, and a Free plan at $0, capped at 150 bookings a month, with no SMS. There are no per-seat fees, so the price does not rise with headcount, and adding a receptionist costs nothing.

The honest limits. Twizzlo's pricing page does not list memberships or payroll among what Business Pro includes; Mangomint lists memberships and sells payroll, and Boulevard's plans list memberships and commission tracking. Online payments carry your Stripe processing rate plus a 1.5% Twizzlo platform fee. SMS is 50 messages a month on Business Pro and then $0.03 each, against unlimited included notifications on Mangomint.

So the fair framing is this. If your objection to both platforms is the price of running a front desk and a growing team on per-seat or per-location software, a flat plan solves that specific problem and gives up the depth. If you need memberships, payroll or commission tracking, buy the platform that has them. You can compare Twizzlo against the wider market on the salon appointment software page or check the full Twizzlo pricing.