Nail Salon Management Software: What 7 Vendors Really Charge

What do the major platforms charge on their own pricing pages?

The seven vendors priced here bill in four ways on their own pricing or help pages: per business, per location, per person or by staff band. Table 1 lists each plan with its billing unit, source and read date.

Table 1. Published nail salon management software plans, by billing unit, from each vendor's own pricing or help page, read September 25, 2026 (Twizzlo: twizzlo.com/pricing/, read September 27, 2026). Prices are before tax, card processing, texts and add-ons.

Vagaro's US figures come from its US help center, because its US pricing page redirected to its Canadian page from our location. Zenoti publishes no price: every plan says "Get a Quote".

Square's Free plan lists unlimited staff calendars. Square Plus, at $49 a month per location, adds cancellation policy and no-show fees, multi-staff appointment booking and a waitlist (Square pricing page, read September 25, 2026).

How much does nail salon management software cost for a ten-person salon?

For a salon with eight bookable techs, a receptionist and an owner-manager at one location, subscriptions run from $0 on Square Appointments Free to $220 on Mangomint, on each vendor's cheapest plan that covers that team (vendors' own pages, read September 25, 2026). The salon software price you pay depends on who each vendor counts, so Table 2 names each plan and the reason it applies.

The model salon has one location, eight nail techs who take bookings, one front-desk receptionist who does not and one owner-manager who runs the business and does not take bookings: 10 people, 10 logins and eight bookable providers.

Table 2. Monthly subscription for one location with eight bookable techs, a receptionist and an owner-manager, on each vendor's cheapest plan that covers them. Sources as in Table 1, read September 25, 2026. The chart at the top of this page plots the same prices by team size.

* Limited-time base rate; Vagaro's help center prints no list price after it. Square Free covers this salon at $0 per location; cancellation policy and no-show fees start on Square Plus at $49 a month ($588 a year). Twizzlo Free is $0 for up to 150 bookings a month, without SMS, so the table prices Twizzlo on Business Pro (unlimited bookings).

Among the paid plans in Table 2, the spread is 7.3 times. Per Twizzlo's and Mangomint's pricing pages, Twizzlo Business Pro is $29.99 a month and Mangomint $220 for this team: $359.88 against $2,640 over 12 months, a difference of $2,280.12 a year. Two other DaySmart Salon plans cost more than Deluxe for the same team: Deluxe Growth at $212 a month ($149 plus seven users at $9) and Premium at $235 ($199 plus four users). Deluxe Growth adds text marketing, two-way texting and reputation management; Premium adds QuickBooks Connect and a larger text and email plan (DaySmart pricing page, read September 25, 2026).

A price range printed without a headcount can sit below what a full team pays. A guide for nail salon owners that Zenoti published on June 29, 2026, puts Vagaro, GlossGenius and Booksy at roughly $25 to $150 a month plus add-ons. At 10 people, Booksy's own pricing works out to $209.99 a month plus tax and GlossGenius Platinum to $168 (Table 2).

Why does one salon get seven different subscription prices?

One salon gets seven prices because each vendor counts a different thing: the business, the location, each calendar, each user or a staff band. Whether the front desk and the owner count as paid seats changes the bill at some vendors and not at others.

Mangomint bills $10 a month for every user with a profile, front desk included, while Square Appointments bills per location and charges nothing per person (pricing pages read September 25, 2026). Table 3 sets out who counts as a paid seat, role by role.

Table 3. What a nail salon manager pays for, by role, as each vendor's own pricing or help page states it, read September 25, 2026 (Twizzlo from twizzlo.com/pricing/, read September 27, 2026). "Not stated" means the page does not say.

GlossGenius shows how a staff band works. A nine-person salon on Gold pays $56 a month billed monthly; the 10th person moves it past Gold's "up to 9 staff" to Platinum, described as for "teams 10+", at $168. That one hire adds $112 a month, or $1,344 a year, in subscription fees, per GlossGenius's pricing page (read September 25, 2026).

Mangomint's counting rule is the one to check before you sign. Its pricing page says: "Anyone with a profile in Mangomint counts as a user. This includes any staff, like service providers and front desk employees." For the model salon, the receptionist and the owner-manager add two profiles: $20 a month, or $240 a year, for two people who never appear on the booking page.

The same billing units explain why the order changes between one person and 10 people.

What do payroll and commissions add to the monthly bill?

At four of the vendors priced here, payroll is a paid add-on that comes to $84 to $130 a month for 10 people paid, on prices read September 25, 2026; DaySmart Salon includes basic payroll from its Deluxe plan.

Table 4. Payroll and commission tools as each vendor's own page prints them, with our arithmetic for 10 people paid. Payroll prices read September 25, 2026; commission lines read September 25 (DaySmart Salon) and September 27, 2026.

Subscription plus payroll for the model salon: Square Appointments Free from $95 (Square Plus from $144), Vagaro $167.99 on its limited-time base rate, DaySmart Salon Deluxe $132 with basic payroll included, GlossGenius Platinum $268 and Mangomint $350 a month. Booksy stays at $209.99 plus tax, with no payroll on its pricing page.

A commission tool works out what each tech earned from services and retail; a payroll add-on pays them. If you already pay staff through an outside payroll service, the commission tool is the line to budget. If the software should run payroll too, add the payroll line from Table 4 to the subscription.

Where does a flat rate actually beat per-seat pricing?

A per-business price such as Twizzlo Business Pro, $29.99 a month, costs less than per-seat pricing from the second paid person at Booksy and from the first user at Mangomint, but at one person three paid plans and Square Free cost less (competitors' pages read September 25, 2026).

Booksy is $29.99 a month plus tax with one team member, the same figure as Business Pro. Each extra member adds $20: $49.99 plus tax for two people, $109.99 for five and $209.99 for 10. Mangomint has no crossover: one location with one user is $130 a month.

Square Appointments runs on locations: Plus is $49 a month at one location and $147 at three, while a per-business price does not change with locations. Square Free is $0 per location, so a salon that can work without Plus features such as no-show fees and multi-staff booking pays less on Free at any team size.

At one person, three paid plans cost less than $29.99: Vagaro at $23.99 on its limited-time base rate, GlossGenius Standard at $28 billed monthly (without Staff Management) and DaySmart Salon Basic at $29 for one user. Vagaro passes $29.99 at the second calendar and reaches $83.99 at seven. GlossGenius Gold ($56) and Platinum ($168) both sit above $29.99, and the $112 step from Gold to Platinum at the 10th person has no counterpart on a per-business price.

Among the paid plans that cover a team, a per-business price costs less from the second person up and at any number of locations; at one person it ties Booksy and costs more than three plans, and Square Free costs less at any size. What the flat plan includes for a nail salon is on our nail salon scheduling software page.

How do you choose a nail salon management system in four questions?

Four questions settle a nail salon management system shortlist: who holds a login, whether you need checkout hardware, how many locations you run and whether you want commissions calculated.

First, count the people who will hold a login, not only the people who take bookings, and match that number to each vendor's definition. Mangomint counts every profile, DaySmart Salon counts users above an included block, Vagaro counts employee calendars up to seven licenses, and Booksy bills each extra team member without defining one on its pricing page, so ask before you sign.

Second, decide whether you need card readers and a cash drawer at the desk or a way to take payment. If you sell polish at the desk and want stock counts to fall as it sells, check the inventory line on each pricing page: Mangomint lists Retail & Inventory, GlossGenius lists Inventory & Retail Management from its Standard plan, and Square's plan grid lists low-stock alerts on every plan (pages read September 27, 2026). If clients should pay when they book, DaySmart Salon Basic lists online deposits, and Vagaro sells an Online Shopping Cart add-on for deposits and cancellation fees at $10 a month (both read September 25, 2026). For card readers, a cash drawer and card rates, see our nail salon POS guide and our salon POS software guide.

Third, count locations before you compare features. Square Appointments bills each location on Plus and Premium, Mangomint charges $120 per location and GlossGenius each extra location at its plan price less 15% (Vagaro's help center prints no subscription price for an added location), while a per-business price does not change (read September 25, 2026).

Fourth, decide whether you want commissions calculated for you. On pages read September 27, 2026, commission tools sit on Square Plus and Premium ("Tip pooling and commissions tracking"), GlossGenius Platinum ("Customizable commissions") and in Mangomint's staff management tools; DaySmart Salon lists Commission Tracking on Premium Growth (read September 25, 2026). Payroll is a separate paid add-on at Square, Vagaro, GlossGenius and Mangomint (Table 4).

Competitor prices here were read on each vendor's own pricing or help page on September 25, 2026, and they will drift, so check the vendor's page before you buy.

Where does Twizzlo fit, and when does another vendor fit better?

Twizzlo fits a nail salon that wants one price per business for booking, staff shifts, client records and online payments. A salon that wants payroll run or commissions calculated inside its software fits better with a vendor that lists them.

Twizzlo is web-based online booking and appointment scheduling software for appointment-based service businesses, with a public booking page, email reminders (SMS on Business Pro), client records, staff schedules and shifts, and Stripe payments and tips. Free is $0 a month for up to 150 bookings, with no SMS; it is free forever, not a trial. Business Pro is $29.99 a month per business for unlimited bookings and 50 SMS a month, then $0.03 each, with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Both plans include unlimited staff and locations. Support is by email, 24/7. Online payments carry your Stripe processing rate plus a 1.5% Twizzlo platform fee. The fee is set out in our payment processing guide.

What it does for each role, from the Twizzlo Features page:

• Techs: walk-in bookings and a calendar view per staff member.
• Front desk: client history, notes and total spend per client; prepaid bookings on any service, where the client pays the full service price at booking; tips at checkout; and manual payment records.
• Owner: Employee Shifts across locations, role-based access, staff utilization and revenue insights.

Twizzlo's staff tools cover shifts, schedules, access roles and performance visibility; it does not calculate commissions or run payroll. For either inside the software, DaySmart Salon lists Commission Tracking on Premium Growth, and Mangomint, Square, Vagaro and GlossGenius sell payroll add-ons (Table 4). For memberships or packages, Mangomint's pricing page lists Memberships & Packages in its platform (read September 27, 2026).

To test it on a real week of bookings, start on Twizzlo Free: $0 a month for up to 150 bookings, without SMS reminders, and not a trial. See online booking for nail techs or compare both plans on the pricing page.