Twizzlo vs Vagaro

Vagaro's United States base subscription is $23.99 per month, marked "Only for a limited time" on Vagaro's own pricing article, and one calendar license is included in it. That is the whole of the published plan price. Everything above one bookable calendar is priced per calendar, and everything Vagaro calls a premium feature is priced separately again.

Vagaro publishes the base and the per-calendar rule but not the monthly totals, so here is the arithmetic: $23.99 + $10 × (N − 1) for one through seven calendars, then a flat $83.99 for seven or more.

The base subscription includes one calendar license and Vagaro's core salon and spa feature set: memberships, packages and gift cards, retail and product sales, and payroll and commission reporting. A Vagaro Marketplace listing comes with it.

What the base does not include is any premium module; every add-on and its price is listed under Vagaro paid add-ons and what each one costs below.

Vagaro states that each additional employee calendar is $10 per month for up to seven licenses, and that after paying for seven licenses you can add new employees to your account at no additional charge. Both halves of that sentence matter: the $10 is not open-ended, and the free-above-seven rule only applies once seven licenses have actually been paid for.

Priced out license by license: one calendar $23.99, two $33.99, three $43.99, four $53.99, five $63.99, six $73.99, and seven or more $83.99 a month.

Vagaro's own pricing widget follows the same base-plus-per-calendar shape. We checked it in Canada, where prices differ from the US figures on this page.

Three bookable calendars is $23.99 + 2 × $10 = $43.99 a month. Five is $23.99 + 4 × $10 = $63.99. Seven or more is $23.99 + 6 × $10 = $83.99, and that is the ceiling: an eighth and ninth employee are added at no additional charge.

Twizzlo Business Pro is $29.99 a month flat at every one of those counts. The monthly gap in Twizzlo's favor is $14.00 at three calendars, $34.00 at five and $54.00 at seven or more, which is $648.00 a year at the ceiling. Below that, at a single calendar, Vagaro is $6.00 a month cheaper than Twizzlo Business Pro, and this page says so. Solving $23.99 + $10 × (N − 1) > $29.99 gives N > 1.6, so the crossover lands at the second calendar.

None of those totals include card processing, sales tax or any add-on module.

• Vagaro MySite website: $20 a month
• Forms: $10 a month
• Check-In App: $10 a month
• Live Stream: $10 a month per license
• Branded App: $100 a month (Limited Time), plus a $100 one-time development fee
• Data Lake: $40 a month
• Vera Receptionist: $10 a month
• Connect by Vagaro: free to start; Vagaro recommends a text plan
• Vagaro Payroll: $34 a month plus $5 a month per employee

A five-calendar salon that wants a website, forms and check-in is $63.99 + $20 + $10 + $10 = $103.99 a month before any card processing.

Vagaro splits its US rates by monthly volume. Small Merchants, businesses processing less than $4,000 per month, pay 2.6% + $0.10 per transaction on swipe or dip, 3.5% + $0.19 keyed-in, and 2.6% + $0.16 on tap to phone, plus additional monthly FANF and Mastercard location fees.

Large Merchants, businesses processing more than $4,000 per month, pay 2.29% + $0.19 per transaction on swipe or dip, 3.5% + $0.19 keyed-in, and 2.29% + $0.25 on tap to phone, plus a $10 monthly fee, plus additional monthly FANF and Mastercard location fees.

Twizzlo payments run through Stripe at your own Stripe account's rate, plus a 1.5% Twizzlo platform fee.

Vagaro sells US text plans from $20/month for 1,000 credits. For email, its US Email Marketing line lists a Small 1,000 Credits tier as free with no extra credit charge, and paid tiers start at $10 for 5,000 credits.

Vagaro's base-features documentation lists notifications and reminders via text messages and/or emails as included, while the pricing article sells those text plans separately, so this page does not state how many text credits, if any, the base subscription carries.

For comparison, Twizzlo Business Pro includes 50 appointment SMS a month, then $0.03 each; Twizzlo does not offer text or email marketing campaigns.

There is no free plan. Vagaro offers a 30-day free trial that auto-converts to a paid monthly subscription the day after it ends, and Vagaro states there are no refunds on the subscription.

Twizzlo Free, by contrast, is a permanent $0 plan rather than a trial, and Twizzlo Business Pro comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

The two products meter different things. Vagaro charges for a base plus each bookable calendar to a seven-license ceiling. Twizzlo charges per business and counts neither staff nor locations.

At one calendar Vagaro is cheaper, $23.99 against $29.99. From the second calendar on, Twizzlo is cheaper, by $4.00 at two, $14.00 at three, $34.00 at five and $54.00 at seven or more. Add Vagaro MySite to the Vagaro side and the gap widens by another $20 a month, because Twizzlo's booking page is included.

For the same arithmetic against other vendors, see Booksy pricing, Square Appointments pricing or the salon booking software shortlist.

Here is what Twizzlo does not do, so you can decide before you switch.

• No retail inventory. Vagaro runs product retail; Twizzlo does not.
• No membership autopay and no package builder. Vagaro's base subscription covers memberships, packages and gift cards.
• No payroll and no commissions. Vagaro sells Vagaro Payroll at $34/month plus $5/month per employee and includes payroll and commission reporting in its base.
• No intake or consent forms. Vagaro sells Forms as a $10/month add-on.
• No marketing automation suite. Vagaro sells US text plans from $20/month for 1,000 credits and email marketing tiers above a free 1,000-credit plan. Twizzlo Business Pro includes 50 appointment SMS a month, then $0.03 each, with no text-marketing campaigns.
• No in-house card rate. Vagaro publishes its own US rates down to the tap-to-phone line; Twizzlo payments use your Stripe account's rate plus a 1.5% platform fee.