Barberly vs Pronto

Barberly provides barbershops and salons with branded apps, online booking, walk-in queues, payments, team tools, and marketing features. A shop can publish a mobile app on the App Store and Google Play with bookings, waitlists, payments, and loyalty features. Its branded booking website supports a custom domain and can be embedded into an existing site. A tablet can act as a self-check-in kiosk, adding walk-ins to the queue alongside online bookings; the appointment board shows upcoming appointments and the electronic queue. Clients can book from a shop’s Google Search or Maps profile, with separate links for multiple locations. Supported payment providers are Stripe, Square, Revolut, and SumUp; Barberly says it takes no commission on payments. Businesses can require deposits, saved card details, or advance payment, and configure fees for no-shows and late cancellations. Plans include unlimited locations, team members, services, and app users, with no fee per booking. The subscription includes 500 SMS notifications per month; additional messages cost $0.03 each. Pricing starts at $9/mo, and the 30-day trial includes every feature without requiring a credit card.

Pronto provides appointment booking, point of sale, client CRM, inventory tracking, and automated reminders for salons and related businesses. It is presented for beauty, hair, and nail salons, barbershops, spas, lash studios, and tattoo studios. Clients can book online using only a name and phone number, without an account or app download. The point of sale supports cash, card, and transfer, discounts, printed or digital receipts, and offline checkout. Booking confirmations and reminders can be sent through Email, Telegram, WhatsApp, and Viber. Businesses can link a booking page from Instagram or Google and import client lists from Fresha, Vagaro, Booksy, Mindbody, Square, or another platform that exports CSV. Cloud users can export client data and history; self-hosted data stays on the user's server. The free plan allows one staff member, 100 clients, 50 bookings per month, and 100 products. Starter costs $19 a month and includes five staff, unlimited clients and bookings, and 2,000 products. Pronto runs on the web and supports self-hosting on Linux, macOS, or Windows with WSL2; self-hosting uses Docker Compose and requires at least 1 GB RAM.