Bookables vs Pxier Salon

Bookables is a web booking platform for service businesses, combining bookings, scheduling, customers, quotes, and payments. It supports mobile services, appointments, venues, hire, classes, and courses. Customers can choose a service and available slot on a business booking page, with pricing shown before booking. The schedule includes calendar and map views, route stops, and drive times; Pro can offer customers the slot that adds the least driving. Estimates and quotes are unlimited and free on every plan, while good, better, best estimate options are included with Pro. The Free plan costs nothing and includes 200 bookings/month, unlimited staff, estimates, services, and territories, with no credit card required. Pro has no monthly fee and costs $1 as a one-time purchase per confirmed booking; card payments cost 3% per transaction. Prepaid Pro packs cost $0.50 as a one-time purchase for 1,000 bookings or $0.75, paid once for 500 bookings, with credits that never expire. Bookables lists accounting sync and connections to other apps as part of the Pro add-on. It states that it does not provide checkpoint scanning, live tracking, or incident reporting for security patrol work.

Pxier Salon is a cloud platform for hair, beauty and nail salons, barbershops, and businesses with one or multiple locations. Its calendar handles walk-ins and appointments together, checking stylist, chair and station availability to avoid conflicts. The POS covers service and retail sales, tips, split transactions by stylist, refunds, and payment by cash, checks, cards, coupons or gift cards. Client records can hold color and chemical formulas, service history, preferences and allergies. Salons can sell prepaid service packages and recurring memberships with automated monthly billing. Listed integrations include QuickBooks, Xero and Sage, as well as third-party calendars, payment processors and loyalty or rewards services. The RESTful API supports creating and updating client, appointment, transaction, service and product data. Pxier’s salon app is available for iPhone and Android, and is free for businesses subscribed to its salon cloud software. The service is also available on the web. Essentials is $10 a month per station or chair, with a $49 minimum; Professional is $15 a month with a $79 minimum; Enterprise is $20 a month with a $129 minimum. A free 30-day trial is offered; there is no free plan.