Bookables vs Tilavon

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.

Tilavon is nail salon POS and management software built for salons, nail bars and spas in the United States. The POS tracks services and products and supports split payments, tips and discounts. Clients can book online, and a walk-in queue rotates clients among available technicians. Staff features track commissions and tips; employees can view schedules, earnings, client notes and queue position in the app. Marketing tools include automated SMS and email, reminders, and QR-enrolled loyalty cards for Apple Wallet and Google Wallet. The POS, owner dashboard, appointment booking, employee app and client booking support English, Vietnamese, Spanish and Chinese. Listed integrations include Helcim, Stripe Terminal, QuickBooks, Google Reviews, Twilio, SendGrid, Meta/Instagram, Google Calendar and iCal/Apple Calendar. The maker says stored data is encrypted with AES-256 and data in transit with TLS 1.3. Customers can export client records, transaction history and reports in CSV without a fee. It is available on Android, iOS and web. Boutique costs $19/month for up to five employees; Pro is $39/month for up to 20 employees; Elite is $89/month for up to three locations.