Planellio vs Pxier Salon

Planellio is web-based event business management software connecting bookings, clients, staff, assets, finance, and operations. It is designed for DJs, photo booth businesses, event hire teams, wedding suppliers, venue-led businesses, and multi-user event operations. Teams can track enquiries and leads, prepare quotes, proposals, and contracts, manage client records, and offer self-service bookings with live availability and pricing. A branded client portal supports planning tasks, payments, questionnaires, music requests, and photo booth selections. The platform also lists a venue calendar, space booking, staff scheduling, and event-day tools. Professional and Business plans include staff portals, job assignments, timesheets, and staff invoice workflows. Business adds a read-only bookings API with scoped access keys; Zapier-compatible polling is also listed. Connections include Stripe, Square, PayPal, GoCardless, Xero, QuickBooks, Zoom, Twilio, WhatsApp, Microsoft, Google, and TemplatesBooth. Every plan has a 30-day free trial, after which monthly billing begins automatically unless cancelled beforehand. Starter costs £29 a month. Planellio has no free plan and is headquartered in London, England, United Kingdom.

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.