Pxier Salon vs Velsa

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.

Velsa combines venue bookings, contracts, event operations, exhibitor management, and fund accounting in a web or self-hosted system. Booking tools cover partitioned spaces, holds and stages, ranked space suggestions, contracts and addenda, payment schedules, and sales forecasting. Operations features include run-of-show schedules, floor plans, work orders, a multi-venue calendar, staff assignments, and equipment inventory. Accounting covers invoicing, payments and refunds, budget variance reporting, configurable ledger exports, and financial statements. DocuSign can be used for contract signatures; card payment adapters include BluePay, Stripe, and CardPointe. The maker describes TLS in transit, AES-256 encryption at rest via AWS KMS, role-based access controls, and audit logging. It says SOC 2 Type II is on the roadmap. The free Community Edition is self-hosted, community-supported, and has no SLA. Cloud Starter is $199 per month for one venue and five users; higher tiers vary in venue, user, and support limits. Full self-service account export remains on the roadmap, although scoped exports are available. Velsa is aimed at convention and civic centers, campuses, fairgrounds, expo halls, and trade-show operators, with particular suitability stated for government and nonprofit venues.