SalonAppy vs Zoho Shifts

SalonAppy is an online management system for hair salons, beauty salons, spas, and related businesses. It combines appointment scheduling, online booking, staff calendars, and mobile staff access through Android, iOS, and the web. Client tools support records, tags, discounts, and advanced filtering. Automated SMS and WhatsApp messages can send reminders, confirmations, surveys, and birthday greetings. The system tracks product sales, inventory, low-stock alerts, client payments, receivables, expenses, and revenue. Administrators can control employee permissions for viewing, adding, editing, or deleting information. The Pro plan lists Google Calendar and Reserve with Google integrations; WhatsApp and Instagram are additional modules. SalonAppy says its iPhone, iPad, and Android apps support 23 languages, data is stored on secure servers with automatic backups, and users can export data. The Pro plan costs $12.50 a month per user, billed yearly. The service has no free plan and offers a trial period.

Zoho Shifts is employee scheduling and time tracking software for businesses. Managers can create conflict-free schedules and follow attendance in real time, including who is working, on break, or late. They can manage time-off and shift requests, swaps, and open shifts, while built-in messaging supports direct messages, group chats, and announcement channels. GPS tagging and geofencing can be used to verify check-ins at job sites. Employees can use iOS or Android apps or web access. Schedules can sync with Google Calendar, Outlook, and Apple Calendar, though synchronization is one-way and unavailable on the Free plan. Zoho Analytics can sync shift, employee, time-off request, and time-entry data for custom reports; the REST API provides access to employees, shifts, time-off requests, and timesheets. The Free plan costs nothing and supports up to 25 users. Zoho describes billing as pay-as-you-go with no contract, with subscriptions that can be started or stopped at any time.