Why switch
Why salons move to loci.
The reasons we hear most, with the numbers behind them. Where another system is ahead, we say so too.
01
The bill stopped matching the price.
The plan was one number. Then forms, payroll and texts each became their own line. On loci every feature is on every plan.
- Vagaro
- Add-ons at $10 to $40 each, a branded app at $100
- GlossGenius
- Payroll at $40 a month plus $6 a seat
- Boulevard
- Forms as an add-on, email campaigns at $2 an appointment
- loci
- None of it extra
02
The app took a cut of new clients.
A marketplace that finds you guests can be worth paying for. But when your own marketing brings someone in, the fee should be zero. On loci it always is.
- Fresha
- 20% of a new client’s first visit, $6 minimum
- Booksy Boost
- 30% of the first visit, up to $100
- loci
- Nothing, on every booking
03
A second location meant a second login.
loci runs every location from one account: one service menu with local prices where you need them, one client list that follows a guest between locations, and each location paid out to its own bank.
- Brand
- $99 a location, unlimited staff
- Service versions
- Change a price and past visits keep what they cost
04
The team grew and the price jumped.
loci Team is $49 for one location with as many stylists as you have. Here is the same five-stylist salon on five systems.
List prices from each company’s own pricing page, read October 9, 2026. Card processing is extra on every one of them, this one included.
What loci doesn’t do yet.
If one of these is the reason you would stay, stay. We’ll tell you when it ships.
- Tap to Pay on a phone. We have asked Apple; until then it is the card reader.
- Reserve with Google.
- An AI that answers the phone.
- Lower card rates. loci passes on Stripe’s rate; some others charge less per swipe.
Coming from somewhere else?
- loci vs GlossGeniusBoth are built for salons and both look the part. GlossGenius is ahead on card fees and phone payments. loci costs less as you grow and runs more than one location from one menu.
- loci vs VagaroVagaro does more today for a franchise that locks settings across its locations. loci puts every feature in the price, with no add-ons and no contract.
- loci vs BoulevardBoulevard is the enterprise choice, with deeper reporting for large brands. loci gives a growing salon the same one menu and one client list for less, month to month.
- loci vs FreshaFresha brings you guests through its marketplace and charges for each new one. loci never takes a share of a guest, and a team costs one flat price.
- loci vs SquareSquare Appointments is free for one location and cheap to start. loci is built only for salons, with marketing texts on every plan.
- loci vs BooksyBooksy suits a solo barber or stylist who wants marketplace bookings and Tap to Pay. loci costs less once you add a team, and never takes a share of a new guest.
Try it on your own book.
14 days free, no card. The import reads exports from GlossGenius, Vagaro, Square, Fresha and Booksy.