Vagaro alternative: BoomCloud™ vs Vagaro
Vagaro is a booking, POS and marketing platform widely used by salons, barbershops, nail studios and spas, with a membership feature included.
Buy Vagaro if your business
needs the booking, POS and staff operations that suite does genuinely well.
Buy BoomCloud™ if your business
already has operations handled and wants a dedicated engine that designs, fills and keeps the membership plan.
Membership is one module among forty. Keep the suite for booking and operations — BoomCloud is the dedicated engine that designs, prices, markets and grows the plan the suite only bills.
- $110M+
- in member revenue billed through BoomCloud™
- 3.4M+
- patients and members on plans we power
- 30 days
- free trial, no setup fee, month to month
- 100%
- of your members leave with you if you ever go
What Vagaro does well
- — Very affordable, broadly adopted booking and POS
- — Consumer marketplace that sends bookings to businesses
- — Memberships and packages supported out of the box
When BoomCloud™ is the better fit
- — Recurring membership revenue is the outcome you are trying to grow
- — You want plan design, enrollment pages and retention tooling built for memberships
- — You want membership reporting that is not buried inside sales reports
BoomCloud™ vs Vagaro, side by side
| Vagaro | BoomCloud™ | |
|---|---|---|
| Who owns the member relationship | Varies by platform — some route members through a branded network | Your practice. Your brand, your plan, your patient list, exportable any time. |
| Recurring billing & renewals | Included | Included — monthly or annual, auto-renew, dunning, and receipts handled for you |
| Membership depth | A membership feature inside a booking and POS suite | Dedicated plan builder, online enrollment, retention tooling and live MRR reporting |
| Built for | Salons and spas that need booking, POS and payroll first | Businesses whose main goal is growing recurring membership revenue |
| Pricing model | Check their current pricing page | Flat software fee plus a per-member fee designed to be built into membership dues to support security, service, capacity, and member features as they scale — see /pricing |
| Booking, classes & gift cards | Available today as part of their platform | Membership, enrollment and recurring revenue are the core today — scheduling, classes, staff and gift cards are in development as paid add-ons, so you can consolidate onto one platform |
| Who is accountable for enrollment | You are — the software bills whoever signs up | A Success rep owns your member target, with enrollment campaigns and the Patient Marketplace included |
| What happens as you grow | Check how their fee behaves at 300 members before you sign | The per-member portion is built into membership dues, so the program funds its own capacity as it scales |
| Contract and exit | Confirm contract length and what happens to your member list on exit | Month to month, 30-day free trial, no setup fee — and every member leaves with you |
Details about Vagaro are summarized from their public marketing and pricing pages and can change — always confirm current details with them directly.
Coming soon — optional add-ons
One platform for med spas and aesthetics practices: memberships now, operations next.
You do not have to run your membership program in one system and the rest of your business in another forever. These four modules are being built on top of the same member record, so a member's plan, pricing and history follow them into every booking.
Calendar & appointments
Treatment room and provider scheduling, deposits, and member-only booking windows for high-demand services.
Classes & group scheduling
Events, member nights and recurring treatment blocks, priced from the member's plan tier automatically.
Staff & services
Injector and provider profiles, service menus, durations and availability, with member pricing applied at booking.
Gift cards
Sell and redeem gift cards online, and use them as the first step into a recurring treatment membership.
These modules are in development and will be optional paid add-ons on top of the membership platform — pricing on request. Your membership plan, enrollment, recurring billing and reporting are live today.
Switching from Vagaro
Keep Vagaro for the work it already does well. We import your member roster, plans and renewal dates so billing continues without a gap, and run both side by side until the last renewal clears.
Add-on ladders and per-staff pricing scale with headcount, not success
Suites price by location, by staff seat or by tier, then add marketing, apps and automation as paid rungs — and the bill rises whether or not membership revenue does. BoomCloud is $197/mo + $4.50 per active member (Basic) or $397 + $3.50 (Pro), published, with the per-member portion designed to be built into membership dues so the plan funds its own capacity and support. Keep the suite. Add the engine.
One question to ask Vagaro
“Who in that company is measured on how many members you enroll next month?”
Questions
- Should I cancel Vagaro to use BoomCloud?
- Not today. Keep Vagaro for booking and checkout while BoomCloud runs the membership program — plan tiers, online enrollment, recurring billing and retention. Scheduling, classes, staff and gift cards are in development as optional paid BoomCloud add-ons, so you can consolidate onto one platform when you are ready.
Switching from Vagaro
Bring your plan over with renewal dates and members intact.
We import your roster, map your tiers, keep every member on their current billing cycle and run both systems in parallel until the last renewal clears. 30-day free trial, no setup fee, month to month — and if you ever leave, every member leaves with you.