Bundled, not stacked.
Vagaro's add-ons stack quickly. ApptOnly Pro bundles everything for one flat price.
No add-on stacking
Vagaro starts at $30, but forms, website, and text marketing each add $10–20/month. ApptOnly Pro bundles them all at $49.
Built for both your clients' languages
Bilingual EN/ES at every touchpoint: booking, intake, reminders, receipts. Vagaro is English only.
Competitor pricing verified June 2026.
What Vagaro does well
Vagaro is a capable, mature platform. It's popular for good reasons, especially for multi-location salons and spas.
Deep feature set
Payroll, inventory, memberships, classes, a branded app. If a salon needs it, Vagaro probably has a module for it, and few platforms match its breadth.
Built for teams
Per-calendar pricing and role permissions scale cleanly from one provider to a full front desk, which makes Vagaro a natural fit for growing, multi-staff businesses.
Marketplace exposure
The Vagaro marketplace puts your business in front of nearby clients who are actively searching for appointments. That can be useful discovery if foot traffic is your goal.
Where Vagaro falls short when you're solo
That same breadth becomes the problem when you're a team of one. You pay for a platform built for front desks, then pay again just to get the basics.
The basics are paid add-ons
Intake forms, a website, and text marketing are things most solo businesses need on day one. On Vagaro each one carries its own monthly fee on top of the base plan, so the headline price is rarely what you actually pay.
Priced for staff you don't have
Vagaro's per-calendar model and team modules are overhead you carry without benefit when it's just you. You end up subsidizing features built for businesses five times your size.
English-only client experience
If you serve Spanish-speaking clients, Vagaro can't meet them in their language. Booking, intake, and reminders are English only, which shuts out anyone who would rather book in Spanish.
The real cost of Vagaro
Vagaro starts at $30 a month, but the features a solo business actually needs are add-ons. Here is what a typical solo setup really costs each month.
- Base plan (1 provider)
- $30
- Intake forms add-on
- +$10
- Vagaro MySite website
- +$20
- Text marketing add-on
- +$20
That is about $31 a month more than ApptOnly's monthly plan, or $372 a year. On ApptOnly's annual plan at $39 a month, the gap widens to roughly $492 a year.
How ApptOnly is different
Three reasons solo providers switch to ApptOnly. They're built in, not bolted on.
Bilingual EN/ES, end to end
Your booking page, intake forms, reminders, and receipts all speak your client's language. English or Spanish, switchable per client, with no add-on and no separate site.
Your brand, not ours
ApptOnly is white-label by default. Clients see your name, your colors, and your booking page. They never see a marketplace or a platform logo competing for their attention.
One price, no commissions
Forms, website, reminders, payments, and CRM are all included for one flat monthly price. We never take a percentage of a booking, from any source, ever.
Switching questions, answered
Bundle, don't stack.
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