The full appointment book
Every review and comparison from The Front Desk Report — each one run at the same fictional salon.
Fresha has no free plan on its price list, and the part that is free took five gates, a 20% commission, and a card we could not remove. We ran the same salon through both tools and the two trials ended in opposite kinds of trouble.
We priced GlossGenius, Vagaro, Fresha and Square Appointments for three real salon shapes, subscription plus card processing, from each vendor’s own pages on a stated date. Processing is 70–95% of the bill.
We configured the same five-chair salon in GlossGenius and Vagaro, booked the same 34-appointment week, and planted six traps. What each tool caught, missed, and actually costs.