Comparing GlossGenius and Vagaro? Both give you a booking page, not a real website. Instinctor is the all-in-one that wins the client too, on one flat bill. We build it for you, free.
WHAT GLOSSGENIUS AND VAGARO BOTH MISS
Both platforms give you a booking page and a client calendar. What they leave out is a website: a real, branded presence on Google that a potential client finds when they search for a salon near them. Your Vagaro listing shows up on Vagaro's marketplace page. Your GlossGenius link goes to a hosted booking form. Neither belongs to you, and neither ranks for your business name in your city the way a proper site does. InStudio builds you the website and includes all the back-office tools in one product.
Fees and commission. Both charge every month and take a cut of new-client bookings. Instinctor is $79 flat, with no commission on your clients.
They keep your clients. Both rent your own clients back to you through their marketplaces. With Instinctor you own your site, your data and your client list, for good.
ONE SYSTEM
Instinctor gives your business a professional website plus online booking, reminders, memberships, branded checkout and a 24/7 smart chat, all in one place.
One login, one bill. It does everything GlossGenius and Vagaro do, and adds the client-winning website they leave you to build yourself.
WHAT YOU GET
No plugins to wire together, no five separate tools, no five bills. Each piece is built in and works with the rest.
Everything in one place
Your website, booking, payments, smart chat and marketing run from one dashboard. No five separate tools to wire together.
Online booking that fills your chair
A client books an appointment right from your site: the service and a time that works. It lands on your calendar, with a reminder set so they show up.
Online booking
Customers book and pay on your own site, around the clock. Your calendar fills itself, no phone tag.
A calendar your whole team can see
Put every chair and station on a shared calendar. Clients pick a time that works, your team sees the whole day at a glance.
Invoices and payments
Send branded invoices and take card payments in a tap. The money lands in your account, with no per-booking fees.
Branded checkout, deposits and tips
Take a deposit at booking to end no-shows, and let clients pay and tip by card. The money lands straight in your account, with nothing skimmed off the top.
Smart chat, 24/7
A chat assistant trained on your services and prices, answering questions and booking customers while you sleep.
Smart chat that answers 24/7
A chat assistant greets every visitor, answers questions about your services, prices and availability, and books the appointment while you are with a client.
Built to rank
Every site is built for Google from day one: clean structure, local SEO, page titles and sitemaps done right.
A website that ranks locally
A fast, professional site built to show up when someone nearby searches for your services in your area.
One flat price
Everything above for $79/mo flat. No setup fee, no per-booking fees, and no cut of your revenue.
One system, and you own it
Your site, bookings, calendar, checkout and chat share one login. Your client list is yours, never the marketplace’s.
WHY SWITCH
Both GlossGenius and Vagaro run your bookings, then leave you to build and pay for a real website somewhere else. Instinctor is the website that wins the client and the back office that runs it, on one bill.
InStudioGlossGenius & Vagaro
A website that wins clientsBuilt in, and built to rankA booking page, not a real website
Who builds your websiteWe design it for you, freeYou get a template booking link
Online booking and remindersBuilt inYes, both do this
Smart chat that answers 24/7Built inAn add-on, or none
Memberships, packages and depositsBuilt inYes, sometimes with extra fees
What you pay each month$79 flatMonthly, and up
Commission on your clientsNoneCommon on marketplace bookings
Who owns your site and clientsYou doTheir marketplace keeps them
PRICING
$79
per month, flat
No setup fee, no booking commissions, and no cut of your payments.
We design your site for you. The website, online booking, team scheduling, deposits, smart chat, and retail products are all included.
No, and you never will. The moment you subscribe, our team designs and builds your entire salon website, booking and client system for you.
Yes. Subscribe, tell us about your salon in a two-minute questionnaire, and our team builds the whole thing. No page builder, no templates to wrestle with.
All of it. Our team is on call for your site, your bookings, your payments, anything. Need a change? We make it for you.
Days, not weeks. Subscribe today, send us your details, and we build and launch your salon site ready to take bookings.
Yes. We build it around your salon: your services, your prices and your stylists calendars, with online booking, memberships and payments.
Yes, your number stays yours, untouched. On top of it we add online booking, a smart chat and card payments.
Yes. Clients book a service, pick their stylist and pay by card in a couple of taps, and the money lands in your account.
Yes. Every stylist gets their own calendar, clients pick a time and a person, and no two bookings ever collide.
We move you over. We build your new site, point your domain at it, and handle the switch so nothing breaks.
Yes, and we set it up for you. Already own a domain? We point it at your new site. Do not have one? We get you one.
You start ahead. We build every site to rank: clean structure, local SEO, titles and sitemaps done right from day one.
Yes, around the clock. We train it on your services and prices, and it greets visitors, answers questions and books appointments while you work.
Yes. We set up packages, memberships and recurring billing so your regulars can pre-pay and rebook in a tap.
Never. No per-booking fees, no percentage of your payments. One flat $79/mo and you keep every dollar you earn.
A short 3-month minimum while we build your site and get you up and running, then it is month to month.
All of it, for good. Your site, your data and your clients are yours. We never rent your clients back to you.
GlossGenius and Vagaro run your bookings on their app and give you a booking link, not a real website that ranks and wins new clients. This is your own cinematic site, booking, memberships, payments and smart chat in one, built for you, for one flat price.
$79/mo, flat. No setup fee, no per-booking fees, no cut of your payments. The design, the website, booking, memberships, payments and smart chat are all included.
Skip the GlossGenius versus Vagaro debate and we design your all-in-one site for you, free. It is yours from day one.