No. There is no free plan. The 14-day trial runs on the Gold plan without a card, and the account is locked when the trial ends until a card is added; the cheapest plan after that is Standard at $28 a month, or $24 a month paid yearly. Bookodile is free at one location with up to two active booking spots and 40 bookings a month, with every add-on included, for as long as those three hold.

Can I move my customers from GlossGenius to Bookodile?

GlossGenius exports your client list as a CSV — name, email, phone and date of birth, not notes — from the web, by the account owner. Bookodile does not yet import one. Customers are created automatically the first time they book, so the list rebuilds itself as regulars return, and your team can add anyone by hand in the meantime.

Does Bookodile take card payments and deposits like GlossGenius?

No. GlossGenius processes cards at a flat 2.6%, keeps a card on file, takes deposits and charges no-show fees. Bookodile does none of that. Payment stays between you and your customer, however you already handle it, and the payment-tracking add-on records what arrived.

Can I use GlossGenius outside the United States?

No. Its help centre says it is available only to businesses in the United States and Puerto Rico, the app is not in other countries' stores, and its payments do not work outside those regions. Bookodile is priced by country band, and the booking page reads in English, Slovak, Czech or Vietnamese.

What happens to my booking link, Reserve with Google and the Instagram button?

Your GlossGenius address is yourbusiness.glossgenius.com, and a custom domain only forwards to it. Bookodile gives you bookodile.com/book/your-business, and every place the old link lives gets the new one. Reserve with Google and the Facebook and Instagram buttons are GlossGenius integrations; Bookodile has no equivalent, so the booking link goes into your Google profile, your bio or a post like any link, and a QR code is generated for print.

How does the pricing compare for a business with three people?

On GlossGenius, Standard allows one extra member and only in the Accountant role, so three people who take bookings means Gold — one flat fee for up to nine. On Bookodile, three people who each take bookings at the same time are three booking spots, which is above the free tier; the figure for your country is on the pricing page. If two of them share one room, that is two spots, and a receptionist is never counted.

Comparison

Bookodile vs GlossGenius

GlossGenius is an app-first booking and payments system sold only in the United States, with a flat card rate and three tiered plans. Bookodile takes no payments, but it has a free plan, every feature on every account, booking spots instead of tiers, and four languages.

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Why businesses switch from GlossGenius#

No tier to climb when you hire, and a plan that is actually free#

GlossGenius's Standard plan allows one extra member, in the Accountant role only, so the first person who takes bookings beside you means Gold, and the tenth means Platinum; there is no free plan, only a 14-day trial. Bookodile has no tiers. The bill follows the booking spots that took a booking that month, anyone who takes no bookings costs nothing, and a business at one location with up to two active spots and up to 40 bookings a month is free for as long as that holds.

Every feature on every account#

On GlossGenius, forms and waivers, the waiting list, Reserve with Google, rooms and resources and custom roles all start at Gold. Bookodile has no plans: every account, including a free one, has every feature and every add-on.

Two people, one visit, one booking#

GlossGenius's multi-professional booking is a bundle of up to three separate appointments, created only on the booking site: it cannot be rescheduled or cancelled as one, each part is checked out on its own, and one failed deposit fails the lot. A Bookodile combo is one booking with a stage per person, each with its own duration and its own room, each person blocked only for their stage, booked once and cancelled once.

Classes with a capacity#

GlossGenius's help centre says there is no dedicated feature for classes, and its workaround is a hidden service with one appointment per attendee. Bookodile has events with a capacity and a registration list, and a recurring class is a service on a resource with a capacity, so it fills up and stops.

A room can be the thing that is booked#

In GlossGenius a resource is attached to a service on Gold and Platinum and checked beside the person; the customer never sees it, and its help centre does not describe a resource with a capacity above one or a booking with a resource and no person. In Bookodile a service can need a room alone, a person alone, or both, every resource has a capacity and its own hours, and the capacity is enforced when the booking is made.

Sold outside the United States, in four languages#

GlossGenius is available only to businesses in the United States and Puerto Rico, its app is not in other countries' stores, and everything a customer reads is English. Bookodile is priced by country band, and its booking page reads in English, Slovak, Czech or Vietnamese, set per business and separately from the language the owner reads the dashboard in.

What each one costs#

GlossGenius

One flat fee per business account, monthly or yearly, in US dollars, and only for businesses in the United States and Puerto Rico. Standard is $28 a month or $24 a month paid yearly, Gold is $56 or $48, Platinum is $168 or $148, and two Practice plans with charting are $168 or $148 and $298 or $248. The fee is not per person, but each plan carries a headcount: Standard allows one extra member and only in the Accountant role, Gold allows nine, Platinum has no cap — so the first person who takes bookings beside you means Gold, and the tenth means Platinum. Each extra location is billed on top, below the plan rate. Card processing is a flat 2.6% on GlossGenius's own readers. There is no free plan; the 14-day trial runs on Gold without a card, and the account is locked when it ends until a card is added. Accounts opened before 3 September 2025 keep the older monthly rates. GlossGenius's own pages disagree in places: the yearly saving on the Practice plans is 12% or 14% depending on whether you read the pricing page or the help centre, the pricing page marks the Reception add-on as coming soon while the help centre has it in beta on every plan, and multi-professional booking is ticked on every plan in the plan table but named as Gold and Platinum in the feature articles.

Standard, monthlyPer business account, per month; one extra member, in the Accountant role only: $28
Standard, yearlyPer month, billed annually: $24
Gold, monthlyPer month; teams of up to nine: $56
Gold, yearlyPer month, billed annually: $48
Platinum, monthlyPer month; no team cap: $168
Platinum, yearlyPer month, billed annually: $148
Practice EssentialsPer month, or $148 billed annually; adds charting: $168
Practice AdvancedPer month, or $248 billed annually: $298
Each extra locationPer month on Standard / Gold / Platinum; $20 / $41 / $126 billed annually, per the multi-location guide: $24 / $48 / $143
Card processingFlat, on every card payment; 2.9% + 30¢ on invoices; instant payouts add 1.8%: 2.6%
PayrollPer month, plus $6 per seat paid that month: $40
Text-marketing creditsFor 100 credits above the plan allowance; 250 for $7.99, 500 for $11.99: $4.99

From GlossGenius's published pricing, seen 9 September 2026. Prices change and vary by region — check their page before you decide. Their pricing page

Bookodile

A base rate per location plus a rate per booking spot that actually took a booking that month, in country bands. Nothing else — no commission, no per-booking fee, no feature sold separately.

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One location with three booking spots costs $68 a month.
Free at 1 location, up to 2 booking spots and 40 bookings a month — every add-on included.

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Feature by feature#

Bookodile's column is checked against the product on 13 September 2026. GlossGenius's is read from what it publishes, on 9 September 2026 — never inferred.

Pricing#

Bookodile

GlossGenius

A free plan that stays free#

Not a trial: a plan a small business can stay on.

Bookodile

Yes

Free at one location with up to two active booking spots and 40 bookings a month, every add-on included. Not a trial — a plan a small business stays on. More

GlossGenius

No free plan. The pricing page's own question about a free plan is answered with the 14-day trial, which runs on Gold, and the account is locked when the trial ends until a card is added. Source

No commission on bookings#

No cut of a booking, no new-client fee, no per-booking charge.

Bookodile

Yes

No commission, no new-client fee, no per-booking charge. The bill is the subscription and nothing else. More

GlossGenius

Yes

No marketplace and no per-booking fee; the help centre lists no transaction or key-in fees. Card processing is a percentage of each payment, charged separately. Source

Every feature included#

Nothing sold separately — text bundles, marketing, forms, a branded app, extra locations.

Bookodile

Yes

Every add-on is free and included — reminders, reviews, vouchers, the waiting list, multi-location, forecasting. Nothing is sold separately. More

GlossGenius

Payroll is a $40-a-month add-on plus $6 a seat, text-marketing credits above the plan allowance are sold in bundles, each extra location is billed monthly, and card readers and physical gift cards are bought separately. Source

The same features on every plan#

No capability reserved for a higher tier.

Bookodile

Yes

There are no plans and no tiers. Every account, including a free one, has every feature. More

GlossGenius

Standard has no forms or waivers, no waiting list, no Reserve with Google, no themes or font packs, no custom roles and no rooms or resources, and allows one extra member. Gold caps the team at nine; Platinum lifts the cap and adds per-service commissions, pixel tracking and priority support. Source

No minimum term or cancellation fee#

Bookodile

Yes

Monthly, no minimum term, no cancellation fee. Paying yearly is optional and costs ten months. More

GlossGenius

Yes

Month to month, auto-renewing, cancel any time, or yearly at 12–14% off. Fees are non-refundable beyond a 15-day window after the last payment, cancellation takes effect at the end of the cycle, and the price can change on 14 days' notice. Source

Processes your customers' card payments#

Takes the customer's money at booking or at the till.

Bookodile

Bookodile does not take your customers' money. The payment-tracking add-on records what you were paid; payment stays between you and the customer. More

GlossGenius

Yes

Built in, at a flat 2.6% on every card payment, or 1% or 0% with the rest charged to the customer as a convenience fee. Its own Tap & Go and Pro readers only, no third-party reader, and only in the United States and Puerto Rico. Source

Taking bookings#

Bookodile

GlossGenius

A hosted booking page#

Bookodile

Yes

bookodile.com/book/your-business, with your logo, colour, services and hours. One page per location. More

GlossGenius

Yes

yourbusiness.glossgenius.com on every plan, live from sign-up, with direct links to a single service or team member. Source

Customers book without an account or an app#

Bookodile

Yes

A name plus an email or a phone number. No account, no app, no password. A web portal shows customers every booking they hold, if they want it. More

GlossGenius

Yes

No app and no account. The customer enters a name, phone number and email, and a card if the business requires one. Source

Several services in one booking#

Bookodile

Partly

Combo services chain stages into one booking, and the extras you configure are offered during booking, in more than one round. Customers do not pick arbitrary pairs from the catalogue — you decide which combinations exist. More

GlossGenius

Yes

Customers pick several services in one booking, each keeping its own processing time. Staff can reorder the services and set a custom duration for each inside an appointment. Source

Back-to-back services with different team members#

Each person is blocked only for their own part, not for the whole visit.

Bookodile

Yes

Each stage of a combo can have its own team member, its own duration and its own room, booked back to back. Each person is blocked only for their own stage, never for the whole visit. Staff move the whole visit in one step, at times that fit every person in it. More

GlossGenius

Partly

Its multi-professional booking lets a customer book up to three team members in one pass on the booking site, but each is a separate appointment: times chain from the first pick, each person is blocked only for their own appointment, the set cannot be rescheduled or cancelled together, every deposit must succeed or the whole bundle fails, each is checked out separately, and staff cannot create one in the app or on the desktop. Source

Rooms, chairs and equipment as bookable resources#

With a capacity, and bookable without a person.

Bookodile

Yes

Rooms, chairs and equipment with a capacity and their own hours. A service can need a resource alone, a person alone, or both, and capacity is enforced when the booking is made. More

GlossGenius

Extra cost

Rooms and equipment on Gold and Platinum, assigned to services, with the person's and the resource's availability both checked. Customers never see a resource; a capacity above one and a booking with a resource but no person are not documented. Source

Classes and events with a capacity#

Bookodile

Yes

Events with a capacity and a registration list for one-off things; a recurring class is a service on a resource with a capacity, so it fills up and stops. More

GlossGenius

The help centre says there is no dedicated feature for classes. The documented workaround is a hidden service and one appointment per attendee — ten attendees, ten appointments. Source

A different price per team member#

Bookodile

Yes

A service can be priced per team member, or per category such as Junior and Senior, and the customer sees which is which. More

GlossGenius

Not published

The service editor documents one price per service, with starting-price and price-hidden toggles. No article describes a different price per team member for the same service.

A different duration per team member#

Bookodile

Yes

A service can take a different time per team member. Leave someone blank and they use the service's own duration. More

GlossGenius

Not published

Duration is set on the service. Staff can change it inside a single appointment; a standing duration per team member is not documented.

Buffer time that blocks the calendar#

Bookodile

Yes

A buffer after every service blocks the person and any resource it used. Enforced on the booking page and in the booking API. More

GlossGenius

Yes

A per-service Block Time After on every plan, shown grey on the calendar and hidden from customers, added once at the end when several services are booked. A separate processing time lets another customer book the gap in the middle of a service. No buffer before a service is documented. Source

A waiting list with automatic offers#

A cancellation is offered to whoever is waiting, without you doing anything.

Bookodile

Yes

A cancellation is offered automatically to whoever has waited longest for that service, with a three-hour countdown. Confirming books them straight in. More

GlossGenius

Extra cost

On Gold, Platinum and the Practice plans, a cancellation that opens a matching slot sends everyone waiting an automatic email and text with a booking link, and the first to book gets it. Not on Standard. Customers must pick a specific team member to join, and no card or deposit is taken at that point. Source

Recurring bookings#

Bookodile

Partly

Your team can create a repeating series from the calendar — weekly, every two weeks or monthly, up to 52 visits. Customers cannot book a recurring appointment themselves. More

GlossGenius

Yes

Staff create a repeating appointment every so many days, weeks or months with an end date, in the app or on the web. An existing appointment cannot be turned into a series; a series or a single visit can be deleted. Source

Booking rules#

Minimum notice, how far ahead, approval, cancellation window, slot spacing.

Bookodile

Yes

Minimum notice, maximum advance days, slot interval, auto-confirm or approval, and a cancellation window — one set of rules per business. More

GlossGenius

Yes

Booking window in hours, advance limit in months, 10- to 60-minute increments, auto-approve for everyone, for existing customers only or never, a card requirement and a cancellation window. One set of rules for the whole team, not per person. Source

Customers cancel or reschedule themselves#

Bookodile

Partly

Customers cancel from the confirmation email, outside your cancellation window. Rescheduling is cancel and book again; there is no one-step move. More

GlossGenius

Yes

Links in the scheduling, confirmation and reminder messages let customers cancel or reschedule outside the cancellation window; a reschedule changes the date and time only. A multi-professional booking is handled one appointment at a time. Source

Deposits and no-show protection#

Bookodile

No card on file and no deposits, because Bookodile does not process payments. A no-show is recorded on the customer, not charged. More

GlossGenius

Yes

A card on file for every booking, for new customers only or never; a deposit per service of up to 100%; a percentage cancellation fee charged to the card and reduced by any deposit; and a Mark as No-Show action that collects the fee. Source

Extras offered while booking#

Bookodile

Yes

Extras are offered while booking, per service or per category, in up to several rounds, with an optional discount for adding them. More

GlossGenius

Partly

The help centre says there is no built-in add-on feature. The documented workarounds are one Service Option per booking or a standalone service named as an add-on. Packages and memberships are sold on the booking site's shop. Source

What customers see#

Bookodile

GlossGenius

Listed in a consumer marketplace#

A directory where customers find you — and your competitors beside you.

Bookodile

No marketplace. Your booking page carries only your business, and no competitor is shown beside you — which also means it sends you no new customers.

GlossGenius

No consumer directory. Customers are told to get the booking link from the business, its social profiles or Google. Source

An app for customers#

Bookodile

No consumer app. Customers book in the browser, and a web portal lists every booking they hold with any Bookodile business. More

GlossGenius

Customers book on the web; the client guide says no app needs downloading, and no consumer app is documented. Source

Booking page languages#

What your customers read.

Bookodile

Yes

English, Slovak, Czech and Vietnamese, set per business. What your customers read and what you read in the dashboard are separate settings. More

GlossGenius

Partly

English only. The App Store lists English as the app's one language, and no booking-site language setting is documented. The help article on custom language is about adding your own text to notifications, not translation. Source

Your business's time zone, shown correctly#

Bookodile

Yes

Every time is shown in the business's own zone, including on your dashboard. A customer in another zone sees both clocks before they confirm. More

GlossGenius

Partly

One time zone per account. Multi-location is built for locations in the same time zone, with other zones listed as coming soon. How the booking site shows times to a visitor in another zone is not documented. Source

Branding#

Logo, colour, custom CSS, custom domain.

Bookodile

Partly

Your logo, a second logo for dark backgrounds, a logo that links back to your own website, your brand colour with a contrast check, and a banner strip. No custom CSS and no custom domain. More

GlossGenius

Partly

Cover image, accent colour, about text, portfolio and social links on every plan; seven themes, colour palettes and font packs on Gold and Platinum. A custom domain can only forward to the glossgenius.com address, and there is no access to the site's code. Source

Dark mode on the booking page#

Bookodile

Yes

The hosted page follows the customer's device. The embedded widget stays light on purpose, so it matches the website it sits in. More

GlossGenius

Partly

The business can pick a Dark palette on the Play and Organic themes, on Gold and up. A booking page that follows the customer's device setting is not documented. Source

Running the business#

Bookodile

GlossGenius

Calendar#

Day, week and month; drag to move; blockers.

Bookodile

Yes

Day, week and month. Drag a booking to a new time or a different person, block out time, add a walk-in, filter by person or service. A visit with several services moves as one — dragged in the calendar, or from the booking dialog, which offers only the times that fit everyone in it. More

GlossGenius

Yes

Day, week and month, with a column per person; drag-and-drop and resize on the web, drag with a five-minute snap and pinch-to-zoom on the rebuilt mobile calendar; personal blocks, including repeating ones. Source

A native app for your team#

Bookodile

No native app. The dashboard is a web app that installs to a phone's home screen and works there. More

GlossGenius

Yes

iOS and Android, and the product is built around them: themes, forms and waivers, gift-card redemption, reviews, two-way calendar sync and the Google, Facebook and Instagram buttons are set up in the app only. Payroll, subscription management and detailed analytics are web only. Source

Several locations in one account#

Bookodile

Yes

Any number of locations in one account, each with its own team, hours, services and booking page, and a group dashboard that totals them. More

GlossGenius

Yes

Since August 2026: one account, one customer list, one team and one booking site with a Locations tab, each extra location billed at its own monthly rate. Locations must share a time zone and tax rate; invoices, Reserve with Google and house calls stay at the original location. Source

Roles and permissions#

Custom roles, per-permission control.

Bookodile

Yes

Owner, Manager, Employee and Receptionist ready-made, or build a role and set each permission by hand — including whether someone sees only their own bookings, customers and figures. More

GlossGenius

Extra cost

Eight preset roles, from Owner to Medical Director, with each permission adjustable — own or everyone's calendar, checkout, refunds, reports — on Gold and Platinum. Not on Standard, which allows one extra member in the Accountant role. Source

Reports#

Bookodile

Yes

Revenue, bookings, average value and cancellation rate; twelve months charted; top services; team ranked by revenue; per location or across all. Forecasting and revenue split are included add-ons. More

GlossGenius

Yes

Sales, appointments, retail, sales tax, inventory, transactions, most valuable customers, expenses and packages on Standard. Commission earnings, time sheets and payroll on Gold and Platinum, plus staff performance, retention and utilisation reports and AI-built custom reports. No forecast report is documented. Source

A leaderboard for the team#

Team members see where they rank on bookings or sales, with a winner. A report only managers can open is partly.

Bookodile

Yes

A monthly competition on bookings or revenue that the whole team sees, with a winner per category if you want one, results frozen and emailed on the 1st, and a Hall of fame. Revenue amounts stay hidden from the team unless you show them. An included add-on. More

GlossGenius

Partly

The team scorecard ranks team members on sales, ticket value and retention on Gold and Platinum, but service provider roles can view only their own reports. Goal setting on every plan lets each team member track their own revenue goal, with no ranking against colleagues. Source

Point of sale, stock and payroll#

Bookodile

No point of sale, no stock, no payroll. A walk-in is a booking. More

GlossGenius

Yes

A built-in point of sale with its own readers, Tap to Pay, split payments, invoices and buy-now-pay-later; inventory with barcode scanning and low-stock alerts; payroll with US tax filing as a $40-a-month add-on plus $6 per paid seat. Source

Confirmations and reminders#

Email and text; included or charged.

Bookodile

Partly

Email confirmations, reminders the day before and two hours before, cancellations and follow-ups — all included, in your business's language. Text messages are built but not switched on. More

GlossGenius

Yes

Unlimited text and email at no extra cost: scheduling, a 72-hour confirmation, a 24-hour reminder, thank-you, birthday and cancellation notices. Text wording cannot be changed; rebooking reminders and custom timing need Gold. Source

Email and text campaigns#

Bookodile

Partly

No bulk email or text campaigns. An automated win-back sequence for customers who drift away, and promotions shown on the booking page, are included add-ons. More

GlossGenius

Yes

Email campaigns are unlimited on every plan. Text campaigns run on credits — 100 once on Standard, 500 a month on Gold, 2,500 on Platinum, more in bundles from $4.99 — and every campaign is reviewed by hand within 24 hours before it sends. Source

Reviews#

Collect, publish, and ask for Google reviews.

Bookodile

Yes

Collect a review after each visit, publish on your booking page when you choose, reply in public or privately, and ask happy customers for a Google review in the same email. More

GlossGenius

Yes

A review request in every receipt, one per paid appointment, shown on the booking site; reviews can be hidden but not deleted. On Gold and up the star link can point at your Google Business profile instead. Source

Gift vouchers, discount codes and promotions#

Also packages and memberships.

Bookodile

Partly

Gift vouchers, discount codes, promotions and upsell discounts, all included. No packages or memberships, and vouchers are issued by you rather than sold online. More

GlossGenius

Partly

Digital gift cards on every plan, physical cards from a storefront, packages and memberships sold on the booking site, and manual discounts at checkout. No promo or discount codes: the help centre says the booking site has no way to create them. Source

Google or Outlook calendar sync#

Bookodile

Partly

Bookings are pushed into Google Calendar as they are made, moved or cancelled. One direction only — Google events do not block your availability — and no Outlook. More

GlossGenius

Partly

An outbound feed to Google, Outlook or iCal, which Google may take up to 24 hours to show. Two-way sync pulls phone-calendar events into the mobile app only; they do not appear on the web calendar. Source

Intake and consent forms#

Bookodile

Partly

A consent checkbox in your own wording, invoice details that can be optional or required, and a notes field. No custom intake forms and no e-signatures. More

GlossGenius

Extra cost

Intake forms and waivers with a required e-signature on Gold, Platinum and the Practice plans. Standard has no forms or waivers, and forms are built in the mobile app only. Source

Your data: export, import, API#

Bookodile

Partly

Export bookings and customers to CSV whenever you like — the list is yours. No import tool yet, and no public API. More

GlossGenius

Partly

Customers export to CSV — name, email, phone and birthday, not notes — from the web, by the account owner only. Other data comes out as report downloads or through support. No API: the booking site gives no access to its code or APIs. Free inbound transfer from other systems in two to six business days. Source

Support#

Channels and hours; whether onboarding costs extra.

Bookodile

Yes

Email support, included, with the documentation at bookodile.com/docs behind it. No phone line. More

GlossGenius

Yes

Phone and text Monday to Friday 10am–8pm and Saturday 11am–7pm Eastern, email on Sunday, a 24/7 support bot in the app, and a free data transfer. Priority queue on Platinum; a dedicated onboarding specialist on the Practice plans. Source

Where GlossGenius is stronger#

Being straight about this is what makes the rest of the page worth reading.

It takes your customers' money, and pays you the same day#

Card processing at a flat 2.6% on its own readers, Tap to Pay, a card on file, deposits of up to 100%, a cancellation fee charged to the card, invoices, split payments, buy-now-pay-later, and free same-business-day payouts Monday to Thursday. Bookodile does not process payments; it records what you were paid.

It is built for the phone in your hand#

Native iOS and Android apps with a rebuilt calendar — drag with a five-minute snap, pinch to zoom, light or dark — and most of the product is set up there. Bookodile's dashboard is a web app that installs to a phone's home screen; there is no native app.

Payroll, commissions, stock and a till#

Payroll with US tax filing as a $40-a-month add-on, commission rates per person and per service, time tracking, inventory with barcode scanning, and a point of sale. Bookodile has none of these; a walk-in is a booking, and the payment-tracking add-on is a record, not a till.

Text reminders and campaigns, switched on#

Unlimited text and email reminders on every plan at no extra cost, unlimited email campaigns, and text campaigns with a monthly credit allowance on Gold and Platinum. Bookodile's reminders are email; its text messages are built but not switched on, and it has no bulk campaigns — an automated win-back sequence and promotions on the booking page instead.

Someone moves your data, and someone picks up the phone#

A free transfer of your data from Vagaro, Square, Booksy, Fresha, Acuity, Boulevard and others in two to six business days, and phone and text support six days a week. Bookodile has no import tool yet, and its support is by email.

Forms, waivers and signatures#

Intake forms and waivers with a required e-signature, on Gold and up. Bookodile has a consent checkbox in your own wording, optional or required invoice details and a notes field — no custom intake forms and no e-signatures.

Who GlossGenius is for

GlossGenius is a booking, payments and business app for independent professionals and small teams in the United States. Its help centre says it is available only to businesses in the United States and Puerto Rico, the app is not offered in other countries' stores, and its card processing does not work outside those regions. The product is designed around the phone: the booking site's themes, forms and waivers, gift-card redemption, reviews, two-way calendar sync and the Google, Facebook and Instagram buttons are all set up in the mobile app, and the web dashboard is the second screen. Its pricing page sorts customers into five industry groups.

Bookodile is narrower on purpose. It is for a business where the people are not interchangeable, where a room or a piece of equipment is the real bottleneck, where one visit can involve two people, and where the customer may read Slovak, Czech or Vietnamese — or simply trade outside the United States. Those are the rows on this page where the two products differ most.

The pricing model, in practice

GlossGenius charges one flat fee per business account, monthly or yearly, in US dollars. Standard is $28 a month, or $24 a month paid yearly; Gold is $56 or $48; Platinum is $168 or $148. Two Practice plans with charting sit above that. The fee is not per person, but each plan carries a headcount. Standard allows one extra member, and only in the Accountant role; Gold allows nine in total; Platinum has no cap. So the first person who takes bookings alongside you moves you from Standard to Gold, and the tenth moves you to Platinum. Each extra location is billed on top at a rate below the plan's — $24 a month on Standard, $48 on Gold, $143 on Platinum. Card processing is a flat 2.6% on GlossGenius's own readers, or 1% or 0% with the rest charged to the customer as a convenience fee.

There is no free plan. The 14-day trial runs on Gold, needs no card, and when it ends the account is locked until a card is added. Cancelling takes effect at the end of the billing cycle, and fees are not refunded except within 15 days of the last payment.

Bookodile charges per location plus per booking spot that actually took a booking that month. A spot is one appointment you can run at the same time as another — your bottleneck, not your headcount — so five people who share one room are one spot, and a receptionist or an owner who takes no bookings is not counted at all. The figures for your country are on the pricing page and the model is explained in What Bookodile costs. It is free at one location with up to two active spots and up to 40 bookings a month, with every add-on included.

Be honest with yourself about which is cheaper for you. Gold is one flat fee for up to nine people, and a team of that size with every spot in use may pay more on Bookodile. A solo business under 40 bookings a month is free on Bookodile and paid on GlossGenius. Work out both bills for your setup before the rows below.

Two services, two people

This is the row worth reading GlossGenius's own articles on, because the feature is called one thing and works as another.

GlossGenius calls it multi-professional booking, and it exists only on the customer-facing booking site. When the services a customer selects are assigned to different team members, the site books up to three of them in one pass: the customer picks a time for the first appointment, and the second and third fall in after it. The order is a single business-wide Booking Order set in the mobile app, not something set per person. The help centre is plain about the mechanism: "Each team member requires a separate appointment to be scheduled." Because each stage is its own appointment with its own provider, each person is blocked only for their own appointment — the article describes no whole-visit blocking.

The limits the help centre states follow from that. The customer cannot reschedule the bundle at once, and cannot cancel it at once. If the deposit on any one appointment fails, the whole bundle fails. Staff cannot create one in the app or on the desktop; only the booking site can. Editing one of the linked appointments does not touch the others. At checkout each appointment is paid separately, split payment is not available, and each appointment sends its own scheduling, confirmation and reminder messages — three of each for a three-person booking. Which plans include it is not settled on GlossGenius's own pages: the plan table ticks it on every plan, and the feature articles name Gold and Platinum.

In Bookodile the same thing is a combo service: one service with one person and a second with another, as stages of one booking. Each stage carries its own team member, its own duration and its own room if it needs one, and each person is blocked only for their stage. The customer books once and cancels once. The honest difference in the other direction is that a combo is defined by the business — customers do not assemble any pair of services across any three people, as they can on a GlossGenius site; you decide which combinations exist.

Switching from GlossGenius

Customers. GlossGenius exports the client list as a CSV — name, email, phone and date of birth, not notes — from the web, by the account owner. Bookodile has no import tool yet; customers are created the first time they book, and your team can add anyone by hand.
Bookings. Appointment history comes out of GlossGenius as report downloads. Bookodile does not import bookings; run the two side by side until the GlossGenius calendar empties out, then switch the link.
Your booking link. The old address is yourbusiness.glossgenius.com, and a custom domain only forwards to it. Every place that link lives — Google Business profile, Instagram bio, your website, the domain forward — gets the new one. Bookodile generates a QR code for the counter.
Reserve with Google, Facebook and Instagram buttons. These are GlossGenius integrations; Bookodile has no equivalent. Your Google profile can still carry the booking link as its website or appointment link.
Payments, cards on file and deposits. If you take these through GlossGenius, you will need a separate way to do it. Bookodile records payments; it does not take them.
Gift cards, packages and memberships. Bookodile issues gift vouchers but has no packages or memberships, so anything customers have prepaid on GlossGenius needs to be honoured outside it.
Text reminders. Your customers will get email confirmations and reminders from Bookodile rather than texts; text messages are built but not switched on.
The subscription. Cancelling takes effect at the end of the billing cycle, and GlossGenius keeps the account's data afterwards unless you ask for it to be deleted.

Where each one fits

Choose GlossGenius if you want card payments, deposits and no-show fees inside the booking, a native app your team lives in, payroll, commissions, stock and a till, text reminders and campaigns today, a phone line to support, or forms with signatures — and you trade in the United States.

Choose Bookodile if you want a free plan that stays free, every feature without a tier, people who are priced or timed differently, a room or a machine that limits what you can take, a class that fills up and stops, one visit with two people as one booking, or a booking page your customers read in Slovak, Czech or Vietnamese — or a business anywhere outside the United States.

Common questions#

Is GlossGenius free?#: No. There is no free plan. The 14-day trial runs on the Gold plan without a card, and the account is locked when the trial ends until a card is added; the cheapest plan after that is Standard at $28 a month, or $24 a month paid yearly. Bookodile is free at one location with up to two active booking spots and 40 bookings a month, with every add-on included, for as long as those three hold.
Can I move my customers from GlossGenius to Bookodile?#: GlossGenius exports your client list as a CSV — name, email, phone and date of birth, not notes — from the web, by the account owner. Bookodile does not yet import one. Customers are created automatically the first time they book, so the list rebuilds itself as regulars return, and your team can add anyone by hand in the meantime.
Does Bookodile take card payments and deposits like GlossGenius?#: No. GlossGenius processes cards at a flat 2.6%, keeps a card on file, takes deposits and charges no-show fees. Bookodile does none of that. Payment stays between you and your customer, however you already handle it, and the payment-tracking add-on records what arrived.
Can I use GlossGenius outside the United States?#: No. Its help centre says it is available only to businesses in the United States and Puerto Rico, the app is not in other countries' stores, and its payments do not work outside those regions. Bookodile is priced by country band, and the booking page reads in English, Slovak, Czech or Vietnamese.
What happens to my booking link, Reserve with Google and the Instagram button?#: Your GlossGenius address is yourbusiness.glossgenius.com, and a custom domain only forwards to it. Bookodile gives you bookodile.com/book/your-business, and every place the old link lives gets the new one. Reserve with Google and the Facebook and Instagram buttons are GlossGenius integrations; Bookodile has no equivalent, so the booking link goes into your Google profile, your bio or a post like any link, and a QR code is generated for print.
How does the pricing compare for a business with three people?#: On GlossGenius, Standard allows one extra member and only in the Accountant role, so three people who take bookings means Gold — one flat fee for up to nine. On Bookodile, three people who each take bookings at the same time are three booking spots, which is above the free tier; the figure for your country is on the pricing page. If two of them share one room, that is two spots, and a receptionist is never counted.

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