Bookodile vs Vagaro

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

No free plan on any regional pricing page. The only way in is a 30-day trial, then a paid subscription per bookable calendar. Source

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

Being listed on the marketplace is free in the US, Canada and Australia — the pricing FAQ says 'at no additional cost'. In the UK, since 14 July 2026, a one-time 20% fee is charged when a brand-new customer books through the marketplace or the Google, Apple Maps, Instagram, Facebook and Yelp channels, collected as a 20% deposit at booking; bookings through your own widget, website or branded app carry no fee. Everywhere, the opt-in Fill My Books and Daily Deals charge 20% of a new customer's first booking and 5% of an existing customer's, with a $1.00 minimum. Source

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

Sold separately, per month, in US figures: text marketing from $20, forms $10, online shopping cart $10, website builder $20, branded app $100 plus a one-time $100 and $10 per extra location, check-in app $10, live stream $10 per licence, payroll $34 plus $5 per employee (US only), QuickBooks $10, Xero $10, Data Lake $40, API and webhooks from $10, Vera receptionist $10, one-to-one training $100. Email marketing is free to 1,000 emails a month, then $10 to $90. Canadian, UK and Australian prices differ and sit on the same page. Source

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

There are no tiers — one subscription per calendar — but the base plan lacks the add-ons above, and several included features only work with Vagaro's own card processing: deposits, a card on file, cancellation and no-show fees ('Vagaro only accepts and processes deposits and fees from Vagaro Merchant Services'), selling gift cards online, and the API. The trial also excludes email marketing, text marketing and the branded app. Source

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

The software is month to month — 'Cancel anytime with no cancellation fees' — though subscription fees already paid are not refunded, add-ons are billed to the end of the cycle, and there is no pause: you cancel and reactivate. The 12-month term is on Merchant Services, not the software: the free card reader comes with a commitment to process with Vagaro for at least 12 months or pay an early-cancellation fee — £100 on the UK page, $140 on the Canadian page, $150 in the customer agreement for the US, where a $10 monthly reader rental is also waived only in months with $1,000 processed. Source

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

Vagaro's own merchant services in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia, with PayPro terminals, Tap to Pay on a phone and same-day payouts. US rates for a business under $4,000 a month: 2.6% + $0.10 per swipe, dip or tap and 3.5% + $0.19 keyed in; above $4,000 a month, 2.29% + $0.19 plus a $10 monthly fee. UK 1.15% + £0.20; Canada 2.65% per dip or tap; Australia 1.90%. Another processor can only be used by recording payments by hand. Source

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

A listing page at vagaro.com under your business name that 'uses a shared design across all businesses to keep the Marketplace consistent', selling services, classes, products, gift cards, memberships and packages. A page in your own look is the paid website builder. Source

One snippet embeds the whole flow in any site — WordPress, Wix, Squarespace or hand-built — inline or behind a Book-now button. A QR code is generated for print. More

Vagaro generates the HTML for a widget that embeds in a page, a plain link, or a button that opens a pop-up or a new tab, with a colour picker, and one widget per employee or per location if you want. It can only be created on the web or the tablet app, and Vagaro says not to edit the code. Source

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

Every online booking needs a Vagaro customer account — sign up by email, phone, Google, Facebook or Apple, then a six-digit verification code. 'Every time you book with a Vagaro business, you will need a Vagaro account.' Source

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

Customers add up to six services to one online booking, on the same day, scheduled back to back; staff can add up to six in one go from the calendar. Service bundles group up to six services at one price. Source

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

In the same flow, 'You can choose to have each service performed by one or different service providers', and each service becomes its own appointment on that person's calendar. All of them must be on the same day and, online, in one contiguous slot. The help centre does not say in words that the first person is free during the second stage. Source

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

A room or a piece of equipment attaches to services and classes, and Vagaro picks the first free one. Its support replies on that article say one resource per appointment, no schedule per resource, and a resource cannot be optional; a resource is one unit, with no capacity field, and nothing documents booking a resource without a person. Source

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

Classes and workshops with an in-house capacity and a separate live-stream capacity, repeating schedules, online registration, a class waitlist and a 'seats remaining' display. Live streaming is a $10-a-month add-on per licence. Source

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

'Businesses can also set different prices for their service providers who offer the same services' — price, duration and points per person, per service. Class prices are the same for every instructor. Source

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

The same screen: 'Optionally, update the Price and Duration of the employee's service(s)'. Gap time mid-service is also set per person. Source

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

'Cleanup Time' after a service, up to 120 minutes, shown on the calendar; a setting adds only the longest cleanup at the end of a multi-service online booking. Separately, gap time mid-service frees the person for another booking. Source

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

Four modes, included: 'You Pick' (manual), 'Money Maker' (offers the slot to the highest-priced waiting customer first), 'First in Line', and 'Instant Book', which notifies everyone waiting and books whoever accepts first. Customers add themselves online. Source

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

Repeat daily, weekly with an interval, monthly or yearly to an end date, editing the series or a single occurrence. The article describes staff creating the series. Service bundles cannot repeat. Source

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

Lead time in minutes, hours or days; a booking window from one day to three years ahead; a slot interval; 'Require Acceptance for Online Booking' per employee, per customer type or after a number of no-shows; a block on new customers per employee; cancellation and reschedule cut-offs in hours. Source

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

'Customers Can Cancel' and 'Customers Can Reschedule', each with how far in advance you allow it, done from the customer app or the listing page, with an optional automatic refund of prepaid appointments. Source

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

A card on file, deposits as a percentage or a fixed amount above a booking value, and automatic cancellation or no-show fees with a cut-off in hours. All of it needs the Online Shopping Cart add-on ($10 a month in the US, $15 in Canada and Australia, free in the UK) and Vagaro's own card processing; the fee is charged at the keyed-in rate. Source

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

Add-on categories shown during online booking, set to one add-on or several with a minimum number to pick, 'to suggest additional services'. Membership savings are highlighted at booking. Source

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.

A consumer marketplace at vagaro.com and in the Vagaro app, switched on per business with 'List Business on Vagaro.com', which also feeds the Google and Apple Maps listings. Free to be listed in the US, Canada and Australia; a 20% fee on each new customer's first booking in the UK. Source

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

The Vagaro app for iOS and Android, where customers find businesses, book, pay and manage their appointments. An account is required. Source

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

English only, as far as Vagaro publishes: the site has US, British, Canadian and Australian English editions, the help centre lists 'en-us' as its only locale, and no article documents a language setting for the booking page. Slovak, Czech, Vietnamese and German appear nowhere. Source

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

Vagaro publishes no article on a business time-zone setting. The only mention found is on the customer side, where search results show a business's hours 'in your time zone'.

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

Logo, photos and team bios on the listing page, which keeps Vagaro's shared design, plus a colour for the widget button. Your own design and domain need the paid website builder; your own app icon and colours, the paid branded app. Custom CSS and removing Vagaro's name are not documented. Source

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

The business dashboard has light, dark and system themes. Nothing is published about a dark mode on the customer-facing booking page.

No Reserve with Google or Instagram integration. Your booking link goes in your Google profile, your bio or a post like any link.

Reserve with Google (once out of the trial, with online booking on and a booking in the last 30 days), Apple Maps, an Instagram 'Book' button, a Facebook 'Book Now' button and Yelp. In the UK these are the 'Partner Network' channels that carry the 20% new-customer fee. Source

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

Day, week, month and agenda views, up to ten calendars side by side in week and month view on a computer, a resource view, blocked time and a colour per person; a redesign in March 2026 added real-time updates and themes. Drag to move is not described in the articles read. Source

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

Vagaro Pro for iOS and Android runs the calendar, checkout and most settings; a few things, such as creating the booking widget, need the web or tablet version. Source

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

Multi-location accounts with a 'flagship' whose settings and prices sync to the others, fields locked or unlocked per location, multi-location admin permissions and a multi-location booking widget. The price is 'Contact Sales'; the branded app adds $10 a month per location. Source

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

'Vagaro provides five pre-configured access levels that you can change … or you can create new ones', with View and Modify toggles per feature and sub-feature. The owner always has full access. Source

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

Sales trends and combined sales, sales by category, product or brand, transactions, the customer list, booking source by channel, rebooking performance, booking percentage, cancellations and no-shows, review management, payroll, time cards, time off, rent collection, inventory and check-in logs, exported to Excel or PDF. The Data Lake add-on ($40 a month) opens a Power BI template with over 50 reports. The list has no revenue forecast. Source

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

The reports page offers a comparison of activity across the team, to identify top performers and make staffing decisions. Whether team members can open it is not published, and no leaderboard, competition or goal for the team is documented. Source

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

PayPro terminals ($150 to $800 in the US), a cash drawer and a printer; inventory with purchase orders, barcode scanning and partial-use tracking; payroll at $34 a month plus $5 per employee, US only; commission tiers and rent collection; QuickBooks and Xero at $10 a month each in the US. Source

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

Automatic confirmations and reminders by email, text and push, one of each per appointment, with configurable timing — the pricing page says 'Unlimited notifications & appointment reminders' and 1,000 free emails a month. Re-sending or custom messages need the email or text marketing add-ons. Source

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

Email campaigns are free to 1,000 emails a month, then $10 (5,000) to $90 (100,000) a month in the US; text campaigns run on credits from $20 a month (1,000 credits, US) up to $2,500. Fill My Books and Daily Deals are AI-run promotions paid per booking: 20% of a new customer's first booking, 5% of an existing customer's. Source

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

Reviews are collected from customers and shown on the listing page and in the marketplace, optionally only from verified customers; the business replies in public from the Review Management report and can award points for a review. No article describes asking for a Google review. Source

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

Digital and physical gift cards (sold online only with card processing and the shopping cart), discounts and promo codes online and in-house, packages that auto-renew, memberships with autopay, loyalty points and Daily Deals. Source

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

Google Calendar only, in either or both directions, one Google account per business: 'Vagaro currently supports calendar syncing only with Google Calendar'. Older Outlook and Apple links cannot be reconnected. An iCal export exists. Source

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

The Forms add-on — $10 a month in the US, $15 in Canada and Australia, £10 in the UK — for consent, waivers, intake and surveys with digital signatures, which can be required for specific bookings. Source

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

The customer list exports to Excel or PDF, by the owner only, and every report exports the same way. Importing from another system is free and done by Vagaro's staff in a booked session. An API with webhooks costs from $10 a month, needs card processing and allows ten webhooks. Source

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

Phone lines in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia, email, and in-app chat through the Vera assistant with a 'Chat with Human' option; free workshops, videos and data migration. One-to-one training is $100 in the US. Source