Salon Software

Salon software is the category of booking, CRM, and payment software designed for the broad beauty industry — hair, nails, lashes, facials, massage, and spa services. Major platforms include Vagaro, Booksy, GlossGenius, Square Appointments, Mindbody, StyleSeat, and Schedulicity. Salon software is built for breadth: it handles 200+ service categories with general-purpose tools (calendar, basic CRM, payments, SMS reminders). It is not built for the operational specifics of any single vertical. Spray tan studios using salon software run into consistent gaps: no automated rinse-time SMS keyed to solution, no per-client tan history (solution, depth, skin type), no contraindication flagging, and no solution-aware checkout. These gaps are why Bronzly exists as the spray-tan-specific alternative — a purpose-built vertical platform competing on depth instead of breadth. Vertical SaaS in beauty (SalonBiz for high-end salons, Boulevard for medspas, Bronzly for spray tan) is the consistent fastest-growing segment of beauty software.