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Reward regulars with loyalty stamps, let clients book online at any hour, and sell gift cards from your bio. Clients pay through Stripe — money hits your account instantly.
Reward loyal clients with a digital stamp card. After 5 visits, 10 visits — your call. Fully customizable.
Sell gift cards for cuts, colours, and treatments. Clients buy in 60 seconds from your Instagram bio. No card terminal needed.
Clients book their own slots online. Set your services, durations, and availability. Confirmations sent automatically.
Reach your full client list in one click — promote holiday gift cards, fill empty slots, announce a new stylist. On the Plus addon, alongside loyalty.
Every client who books or buys is stored automatically. Track visit history, lifetime spend, and contact info.
Your booking, gift cards, and loyalty — all under one shopolo.app/your-salon link. Put it everywhere.
Most salons do not buy one piece of software. They buy a booking platform, then a loyalty add-on, then something to send email, and the bill grows with every stylist on the team. Here is what each of those is priced at on its own, against what the same job costs on Shopolo.
| What you need | Bought separately | On Shopolo |
|---|---|---|
| Online booking | CA$29.95/mo solo, or CA$19.95 per team member per month | Free coreAppointments with per-staff availability, service durations and payment at booking. Two staff accounts included, unlimited on the addon. |
| Booking with a marketplace | $29.99/mo + $20/mo per additional team member | Free coreNo marketplace and no finder commission — clients book through your own storefront link. |
| Studio management suite | From $79 USD/mo per location; higher tiers are quote-only | Free coreOne account covers the salon. The staff calendar view is the Plus addon; per-staff availability itself is free core. |
| Scheduling link | $20 Starter, $34 Standard, $69 Premium per month | Free coreBookable services with deposits, on your storefront rather than a separate scheduling domain. |
| Loyalty stamps | From US$45/mo per location, banded by monthly loyalty visits | Plus addonDigital stamp cards, stamped at the counter. Set the reward threshold yourself. |
| Marketing email | Free to 250 contacts, then priced by contact count | Plus addonSingle sends to opted-in clients, up to 5,000 a month. No multi-step automations and no open tracking. |
| Digital gift cards | No monthly fee — a per-transaction percentage instead | Free coreSell and redeem digitally, settled straight to your own Stripe account. Flat 1.9% platform fee. |
Fresha figures from fresha.com/pricing, read in Canadian dollars; Fresha prices vary by country. Shopolo’s Plus addon is CA$19/month and covers loyalty stamps and email campaigns together, with a 5,000-send monthly cap. The flat 1.9% platform fee applies only to payments you actually process. Subject to change.
Every competitor figure on this page is the one carried on the comparison page it links to, where the source is named. Prices change and vary by country — check the vendor’s own pricing page before you decide.
Services like cuts, colour, and blowouts are the perfect gift — personal, experiential, high-value. Between October and December, gift cards can represent 20–30% of monthly revenue for salons that actively promote them.
Clients aren't buying $25 gift cards for a salon. They're buying full-service treatment packages — higher average order value than most retail.
A 2024 Bankrate/YouGov survey of 2,373 US adults found 43% were holding at least one unused gift card, worth $244 each on average — including for salons and spas.
Yes — Shopolo is web-based, not a POS add-on. You create and sell gift cards from a dashboard, and clients buy them from your storefront link. No card terminal or salon POS integration required.
Salon egift software is the digital equivalent of a paper gift certificate: a client buys online, pays through Stripe, and the recipient gets a code by email to redeem at their next visit. Shopolo includes this alongside booking and loyalty stamps, so a client can buy a gift card and book an appointment from the same link.
The QR menu, storefront, gift cards and appointment booking are all free, forever, no card needed to start. Loyalty stamps need the Plus addon, from $19/month.
Yes — turn on payment-at-booking in your Appointments settings and clients pay when they book, not at the chair. It's one of the few real levers against no-shows that doesn't depend on a reminder system; more on that in our guide to reducing appointment no-shows.
Each comparison carries the vendor’s published pricing, the features Shopolo does not have, and the cases where the other platform is the better buy.
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