$79/mo flat, everything included · no tiers · switch in a day. GlossGenius is a genuinely good product — for one person with one chair it may be the best deal in the industry. This page is about the other moment: when forms, a waitlist, time tracking, and commissions turn out to live one or two tiers up, and the bill starts going up every time you hire.
Standard is a genuinely good solo plan. The trouble starts the day you hire: forms and waivers, the automated waitlist, time tracking and room management all sit in Gold, and commissions and team analytics sit in Platinum. Nothing about that is unfair — it’s just a ladder, and growing means climbing it. Parlor has no tiers to climb, because it has no tiers.
Standard $24/mo billed annually, Gold $48, Platinum $148 (public list prices, verified August 2026). Add payroll and there’s a per-person charge on top. Parlor is $79 flat: every feature, every team member, one number that doesn’t change when your team does — so the software bill doesn’t go up every time you hire.
The complaint underneath most switching stories isn’t price — it’s a book that stopped feeling trustworthy. We publish exactly how Parlor prevents that: the database itself refuses a double-booking, cancelled appointments aren’t overwritten and lost, and the deposit on the booking page is the same number that’s charged. Read how it works and judge it.
The calendar argument isn’t a slogan — here’s how we built it, rule by rule, including what we aren’t claiming.
The hard part of leaving is the feeling that your book is trapped. It isn’t — here’s the whole move.
It’s your book and it comes out as a spreadsheet — names, phones, emails. Do it while your account is still active and in good standing, and keep the file somewhere safe whether or not you switch.
Clients → Import. Parlor recognizes the GlossGenius export automatically and shows you a preview first: how many are new, how many are already in your book, how many we’ll skip — nothing is saved until you say so. Most lists take about ten minutes.
Services, durations, and per-service deposits take an afternoon. Then your booking link goes in the Instagram bio and on your Google Business Profile — the same places your GlossGenius link lives now.
GlossGenius does several things we simply don’t. We’d rather you read that here than discover it in week two.
| What | Parlor | GlossGenius |
|---|---|---|
| Price for a solo pro | $79/mo flat | $24/mo billed annually ($28 monthly) — genuinely cheaper |
| Price for a team of 5 | $79/mo flat — same number | Gold $48/mo billed annually ($56 monthly) |
| Price for a team of 10+ | $79/mo flat — same number | Platinum $148/mo billed annually ($168 monthly) |
| Forms & waivers + e-sign | Included in the flat price | Gold tier and up |
| Automated waitlist | Not supported | Gold tier and up |
| Commissions & payroll | Not supported | Platinum; payroll is a paid add-on |
| Email & text marketing | Not supported | Included at every tier |
| Memberships & packages | Included in the flat price | Included at every tier |
| Getting your own data back out | Export clients, appointment history, and payments yourself, any time | Client list exports; ask their support for the rest |
| Card processing | 3.25% + 35¢ on every payment — processing included, no monthly fee | Flat 2.6%; instant payouts carry an extra 1.8% |
| How the calendar prevents double-booking | A database rule that cannot be skipped — published and explained | Not publicly documented |
GlossGenius figures are public list prices, verified August 2026, from glossgenius.com/pricing; annual prices are shown with the monthly price beside them, because the headline number on their page is the annual one. Promotions vary and prices change — check their current pricing for your exact configuration. This table isn’t a feature race: two rows on it are features we don’t have.
No — and we’d rather say that plainly than pretend it is. For a solo professional it may be the best deal in this industry: polished, well designed, and cheaper than us. This page is for one specific situation — a growing team looking at a price ladder — and if that isn’t you, staying is a perfectly good decision.
Honestly: their flat 2.6% is lower than our 3.25% + 35¢ per transaction. Ours is all-inclusive — card processing is inside it, the same rate online and in person, with no separate processing invoice — and there’s no price ladder or extra payroll charge per person around it. Run your real monthly volume and your real team size against the whole bill, not one line of it.
Yes. Export it from GlossGenius as a spreadsheet and drop it into Clients → Import. Parlor recognizes their file, shows you a preview, and nothing is saved until you say so. Or send us the file and we’ll do it with you on a call, free.
Reviews on your Google Business Profile stay exactly where they are — they’ve never lived inside a booking platform, and your new link goes on the same profile. Appointment history is harder: ask GlossGenius for whatever they’ll give you before you cancel, and we’ll work through it with you.
Built-in marketing campaigns, payroll and commissions, the automated waitlist, and — for now — text reminders. That list is on this page rather than in week two on purpose. What you don’t give up is your data: everything you put into Parlor exports back out on your own, without a support request.
Monthly, cancel anytime from Settings. No phone call, no one trying to talk you out of it, no processing contract.
Still deciding? Tell us about your shop — a human reads it.
Import your book this afternoon — the booking link is live before tomorrow’s first appointment.