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Salon, Spa & Wellness
Vagaro
Cloud salon, spa and fitness software with online booking, POS hardware, classes, memberships, forms and a branded app.
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FindThatSoftware verdictEditorial ruling
A strong fit for Indian fitness studios and wellness centers that run classes and want a branded app alongside salon-style booking. The watch-out is that Vagaro is US-centric, so confirm its payment hardware, currency and support work for India before relying on it. Verify current pricing on the official site.
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Should you use Vagaro?
Use it if fitness and wellness studios running classes. Avoid it if indian salons and spas, because Vagaro sells only in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia and bills in those currencies.
Spec sheet
- Starting price
- ₹992/mo$10/user/mo sticker
- Free plan
- Not available
- Free trial
- Available
- Status
- Source checked 29 Jul 2026
- Source trail
- 2 public sources
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Vagaro is a industry solutions / salon, spa & wellness for Indian buyers. All-in it runs about ₹992/mo for a GST-registered business ($10/user/mo sticker plus about 3.5% card forex). It does not issue an India GST invoice, so a registered business reclaims the GST via reverse charge. FindThatSoftware rates it best for fitness and wellness studios running classes, and a poor fit if indian salons and spas, because Vagaro sells only in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia and bills in those currencies.
The trade-off, weighed
What you gain, and what you give up.
The case for
- Front desk and admin staff do not count as bookable calendars, so only people actually performing services add to the monthly subscription.
- Bookings that arrive through the Vagaro Marketplace carry no extra fee, unlike marketplaces that take a cut of every new client booking.
- The base plan starts at 23.99 dollars a month for one bookable calendar and there is no cancellation fee at any point.
The catch
- Pricing is per bookable calendar, so a salon adding a fourth or fifth service provider raises the subscription rather than sharing one flat fee.
- The 30 day trial withholds email marketing, text marketing and the branded app, which are exactly the paid features worth testing before buying.
- Payroll is a separate add-on at 34 dollars a month plus 5 dollars per employee, on top of the base calendar subscription.
- Card processing runs through Vagaro Merchant Services, a registered ISO of PNC Bank, tying software and payments to one American banking relationship.
True India price
Registered business, per month
₹992
Vagaro advertises $10/mo. A GST-registered business in India pays about ₹992 a month (₹11,908/yr) once the roughly 3.5% card forex markup is added, with GST reclaimed as input credit. If you cannot reclaim GST, it is about ₹1,171 a month.
- Sticker price
- $10/mo
- Card forex markup
- about 3.5% over mid-market
- GST
- 18%, reclaimable if registered
- Registered per month
- ₹992
- Registered per year
- ₹11,908
- If you can't reclaim GST
- ₹1,171
- Try first
- Free trial before you commit budget.
- Watch for
- Regular pricing from $10/user/mo, billed per location, with lower promotional rates sometimes offered. Additional locations and add-ons (branded app, payroll) cost extra. Free trial. USD. Confirm on vendor site.
Indicative, not a bill. The exchange rate is a single mid-market reference, not a live feed, and GST-registered businesses may reclaim input credit. Confirm current pricing on the vendor site.
Full India pricing breakdownIndia readiness
How well Vagaro fits an Indian business operationally, from the verified pricing and company facts we hold.
- ✗GST invoice
No Indian GST invoice, so a registered business cannot claim input tax credit on the bill.
- ✗Bills in INR
Priced in a foreign currency, so your card or bank adds forex conversion on top.
- ✗India HQ
Headquartered outside India, so check support hours and India-specific features.
How Vagaro compares
Against the 5 other salon spa management toolswe list, from what we verified on each vendor’s own pages.
Less common among the other salon spa management tools
Recorded for Vagaro and for at most a third of the 5 others we list.
- Buy now pay later
- Inventory tracking
- Invoicing
- Merchant lending
- Public API
- Appointment reminders
- Mobile app
This compares only the capabilities enough rival tools share for a comparison to mean anything — roughly a quarter of what we verified. The full list is under “What we verified” below, and anything absent from both is something we did not record rather than something the product lacks.
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What is Vagaro?
Vagaro is cloud management software for salons, spas, medspas, barbershops, nail salons and fitness/wellness studios. It offers online booking, calendar and class scheduling, payment processing with hardware, client management and forms, reporting, a branded mobile app, a website builder, live-stream classes, a consumer directory and membership features for recurring revenue.
Best for
- Fitness and wellness studios running classes
- Salons wanting a branded mobile app
- Businesses needing a built-in website builder
Who should avoid it
- Indian salons and spas, because Vagaro sells only in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia and bills in those currencies.
- Buyers who need a GST invoice from an Indian entity, because Vagaro operates from the United States and does not sell into India.
What Vagaro does
What we verified about Vagaro
Read from Vagaro’s own pages. Each line is a finding and what it was based on, so you can check any of it yourself.
Features we confirmed26
- Public API
- Resources menu links API Documentation for building against Vagaro.
- Online booking
- Online Booking is a headline business feature with bookings from Vagaro, Instagram, Facebook and Apple Maps.
- Merchant lending
- Vagaro Capital is a listed business feature offering financing to merchants.
- Invoicing
- Invoices are part of the standard feature list.
- Inventory tracking
- Inventory tracking is listed among the included tools.
- Consumer marketplace listing
- A free listing on the Vagaro Marketplace exposes the business to consumer search.
- Buy now pay later
- 'Pay Later' is a listed business feature with a separate Affirm disclosure in the footer.
- Mobile app
- Branded App is a listed business feature and a paid add-on.
- Appointment reminders
- Unlimited notifications and appointment reminders are included in the base plan.
- Advanced reporting
- Advanced reporting is included in the base subscription per the pricing page.
- AI business tools
- 'AI-powered business tools & marketing' heads the included tools list.
- Calendar and resource management
- Calendar and resource management is listed among the included tools.
- Class and course scheduling
- Our research records class scheduling for fitness and wellness studios alongside salon booking.
- Client records and tracking
- Customer tracking and client data are listed among the included tools.
- Customer waitlist
- Customer waitlist options are included in the base plan feature list.
- Daily deals
- Daily Deals is both a consumer-facing channel and an included business feature.
- Digital intake forms
- Forms is a named business feature for client intake and consent.
- Email marketing
- 1,000 free emails monthly are included, with paid email marketing above that.
- Loyalty programs
- Customer loyalty programs are part of the standard feature bundle.
- Memberships packages gift certificates
- Memberships, packages and gift certificates are included for recurring revenue.
- Payroll addon
- Our research records payroll as a separate add-on at $34/month plus $5 per employee.
- Point of sale with hardware
- Vagaro sells PayPro, PayPro Mini, PayPro Duo, card readers, receipt printers and cash drawers.
- Qr scanner and swivel stand
- Business Products list a QR Scanner and Pay Swivel Stand as first-party checkout hardware.
- Soap notes
- SOAP notes are included in the base plan, supporting medspa and clinical records.
- Text marketing
- Text marketing is a named add-on withheld during the free trial.
- Website builder
- MySite is Vagaro's website builder for salon and studio sites.
What people use it for4
- Take in person payments
- First-party POS hardware plus Vagaro Merchant Services handle in-salon checkout.
- Sell class memberships
- Memberships and class scheduling target fitness and wellness studios with recurring revenue.
- Run a salon or spa
- Pricing has an explicit 'Multiple Locations' versus 'One Location' toggle.
- Take online bookings
- Marketplace listing and Daily Deals are pitched as filling the schedule with new clients.
Works with5
- Online booking runs on Instagram as one of the supported booking surfaces.
- Facebook is a listed channel where clients can book appointments.
- Affirm
- The footer carries an Affirm Disclosure, tying the Pay Later feature to Affirm.
- Apple maps
- Apple Maps is named as a surface where Vagaro online booking appears.
- Pnc bank
- Card processing runs through Vagaro Merchant Services, a registered ISO of PNC Bank, N.A.
Terms, compliance and how you buy24
- Us incorporated vendor
- Footer copyright reads Vagaro, Inc. with US sales and support phone numbers.
- Self serve signup
- 'Start Free Trial' begins the account directly, with Contact Sales as a secondary path.
- No cancellation fee
- FAQ: cancel any time, for any reason, no questions asked and no fee.
- 30 day free trial
- FAQ confirms a 30-day free trial covering all features.
- Admin staff do not count
- FAQ defines a bookable calendar as someone performing services, explicitly excluding front desk staff.
- Ambassador referral program
- Resources menu carries an Ambassador programme for referrals.
- Booth renter segment
- The pro pricing nav carries a dedicated Booth Renter segment for independent chair renters.
- Calendar price cap
- Our research records the per-calendar ladder capping at $85/month for 7 or more calendars.
- Fast self serve setup
- FAQ claims setup can take as little as 15 minutes depending on staff, clients and services.
- Free card reader with merchant services
- Pricing page offers a free credit card reader for signing up to Vagaro Merchant Services.
- Gdpr and privacy pages published
- Footer links GDPR, Privacy Policy, User Agreement, Participation Agreement and Your Privacy Choices.
- Hardware attach model
- Revenue depends on selling proprietary payment terminals alongside the software subscription.
- Month to month no contract
- Our research records the base plan as month-to-month with no cancellation fee.
- No GST invoice from indian entity
- Our research records Vagaro operating from the United States and not selling into India.
- No marketplace booking commission
- FAQ confirms bookings through the Vagaro Marketplace carry no additional cost.
- Not sold in india
- Location selector lists only United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Canada, with no India option.
- Payments tied to vagaro merchant services
- Footer states Vagaro Merchant Services is a registered ISO of PNC Bank, N.A., Pittsburgh, PA.
- Priced per bookable calendar
- Pricing scales by bookable calendars, from $30/month for one upward.
- Promotional entry price
- Pricing page strikes through $30.00 and shows an 'Exclusive offer!' rate of $23.99/month.
- Published trust center
- Resources menu links a Trust Center and a Status page.
- Trial withholds marketing features
- FAQ states the trial excludes email marketing, text marketing and the branded app.
- Usd billed
- Prices are shown in US dollars and the country selector offers only US, UK, Australia and Canada.
- Vertical specific editions
- Business software is marketed separately for salon, spa, medical spa, barber, tanning, nail, pilates and mental health.
- Web based plus mobile app
- FAQ: Vagaro is web-based and the Vagaro Pro app is on the Apple App Store and Google Play.
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Regular pricing from $10/user/mo, billed per location, with lower promotional rates sometimes offered. Additional locations and add-ons (branded app, payroll) cost extra. Free trial. USD. Confirm on vendor site.
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Does Vagaro give a GST invoice in India?
Vagaro does not issue an India GST invoice. A GST-registered business can still reclaim the 18% through the reverse-charge route by raising a self-invoice, but there is no vendor GST invoice to claim against directly.
Is Vagaro good for Indian small businesses?
Vagaro can work for Indian buyers, but check currency, tax, billing, support, and whether the workflow justifies foreign-currency pricing.
Does Vagaro have a free plan?
Vagaro does not list a permanent free plan in FindThatSoftware data. Check the official pricing page for trial terms and current offers.
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