The all-in-one booking, payments, and marketing solution for beauty and wellness businesses. The GlossGenius booking app is trusted by tens of thousands of business owners for:
• Easy-to-use appointment scheduler and calendar planner
• Automated appointment scheduling
• Gorgeous customizable websites
• Client management tools
• Powerful marketing
• Same-business-day payment transfers
• Fast and stunning chip card readers
• Customizable client communication
And more!
Your clients' experience begins the moment they book with you, which is why we've designed the most stunning customizable booking site that you can set up in minutes.
GlossGenius is the easiest, most intuitive platform for salon and studio professionals. This includes beauty experts, hair stylists, skincare professionals, wax & brow artists, cosmetologists, estheticians, fitness instructors, or any pro looking for easy booking with a beautiful spin.
WHY GLOSSGENIUS?
THE EASIEST WAY TO GET BOOKED & PAID
Customers can book online through your website, get confirmations, reminders, thank you’s and personalized birthday notes! Clients can also book appointments through Instagram and Facebook. Checking out and rebooking clients will be easier than ever with our fast card readers and rebooking messages.
A STUNNING NEW WEBSITE
Get a new custom personal website in minutes - tailored with your branding, pricing, hours, and portfolio of work. Your site will not look the same as anyone else's.
MORE MONEY IN THE BANK
Take payments immediately with your mobile device through our built-in payment processing or order one of our secure card readers. Earn more money with the industry’s lowest processing rate of 2.6% flat, no hidden fees and free same-business-day transfers.
EMPLOYEE MANAGEMENT AND PAYROLL
As you grow your team, we want to grow with you! We have different subscription plans for different team sizes so you can manage your business, staff, and peace-of-mind in one place. Control everything with powerful permissions and settings.
BETTER EXPOSURE TO GROW YOUR CLIENTELE
We have built-in marketing tools so you can welcome back more customers, and find creative ways to get new ones too - using SEO, email and SMS messages. We also have integrations with Instagram, Facebook, and Yelp.
STUNNING CARD READERS. NO TRAINING.
We've got the easiest-to-use card readers available in many patterns. Process anything, anytime and anywhere.
INCREDIBLE CUSTOMER SUPPORT
We treat your business like it’s our own. We’re the only platform to offer quick customer support through text, phone and email.
PERSONAL HELP TRANSFERRING DATA
Want to switch over from Vagaro, StyleSeat, Square, Schedulicity, Mindbody or another salon software but worried about losing your data? Worry no more -- we will personally copy over appointments, formula notes, etc.
WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS ARE SAYING
“Nothing like sending these mass texts through glossgenius and having an appointment filled in less than 10 minutes. Working smarter not harder” - Skyler S
“No more hidden fees, no more paying extra for a specific time slot, no auto checkout, no more BS! I’ve tried a lot of other solutions and GLOSSGENIUS is hands down the best!” Megan H
“Obsessed with @glossgenius. This is a game changer for the industry, acts as your own personal assistant! I thought switching over was bold but it was so easy, they transferred all of my data from Square.” - The Wildflower Collective
“GlossGenius is one of my guests’ favorite experiences. It makes booking so much easier for them” - Kristina K
“After 24+ years of doing business by pencil and paper, it is refreshing to know that even I can operate the app. It’s so easy.” - Studio 13
“The best user interface for salons right now. I have been in the industry for 10 years and this is literally the best.” -Sharon O
“Moving over from Vagaro was seamless and faster than I even thought. Genius is an understatement” -Kathy R
I am a Barber and I just recently switched to GlossGenius from TheCut. Reason I switched was because TheCut has a feature where you can send out blast messages to all your clients but for some reason, a lot of my clients weren’t getting those blast messages so I wanted to find a booking platform that sent out text message campaigns instead and GlossGenius kept coming up in my social media feeds so here I am. I have my books set up where it requires a deposit to book which makes people have to put a debit card in. My dilemma with Gloss right now is that a few of my clients are having a hard time booking because the site won’t accept their debit cards for whatever reason. So I end up having to book their appointments for them. Not sure what this bug is but it we’d to be fixed asap! Also, one of my clients who has 2 boys, made a complaint about not being able to book more than 1 appointment at a time. On TheCut, you can book multiple appointments in one sitting. On Gloss, if someone wants to book “a Kid Haircut” and a “adult haircut” they have to book them separately. Maybe you guys should make it to where people can book more than 1 service in the same bookingUpdate* — a new issue I just received via text form a client this morning was my gloss booking site was twins them their phone # wasn’t a valid # smh. PLEASE FIX! I’d really hate to switch platforms again on all my clients but if need be I will. I’m getting way too many complaints for me to just switch over to gloss recently
Developer Response
Hi there! I appreciate you sharing your feedback! While we allow clients to add any type of cards for booking and for taking full payments, we validate cards that are not capable for prepayment. We believe that this will give you the power to confidently enforce your cancellation policy and maintain the quality of appointments booked! When it comes to booking an appointment at the same time, we do allow double booking on your booking site! Would you be willing to contact us at support@glossgenius.com so we can give you the precise instruction on how to do this in the app? We would love to reach out to you directly but there's no information in your post that will allow us to contact you. Looking forward to connecting with you!
Honest review
Samantha 1188
I’m an solo esthetician with my own business. I originally started playing around with GlossGenius when I was in school, love the esthetic & just how appealing the app really is. However, I really wanted a form feature, so sadly I switched to Fresha. I am now back with GlossGenius, they have a form feature & it’s so nice to have, they have waivers, which are great! The only downside to the forms is it’s unorganized chaos, you have to create your question & assign it to a service, for every question. The other booking site I used had a form for everything (that you created), so it was way more organized and you didn’t have to scroll through 100 questions to take something out.. etc. Another feature I wish Gloss would add is a payment link, or even a product store. You can sell products during the actual checkout process, but say you had a new client (& you don’t have their card on file) that wants to buy a cleanser, you literally cannot accept payment unless they’re right in front of you with their card. So a payment link would be a huge feature, I had to create business Venmo in order to accept payment outside of Gloss. I think the esthetic of Gloss is amazing, but to pay $50 a month is a little steep for the amount of features it’s missing, or that could improve the overall experience of the booking site. Other than those minor things, it’s really a great booking app!
Great for solo estheticians but I have my doubts they can support you as you grow a
Regular spiralizer
Multiple technical issues recently in the last few months. Been using Gloss for a year and the issues have become more prevalent in recent months. Support is always responsive to me but the issues have not been addressed! These include: repeatedly calling me someone else’s name entirely (they have me stored in their system as someone else for reasons I never knew and they never corrected); the app asking for a drivers license of a client for a larger transaction (over $600) but no place to enter the drivers license image or info; the card reader never working despite multiple attempts at help from support; and most recently, it appears that a receipt for one client was sent to the client just prior (!), which is of course a huge privacy concern. There is no way for me to see what clients receive which emails, so I can’t verify it myself. Also, this is a platform that can only be updated from an app, not a desktop, so you have to do it all from a phone or tablet. I also don’t like that when someone books, they have to select a date, then move forward a screen to check times, then go back if you don’t like the times (bad UI). I would prefer it if you could select a date, see the times without having to click forward and back. It’s a great option for someone just starting out but I’m starting to look at other platforms as I grow because I am beginning to see that Gloss cannot grow with me. I am on the Gold plan for reference.
Developer Response
Hi, there! I appreciate your review about the experience you had with us and realized the gravity of the situation. We want to assure you that the security of your information, and your client's information is of utmost importance to us. We also strive to get back to any concerns or inquiries of our members as much as we can. Feel free to contact us at support@glossgenius.com if you need further help on this. Your feedback is truly appreciated!
Boutique Salon Owner, switched salon from square
taranelsongroves
I switched my entire salon staff over from Square a couple of months ago and we are really loving Gloss Genius. It’s very easy to use. I did have to get four stars though, because there has been a huge hindrance for our customers who find us online and on Facebook and Instagram… Which is the majority of our new clientele in this day of time. When they log into the booking page, it only shows the providers name not the services so if you have a multi service salon like I do, you may should wait until they integrate that, because as of right now we’ve lost some business over it. New clients, who want a spray tan don’t know who the service provider is who does spray tans, or, for example, a new client who finds us on Instagram, doesn’t know the service providers name who does nails so unfortunately we’ve had some negative feedback about it and I know for a fact it has cost us. Hopefully Gloss Genius will update it soon but I do have a great things to say about their tech-support. They are awesome at helping out. I just hope they can update this for a multi service line like ours ASAP or we are going to have to find something else unfortunately.
Developer Response
Hi there! Thanks very much for sharing your review and so sorry to hear that you've lost some business because of it! We want to let you know that your feature requests and suggestions have been heard and we're working through them! Our product and development team is looking to release the option for showing the service first before the service provider for a team account in the next couple of weeks so please stay tuned :) Your feedback is super valuable to us so we're grateful for you for sharing!
We're releasing a number of minor updates and fixes to make your experience even better.
If you’re enjoying using GlossGenius, please consider leaving us a positive review or rating in the App Store since that helps us make the product even better! Thank you so much for your support, it’s so greatly appreciated. Gloss On!
Version 7.66.0
The developer, GlossGenius, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
Seller
GlossGenius, Inc.
Size
189.3 MB
Category
Business
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
