Why switch from GlossGenius to ML Booking?
If you already have clients, ML Booking is the booking layer: calendars, a widget or link, email, optional SMS, and Square or Stripe if you take cards. You keep the relationship and more of the visit.
Price it for your staff and your ticket. Then look at the booking features you actually use.
Move staff, ticket size, and paid bookings. Subscription, marketplace, and payment fees update as you go.
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ML Booking subscription is CAD from our live catalog. GlossGenius is USD (as listed) from public list prices and can change. Our from $0.29 CAD is the ML Booking platform fee on a paid online booking for the plan this calculator picks. Square or Stripe still charge their own card rates. GlossGenius processing uses their published online rate (2.6%). GlossGenius pricing
Only the pieces ML Booking sells. No loyalty club. No register. No inventory suite.
| ML Booking | GlossGenius | |
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| Online booking | Yes. Widget, booking link, free site or your custom domain. | Yes. They send your client into GlossGenius. |
| Extra staff seat | $9.00/mo per extra seat | Moves you to the next plan tier |
| Team calendar | Yes. Shared columns and a personal staff view. | Yes. Inside GlossGenius. |
| Email confirmations | Yes. Unlimited, on every booking. | Yes. From their system, in their brand. |
| SMS reminders | Yes. Included in the plan. US and Canada only, with opt-in. | Yes. Bundled into the suite you already pay for. |
| Late-cancel and no-show rules | Yes. You set what you keep. The software applies it. | Yes. In their product, on their terms. |
| Booking payments | Yes. Your Square or Stripe. The fee for your plan (from $0.29 CAD) per paid online booking. | Yes. 2.6% on a card they process. You do not use your own Square or Stripe. |
| Branded website | Yes. Included with the plan. | Yes. Part of the suite you pay for. |
| Marketplace fee | None. Clients book on your site or link. | No marketplace commission in this model. The money is in the subscription and card fees. |
| Staff portal | Yes. Staff see their day. The business runs the shop. | Yes. Their staff login, in their product. |
GlossGenius sells a broader beauty-business toolkit. If you only needed clients to book, you are paying for a platform aimed at running the whole business.
Choose ML Booking if you want the booking piece: widget, staff hours, email, and SMS. Not a toolkit priced for the entire shop.
If you already have clients, ML Booking is the booking layer: calendars, a widget or link, email, optional SMS, and Square or Stripe if you take cards. You keep the relationship and more of the visit.
It prices subscription, marketplace (when they take one), and their published online card rate against our CAD plan plus from $0.29 CAD per paid online booking for the plan the calculator picks. POS hardware, SMS overages, websites, and other add-ons on their side are often extra and are not in the total.
No. The fee for your plan (from $0.29 CAD) is the ML Booking platform fee on a paid online booking. Square or Stripe still charge their own card rates. GlossGenius typically processes the card themselves at a percent plus cents, which is what the calculator uses for their payment line.
Yes. Add services and staff, connect Square or Stripe if you take cards, put a widget on your site or share a link, and start free.