Comb vs Vagaro
Look at the whole day.

Clients book. Your calendar keeps up.

Exact starts · Offer the times you choose.

Services by day · Give each day a focus.

Separate hours for clients marked VIP.

Let color develop while you see another client.

Leave the room you need around a service.

Set a ceiling for your working day.

Request a deposit before the visit.

Require a saved card for eligible bookings.

Keep the next interested client in view.

Visits, purchases, photos, and context together.

Remember their preferences between visits.

Allergies, style, formulas, products—and reminders at the visit.

Make your regulars easy to recognize and find.

Keep visual references with the person.

Let clients share the look before they arrive.

Keep bowls, product amounts, developer, timing, photos, and result notes for next time.

Preview a completed formula’s color direction on a client photo and compare with the original. A consultation visual, not a guaranteed result.

Build the questions your services need.

Collect consent alongside the client record.

Signed documents, kept with the client.

Send documents and keep them with the client record.

Organize observations, treatment, and the next step.

Custom fields, service-linked templates, and a record for each visit.

Talk through the visit. Review the draft.

Pick up where you left off, with a record of changes.

Lengths, layers, zones, and saved designs.

Shape and placement you can revisit.

Map curved rows and individual pieces across head views; record installs, move-ups, replacements, and maintenance.

Record the areas and details of your work.

Mark treatment areas alongside your notes.

Sage prepares a starting point from reference imagery.

Reward visits and purchases your way.

A little progress with every qualifying visit.

Make the next milestone feel special.

Give their birthday a little extra love.

Thank clients for bringing someone new.

Your colors, artwork, and stamp style; Sage can help with the art.

Bundle visits and track what is left.

Recurring offers with service visits and product credits. Bee Paid required.

Sell a thoughtful gift. Redeem it at checkout.

Keep clients in the loop about their visit.

Chirp · Keep business conversations together.

Send news and offers to your client audience.

500 marketing texts/month. Extra texts cost more.

Choose who a message is for.

Choose the trigger, service, audience, and message.

Drone · Send clients back to the booking they started.

Drift · Match openings, contact clients, and optionally prioritize VIPs.

Breathe · Protect time as the day fills up.

Tend · Follow up around the next service interval.

Echo · Use your writing sample to guide supported messages.

Swarm · Offer openings around existing appointments.

Your colors, layout, service menu, and brand.

Give your work a place to shine.

Make the menu look as good as the work.

A gift that looks like your business.

Give your booking website its own atmosphere.

Sage drafts descriptions and campaign copy for review.

Sage · Work with current calendar, client, and business context.

Prepare forms, services, campaigns, and more. Review before applying.

Sage Live · Talk through the work.

Carry forward the preferences and goals you share.

Sage Match · Help clients find a service that fits.

See who is past their usual visit rhythm.

Decision Lab · Explore prices, capacity, and working patterns.

Momentum & Watch · Keep your priorities in view.

See visits, sources, and the booking funnel.

Services, products, discounts, tips, and receipts.

Follow the transaction from payment to refund.

Give every business cost a home.

Scan, review the details, and record the expense.

Keep work travel with your business expenses.

Track the costs that come around again.

Products, pricing, stock, and what you sell.

Track the products you use in your work.

Follow restocks, usage, corrections, and waste.

Review the day, sales, and recorded costs.

Set the confirmation level for online booking.

Beehavior · More context before the visit, not a safety guarantee.

A rating first. Written detail shared with the author’s approval.

Ban online bookings and remove future appointments with you.

Additional checks help recognize connected identities.

Bee Paid checks authorization, screens identified prepaid cards, and requires current cards.

Colony · Invite your people into a shared booking website. Paid team plan, separate from your individual subscription.