This guide compares five Mindbody alternatives for salons, spas and medspas: Zenoti, Boulevard, Mangomint, Vagaro and Fresha. For each one it covers the published price, who moves your data, booking on your own website, and whether it connects to a Shopify store. Every price and limit comes from the vendors’ own pages, read on 7 November 2026.
If you are leaving Zenoti rather than Mindbody, our Zenoti alternatives guide covers that move.
Key takeaways
- Mindbody shows “Let’s talk” on its three plan cards. Its pricing FAQ puts the starting price at $79 USD per month for businesses in North America and Asia.
- Your listing in the Mindbody consumer app ends when the account closes. Clients who found you there need a new booking link from you.
- Mangomint, Vagaro and Fresha publish full price lists. Boulevard publishes every plan except Enterprise. Zenoti quotes each business separately.
- Saved client cards are the slowest part of a move. Zenoti’s switching guide says Mindbody’s processor holds the card tokens, and releasing them takes a formal export request.
- Three of the five connect to Shopify: Boulevard, Zenoti and Mangomint. A Shopify App Store search on 7 November showed no app from Mindbody, Vagaro or Fresha.
What changes when you leave Mindbody
Four things need a plan before the cancellation date.
- The app listing. Mindbody’s pricing page describes a consumer app with more than 3 million monthly users. A new client’s first purchase through it carries a 20% fee, capped at $30. Leaving removes both the fee and the listing, so check how many first-time clients came from the app over a full year before you decide.
- Stored cards. Memberships on auto-pay depend on saved cards. Start the token export request in the first week of the project, and plan for members to re-enter cards if the release runs late.
- The contract. Mindbody says terms depend on the plan and that cancelling can require notice before the next billing date. Read your agreement for the notice period, then set the go-live date before renewal.
- Booking links. Every “Book now” button on your website, Google profile and social accounts points at Mindbody today. Each one needs the new system’s link on cutover day.
Mindbody alternatives compared
| System | Price published on 7 Nov 2026 | Moving your data | Shopify connection |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mindbody (current) | Plans quoted; FAQ says from $79 USD monthly in North America and Asia | n/a | No Mindbody app found in the Shopify App Store |
| Zenoti | Not published; quoted per business | Zenoti’s migration team; about eight weeks for one location, by Zenoti’s guide | Zenoti-built integration: orders, invoices and stock |
| Boulevard | Essentials $143 a month billed annually; Premier $234 per location (limited-time offer) | Boulevard’s onboarding team; scope depends on the old system | Boulevard’s Shopify app: products, stock and gift cards |
| Mangomint | $120 per location a month, plus $10 per user | Free onboarding and data transfer | Free Shopify app: two-way stock counts by SKU |
| Vagaro | $30 a month for one calendar ($23.99 a month during the first six months) | Free switch; transfer usually 1 to 2 business days | No Vagaro app found in the Shopify App Store |
| Fresha | $19.95 a month solo; $14.95 per bookable team member | Imports client details and product stock; paid packages for complex moves | No Fresha app found in the Shopify App Store |
Zenoti: for groups, medspas and membership-heavy businesses
Zenoti runs booking, memberships, payroll, marketing, inventory and clinical charting in one system, and says more than 30,000 businesses use it. It does not publish prices. Its Mindbody to Zenoti migration guide says Zenoti’s team imports client and member profiles, visit and purchase history, future appointments, memberships with auto-pay, class pack balances and gift card balances. Waivers, intake forms, the class schedule and the service menu are rebuilt during onboarding. The guide puts a single-location move at about eight weeks and says medspas are the largest group moving from Mindbody to Zenoti.
For the feature-by-feature view, Zenoti keeps its own Zenoti vs Mindbody comparison, and its product pages cover salon software and medical spa software separately.
On Shopify, Zenoti’s Shopify integration article lists what works. Each Shopify order is written into Zenoti as an invoice and lowers Zenoti’s stock count, and the product sales reports include web sales. The Shopify SKU has to match the Zenoti product code, and one Zenoti center is named to hold online sales. Zenoti does not support variants, exchanges or store pickup, and Zenoti gift cards cannot be used in Shopify. Guests can sign in to Shopify with their Zenoti Webstore login only on Shopify Plus.
Gene Juarez has 13 salon and spa locations across Washington. It books on Zenoti and sells through a Shopify Plus store. Measured on the homepage, LCP is 1,200 ms, and the jump from any landing page to Zenoti booking takes less than one second. We count Gene Juarez as a client, so treat those figures as our own work: we built the theme and the hand-off into Zenoti booking, and the details are in our Gene Juarez case study. The same build for other salon and spa groups is described on our Zenoti Shopify integration page, and Zenoti vs SalonIQ compares Zenoti with a smaller salon system.
Boulevard: for appointment-led salons and spas with a Shopify Plus store
Boulevard prices by plan and location. On 7 November its pricing page showed Essentials at $143 a month billed annually, for one location and up to five providers, or $159 billed monthly. Premier was $234 per location a month billed annually, down from $293, as a limited-time offer for new customers. A Prestige plan sits above it, and API access is part of Enterprise. Boulevard’s onboarding team runs the data transfer, and what comes across depends on what the old system can export.
Boulevard has the fullest Shopify connection in this list. Its Shopify integration article describes an app that imports the Shopify catalog into Boulevard and then keeps stock counts matched both ways, so a sale at the front desk lowers the online count and a web order lowers the salon count. Gift cards sync too, but only with Shopify Plus. Product details flow one way, from Shopify into Boulevard, and each Shopify variant becomes a standalone product in Boulevard. The location mapping cannot be changed after it is saved, so map stores and salons carefully the first time.
Mangomint: flat pricing and a free Shopify stock app
Mangomint charges $120 per location a month plus $10 per user, with add-ons for phone, marketing and payroll. It has no contracts. Onboarding and data transfer are free, and its pricing page lists clients, products and gift cards as standard, with notes, services, transaction history and appointment history often included. Online booking runs on your own website with no booking fee. Card rates are 2.45% plus 15 cents in person and 2.90% plus 30 cents for online payments.
Mangomint’s free Shopify app matches products by SKU and keeps stock counts in step between the two systems. The listing describes stock counts only: a Shopify order lowers the Mangomint count, and stock changes made in Mangomint reach Shopify.
Vagaro: low entry price and a built-in marketplace
Vagaro starts at $30 a month for a one-person calendar, with an introductory $23.99 a month over the first six months. Each extra bookable calendar costs $10 a month up to seven, and staff beyond seven add no cost. There is a 30-day trial and no cancellation fee. Vagaro says it will help you switch for free and that a data transfer usually takes one to two business days.
Vagaro includes a booking widget for your own site, a branded app, a MySite website, an online shopping cart, a free listing on the Vagaro Marketplace, and webhooks and APIs. The shopping cart is Vagaro’s own, so a business that wants Shopify as its store keeps products and stock in two places, or has a developer build a connection on Vagaro’s API.
Fresha: per-member pricing and its own online shop
Fresha charges $19.95 a month for a single bookable team member, or $14.95 per bookable team member a month on the Team plan, with custom rates above 20 team members. There is a 7-day trial and no long-term contract. New clients who find you on the Fresha marketplace cost a one-time 20% commission, with a $6 minimum, and returning clients cost nothing. Online card payments are 2.79% plus $0.20 and in-person payments 2.29% plus $0.20. Fresha imports client details and product stock, and sells paid migration packages for larger moves.
Fresha includes its own online product store and offers a Smart Website add-on at $15.95 a month. Clients who book through your own website, Instagram or Facebook carry no booking fee.
Booking on your own website
All five let clients book on your domain or from it, which matters once the Mindbody app listing is gone.
- Zenoti runs booking through its Webstore, which a Shopify theme can link to or open from any page.
- Boulevard has a Self-Booking Overlay, and its help center gives install steps for a Shopify theme: the widget code goes in the theme header, and any “Book now” button ending in /#book-now opens a booking window over the current page.
- Mangomint takes online bookings on your own website with no booking fee.
- Vagaro has an embeddable booking widget, plus booking from Google, Apple Maps, Instagram and Facebook.
- Fresha gives one direct booking link covering everything a client can book or buy, free of booking fees on your own channels.
A Shopify store can use any of these through links or an embed. What differs is whether products, stock and gift cards stay matched behind the scenes, which the next section covers. Our Shopify for salons and spas guide shows how booking and retail fit together on one storefront.
Which Mindbody alternatives connect to a Shopify store
| System | What syncs with Shopify | What stays separate |
|---|---|---|
| Boulevard | Catalog import, stock both ways, gift cards (Shopify Plus) | Variants become separate products; product edits flow from Shopify only |
| Zenoti | Orders as invoices, stock, sales reports, Webstore login (Shopify Plus) | Variants, exchanges, store pickup and Zenoti gift cards |
| Mangomint | Stock counts both ways, matched by SKU | Online orders stay in Shopify |
| Vagaro | No Shopify app; webhooks and APIs for a custom build | Products, stock and gift cards |
| Fresha | No Shopify app | Products, stock and gift cards |
If retail matters more than the booking screen, start from this table. A business selling a large product range online loses the least with Boulevard or Zenoti. A business that sells a few products at the front desk can run Vagaro or Fresha and link out from Shopify for booking.
A switching order that protects bookings
- Find the Mindbody renewal date and the notice period in your agreement.
- Export a full year of client, sales, membership, class pack and gift card reports from Mindbody, and count first-time clients who came through the app.
- Ask each shortlisted vendor in writing what its team imports, what you rebuild, and what it charges for the move.
- Start the stored-card export request in week one.
- Rebuild the service menu, forms and staff pay rules in the new system, then check imported balances against the Mindbody reports.
- If you sell on Shopify, match SKUs or product codes before the stock sync runs for the first time.
- Pick a quiet week for go-live, then swap every booking link on your website, Google profile and social accounts that day.
If the move also includes a new Shopify store or a theme rebuild, our Shopify migration services handle the store side alongside the booking system change.
FAQ
What is the best Mindbody alternative for a salon that sells on Shopify?
Boulevard has the fullest Shopify connection of the five we checked on 7 November 2026: it keeps stock matched in both directions and syncs gift cards on Shopify Plus. Zenoti records Shopify orders as invoices and suits multi-location groups and medspas. Mangomint’s free app keeps stock counts matched. Vagaro and Fresha have no Shopify app.
How much does Mindbody cost compared with its alternatives?
Mindbody quotes its plans, and its pricing FAQ names $79 USD per month as the entry point for North America and Asia. On 7 November 2026, Vagaro started at $30 a month, Fresha at $19.95 a month, Mangomint at $120 a month per location with $10 added per user, and Boulevard Essentials at $143 a month billed annually. Zenoti does not publish prices.
Can I keep my Mindbody client history when I switch?
Usually, yes. Zenoti, Boulevard, Mangomint and Vagaro all run the data transfer for you, and Fresha imports client details and product stock with paid packages for larger moves. Ask each vendor which records it imports and which you rebuild, and check balances against your Mindbody reports after the import.
What happens to saved cards and memberships?
Zenoti’s switching guide says Mindbody’s payment processor holds the stored card tokens, so moving them needs a formal export request, which can take time and carry a fee. Start it in the first week. If it is late, members re-enter their card through a secure link or at their next visit.
Will I lose clients who found me through the Mindbody app?
The listing ends when the account closes, so those clients need your new booking link. Count first-time clients who came through the app over the last twelve months before you decide. Send regulars the new link before cutover and put it in every reminder after it.
Sources (each read on 7 November 2026): the pricing pages of Mindbody, Boulevard, Mangomint, Vagaro and Fresha; Zenoti’s Mindbody migration guide and Shopify integration article; Boulevard’s help articles on its Shopify integration and the Self-Booking Overlay for Shopify; the Mangomint app in the Shopify App Store; and App Store searches for Mindbody, Vagaro and Fresha. Prices are in US dollars before tax. Vendors change them often, so confirm each one on the vendor’s page before you sign.
