# Booker review (2026): is it worth $139 a month? > Spa and salon management software from Mindbody Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Booker is spa and salon management software from Mindbody. It handles bookings, rooms and equipment, staff schedules, inventory, point of sale and payroll, with a business website built to link to the booking page. Pricing is quoted through sales across three plans: Starter, Accelerate and Ultimate. - **Category:** Salon, Spa & Studio Booking - **Made by:** Mindbody - **Website:** https://www.booker.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want published prices, as only a $139 starting figure is shown. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Booker is a paid product, starting at $139 per month and up. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | Custom | Essentials: booking, text reminders (up to 3,000 a month), intake forms and a business website. Quoted through sales. | | Accelerate | Custom | Everything in Starter, plus unlimited staff profiles, smart contact lists, email templates and loyalty. Quoted through sales. | | Ultimate | Custom | Everything in Accelerate, plus automated marketing, unlimited 2-way texting, review prompts and referral tracking. | | Enterprise | Custom | A custom plan for multi-location or franchise businesses. | Read from https://www.booker.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Booker before buying. ## Key features - **Scheduling and resources:** Bookings, rooms, equipment and staff schedules in one calendar, with inventory tracked automatically. - **Point of sale and payments:** Point of sale, ecommerce and online gift cards, plus memberships and packages and payments taken from a phone. - **Business website:** Booker builds a website for the business that plugs into its Booker services page. It is included on every plan. - **Marketing and messaging:** Email templates and smart contact lists start on Accelerate. Automations, 2-way texting, reviews and referrals are on Ultimate. - **Marketplace listing:** Every plan lists the business on the Mindbody app, which the page says reaches 3 million or more monthly shoppers. ## Good for - Day spas, hotel spas and salons that need rooms and equipment booked - Massage studios and barbershops that want a built website - Multi-location groups that need an enterprise plan ## Worth knowing - Plan prices are not published; the page says only that pricing starts at $139 per month. - Marketing automations, 2-way texting, reviews and referrals need the top Ultimate plan. - The Messenger AI chatbot is an add-on, not part of any plan. - The page notes that not all features are available in all regions or on all tiers. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Booker handles scheduling, point of sale, a business website and marketing for salons and spas. Plan prices are not published beyond starting at $139 a month, and texting, reviews and referrals need the top Ultimate plan. - **Value for money: D.** Pricing starts at $139 a month, in the dearer quarter of booking tools, and the marketing parts need the top plan. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial on the pages read. - **Features: B.** Scheduling, resources, point of sale, a business website, marketing and a marketplace listing. The gaps named are plan gates. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. Resources, services and payments have to be set up. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only on the pages read, with Mindbody as the one integration listed. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Booker's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among salon, spa and studio booking apps - Booker's GPA of 1.6 is higher than 1 of the 85 other salon, spa and studio booking apps we grade, and level with 10. - It stands best on features (B, above 42 of 85) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $139 a month, against a middle price of $49 for the category: 48 of the 57 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 28 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/service-booking ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Booker you would be making texts to thousands of numbers, registered with the carriers. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 74 of the 85 other salon, spa and studio booking apps grade higher. It costs $1,668 a year. - You could make: Appointment booking, inventory, review collection and reports: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Texts to thousands of numbers, registered with the carriers. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Mindbody **Tags:** Appointment booking, Inventory, SMS marketing, Review collection, Reports ## Alternatives - [Mindbody](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mindbody): Studio, gym, spa and salon software with a consumer booking app. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/booker-vs-mindbody) - [Vagaro](https://toolgpa.com/tools/vagaro): Booking, payments and marketing for salons, spas and studios. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/booker-vs-vagaro) - [Zenoti](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zenoti): Booking, POS and operations software for salons, spas and gyms. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/booker-vs-zenoti) - [Boulevard](https://toolgpa.com/tools/boulevard): Booking, checkout and marketing for salons, spas and medspas. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/booker-vs-boulevard) - [Meevo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/meevo): Salon, spa and med spa software with booking, POS and marketing. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/booker-vs-meevo) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.booker.com/pricing - https://www.booker.com Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/booker Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).