Reduce no-shows with reminders and live availability.
Centralise customer records, segmentation, and retention workflows.
Manage SMS, email, and chat conversations in one place.
Capture and convert new enquiries with clearer follow-up.
Use live and team chat to reply faster and book more clients.
Track transactions, credits, refunds, and checkout-linked revenue.
Run campaigns and segments tied to booking outcomes.
Reward repeat visits with tracked progress, credits, and discounts.
Sell recurring plans with included services, enrol clients, and keep renewals on autopay.
Drive repeat revenue with tracked promotions and redemptions.
Connect paid campaigns to lead and booking conversion workflows.
Coordinate social workflows with revenue and retention goals.
Manage stock, suppliers, and retail performance in one stack.
Coordinate rota, roles, and team execution workflows.
Keep day-to-day actions visible, assigned, and completed.
Free mobile app for digital consultation forms, clients, and responses.
Run resource-aware scheduling and service continuity workflows.
The AI team member built into your platform - copilot, receptionist, marketing, and analytics.
Answer enquiries across SMS, email, chat, and social DMs - even when you're with clients.
Never lose a booking to a missed call - AI voice handling for incoming calls.
Fill quiet days and win back lapsed clients with campaigns you approve before they send.
Every enquiry arrives with a ready-to-send reply drafted from your prices and policies.
Incomplete consultation and consent forms chased automatically before appointments.
Bookings, reminders, and client growth for salons.
Operational control and patient communication in one system.
Consults, treatment plans, and repeat bookings without manual admin.
Simple workflows for solo beauty therapists.
Consult, treatment, and touch-up workflows in one place.
Practitioner-led treatment journeys with stronger retention.
Protect refill workflows and improve repeat demand.
Keep bookings, checkout, and retail operations connected.
Run member journeys and retention campaigns from one place.
Service + software workflows designed to drive more bookings.
Content and engagement workflows tied to enquiries and bookings.
Google, Meta, TikTok, and Microsoft PPC campaigns managed end to end.
Create, send, complete, and review digital consultation forms from mobile.
Launch booking-connected web experiences quickly.
Transcriptions and treatment reports powered by your voice.
Talk to our team about growth workflows for your business.
AI-driven inbox handling across email, SMS, and social.
AI voice assistant for incoming booking calls.
Learn about our mission and platform focus.
Common questions about setup, workflows, and support.
Operational and growth insights for beauty teams.
See how Managed sits against major platforms, side by side.
Compare form-first tooling with full booking-to-retention coverage.
Compare operations and growth workflow depth.
Compare enquiry conversion and repeat-booking support.
Compare focused growth workflows with clinical practice management depth.
Compare adoption-first workflows with enterprise AI and scale.
Comparison
Compare broad booking tools with a communication-first workflow that helps enquiries become appointments.
Managed is built for teams that need stronger continuity between inquiry handling, scheduling delivery, and retention follow-up.
No card required. Setup support included.
Use this section to compare broad booking coverage against a tighter path from enquiry to appointment to repeat visit.
Comparison centred on conversion reliability and repeat-booking follow-up depth.
Channel breadth alone is not enough if handoffs across communication and daily operations stay fragmented.
Evaluate inbox and booking continuity quality. Compare payment and adjustment process control. Review rebooking follow-up as part of core daily operations.
Choose Managed if your priority is a focused beauty and aesthetics workspace where enquiries, forms, bookings, payments, and follow-up stay close together. Choose Vagaro if you want a broad salon, spa, fitness, and wellness toolbox with marketplace reach, many add-ons, and a larger business-software ecosystem.
If paper forms are slowing the team down, use Managed Forms first. Create and send consultation forms now, then connect the full Managed workspace when you are ready for bookings, payments, inbox, and follow-up in one place.
Create templates, personalise questions, send by link or QR, and complete forms in person from iPhone, iPad, or Android.
See how much easier it feels when client details, response history, and practitioner review live together.
Sign in with Managed when you want form activity to sit beside bookings, client records, inbox, payments, and follow-up.
Best for teams prioritising conversion handoff quality and retention coordination.
Managed centralises communication flow with contextual customer and booking data.
Faster conversion movement
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Coordinate appointment and transaction processes without disconnected handoffs.
Cleaner day-to-day delivery
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Run post-visit campaigns and incentives from one integrated system.
Higher repeat-demand consistency
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Keep front-desk, practitioner, and growth actions aligned with shared context.
Fewer dropped handovers
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Conversion-tight
Communication and booking processes linked by design
Operationally coherent
Appointments, payments, and follow-up managed in one system
Retention-oriented
Lifecycle actions prioritised after each visit
Team-visible
Role ownership and delivery state are transparent
No long set-up delays. Start with core processes, then expand with guided support.
Start quickly
Begin with your core bookings and client follow-up first, then expand when your team is ready.
Guided migration support
Move from your current setup with a clear checklist so handovers stay calm.
No long set-up delays
Focus on practical changes your team can use this week, not months from now.
These are the practical process checks teams run before they switch platforms.
Teams test how quickly messages can move to confirmed appointments without losing context between tools.
Teams test whether front desk and practitioners can work from the same client and booking view on busy days.
Teams test whether follow-up campaigns and offers are simple enough to run consistently after each visit.
The easiest way to decide is to see your own workflow running. Here is how teams de-risk the decision.
Start free with no card and run Managed in parallel. Compare the real workflow on your own clients before you commit to anything.
Guided setup moves your services, clients, and diary across, and your booking flow keeps running while you switch.
Booking, forms, inbox, payments, marketing, and Managed AI come as one platform, so check what each alternative charges as add-ons.
Practical questions teams ask before they switch.
Share your current bottleneck and timeline so we can propose the quickest path to more reliable booking and repeat revenue.
Fast response from our team
No spam follow-ups
Built for clinics and medspas
Aura Clinics
“Managed gave us one clear way to run bookings, forms, and follow-up. Our team now spends less time switching tools and more time with clients.”
Hannah Cole, Clinic Director, Aura Clinics
Start free to see how Managed handles your enquiries, bookings, and follow-up, or book a walkthrough with our team.