SalesVu's Here app is free and staff-facing, letting you sell classes and retail through Square with built-in loyalty. MindBody's client-facing app costs up to $445 a month in subscriptions and add-ons, and makes it harder to upsell classes and packages.
In this video I'm going to show you the differences between the Here app by SalesVu and the MindBody Check in app. Hereby SalesVu is a staff facing app. It's completely free and it's designed for fitness, yoga and dance studios specifically to increase sales of classes or session packages and track the attendance of the clients who purchase these packages. You can sell the classes and packages to specific customers directly through the app here in the point of Sale section. All the payments in this section go through the merchant's Square account. The classes will be assigned to the customer who purchased them immediately. You can also create these classes directly in the app. There are a few different types of billings your classes can have. You can have a package of a certain limited number of classes that the customer frequents as per their convenience while the classes get deducted from their account. These can be auto renewed as often as you need or not auto renewed. With auto renewal, the customer's card will be billed automatically based on the billing recurrence you choose. Another available alternative is a package of unlimited classes with an expiration date without an auto renewal or unlimited classes with auto renewal. In addition to all of this, retail products can be sold from the app as well. The mindbody check in app is client facing and therefore does not support the sale of classes or retail products or creation of classes through the app. This check in app comes with a mindbody subscription that starts at $125 a month so it's not free like the hereby salesvu app. With mindbody, the clients can purchase classes and retail products at the business where the sale would be processed on the desktop. MindBody Point of Sale Another way to purchase would be through the Mindbody branded app which costs an additional $250 a month. While the free Here by SalesVu app comes with a completely free business branded app. In the Here app in the Calendar section you can check in customers for classes that they purchased. The check in screen allows the counter staff to easily check in clients and view everyone who reserved a spot for an upcoming class and others who have purchased a package for this specific the class count will be deducted from the customer's account automatically as they check in. The system will even notify them when they are running low on pre purchase sessions. While the client is being checked in for their class by the staff. The staff member gets an opportunity to talk to the client about any promotions and classes the client might be interested in purchasing and sell them the classes or class packages on the spot. In contrast, the MindBody check in app allows clients to self check in when they arrive for their class. While this approach alleviates some of the time the staff would spend checking customers in, it also eliminates the contact between the clients and staff and any opportunity to upsell classes. In addition to this, the mindbody check in app leaves a lot of room for error on the part of clients who can forget to check in or avoid checking in to not deduct classes from their class balance. With the Here app by SalesVu, the clients can earn loyalty points with each purchase and after reaching a certain amount of accumulated loyalty dollars they can use them towards purchases. This loyalty program comes with the Here app completely for free and so does the branded app that was mentioned previously that fully integrates with the Loyalty app and the Here app. Mindbody offers a loyalty program via a third party provider called Perkville. Mindbody merchants have access to this feature with a subscription starting at $125 a month plus they have to pay an additional fee that is on average $40 a month and the price increases with number of locations, users and customers. As an alternative, mindbody clients that are on the $195 a month subscription or a more expensive subscription model have access to an in house mindbody loyalty program. Then if you add the additional $250 per month for the mindbody app service, it comes to $445 per month for something that is completely free with the SalesVU app. In summary, the Here app is free and offers the exact same functionality that Mindbody offers for $445 per month. SalesVu offers 24. 7 customer service for the Here app via chat, phone and email in order to ensure that every merchant can get any questions answered right away. If you have any questions, please visit salesvu.com or contact us at your convenience and we'll be happy to help.
