SalesVu Technical Support produced a YouTube video ("Welcome by SalesVu vs. Booker by Mindbody", Oct 18, 2018) demonstrating the Welcome app and contrasting it with Booker by MindBody. The speaker describes Welcome as a free mobile reservation and waitlist management app for salons with floor plan setup, appointment and customer management, integrated POS, waitlist with SMS notifications, and an optional SalesVu Cloud subscription ($150/month) adding scheduling, commissions, loyalty, billing, CRM, marketing, inventory, web/Facebook store and reporting. The video asserts Booker lacks waitlist, loyalty, text marketing and invoicing, and costs $125–$395/month; SalesVu offers a $50 lifetime discount (coupon WELCOME50OFF) for switchers and 24/7 support.
In this video, I'm going to show you the difference between the welcome app by SalesVu and Booker by MindBody. Welcome is a completely free reservation and weightless management app for beauty salons designed to increase your salon's customer turn rate and satisfaction. You can configure your different floor plans with chairs, rooms and stylist stations directly in the app. In just a few minutes. You can add new appointments directly on the welcome app in the appointment section when the customers call in. Our free app allows you to save your customer contact information so you can easily and quickly take care of your loyal customers by selecting them from this list. Or you can add a new customer on the fly. You can also publish a reservation widget to your website or your own branded app that you can see here. The branded app is also provided by SalesVu for free and your customer. Customers can use it to make online reservations. They can even pick a specific stylist that they like to go to or any staff if they don't have a preference, and you can charge a deposit at the time of online reservation to avoid no shows. When a customer makes an online appointment, the appointment will appear in the welcome app immediately. You can browse scheduled appointments in this comprehensive calendar in a daily or a weekly view. As your walk in customers arrive, add them to the wait list by entering their style, stylist, preference or service and by adding an estimated wait time. You can add an existing customer from the customer list or add a new customer on the fly. Once the stylist is ready, you can notify the customer by text and then seat them to immediately occupy the station on the virtual floor plan. The welcome app also has a fully integrated point of sale functionality through which you can charge customers for services as well as physical products that you sell in your salon. The welcome app itself is completely free, but if you want more remote management, reporting and other functionality, you can subscribe to SalesVue Cloud with SalesVue Cloud you gain access to advanced management and salon features like employee scheduling and management with which you can set up different commission rates for sale of products and services for your employees as a part of their compensation. You will also get access to gift cards and loyalty program to gain more returning customers Recurring billing to charge your members a recurring fee automatically Customer relationship management to gain insights about individual and general purchase patterns Marketing management to effectively increase your sales volume, invoice and quote management for large groups Web Store and Facebook Store that fully integrates with your reporting and inventory to keep track of your physical products Inventory tracking for sale of physical products and more. All of this will be accessible from the SalesVU Cloud Portal. When here, you can see your business's performance at a glance. In this comprehensive dashboard, check on your sales and transactional data, employee statistics, customer trends, reservation numbers and more. For more in depth reporting, go to Reports to get valuable information such as your daily sales broken down by products, categories or locations here. Or go to the sales report to view your sales evolve over time. This entire Bundle costs only $150 a month, but if you only need basic functionality, you can just use our welcome app completely for free. While Booker offers similar functionality, it doesn't have any waitlist features, loyalty program, text marketing or invoicing. In addition to that, there are no free options and the most basic bundle with the most basic functionality starts at $125 and the cost can be as much as $395 a month for the full functionality. That means that if you just want to use a mobile app with Booker, it will cost you $125 a month, but the mobile app is free with welcome by SalesVu. Welcome and SalesVu can do more than Booker and only cost from 0 to $150 a month compared to Booker's $395 a month. Right now. If you switch from Booker to SalesVu, we'll give you a $50 discount for life for the entire so it will only cost $100 a month. Use coupon code WELCOME50OFF at checkout. If you have any questions about the welcome app, please reach out to us by phone, chat or email 24. 7 We'll be happy to help you get up and run.
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