Acuity Scheduling
Acuity Scheduling is a flexible, booking-first self-scheduling platform with payments, deposits, packages, and memberships, plus a HIPAA-enabled option on its top tiers — widely used by solo injectors and med spas.

Mindbody's spa-built booking, POS and membership platform
Booker is Mindbody's spa-built booking-and-POS product — strong on memberships, packages and front-of-house operations, but quote-based, not HIPAA-marketed, and best paired with a separate clinical system.
Booker is a cloud-based booking and business-management platform marketed as "Booker by Mindbody." It is important to understand it as a distinct product from the standalone Mindbody platform (which we review separately): Booker is Mindbody's spa-and-salon booking product, built around appointment scheduling, an integrated point of sale, memberships, packages, gift cards and customer-retention marketing. For med spas, it covers the front-of-house layer well — online self-booking, staff calendars, deposits and checkout — while leaving deep clinical documentation to other systems.
Booker is sold on a quote-based model that typically starts around $139/month, and pricing is reached through a sales conversation rather than a fully published tier sheet. Crucially for medical practices, Booker is not strongly marketed as a HIPAA-compliant clinical system; it is positioned as a spa/salon operations and payments platform, so med spas with PHI and charting needs should treat it as a booking-and-POS layer and validate any compliance requirements (including whether a BAA is available) directly with Mindbody before committing.
Ideal customer
Spa- and salon-style med spas that want a mature, spa-built booking and POS platform with memberships and marketing, and that handle clinical charting and HIPAA-sensitive documentation in a separate system.
Booker is Mindbody's spa-and-salon booking product, and the first thing to get straight is that it is a distinct product from the standalone Mindbody platform we review separately. Sold as "Booker by Mindbody," it targets spa-style businesses — including many med spas — that want a mature booking engine, an integrated point of sale, and strong memberships and packages, without buying into a full clinical EMR.
For med spas, Booker sits squarely in the booking-and-payments layer. Online self-booking, staff calendars, deposits, checkout, gift cards and retention marketing are all well covered, and the platform carries Mindbody's scale behind it. Its Capterra rating of 4.1 across roughly 981 reviews is a genuinely standalone score, separate from Mindbody's own listing, which makes it a useful signal when comparing the two.
Choose Booker if you want a spa-built booking, POS and membership platform with Mindbody's scale behind it, and your clinical documentation and HIPAA-sensitive workflows live in a separate system. Get a written quote and clarify how Booker differs from the standalone Mindbody platform before you sign, so you buy the product you actually intend to.
By Med Spa Vendor Hub Editorial Team. Last reviewed June 29, 2026. Independent editorial review — how we score.
Quote-based pricing, typically starting around $139/month, with the final figure reached through a sales conversation rather than fully published tiers. Payment processing and some add-ons are billed separately. Reviewers note price increases and added fees over time, so confirm current pricing and contract terms directly with Mindbody.
Booker (quote-based)
From ~$139/mo
per location, quote-based
Spa/salon booking, POS, memberships, packages and marketing; final pricing provided by Mindbody sales.
Pricing is researched from public sources and verified periodically; confirm current rates with the vendor.
Independent ratings from third-party review platforms, cited with sources. These are not our score.
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