Established salon and spa management with booking, POS, and memberships
A mature, affordable salon and spa platform with strong booking, POS, and membership operations — capable for salon-style med spas, but its lack of HIPAA marketing and clinical charting makes it a weaker fit for compliance-sensitive aesthetic practices.
DaySmart Salon & Spa is one of the longest-established salon and spa management platforms on the market, with a deep feature set spanning 24/7 online booking, point of sale and payments, inventory, payroll and commissions, memberships and packages, automated text and email reminders, client profiles, and mobile access. Its pricing is refreshingly transparent — published tiers at $29, $69, $149, and $199 per month — and many reviewers are long-tenured users who have run their business on it for years. It is both a booking layer and a full front-of-house operations system for appointment-based businesses.
For med spas, the key caveat is that DaySmart Salon & Spa is built and marketed for salons and spas rather than medical practices, and it is not HIPAA-marketed. It has no deep clinical charting, injectables mapping, device-protocol documentation, or before-and-after photo workflow, and it does not lead with HIPAA compliance or a Business Associate Agreement. Med spas can use it effectively for booking, POS, memberships, and retail operations, but any practice handling protected health information should confirm its compliance position directly and plan to pair it with dedicated, compliant charting.
Ideal customer
Salon-style med spas and aesthetic businesses that want an established, affordable booking-and-POS platform with memberships and retail operations — and that don't require HIPAA-marketed software or a deep clinical EMR (and will pair it with dedicated charting).
DaySmart Salon & Spa is one of the most established platforms in this category, with a long track record running salons and spas and a feature set that covers far more than booking. For an aesthetic business that operates like a salon — appointments, retail, memberships, commissions — it is a mature, affordable, all-in-one front-of-house system. It carries a 4.4 on Capterra across roughly 406 reviews, and many of those reviewers are long-tenured users who have stayed on it for years.
Its pricing is also unusually transparent for the market: published tiers at $29, $69, $149, and $199 per month, with a free trial. That clarity, and the breadth of operations it covers, are the main reasons a med spa would shortlist it.
Choose DaySmart Salon & Spa if your business runs like a salon or spa, you want a mature, affordable booking-and-POS platform with strong retail and membership operations, and HIPAA-marketed software is not a requirement for how you handle records. If compliance with protected health information matters, treat the HIPAA gap as a real limitation: confirm DaySmart's position directly and pair it with dedicated, compliant clinical charting.
By Med Spa Vendor Hub Editorial Team. Last reviewed June 29, 2026. Independent editorial review — how we score.
Transparent published tiers: Basic $29/mo, Deluxe $69/mo, Deluxe Growth $149/mo, and Premium $199/mo. A free trial is available, and some plans add extra users for around $9 each. Pricing is per business rather than per provider on lower tiers. The platform is not HIPAA-marketed; confirm compliance directly if you handle protected health information. Verify current pricing on DaySmart's site.
Basic
$29/mo
monthly
Core scheduling, client management, and reminders for small teams.
Deluxe
$69/mo
monthly
Adds point of sale, memberships, and broader operations features.
Deluxe Growth
$149/mo
monthly
Adds marketing and growth tooling for busier businesses.
Premium
$199/mo
monthly
Full suite with advanced features and priority support.
Pricing is researched from public sources and verified periodically; confirm current rates with the vendor.
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