Keep your bookings. Keep your clients. Keep your brand.
Marketplaces rent you demand and share your customers. Meeting tools give you a link, not a business. Hacado is the opposite: an independent booking website for beauty and wellness studios that already have Instagram, Google, and word of mouth.
Leave the marketplace. Keep the clients.
Compare Hacado to the tools people search when they want their own brand back.
| Capability | Hacado | Calendly | Acuity | Square Appointments | Booksy | Fresha | Vagaro |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent branded website |  |  | Limited | | | | |
| Your own domain | | Limited | Limited | Limited | | | Limited |
| Marketplace / directory | | | | | | | |
| You own the client list | | | | | Limited | Limited | Limited |
| Stripe + Square + PayPal | | Limited | | | Limited | Limited | Limited |
| Online payments | | Limited | | | | | |
| SMS reminders | | Limited | | | | | |
| Gift cards | | | | | | | |
| Waitlist | | | | | | | |
| Multi-staff calendars | | Limited | | | | | |
“Limited” means the capability exists in a thinner form or on higher plans / add-ons. Marketplace tools may charge commissions; Hacado does not run a client directory.
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Spa and clinic ops suite. Heavier than a solo beauty booking website.
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Budget scheduler for small teams. Limited website - mostly a booking page.
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Plugin-heavy booking. Powerful, more setup than Hacado’s builder.
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Scheduler bolted onto a website product. Fine if you already live in Squarespace.
Phorest / Zenoti / Timely
Larger salon suites. Choose them when you need retail, memberships, and enterprise ops - not only a branded book.
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