Vagaro Features

Personal Task - This allows you to schedule time off for sick days, vacations, holidays, lunch breaks, and any special meetings or tasks that need to be completed. You can disable online booking during the time frame a personal task is set and create recurring tasks, repeating them daily, weekly, monthly or yearly.

Daily Plan - This allows you to print out the appointment schedule for a specific day. You can print out a less detailed schedule to see the appointment summary or a more detailed report to see additional information, such as the customer's previous appointments, notes, and product purchases.

Timeline - This allows you to see every detail of an appointment or class, including the following: its date, duration, the service that was added to the booking, the employee who provided the service, and if there were any updates or changes to the appointment.

Waitlist - This allows you to add customers to a waitlist if a timeslot on the Calendar is taken. Once the slot becomes available, you can quickly fill the spot with the waitlisted customer, allowing you to maximize your appointment schedule and increase your earnings by quickly filling last-minute cancellations. You can manually create a waitlist from the calendar or use one of our automated options to notify a customer when a spot opens up automatically.

Access Levels - These are permissions or roles that can be customized to limit employees from viewing and editing specific features of Vagaro.

Batch Processing Schedule - This is the cut-off time when credit card transactions are included in one batch and deposited into a Merchant Account. Transactions before 3 PM Pacific or 6 PM Eastern Time are included in a single batch. It then takes about 24 hours to deposit to the bank account. One of the few exceptions is transactions that occur after 3 PM on Friday and those that happen on Saturday or Sunday. These take two days to deposit to the bank. This is due to banks being closed on Sundays. If a transaction occurs after the 3 PM cut-off time, it's included in the next day's batch. There is also a two-day deposit time for transactions before a holiday.

Category - Categories consist of a group of services or classes. An example of a category is Haircuts and Other. Items within this category are men's haircuts, women's haircuts, and Shave.

Class - This is a session an instructor provides for a group of attendees. Examples of classes include Yoga, Boxing, and Martial Arts. You can add a Vagaro class that's already in the account by default or add a custom class that's unique to the needs of the business.

Copy-to-All Tool - Found in the Employee Profiles section, this allows you to quickly add work hours to an employee's profile, copying Monday's work hours to other days of the week. This is especially helpful if you have an employee who works the same hours each day.

Copy Pricing Tool - Found in the Employee Profiles section, this allows you to copy the pricing configuration of one employee to other employee profiles. This is useful if you're adding an employee who has a very similar pricing setup as another employee.

Customer Retention - Keep track of the types of clients and the service providers being booked to identify the best strategies for increasing your client base. There are four Customer Retention Types: Return Request, Return Non Request, New Request, and New Non Request.

Gap Processing Time - This is a duration you can set within a service, which lets you book another appointment during that service. This lets you take on more bookings and maximize your schedule when a customer is involved in an activity that doesn't require your attention.

Lead Time - Limit how soon a customer can book an online appointment or class before the requested start time. For example, if you set a 60-minute lead team, the customer will be required to book at least 60 minutes before the service, giving you enough time to respond to a request.

Mass Edit Tool - Edit multiple items at the same time. You can use this function when adding services to Employee Profiles, editing Products, and creating Memberships, Packages, Preset Discounts, and Daily Deals.

Memberships - Use this tool to seamlessly add discounts to multiple services, classes, and products at once. You can then offer discounts based on a set number of visits and auto-renew options, allowing you to charge clients automatically based on the charge frequency you set. This is great for rewarding loyal customers and giving them more incentives to purchase from the business.

Multi-Location Feature - This allows you to add multiple businesses and locations to the Vagaro account. You can share various account details such as customer information, gift certificates, packages, memberships, and points between the different locations and easily toggle between the businesses.

Online Appointment Rules - Use this tool to set your online booking rules, including waitlist options, refund policies for customers making prepayments on your booking page, and cancellation, no-show, and rescheduling policies. You can also set a requirement to accept or deny a customer's request to book online with the business. This is especially helpful in deterring clients who don't adhere to your cancellation policies and cancel bookings frequently.

House Call - This allows you to configure and designate services performed at a person's home or another location outside the business. You can add an estimated one-way driving time and an additional cost for providing the service.

Packages - Sell future visits and sessions in bulk at a discounted price. You can also set different auto-renew options, charging the client weekly, every four weeks, monthly, every two months, quarterly, yearly, or after a set number of visits are completed.

Points - Points are given to customers as an incentive to purchase more items from your business. Clients can collect points when they book classes and services or purchase products, memberships, and packages. They can then use these points to redeem items if their total points exceed the redeeming value.

Purchase Orders - This feature allows you to conveniently work with Vendors to ship products that are low in stock. From the Purchase Order Management page, you can also use different filters to narrow the list to individual orders to manage and update them in a flash.

Preset Discounts - This tool can set discounts for services, classes, products, memberships, and packages. You can also add Promo Codes so customers can use them when shopping on your online booking page, create discounts for special occasions such as holidays and festivals and conveniently add them when checking out clients.

Promo Code - This is a code that a customer uses to get a discount on online purchases. From the Preset Discounts page, you can set discounts for multiple items, including services, classes, products, memberships, and packages, and create a promo code to allow the customer to use it for purchases on the Online Booking Page.

Resource - Something (a massage room, a chair, or a type of exercise equipment) needed to perform a service or class. It's available in a limited quantity and shared by more than one person at a business. If a resource is booked, the software recognizes this and defaults to the next available resource assigned to the service or class.

Safe IP Address - This allows you to block any IP address from accessing the account. You can also allow users to log in from a location of their choice.

Set Appointment Interval - Set the minute intervals between the available times on the online booking page. You can select from intervals of 5 to 180 minutes.

Service Bundle - This allows you to group up to three services and sell them together, typically at a discounted price, to give clients more incentive to purchase popular items from your business. You can also use this tool to book multiple services and service providers simultaneously. Once the bundle is created, you can sell it from the Vagaro Online Booking Page, your custom booking page, and the checkout screen.

Vendors - These are companies or individuals that supply the products you sell. The Vendor Management feature keeps all your vendors in one place and helps you add and make changes at any time.

Workshop - This is a short and intensive series of classes dedicated to educating a small group of people about techniques and skills. Workshops enable businesses to make substantial extra income. They are also a great way to attract new customers, mainly if you offer free or low-cost sessions. Payment for workshops usually is due upfront, which helps with cash flow. Attendees must take all sessions sequentially to build skills. You can create workshops from the Service-Class Menu.

Gift Certificates - This is a voucher that a client gives to another customer as a present. You can add a dollar amount or assign a specific service or class to it. You can choose from various pre-made templates and designs when creating and selling them to clients or add custom images to the electronic gift cards you sell.

Group Customers tool: This allows you to group customers on the checkout screen and select a payee for the services.

IOUs - These are issued to customers who cannot pay on the day of the service. They can be generated from the Checkout screen or the IOU Report page. Once an IOU is generated or checked out, you can view it the next time the customer is selected on the checkout screen. From there, you can collect payment.

Invoice Tool - This allows you to bill customers from the Vagaro account. You can set a due date for when a customer has to pay, send automatic reminders to clients whose payments are overdue, and easily keep track of all invoices on the Invoice Management page.

Save for Later Tool - Save a customer's checkout items so you can finish later. This is great if you get interrupted while checking out a customer and must leave the checkout page. You can save up to 20 records to the Save for Later list.

General Tag - A keyword or phrase added to a customer's profile. It can be used as an identifier or a way to locate a client. For example, you can add a general tag such as VIP to designate specific profiles on the VIP list and use the Customer List Report to view customers who have been designated a specific tag. You can also offer Preset Discounts to customers who have a specific tag.

SOAP Notes - A SOAP note (Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan) is a document that healthcare providers use to create a patient's chart. It's beneficial for assessing, diagnosing, and treating patients.

Verified Customers - These are clients who have been marked as Checked Out or Completed. You can limit reviews of your business to just these types of customers.

Custom Booking Page - This allows users to create a custom Vagaro online booking page. You can choose from high-quality themes and templates and easily add your images and content.

Daily Deals - Promote discounts on services, classes, memberships, and packages. Once you launch it and it's approved, the Daily Deal appears on the Vagaro landing page, your Online or Custom Booking page. You can also post the deal on your Facebook page.

Email Marketing Feature - This allows you to send custom emails directly to your client base. You can select from a group of high-quality designs and templates or add your images and customize them. You can send one-time, non-automated emails or recurring, automated emails. You can also send an email to all customers or a Filtered List.

Portfolio: Adding photos to the Portfolio is a great way to attract new online customers. You can showcase your services and promote them on your Online Booking Page and the Vagaro Landing Page. There also is an opportunity to feature your portfolio images on Vagaro's Social Media pages. You can upload up to three images to the Portfolio Gallery.

Text Marketing Feature - Use this tool to send one-time text marketing campaigns to customers. You can also send Automated Messages, including recurring birthdays, lost customers, before visit and follow-up or thank you marketing campaigns.

Venue Gallery: Adding photos and images to the Venue Gallery is a great way to attract new online customers. You can showcase the interior and exterior of the business, giving customers a look at the inside and outside of the store. You can add up to 12 photos, including a logo image, automatically added to your Receipts, Forms, and Online Booking Page.

Booking Widget - Integrate your independent website with the Vagaro Book 24/7 Widget. You can customize its appearance and access an embedded code that enables the booking function on your site.

Forms - Create custom consent forms, liability waivers, customer surveys, registration forms, and intake forms using our customizable builder. You can also send customers digital form links, keep track of electronic signatures, and select templates to build forms that fit your business needs.

Online Shopping Cart - This allows you to sell packages, memberships, services, products, classes, and gift certificates directly from the Facebook account, Vagaro website, and Online Booking Page. Additionally, you can select convenient shipping options for your products and require customers to prepay for items when shopping with your business online.

Check-in App - A self-service platform that allows customers to check in for classes, book future appointments, and purchase memberships. The app primarily works on iPads and tablets.

Integrations - Allows you to integrate your Vagaro account with online platforms such as QuickBooks, Xero, Yelp, Facebook, and Instagram. You can sync all your sales with QuickBooks and Xero and get customers to book from Yelp, Facebook, and Instagram. See this support section for articles about various integrations.

Free Import - We provide this import type if you need help transferring your customer contacts and products from a different system to the Vagaro account. This is a free service.

Premium Import - Use Premium import if you need help transferring appointments, customer notes, services, memberships, packages, and gift certificates to the Vagaro account. Every Vagaro account is eligible for one free Premium Import.

Vagaro-to-Vagaro Import: Vagaro to Vagaro Import services make it easy for employees to move between two Vagaro businesses or transfer their services, classes, customers, customer notes, future appointments, and Vagaro Drive files to a new Vagaro business from their current Vagaro business. This feature gives you secure data transfer between businesses and lets you avoid manually exporting and importing data.