Setmore vs StyleSeat

February 23, 2025 | Author: Sandeep Sharma
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Setmore
Automate Bookings & Payments with Online Appointment Software. Reach customers and book appointments with them online in a simple, easy-to-manage calendar that saves you time and helps your business grow.
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StyleSeat
StyleSeat is the online destination for beauty and wellness professionals and clients. Professionals can showcase their work, connect with new and existing clients, and build their business. Clients can discover new services and providers, book appointments online, and get inspired

Setmore and StyleSeat, at their core, share the same noble purpose: ensuring that humans with services to offer and humans in desperate need of those services find each other without the intervention of intergalactic bureaucracy. They both send reminders (because humans are astonishingly forgetful), accept payments (because humans rather like money) and work on both mobile devices and computers (which humans insist on carrying everywhere). They even integrate with calendars, which is a fancy way of saying they prevent double-booking disasters and existential scheduling crises.

Setmore, a proud child of the USA since 2011, flings its appointment-booking prowess at anyone who needs it, from hairdressers to consultants to people who schedule appointments just to feel important. It offers a free plan with unlimited bookings, presumably under the assumption that time is infinite. It also comes with a built-in video call feature, in case the appointment is less about haircuts and more about philosophical debates on why people always cancel at the last minute. And for those who actually work in teams, Setmore gracefully juggles multi-user scheduling, ensuring that confusion is at least evenly distributed.

StyleSeat, also born in 2011 in the USA, takes a more glamorous approach by catering exclusively to beauty and wellness professionals, because looking good is an industry all by itself. Unlike Setmore, it doesn’t just wait for customers—it actively finds them, functioning as a sort of digital matchmaker for people who need haircuts and the people who wield scissors. It even uses AI to adjust pricing dynamically, because why let humans decide anything? And just in case a stylist starts making too much money, StyleSeat helpfully takes a commission on new clients, ensuring that capitalism remains alive and well.

See also: Top 10 Beauty Salon software
Author: Sandeep Sharma
Sandeep is a marketing expert with a wealth of knowledge in various domains: customer relationship management, social media management, advertising, search engine optimization, website building, Sandeep has established himself as a multifaceted professional. He honed his skills while working at Salesforce and Hubspot, where he gained invaluable insights into the industry. Now, as the proud owner of a small advertising consulting agency, Sandeep continues to provide innovative and effective strategies to businesses, helping them thrive in the competitive landscape of digital marketing. You can contact Sandeep via email [email protected]