Comparison
Keep your booking app. Add a front desk.
The table is the gap between a booking calendar and a front desk. If the app you have already covers the desk, stay with it. Names of other products are used so you can tell them apart. ChairOps is not those companies, and it is not their official add-on.
The calendar
Booking app aloneYour booking app keeps the appointments. That stays the book of record.
With ChairOpsChairOps does not ask you to move the book. Square Appointments is followed after you connect Square. Fresha and Vagaro stay your book. ChairOps does not log into them, and it does not pull or write those books.
Leftover chairs
Booking app aloneOpen time sits in the booking app until someone on the desk fills it.
With ChairOpsCore includes a public ChairOps page for leftover chairs, so a guest can request an open time without a phone call.
Cancellations
Booking app aloneA cancel frees a chair. Filling it depends on who is at the desk.
With ChairOpsCore includes a waitlist in the desk, so a cancel can be offered to someone who already asked.
Empty hours
Booking app aloneMost booking apps show the schedule. They do not price the empty hours.
With ChairOpsThe Floor shows fill, no-shows, rebook, and leftover hours in dollars from the appointments on the desk.
The phone
Booking app aloneA missed call waits until someone at the desk is free. The next caller often hangs up.
With ChairOpsForward your business number. An AI assistant answers as your shop, any time, day or night, while forwarding is on. It answers questions, books the appointment, and leaves you a summary of the call. Several calls are handled at once. Texts are a booking confirmation, one reply if they text the line, or one note if a call does not connect. Each one says to reply STOP to opt out.
Price
Booking app aloneYou keep paying for the booking app you already use.
With ChairOpsChairOps has its own price, on the pricing page. You still pay your booking app.