Boulevard

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Software purpose-built for the self-care industry

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Kami
Kami
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  • Industry: Cosmetics
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great Booking Software

Reviewed on 06/11/2020

Customer service is exceptional.

Customer service is exceptional.

Pros

The customer service, messaging feature, ease of booking and checkout, and notifications. The program is very minimal and easy to use.

Cons

More reporting features would be helpful

Alternatives Considered

Booker and Vagaro

Reasons for Switching to Boulevard

A lot of the features were unique and user friendly in comparison
Angel
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  • Industry: Medical Practice
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

HAPPY USER

Reviewed on 07/11/2024

Boulevard helps maximize my time , allows me to do all my task in a very timely manner. Very...

Boulevard helps maximize my time , allows me to do all my task in a very timely manner. Very helpful and user friendly

Pros

Very user friendly, It makes every task easy

Cons

None so far. I never had a problem with it

Kitae
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10

If you like to pay through the eyes for expensive software that isn't very intuitive, by all...

Reviewed on 05/02/2022

Horrible. Costs too much for the subscription and their system is not very intuitive. It takes...

Horrible. Costs too much for the subscription and their system is not very intuitive. It takes few extra steps to do anything in the system. Extra steps create a lot of places where mistakes can be made, especially when it comes to scheduling.

Pros

It is generally easy to learn out of the box, however there is definitely learning involved.

Cons

The POS system is a joke and they force you to utilize them as a Merchant Processesor. Their rates are competitive with other premier solutions like Square, but they literally give you a $0.50 magnetic card swiper from China to process the payments. The alternative is to buy a glorified card reader for $150 (literally a block that is a glorified magnetic card swiper) that interfaces with your iPad through Bluetooth. If you have every used Bluetooth technology on your phone, you know how horribly unreliable that it can be. If the device times out when you're taking payment, be prepared to ask your clients to wait while you spend 5-10 minutes making sure that the devices are back on line. The

Alternatives Considered

Vagaro, Square Payments and ZENOTI

Reasons for Choosing Boulevard

Booker was good, but ever since they got acquired by MindBody, it has been the bastard step-child acquisition that no one cares about. Full of glitches and down all the time.

Switched From

Booker

Reasons for Switching to Boulevard

They had a good sales pitch and the sales guy did a good job of putting his hook into me. Also, I finally got too fed up with Booker's glitches.
Jacinda
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  • Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10

Review of BLVD

Reviewed on 06/11/2024

Amazing! Not many updates to the point where they are annoying but enough updates to keep everything...

Amazing! Not many updates to the point where they are annoying but enough updates to keep everything running!

Pros

Very easy to learn and easy to book clients in!

Cons

Lack of knowledge when updates happen making it sometimes hard to navigate at first

cemiya
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  • Industry: Cosmetics
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

I am in LOVE!!

Reviewed on 06/11/2024

I feel like it has been a great experience, I don’t think I would be able to get used to any other...

I feel like it has been a great experience, I don’t think I would be able to get used to any other booking system. I have used a few different systems and I think that boulevard has been the easiest to understand.

Pros

i love how user friendly it is, i feel like it would be easy for anyone to use it! especially if you are just joining a salon.

Cons

I do think that the mobile app could be a bit easier to navigate. There are a few glitches and it is just overall harder to get used to.

Ashley
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  • Industry: Medical Practice
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Love Boulevard!!! Easy to learn and use!

Reviewed on 09/11/2024

Great overall experience with navigating

Great overall experience with navigating

Pros

The ease of use for the client to book their appointments is amazing! And I love texting my clients directly from the app!

Cons

No way to get client card for cancelling

Bryanha
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great job boulevard

Reviewed on 09/11/2024

Pretty great experience . I wouldn’t change anything

Pretty great experience . I wouldn’t change anything

Pros

Easy to navigate. It was easy to learn and work with

Cons

no dislikes really. It helped with my business

Kyle
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Boulevard has been great!

Reviewed on 14/11/2024

It has been positive including support and the transition.

It has been positive including support and the transition.

Pros

How detailed the options are and how responsive the team has been.

Cons

The transition from square to boulevard.

Enya
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  • Industry: Cosmetics
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

The BEST platform for spas

Reviewed on 06/11/2024

Easy to learn, fun to customize. After using very complicated systems this was super easy to learn.

Easy to learn, fun to customize. After using very complicated systems this was super easy to learn.

Pros

It is user friendly, customizable and constantly evolving to fit the needs of clients. I’ve submitted requests that have been solved and it was so easy to teach and learn.

Cons

I genuinely do not have anything bad to say. Going back to Mindbody for another job was a headache.

Trinity
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  • Industry: Cosmetics
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Boulevard review

Reviewed on 09/11/2024

I haven’t had any issues with boulevard in my experience it has been good

I haven’t had any issues with boulevard in my experience it has been good

Pros

Boulevard is easy to use and makes my job as an esthetician more smooth

Cons

I am not completely satisfied with the look of the new update

Ian
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  • Industry: Cosmetics
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Owner Review of Boulevard

Reviewed on 05/06/2024

Overall I am in love with Boulevard. It simply works. Everything is clean and concise for ease of...

Overall I am in love with Boulevard. It simply works. Everything is clean and concise for ease of use with employees and customers. While it may not be absolutely perfect, it is certainly among the best softwares available for salon/spa management.

Pros

Boulevard's scheduling function is simple and easy. Its POS is intuitive and is streamlined to make check out quick and easy. It presents stylists with easy to digest reports of their own performance, while also providing in depth reports to management without throwing in useless data. The reports also create little to no confusion as to what is actually being reported.

Cons

Most of my issues with Boulevard are missing functions, however, I understand that the development team is always working on improving the platform. My biggest complain is that the professional app doesn't let management view all reports. The desktop site is also not mobile friendly.

Alternatives Considered

Meevo and Phorest

Reasons for Choosing Boulevard

Vagaro is a terrible software that functions very poorly and is not very user friendly. Regular discrepancies in transactions and deposit payouts drove me to look into switching.

Switched From

Vagaro

Reasons for Switching to Boulevard

Boulevard seemed to have the best bang for its buck. It was the nicest to look at without sacrificing any of the functionality I needed.
Shelby
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  • Industry: Cosmetics
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Shelby from FBE & Facebar

Reviewed on 06/07/2023

Overall I'm THRILLED with Boulevard. From the speedy customer service, to the easy to understand...

Overall I'm THRILLED with Boulevard. From the speedy customer service, to the easy to understand layout. I'm so lucky we found Boulevard for our business!!

Pros

I like how customizable everything is. With running a medical spa & a facial bar we have a lot of specific times / treatments. It’s so easy to create and edit everything! I also love that there is a place to submit requests for changes and new ideas!

Cons

The only thing I wish I could change is to make the appointment service modifiers assignable to employees! This is such a specific, weird request and it's in no way affecting how we operate on a day to day basis so I don't really care that much!

Amanda
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  • Industry: Medical Practice
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

RN User of Boulevard

Reviewed on 29/06/2023

It’s been great!

It’s been great!

Pros

The easy scheduling for clients and how detailed notes can be made.

Cons

The app isn’t as easy to use. I cannot see client last names for booking.

Isabel
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  • Industry: Medical Practice
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Organized and Interactive!

Reviewed on 20/06/2023

Pros

The pre-booking feature makes scheduling future appointments extremely easy! Also, separate tabs for customer's history with services, transactions, and product purchases make it easy to help clients find what they are looking for.

Cons

The integration of packages from our previous booking system did not transfer correctly, which is the only issue we ran into.

Destiny
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  • Industry: Cosmetics
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

BLVD is the BEST

Reviewed on 10/06/2024

Boulevard overall makes it easy to manage clients, employees and payments.

Boulevard overall makes it easy to manage clients, employees and payments.

Pros

Boulevard is extremely efficient. The site encompasses all the features our med spas use daily. Clients are able to self book, cancel, reschedule and call through this secured site. We especially love that boulevard has their own mobile pay device. Often times clients do have the physical credit card on them so these devices are useful to collect large payments.

Cons

There aren't many cons to Boulevard. The site truly has every feature a business owner could think of. It rarely ever goes down.

Luda
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  • Industry: Cosmetics
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great with one flaw

Reviewed on 10/06/2024

Great. Will there was a button to see who canceled or moved their apt.

Great. Will there was a button to see who canceled or moved their apt.

Pros

Very many options and way to use!! Love when I’m notified when someone canceled or scheduled appts. I love the option to choose what notification you get.

Cons

When someone moves their sport out does not notify you who moved. So then you’ll have random opening in your schedule and i don’t know who was there. It would be nice to have a button to click to see who canceled or moved from that spot.

Nidia
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

easy to check on my phone

Reviewed on 26/05/2024

Is easy to look for my earnings and show my tip and what the client bought on the history

Is easy to look for my earnings and show my tip and what the client bought on the history

Pros

The app is great I can check my booking from my cell
Phone

Cons

To much notification. But at the end is ok because we have the control

Nadine
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  • Industry: Cosmetics
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Boulevard review

Reviewed on 28/05/2024

Pros

It’s so easy to use and so functional. Easiest to train with as well!

Cons

No cons necessarily but lag times affect the schedule sometimes

Twyla
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  • Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Always Improving!

Reviewed on 07/07/2023

Overall the experience was great from set up to launch, the most critical of functions we need as a...

Overall the experience was great from set up to launch, the most critical of functions we need as a studio work in our favor

Pros

I love the ease of customization, especially since we utilize the software for both retail AND services. Additionally the fact that the price is steady regardless of the number of users is helpful for growing businesses. My favorite thing is the customer service, we've had barely any issues since we began using Boulevard, but the couple times they didn't beat us to the punch notifying us of issues, we had answers within MINUTES of reaching out.

Cons

The professional app needs a lot of work in my opinion. The lack of ability to take payments in the mobile app creates problems when we are trying to do purchases or enter appointments and aren't near a computer, and scheduling the appointments can be a chore, if there was a way to utilize the app so we have the same options to see and select the best times/all times for appointments and choose times that way would create a lot of ease for all users.

Dorcas
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  • Industry: Cosmetics
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Helpful and easy app

Reviewed on 09/11/2024

I love it, easy to navigate and find what your looking for.

I love it, easy to navigate and find what your looking for.

Pros

It’s easy to navigate and easy to understand.

Cons

Honestly Nothing in particular did I dislike about the app

Grace
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  • Industry: Alternative Medicine
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Amazing app for spa services

Reviewed on 06/07/2023

Pros

The layout and easy side menu make it straightforward to see my own bookings or get an overall view of the day, week, or month at the spa. The newly added access to documents and forms and the ability to update SOAP notes on the app is incredibly helpful and time saving.

Cons

I can’t think of any shortcomings of this app! I love that I can text the spa via the designated number to communicate with front desk, that all the paperwork I need to view is handy from the app now, and that I get text alerts with new booking information. Best scheduling app I’ve used so far

Viktoriia
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  • Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Best app for estheticians

Reviewed on 04/06/2024

Pros

Easy to use, user friendly interface, quick updates

Cons

N/a.

Emmalee
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  • Industry: Cosmetics
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

We LOVE Boulevard!

Reviewed on 27/06/2023

10/10 experience with Boulevard! Any time we have a problem or need help, the help chat team is...

10/10 experience with Boulevard! Any time we have a problem or need help, the help chat team is there to help almost immediately.

Pros

I mostly love how easy Boulevard is to navigate. User friendly for staff and for clients.

Cons

I do not have one bad thing to say about Boulevard!

Anna
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  • Industry: Cosmetics
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Vast improvement

Reviewed on 20/06/2023

Pros

We switched to Blvd after using another system for 15 years. The customer service is awesome. I think what we like best is it just makes sense and does what we want it to do.

Cons

We had a really hard time getting our data transferred. It tooks months of failing. But that was due to our prior POS not Blvd

Alternatives Considered

Vagaro and Meevo

Reasons for Choosing Boulevard

Mindbody was terrible.

Switched From

Mindbody
Olivia
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  • Industry: Cosmetics
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

The guest house boulevard review

Reviewed on 28/06/2023

It has made everything seamless and now my clients can just go online and schedule as they please...

It has made everything seamless and now my clients can just go online and schedule as they please rather than getting contacted through multiple outlets!!

Pros

I love that it has taken all the extra work of booking and checking out off of us as stylist!

Cons

So far everything has been great! Any issue we had was quickly resolved by the help chat!