An EvoBeauty alternative — what to pick, and on what basis

An EvoBeauty alternative should be assessed against your daily work: appointments and memberships, product inventory, or both. TimeNow provides online booking, classes and session packs; compare it with the EvoBeauty version that covers the same requirements, including setup costs.

What EvoBeauty is

EvoBeauty is management software for salons, aesthetic clinics, spas and body-remodelling centres, built in Romania by Evo Software Innovation SRL (CUI 39721169). It is a private tool: there is no public site for your clients to discover you on, and no commission on new clients. It covers appointments, the client record, staff and shifts, the cash register, stock, primary accounting and marketing.

In other words, it is closer to a salon ERP than to a booking calendar. That is both its strength and the reason some salons go looking for an alternative.

Why salons look for an EvoBeauty alternative

Check these points before deciding to switch:

• Required plan. EvoBeauty lists online booking and payments; request written confirmation of the version that includes them for your team size.
• Pricing is in euro and excludes VAT. A salon budget is in RON. A foreign-currency subscription moves on its own from month to month even when the vendor changes nothing.
• A separate installation and training cost, paid once at the start.
• Notification cost. The pricing page distinguishes short-code messages from sending through the reception SIM; ask for the cost of the option you will use.
• Group classes. EvoBeauty lists packages and automatic session consumption; test class capacity and waiting lists separately instead of assuming that they are present or absent.

EvoBeauty and TimeNow, compared honestly

Why TimeNow is the simpler choice

TimeNow is built around three things a salon management package usually treats as side extras: the client books themselves, classes have limited spots, and memberships count down their own sessions. If that is your business, the difference shows up every day.

• Online booking is in every plan, not in a top version: your own booking page, a widget in your site, or a client app in your colours.
• Classes with capacity and a waiting list. When somebody cancels, the spot goes automatically to the next person in line.
• Memberships that count their own sessions, with validity windows, pauses, and an automatic check that the membership covers the class chosen.
• A fixed price in RON, no installation cost, first month free from go-live.
• Clients book without an account, from a link.

When to choose TimeNow

• You want online booking included in every plan, with no installation fee.
• You sell limited-capacity classes, memberships or session packs.
• You want a public booking page without a mandatory account and the optional TimeNow app for returning clients.
• You prefer fixed RON pricing and Romanian support — see TimeNow pricing.

TimeNow keeps administration clear for the team and booking fast for clients. It is a focused choice for studios, gyms and salons that want appointments, classes and memberships in one place; see the salon page.

If you move, in what order

1. Ask for the export of clients, appointments and membership balances. Check the format before you tell your team.
2. Decide what stays where. If you keep a separate accounting package, settle up front which system issues documents.
3. Rebuild the service menu with real durations, and the memberships with their sessions.
4. Run a week in parallel, with new bookings going only into the new system.
5. Tell clients with a single link to the new booking page.