SalonUltimate review
A broad salon-management suite for larger operators that need gift cards and location controls.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
SalonUltimate combines salon and spa management tools for independent businesses, multi-location operators, and franchise systems. Its scope covers online booking, appointment scheduling, self check-in and checkout, customer and employee management, inventory, payments, marketing campaigns, reporting, and analytics. Gift card sales and redemptions are included in the SalonUltimate POS workflow, making it relevant for salons that want gifting alongside daily operations. The product is available through web, iOS, and Android experiences, with plans priced per location each month.
Pricing is straightforward but positioned for established operators. SalonUltimate Single Store costs $159 per location per month and includes online booking, online check-in and checkout, employee scheduling, customer management, inventory maintenance, and standard reporting. SalonUltimate Multi-location costs $199 per location per month and lists the same core highlights, while the product also provides role, branding, and location controls for organizations managing more than one site. The published plans make SalonUltimate a better fit for businesses that can justify a full management suite than for a small salon seeking gift cards alone.
Its strongest practical advantage is breadth: booking, real-time wait times, email and SMS campaigns, POS functions, gift cards, reporting, and integrations with Tippy, QuickBooks, Google Reserve, Sage, review services, calendars, and Clover sit within the same product. The trade-off is that gift-card functionality is presented mainly as sales and redemptions, rather than a detailed specialist gift-card feature set. Choose SalonUltimate when gift cards are one part of a wider salon operating system and location controls matter. Consider a narrower option if gift-card administration is the primary requirement.
SalonUltimate pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Gift card sales and redemptions are built into the POS workflow.
- Booking, checkout, scheduling, inventory, and reporting work in one suite.
- Role, branding, and location controls support multi-location operations.
- Where it doesn't
- The starting price is $159 per location per month.
- Gift-card capabilities are described only at a high level.
- The multi-location plan costs $199 per location per month.
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