Is Meevo or Sawyer better?

Neither clearly leads. Meevo starts at $129/month and Sawyer at $189/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, Meevo or Sawyer?

Meevo starts at $129/month and Sawyer at $189/month.

Does Meevo or Sawyer run on more platforms?

Meevo runs on Web, Ios, Android. Sawyer runs on Web, iOS, Android.

What is Meevo best used for?

Meevo is most often used for appointment booking and point of sale for salons and spas, med spa operations including injectable tracking via meevomd, multi location and franchise salon management, client email and sms marketing from the booking record. Of those, appointment booking and point of sale for salons and spas and med spa operations including injectable tracking via meevomd are not what Sawyer is typically brought in for.

What can Meevo do that Sawyer cannot?

Meevo covers Appointment scheduling, Point of sale, Client database, Inventory management. Sawyer covers Class and camp registration, Memberships and class packs, Consumer marketplace, Auto-billing.

Beauty · head to head

Meevo vs Sawyer

Meevo

Beauty

Salon software with scheduling and POS

From: $129/month
Rated: -

Full review Website

Sawyer

Scheduling

Class and camp booking software for children activity businesses, with a marketplace that takes up to 30 percent

From: $189/month
Rated: -

Full review Website

The short version

Each has a real cost: Meevo listed prices are promotional; the regular rates are $179 for Lite, $299 for Essentials and $449 for Premier per month; Sawyer the Launch plan looks free but forces a marketplace listing at 30 percent commission, so a single high-value camp booking through the marketplace can cost more than a year of the Grow subscription would have.
They diverge on capability: Meevo covers Appointment scheduling, Sawyer covers Class and camp registration.
Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Meevo and Sawyer actually diverge.

Attributes where Meevo and Sawyer differ
Attribute	Meevo	Sawyer
Starting price	$129/month	$189/month
Pricing model	subscription	Per business per month, plus marketplace commission
Category	Beauty	Scheduling
Founded	2008	Unknown

Identical on both: free tier (No), platforms (Web, Ios, Android), user rating (Not yet rated).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Meevo

Appointment scheduling
Point of sale
Client database
Inventory management
Staff scheduling
Business reporting
Mobile app
Client portal

Only in Sawyer

Class and camp registration
Memberships and class packs
Consumer marketplace
Auto-billing
Waivers and e-signature
Multi-location

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Meevo

Appointment booking and point of sale for salons and spasnot Sawyer
Med spa operations including injectable tracking via MeevoMDnot Sawyer
Multi location and franchise salon managementnot Sawyer
Client email and SMS marketing from the booking recordnot Sawyer

Sawyer

A new kids activity studio with no mailing list that wants the marketplace to fill its first termsnot Meevo
An established music school moving off spreadsheets that will run Sawyer as software only and never list on the marketplacenot Meevo
A gym selling memberships, class packs and birthday parties that needs all three billed from one systemnot Meevo
A provider running summer camps alongside term-time classes who wants a single parent account for bothnot Meevo

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Meevo

Listed prices are promotional; the regular rates are $179 for Lite, $299 for Essentials and $449 for Premier per month
Lite is capped at 5 users, 2,500 email contacts and 100 SMS credits per month
Plans are sold on annual contracts and cancellation requires 30 days notice
Email contact and SMS credit allowances are tiered: 5,000 contacts and 500 SMS on Essentials, 10,000 contacts and 2,500 SMS on Premier
Enterprise multi location and franchise pricing is custom with no published rate
The MeevoMD med spa plans cost $100 per month more than the equivalent salon tiers

Sawyer

The Launch plan looks free but forces a marketplace listing at 30 percent commission, so a single high-value camp booking through the marketplace can cost more than a year of the Grow subscription would have.
Marketplace commission applies to the order value, not the margin, so low-margin providers can lose money on a marketplace booking.
Payment processing fees are charged separately by Stripe on top of the subscription and any commission, which the plan comparison does not surface clearly.
The step from Grow to Scale doubles the monthly cost for account management and integrations rather than for capability most providers need, making the middle tier the only sensible choice for many.
It is built for consumer activity businesses, so providers who invoice schools, councils or corporate clients will find the billing model a poor fit.

Pricing, plan by plan

Meevo

$129/month

Lite$129/month
- 5 users
- 2,500 email contacts
- 100 SMS credits
Essentials$229/month
- Unlimited users
- 5,000 email contacts
- 500 SMS credits
Premier$329/month
- Unlimited users
- 10,000 email contacts
- 2,500 SMS credits
Enterprise$null/custom
- Custom pricing for multi-location businesses

Sawyer

$189/month

Launch$undefined/month
- No monthly subscription fee
- 3 percent per transaction
- Marketplace listing required, 30 percent commission on marketplace orders
Grow$189/month
- 189 USD per month billed annually, 219 monthly
- Marketplace listing optional, 20 percent commission if used
- Advanced scheduling, waitlists, free trials
Scale$379/month
- 379 USD per month billed annually, 399 monthly
- Marketplace listing optional, 15 percent commission if used
- Dedicated account manager and registration launch support
Enterprise$undefined/month
- Custom pricing for large multi-site operators

Which should you pick?

Choose Meevo if

You need appointment scheduling.
You work on Web, Ios, Android.
You also want point of sale.

Meevo review

Choose Sawyer if

You need class and camp registration.
You work on Web, iOS, Android.
You also want memberships and class packs.

Sawyer review

Questions people ask

Is Meevo or Sawyer better?: Neither clearly leads. Meevo starts at $129/month and Sawyer at $189/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Meevo or Sawyer?: Meevo starts at $129/month and Sawyer at $189/month.
Does Meevo or Sawyer run on more platforms?: Meevo runs on Web, Ios, Android. Sawyer runs on Web, iOS, Android.
What is Meevo best used for?: Meevo is most often used for appointment booking and point of sale for salons and spas, med spa operations including injectable tracking via meevomd, multi location and franchise salon management, client email and sms marketing from the booking record. Of those, appointment booking and point of sale for salons and spas and med spa operations including injectable tracking via meevomd are not what Sawyer is typically brought in for.
What can Meevo do that Sawyer cannot?: Meevo covers Appointment scheduling, Point of sale, Client database, Inventory management. Sawyer covers Class and camp registration, Memberships and class packs, Consumer marketplace, Auto-billing.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Meevo: What are the current Meevo pricing tiers for salon and spa businesses?

Meevo offers three main subscription tiers: Lite at $129/month (promotional, regular $179), Essentials at $229/month (promotional, regular $299), and Premier at $329/month (promotional, regular $449). All plans operate on annual contracts with cloud-based access.

Source

Sawyer: Is the Launch plan really free?

No. It has no monthly fee but charges 3 percent per transaction and requires a marketplace listing that takes 30 percent of marketplace orders.

Meevo: How much notice is required to cancel a Meevo subscription?

Meevo requires 30-day notice to cancel monthly plans and 30-day notice by the 11th month of an annual plan to terminate.

Source

Sawyer: Can I use Sawyer without the marketplace?

Yes, on Grow and Scale the listing is optional. On Launch it is required.

Meevo: What does Meevo include in each plan tier?

The Lite plan includes 5 users, 2,500 email contacts, and 100 SMS credits. Essentials adds unlimited users with 5,000 email contacts and 500 SMS credits. Premier provides unlimited users with 10,000 email contacts and 2,500 SMS credits.

Source

Sawyer: What does the marketplace commission apply to?

The full order value of bookings originating on hisawyer.com, not to bookings from your own website.

Sawyer: Is there a contract?

Monthly plans are month to month with 30 days notice; annual billing saves roughly 5 to 14 percent depending on tier.

Meevo vs Sawyer

Meevo

Sawyer

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Meevo

Only in Sawyer

What people use each for

Meevo

Sawyer

Where each one falls short

Meevo

Sawyer

Pricing, plan by plan

Meevo

Sawyer

Which should you pick?

Choose Meevo if

Choose Sawyer if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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