Mangomint vs Boulevard: Which Fits Your Spa?

Search this comparison and the first page tells you something before you read a word of it. Mangomint's own "switch from Boulevard" page ranks first. Boulevard's own "Boulevard vs. Mangomint" page ranks third. Sitting between them are two threads in a medical spa owners' group asking the same question, which is the clearest possible signal that neither vendor page answered it.

We make Corterra Book, which competes with both, so we are not neutral either. We are just differently biased, and we will tell you when the honest answer is one of them. Corterra Book is in the pricing table and has its own section below, held to the same standard. Everything here sticks to what each vendor publicly advertises.

The short version

Mangomint is one plan, priced per user. Every core feature sits in the base subscription, the price is published on the page, and the things that are not included are clearly separated as paid add-ons. Small to mid-size salons and spas that want to know the bill before a sales call are its center of gravity.

Boulevard is three tiers, priced per location, with a monthly rate and a cheaper annual one. The product leans toward larger operations and medical spas: deeper reporting, a heavier front-desk workflow, and more setup support. Multi-location salons and medspas are its center.

Both are genuinely good products in the top half of this category. The decision is rarely about feature count and almost always about two things: how many people are on your team, and whether you are willing to commit to a year.

Pricing, as advertised

Boulevard prices per location and Mangomint prices per user, so the two cannot be lined up as a single number. The table uses Boulevard's monthly rate, because that is the honest like-for-like against Mangomint's month-to-month billing. Boulevard's annual rates are lower and appear in the section below.

Boulevard has three prices for every tier

This is the most useful thing in this article, because it is the reason every price you have read for Boulevard is different from every other price you have read for Boulevard.

Each tier carries a monthly rate, a lower annual rate, and a lower still introductory promotional rate on annual billing:

All figures are per location, verified on Boulevard's pricing page at the time of writing. Now compare that against what the review aggregators currently publish:

• Capterra and Software Advice both report $176, $293, and $410. That is the annual post-promo column.
• Software Finder reports $195, $325, and $455. That is the monthly column.
• GlossGenius describes a range of $158 to $421, which matches neither column cleanly.

None of them are lying. They each picked one column and did not say which. The practical consequence is that if you compare "Boulevard from $176" against a competitor's monthly price, you are comparing an annual commitment against a month-to-month one, and you are understating Boulevard by $19 a month at the entry tier and $45 at the top one. Boulevard's real month-to-month entry price is $195.

The same care applies in the other direction. Mangomint's published base of $120 is not the bill either, because the per-user line is where it grows. A five-person team is $170 before any add-on, and adding a phone line and marketing puts it near $270. Model your own headcount rather than comparing entry prices.

Where Mangomint wins

• You can price it yourself. The plan, the per-user rate, every add-on, and both processing rates are on one public page, with no tier matrix and no annual-versus-monthly puzzle. That is unusual in this category and it is the most common reason people say they moved.
• Small teams pay much less. At one to four users, per-user pricing beats a per-location tier by a wide margin. A solo operator is $130 against $195 month-to-month.
• No contract, and you can test it. A free trial plus month-to-month billing means the evaluation costs nothing but time. Boulevard's best prices require a year.
• Free onboarding and data transfer. Migration is advertised as included, which is a real line item elsewhere in this category.
• Interface quality. This is soft, but it recurs consistently in owner threads, and it is what people cite when they say the software just works.

Where Boulevard wins

• Large teams stop being penalised. Per-location pricing that does not move with headcount is the correct shape once you have fifteen staff. Mangomint's per-user model is the one that gets expensive at scale, and the crossover is worth calculating rather than guessing.
• Medical spa depth. Boulevard invests specifically in the medspa workflow and its own positioning targets it. If you are running injectables and treatment protocols rather than blowouts, that is a real difference.
• Reporting. Heavier analytics and performance reporting is Boulevard's stated differentiator, and for an owner running several locations off a spreadsheet today, it is the feature that pays for the tier.
• High-touch support and onboarding. The demo-led sales process that makes pricing annoying to research is the same process that hands you a person during setup.
• The annual discount is real. If you are going to stay a year anyway, the promo period plus the annual rate is a genuine saving, and it is the one case where Boulevard's entry price gets close to Mangomint's at mid team sizes.

Where Corterra Book wins, and where it doesn't

Where it wins:

• Shared-capacity sessions. A session holds a seat count that draws down as people book, and one person can book several seats in a single checkout. Both alternatives model one client with one provider in one slot, so a sauna, cold plunge, contrast suite, couples room, or small group session has no honest representation in either.
• Rooms without a person attached. A hyperbaric chamber or float tank can be booked as itself rather than as a fake staff member, which is the workaround every operator eventually invents.
• Price does not move with your team. Flat $40 or $80 a month plus 15 cents a transaction. No per-user rate, no percentage of revenue, no annual commitment to reach the best price, and you keep your own Stripe processing rate rather than paying a marked-up one.
• Retention tooling on both tiers. Memberships, prepaid packs, credits, gift cards, waivers enforced at check-in, and card-on-file no-show fees are included rather than gated behind a top tier.

Where it doesn't:

• No payroll, no marketing automation suite, no loyalty or referral program, no review requests, no lead capture, and no accounting sync. Mangomint sells several of these and Boulevard sells the marketing side properly. If your buying decision is "replace four tools," they will do it and we will not.
• Lighter medical spa charting. This is Boulevard's advantage over us, straightforwardly. We have forms, waivers, and intake with a retained signed record, but treatment protocols and injectable charting are not the spine of the product.
• No consumer marketplace. If discovery is the problem you are buying a solution to, none of the three is really the answer, and Mindbody is.
• No standalone bookable resource. Our calendar is per service, so a room is represented by running its services on that room's calendar. A room tracked as an object across many unrelated services is not supported.
• Several separate service calendars is the $80 Pro plan, not the $40 one. Compare Pro against Essentials, not Basic.
• Below roughly $700 a month in card volume, a free percentage-fee plan beats our $40. If you are just starting, say so to every vendor here and take the free tier somewhere.

The question neither comparison asks

Mangomint and Boulevard disagree about pricing model, team size, and interface. They agree completely about one thing, and neither comparison page mentions it: the unit being booked is a practitioner's time.

That assumption is correct for almost everything a salon or medspa sells. A facial, a blowout, a filler appointment, a massage: the thing consumed is a person's hour, and the room is incidental. Both products model that well.

It breaks the moment a service is a room instead. Two shapes, and they fail differently:

• A single-occupancy room can be faked, at a cost. A float tank or a hyperbaric chamber has a capacity of one, which matches a staff calendar closely enough that nothing looks broken. So you create a staff member called Float Tank 1. The cost shows up later: you are billed per calendar for a room that draws no wage, staff and room can no longer be required independently, the room's hours are tied to a shift rather than to the front desk, and your revenue-by-staff report is now polluted with spaces that are not people.
• A shared room cannot be faked at any price. A staff calendar accepts one booking per slot, so a sauna that seats eight is not expressible as a person. The three workarounds are eight fake staff members, eight duplicate appointments, or listing it as a fitness class, and all three fail as volume grows. The failure mode is a room with more people booked into it than it has seats.

Both matter, and neither ranks above the other. A wellness center runs a float tank and a sauna in the same building and sells them to the same member on the same visit. If either shape is anywhere in your two-year plan, weigh it now, because migrating a booking system after you have a membership base is considerably worse than choosing for the destination.

How to decide

• Under five staff, want a published price, no contract: Mangomint.
• Fifteen-plus staff, or several locations, or a medspa: Boulevard, and ask which column of the price matrix you are being quoted.
• Do the crossover maths. Mangomint at $120 plus $10 a head passes Boulevard's $195 monthly Essentials at around eight users, and its $176 annual rate at around six. Above that, per-location pricing wins on the subscription line, though Mangomint's add-on columns can reverse it again.
• Only compare annual to annual. Boulevard's cheapest advertised numbers require a year's commitment and include an introductory period that ends. Ask what the rate becomes in month thirteen before signing.
• Selling saunas, plunges, chambers, or group sessions alongside appointments: ask all three the capacity question before signing. That is the case Corterra Book is built for.
• Replacing four tools with one: Mangomint or Boulevard. Not us.

For the wider wellness-facility version of this decision, see sauna booking software: what studio owners actually need.

FAQ

How much does Boulevard cost per month? Boulevard prices per location across three tiers, and each tier has three prices. Month to month it is $195 for Essentials, $325 for Premier, and $455 for Prestige. On annual billing those fall to $176, $293, and $410, with an introductory promotional period at $140, $234, and $328. Any single figure quoted for Boulevard without saying which of those it is will mislead you by $19 to $127 a month.

How much does Mangomint cost per month? Mangomint advertises one plan at $120 per month base plus $10 per user, so a three-person team is $150 and a five-person team is $170. Add-ons are separate: phone at $70 per line, marketing from $30, payroll at $50 plus $8 per worker, and each additional location at $120. Payment processing is advertised at 2.45% plus 15 cents in person and 2.90% plus 30 cents for card-not-present.

Is Mangomint cheaper than Boulevard? For small teams, yes, and by a lot: a solo operator is roughly $130 against $195 month to month. The crossover sits near eight users against Boulevard's monthly rate and near six against its annual rate, because Mangomint's price rises with headcount and Boulevard's does not. Past that point compare the add-on lines too, since Mangomint charges separately for phone, marketing, and payroll.

Why do the review sites disagree about Boulevard's price? Because Boulevard has a monthly rate, an annual rate, and an introductory annual promo rate for each tier, and each aggregator captured a different one without labelling it. Capterra and Software Advice quote the annual post-promo column, Software Finder quotes the monthly column, and both are accurate about the column they chose.

Why do people switch from Boulevard to Mangomint? The two reasons that recur in owner discussions are cost at small team sizes and a preference for the interface. The reverse move happens too, generally at larger operations that need per-location pricing, deeper reporting, or medspa-specific workflow.

Do Mangomint or Boulevard handle saunas, cold plunges, or shared group sessions? Both are built on a one-client-per-slot appointment model, where the unit booked is a practitioner's time. A shared room that seats several people at once needs capacity-based booking, in which a session holds a seat count that draws down as people book. A facility selling saunas, plunges, or contrast suites should evaluate a capacity-based platform alongside them.

Which is better for a medical spa? Boulevard, on its own positioning and product investment, unless your team is small enough that the price difference outweighs the medspa-specific workflow.

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