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Phorest vs DaySmart Salon

Looking for an alternative to DaySmart Salon?

Make the switch from DaySmart Salon to Phorest and pay less for more features! Our competitively priced top package helps you protect your salon from no-shows with our online booking and get access to the best marketing suite in salon software.

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Compare the details: what Phorest can offer you that DaySmart Salon can’t.

DaySmart Salon

Protect your salon

Supercharge your marketing

Boost direct bookings

Easier management

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Top reasons why Phorest is a better choice than DaySmart Salon for your salon

Read in more detail exactly what Phorest can offer you that DaySmart Salon can’t.

REASON #1 Protect your salon

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Multiple no-show alerts

Unreliable clients can leave you with empty timeslots and cost valuable revenue. Phorest automatically adds a note to client records when a client doesn’t show for an appointment, and you’ll get a ‘multiple no-show’ alert when they try to book with you over the phone. This allows you to turn them away, or request they book online with a deposit, allowing you to capture their payment details and charge a no-show fee should it happen again.

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Opt-out links automatically included

Ensuring your clients consent to all marketing material you send is a must. Phorest’s innovative marketing suite ensures that all marketing emails sent from your system contain an opt-out link, helping you stay GDPR compliant, keeping your data safe, and ensuring your clients are happy.

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Premium consultation features

Phorest's premium consultation features offer face-mapping, timestamps, and mark-ups, helping you conduct safe and professional consultations that guarantee client satisfaction throughout the entire process. Easily upload photos, utilise freehand or template markups, and effortlessly monitor treatment progress, all while seamlessly linking these forms to clients' individual profiles.

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REASON #2 Supercharge your marketing

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Put your own stamp on your marketing emails

The Phorest marketing email editor includes a library of stock photos that are free to use, and an image editor tool to make them your own.

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Fallback SMS

Most salons only have email addresses for 30% of their clients. Don’t put all that effort into beautiful marketing promotions, only to miss 70% of your clients! Phorest is the only salon software with a Fallback SMS feature that lets you send a link to your promotion, via SMS, to clients that do not have a valid email address on their client card.

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See marketing ROI right to the register

Because our marketing, management and reporting tools are integrated, you can see the impact of your marketing spend all the way to the register - see how much revenue your campaigns brought in, and even what services and products your clients were prompted to buy.

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Online reputation manager

No other salon software has a built-in online reputation manager, helping you get hundreds of 5 star reviews on Google, Facebook and Yelp by prompting your best reviewers to share their comments online in one click. Let your online reputation generate referrals for you while you sleep.

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Fully integrated Online Store

Make it easier for your clients to purchase products from you with your fully integrated Phorest Online store. With easy product uploads, delivery and/or curbside pickup available, and seamless integration into the inventory and reporting section of your Phorest system, it's ecommerce made simple.

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Sell gift cards & vouchers online

Want to make more money, even while your salon is closed? Sell gift cards and vouchers online, from your Phorest system, to boost revenue and increase client visits to the salon with ease.

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Facebook & Instagram Ads Manager

Phorest Ads Manager is the industry’s only integrated social media advertising tool, helping you craft effective social media ads for a range of goals. Effortlessly set ads live and easily monitor your results to supercharge your salon marketing.

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REASON #3 Boost direct bookings

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Free SMS to clients overdue to rebook

Machine learning in Phorest recognises when your clients are overdue to rebook their usual services, and you can send an SMS to them, free of charge, to remind them to make that booking asap.

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Automated rebooking feature

Taking that one step further, if you don’t want to remember to hit send on that campaign to your overdue clients each day, you can use the automated rebooking feature to automatically send that reminder SMS for you.

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Your branded app in the app store

Phorest creates your own custom-branded salon app and makes it available to clients across all app stores. Your branded app gives clients the opportunity to book and reschedule appointments from any smart device, at any time of day or night. With full integration to your Phorest system, you can boost your online brand while sending offers and marketing material straight to your clients’ pocket.

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REASON #4 Easier management

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Stock take app

Take the chore out of stock takes with our iPhone and Android app – just scan the barcode with your phone’s camera, enter your stock count, and you’re done!

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Multi-location staff scheduling

Phorest makes it easier to manage rosters and organise your multi-location salon business with easy to use staff management features. Schedule staff to work between locations on any given date range, with the ability to schedule the same staff member between different locations on the same day. With integration to reporting, commission, and payroll, you can stay organised and informed no matter where your staff are located.

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Seamless Tipping, Simplified

Make tipping effortless with PhorestTips. Our innovative feature allows clients to tip service providers directly from the card machine, streamlining the payment process for a smooth checkout. Tipped amounts are paid directly into your staff’s bank accounts, eliminating the need for manual cash handling or complex tip distribution. It’s a convenient, transparent way to reward your team. Unlike other systems that lack integrated tipping options, PhorestTips makes it easier than ever for your clients to say thank you.

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REASON #5 Support second to none

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Renowned support team

Our clients consistently compliment the exceptional support we provide, and it's easy to see why. At Phorest, 'Seirbhís go hiontach' (excellence in service) isn’t just a saying, it’s how we operate every day. While some competitors limit training options, we go above and beyond with unwavering support for all clients, regardless of the package. See what our clients have to say below.

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Dedicated Business Advisor to help you increase salon revenue

With many other salon software providers you’ll get an account manager to help you get set up, but once you’re up and running you won’t hear from them again. With Phorest you’ll be assigned a Business Advisor to make sure you’re getting the most from your software, supporting you to keep growing your business and increasing your revenue.

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Don’t take our word for it

Read what some of our happy clients are saying about us on review sites like Capterra, Google, GetApp and Facebook.

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Migration

Easy Migration

All our plans include tailored system set up for your salon. We’ll import your clients, staff, services and products for you. Our migration specialists have years of experience in safely migrating client record information from most other salon software.

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Free Training for Life

We’ll set you and your team up with comprehensive onboarding training; and you can book additional online training sessions with us for as long as you like. New staff starting in the future? No problem, we’ll get them trained up too at no extra cost.

Support

Top Class Support Team

Our friendly support team is on call or chat, and they’re renowned for going above and beyond to answer your questions, big or small, as quickly as they can. ‘Seirbhís go hiontach’ (excellence in service) is a driving mantra here at Phorest.

“We have successfully migrated hundreds of salons from Salon Iris [now DaySmart Salon] to Phorest.  The team and I will help to make the process as simple as possible for you – bringing across your client information and history, appointments, staff, rosters, gift vouchers, services, products and more. If there’s anything we can’t migrate for you, our onboarding team will guide you through our simple input process, so you can make the transition with zero downtime at your salon.”

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Shane Kelly, Data Migration Specialist
at Phorest Salon Software

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