All-in-one salon & spa
GlossGenius (Genius AI)
Design-forward all-in-one for independent beauty and wellness pros, whose parent company, renamed Genius AI in July 2026, is building AI into phones, marketing and reporting.
What it does
GlossGenius is an all-in-one platform for solo and small-team beauty and wellness businesses, known for polished branding, a simple booking site, integrated payments and a sleek card reader, client management, forms, and marketing. It reports around [[stat:glossgenius-businesses]] on the platform and its parent company was renamed Genius AI in July 2026 as it puts AI at the center of the product. It aims to make an independent operator look and run like a much larger, more professional business.
AI features
Checked on GlossGenius (Genius AI)’s own pages, October 13, 2026
GlossGenius covers the most AI jobs for a solo or small salon: Reception answers calls and texts and books straight into the calendar, an AI writer drafts email and text campaigns, and Growth Analyst answers questions about your own numbers. Most of it sits on the Gold and Platinum plans, and Reception becomes a paid add-on after November 2026.
AI pricing: Reception is free through November 30, 2026, then a $50 a month add-on on any plan (100 voice minutes and 200 messages included). The Marketing Assistant and Growth Analyst come with Gold ($56 a month, $48 billed annually) and Platinum ($168, $148 annually); Standard gets a limited trial.
Answers business calls by voice and books, reschedules and cancels straight into the GlossGenius calendar, collects deposits, enforces cancellation policies, adds callers to the waitlist and hands anything else back to the owner as a task. Works through call forwarding or its own number.
Pricing: Free through November 30, 2026, then $50 a month on any plan with 100 minutes and 200 messages; $0.50 a minute and $0.05 a message beyond. Where: US; single-location accounts only.
- GlossGenius help center: What is reception and how it works: “When a call reaches Reception, it answers by voice and has a real conversation with your client.”
- GlossGenius: Reception: “Optional add-on free until November 30th 2026, then only $50/month.”
- GlossGenius pricing page: “Reception by GlossGenius. Answers every call and replies to every text, 24/7.”
- GlossGenius: Introducing genius AI the company behind glossgenius raises...: “Genius AI serves more than 125,000 U.S. businesses”
Reception also answers client texts sent to its own number and books over text. Texts to the salon's existing number still go to the owner, and there is no website chat or Instagram DM handling.
Pricing: Part of the Reception add-on. Where: US; single-location accounts only.
- GlossGenius help center: What is reception and how it works: “When a client texts, Reception replies over text to answer questions and get them booked.”
An AI writer inside email and text marketing that drafts campaigns (new services, price changes, birthdays, seasonal offers) from a few prompts for the owner to edit and send.
Pricing: Gold and Platinum plans; a limited trial on Standard.
- GlossGenius help center: Your personal marketing assistant: “Your Personal Marketing Assistant is powered by AI technology and designed to help you create effective email and text marketing campaigns.”
- GlossGenius pricing page: “AI Marketing Assistant Limited trial”
Answers questions about your own bookings, sales, clients, staff and retail, builds reports on request, scans the data daily for revenue opportunities and compares you with similar businesses.
Pricing: Limited trial on Standard, 20 questions a month on Gold, unlimited on Platinum.
- GlossGenius: Growth analyst: “Ask anything, or let it run on its own to find revenue for you.”
- GlossGenius pricing page: “Growth Analyst Limited trial 20 queries per month Unlimited queries”
- GlossGenius: AI business tools: “Growth Analyst Live”
GlossGenius markets an AI Waitlist that catches a cancellation and fills the slot from waitlisted clients. Its own waitlist page describes the matching without calling it AI.
Pricing: Gold and Platinum plans.
- GlossGenius: Growth analyst: “Your AI Waitlist catches it first and fills the slot, getting you more appointment revenue.”
- GlossGenius: Waitlist: “a Waitlist that automatically matches waitlisted clients to newly available booking slots for you”
A planned AI brief before each appointment with the client's history, preferences and upsell ideas, labelled coming soon.
- GlossGenius: Growth analyst: “Get a quick pre-appointment summary with history, preferences, and personalized upsell ideas”
Not found on October 13, 2026: AI review replies.
Pricing
From about $24/mo (Standard), higher tiers add more
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