Last Updated on March 17, 2026 by Ewen Finser
Mangomint is a salon and spa management software built to handle online booking, appointments, client management, and marketing automation. It has tools to help you manage your staff and inventory, with report generation too.
That all sounds great in theory, but software like this lives or dies by how it performs in the middle of a busy workday. When my salon switched to Mangomint, I got a firsthand look at what worked, what didn’t, and whether the platform really delivers enough value to justify the cost.
Learn everything you need to know in this complete Mangomint review.
Calendar
The calendar function keeps with the overall tone of the Mangomint App, which feels cartoonish and a little anime-adjacent. The typography is too bubbly to feel especially polished, and overall it generally looks as though a really peppy HR director created it in an effort to get more involvement from their staff.
That said, the actual calendar functions are fine. my bigger issues is that all appointments for each employee appear in the same color.
Mangomint uses color to distinguish confirmed versus unconfirmed appointments, and time blocks. Boulevard, by comparison, gives each employee their own color, so when you glance at a calendar, the different columns are much easier to sort visually.
Express Booking
One of Mangomint’s core booking features is the “Express Booking” option that pops up at the bottom of each appointment you make.
The Express Booking feature can be customized so it sends a link to customers to review their scheduled appointment. Customers have a time limit, which you can set anywhere between 30 minutes to 30 days, to confirm it. If they don’t confirm, the appointment expires.
With this feature though, you can also toggle on a setting that requires a credit card be added to their file, or uses one already on file. Another toggle requires a deposit in a specific amount in order to complete the booking. The deposit amount can be edited by percentage or dollar amount, which is a nice way to encourage customers to keep their appointments instead of flaking on you last minute.
Clients
As you move from left to right along the header, the Mangomint app takes you to the “Clients” section, where the focus is supposed to be on client management.
I’ll be honest, this is where the previous Easter-barf color scheme turns 80s/90s with the darker hues. I still was unable to figureout what determines the colos assigned to each client, which feels random more than helpful.
Unless you’re paying close attention to details, you probably won’t notice it right away, but if you are, it’s hard to ignore. That said, the colors aren’t really the problem here. My bigger issue is that there just isn’t much actionable info here. The layout under “Clients” feels stripped down to the point where it functions more like a contact list than a meaningful client management system.
When you click on the client profile, the scene doesn’t improve much.
I was genuinely disappointed by how little Mangomint offers inside its client profiles, especially when client management is touted as one of the platform’s key selling points.
Client Profiles
Inside the client profile, you get the basics: a timeline of booked services, saved credit cards, and any memberships tied to the account. There’s also a message section, and any message you send will populate under the corresponding “Messages” tab along the header. What you don’t get is a dedicated place for professional note taking, photos, or forms.
Instead, Mangomint gives you a small notes box for each visit, and those notes get saved to the client “timeline.” So if you want to see what Evelyn had done last time, what colors a stylist used, you had better pray to all the gods out there that the stylist took the time to type it all out in the notes, and then pray you have equal time to scroll through the customer feed to find those notes.
That setup feels clunky and much more time-consuming than it needs to be, especially in a salon environment where quick access to client details matters.
There are lots of better options out there for client management, at least from what I’ve seen, particularly Boulevard. Boulevard’s client portal feels much more thorough and professional, with dedicated sections for things like:
- Allergies
- Notes
- Photos
- Preferences
- Payments
- Appointment history
- Forms and waivers
- And more
Even apps like Fresha gives you more structure here, with places to put pronouns, birthdays, reviews, and a fuller client profile including things like occupation, address, and preferred language.
Products
Mangomint has a separate tab for “Products” at the top. I can see why it’s there, especially since Mangomint clearly wants to appeal to salons and spas that also sell retail. This section gives you a place to create products, organize them, and keep track of inventory.
That said, the setup still feels a little disjointed to me. Mangomint also handles inventory changes, purchase orders, and inventory reporting through related tools and reports, so the product management experience ends up feeling more spread out than streamlined.
That’s really my issue with this section. The way the tools are separated across Products,Purchase Orders, and Reports makes the whole thing feel less intuitive than it probably should.
Reports
The Reports section is one of the more robust parts of Mangomint.
You can pull reports for things like:
- Gift cards
- Package sales
- Membership cancellations
- Cash drawer activity
- Client retention
- Appointment cancellations
What stood out to me, though, is that despite the robust nature of the reports section, a lot of it feels pretty similar once you start clicking around. Most of these reports are built around selecting a date range or a few report parameters and then generating the data from there.
For most of the reports all you can do is generate a quick excel view within the platform or download a pdf for information relating to things like today, last week, or last month. But there are not real “at-a-glance” summaries versus comprehensive reports beyond date parameters.
Inventory
Inventory is one of Mangomint’s selling points, but the experience feels a little more spread out that I expected.
With it, as you can see in the image above, you get basic support for:
- Inventory tracking
- Stock level management
I will admit this sounded a lot cooler than it actually was and a lot more comprehensive than it actually was. The reason it’s tucked away under the reports section is because your inventory, though the company claims will “streamline the process of ordering and receiving supplies” is just a cool way to look at a report for how many products you have in stock or how much you have spent on your inventory so far.
Useful if you are trying to figure out how much revenue you could make, are preparing taxes, or need to see where you are running low but you don’t get anything like inventory alerts when you are low on a certain item.
By comparison, platforms like Vagaro send notifications within the app when certain inventory is low and you need to re-order. You control the “low” settings here. Fresha, likewise, lets you set up daily or weekly notifications for low stock items.
Other Apps
Mangomint has quite a few apps throughout the platform, even though most of them don’t appear along the header. In fact, if you didn’t get through onboarding, or use the demo before you started, you wouldn’t know those apps existed. And that’s pretty stupid, since they are some of the more important ones.
I suppose this decision was made instead of having subheaders but I would have added the “marketing” app somewhere more prominent, personally.
Marketing
Since we are here, complaining about apps, let’s check out the marketing side. Mangomint has built-in features to help you with marketing like promotions, automations, and targeted email/text campaigns.
I do like the “Automated Flows” section because it gives you a lot of flexibility in custom marketing designs. With this you can do things like:
- Upsell memberships
- Promote products
- Welcome first-time guests
- Encourage reviews
- And send booking reminders
A lot of other apps/software have some version of this, though. Calling it “Automated Flows” just sounds fancier than it really is, but at the end of the day it is still an automation tool built around trigger events and timelines based on the client journey.
This means things like a rebooking reminder gets sent after a client completes an appointment, a pre-care email or text is sent before based on service, or a post-care after. You can also set up notifications for your staff; when a client does things like complete a form ahead of time, it will notify the employee.
Superfluous marketing language aside, I like this feature. But it isn’t anything beyond the realm of what other apps have.
Top Alternatives to Mangomint
If Mangomint isn’t doing it for you, or you don’t want the Polly Pocket themed color/font, I’d point you toward Boulevard first.
In terms of core salon and spa features and functions, the two are comparable, but Boulevard feels more polished and more operationally focused.
If budget is your biggest concern, Square Appointments or Vagaro are both worth a look.
But once your goals shift toward building better client relationships and running the business side of things more efficiently, Boulevard is your top alternative.
Read our full Boulevard review here: Boulevard Software Review
Boulevard was built for real stylists, salon, and spa owners. It handles booking, checkout, and smart scheduling the way busy salons actually work. It even handles marketing, from rebooking reminders to targeted emails and texts, plus it fills open spots with waitlist requests, without the scrambling.
Mangomint Review: Summing Up
Mangomint is a good platform for tools beyond basic booking. Companies that are scaling might consider it for the express booking option or automated marketing flows.
If you want things like staff management tools, report generation, and you really, really, reeeaaaaaallly want it gamified so it feels more like you are scrolling on your phone instead of working, Mangomint might just be what you need.
Personally, I think scaling businesses can get more for about the same cost with Boulevard, and get something that looks professional and less like a game you downloaded.
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