Both are booking platforms, so the comparison turns on fit
Boulevard is booking and scheduling software for appointment-based self-care businesses: salons, spas and med spas. Inside it sit the calendar, the client profiles, the service menu, memberships and the point of sale. Mangomint is salon and spa software for beauty and wellness businesses, and it holds the calendar, the client profiles, forms, memberships and the point of sale. Read those two lists again and notice how much they share. In a med spa, either one is the front-desk system. The appointment is made in it, the patient is looked up in it, and the card is run through it when the visit ends.
Write down where your chart lives before you compare desks. If your consents, photos and treatment notes sit in a record system, that system is fixed first and the booking platform is chosen to sit beside it. If they sit inside the booking platform, that piece is the legal record of care and moves under its own rules, whichever platform you keep. Where it lives is your medical director's call. Pricing for both is on each vendor's pricing page, and it changes, so read it there instead of on a comparison page. NorthCore picks neither. Our work is the system around the booking platform, and it is built the same way on top of either.
Side by side: what each holds and where the growth system fits
| Row | Boulevard | Mangomint |
|---|---|---|
| What it holds | Calendar, client profiles, service menu, memberships and the point of sale | Calendar, client profiles, forms, memberships and the point of sale |
| Who it is built for | Appointment-based self-care businesses, in the vendor's words: salons, spas and med spas | Beauty and wellness businesses, in the vendor's words, med spas among them |
| Where the calendar lives | In Boulevard | In Mangomint |
| Where the checkout lives | The Boulevard point of sale | The Mangomint point of sale |
| What the growth system adds around it | Answering on your number, the comeback timed from last visit, the party segment and the numbers on one page; nothing leaves Boulevard | The same four jobs, built on the Mangomint client list and calendar; nothing leaves Mangomint |
Six things about your practice that settle it
- How many providers and rooms book in a day, and who makes the booking: the patient online, the front desk, or both?
- Where do your consents and treatment notes live today, and does that place stay put while the desk changes?
- What does the front desk touch between the greeting and the card: a form, a membership lookup, a package balance, a tip?
- Which memberships do you sell, how are they billed, and who chases the failed charges each month?
- What do your website and your Google profile link to today, and how many of those links would change?
- Where will the growth system read from? One list with last-visit dates on it is all it needs from either platform.
What a switch between them would involve
Moving from one booking platform to the other moves the client list, the future appointments, the memberships and the gift card balances, in that order. What a gift card or package balance is worth on the books when it moves is for your accountant to confirm. The future appointments go first, because a patient booked for next Thursday has to appear on the new calendar before Thursday. The memberships go second, because each billing card has to be re-authorized, and some members will not re-authorize without a call. Every link on your site and your profile that points at the old booking page changes on the day you cut over. The chart is a separate question. Wherever it lives, it is the legal record of care, and moving it is a project with its own rules that a desk switch should never open by accident. Confirm with counsel what your current agreement says about notice and data export before you set a date.
Most of what an owner wants from a switch is the growth system around the platform. The call answered during a treatment, the comeback sent in the right week, the party list built from who is due, the numbers read on Monday. NorthCore builds that on top of Boulevard or Mangomint without moving anything, and the front desk books the way it did yesterday.
A two-week evaluation you can run without switching
- Week one, day one: export the client list from the platform you run today, with last-visit dates, and count the rows. That export is what the growth system reads.
- Days two to five: book one trial appointment in each vendor's demo, as a new patient would, on a phone, and time it.
- Days three to five: run a card, sell a membership and process a refund in each demo, with the person who closes out your day.
- Week two: ask each vendor where the client export lives, what format it comes in, and what the contract says about leaving. Confirm with counsel.
- Week two, last day: write the one-page answer: which fits the practice, what a switch would cost in time, and which jobs stay outside both.
What to do next
NorthCore's Run the whole practice solution builds the growth system on Boulevard or on Mangomint: the answering, the comeback, the segment and the dashboard, with the booking platform untouched. The scope is written down before anything starts, and the work is covered by the promise on this site: results in 90 days, or we keep working until you have them.
