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About Neko
Neko Salon is a cloud-based salon management solution for small, midsize and large day spas and hair salons. Primary features include booking management, marketing, sales management, client management, product management and reporting.
The booking management feature provides a booking wizard, payment management and the ability to send SMS and email reminders. These reminders help salons reduce no-shows and allow clients to confirm their bookings. The SMS and email marketing feature sends out birthday messages, welcome messages and surveys links after each appointment.
Neko Salon provides retail transaction management for sales, refunds, exchanges and gift vouchers. It provides a real-time reporting feature that provides s...
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June 2018
Travis from TG Hair Extensions
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
June 2018
Absolute value for money, easy to operate with fantastic puntual support
Pros
Absolute value for money, easy to operate with fantastic punctual support. Having used many other software systems in the past I highly recommend Neko for value for money
Cons
There is nothing that comes to mind that I don't like about Neko. It meets all my requirements in assisting me run my business.
Response from Neko
Replied July 2018
Hi Travis, many thanks for your review! We're glad you are happy with Neko. We are always happy to develop new features in consultation with client needs, so make sure you get intouch if you would like to see something new :)
March 2020
Tiriana from Peace Within Learning
Company Size: 1 employee
Industry: Health, Wellness and Fitness
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
March 2020
Neko software review
Good. Which the basic fee included the reminder to clients.
Pros
1. Of recent, the information about Corona Virus and keeping up to date with the worlds changes through the challenges of operating a business. 2. The online help chat with quick turn around response.
Cons
Needing to pay for the "add on's" for things like the reminder emails to clients, or txts to the clients. I dont use these and do these functions manually to avoid a higher subscription.
Reasons for Choosing Neko
The costs was less than Timely. Being a small business my expenses need to be as low as possible and this was why I chose Neko over Timely.
October 2017
jordan from Glam R Us face & body
Company Size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Health, Wellness and Fitness
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
3.0
October 2017
good but seems to have a few glitches.
affordable, easy to use
Pros
easy to use, reports, stock take, ability to link to online bookings, client history, staff rostering
Cons
doesnt notify you when running out of credit therefore stops sending reminder texts to clients with no notification. doesnt alert you if client replies to a text other than Yes or No. for example if a client writes "no sorry" or messages to change an appointment time it does not notify us. Have had problems trying to move appointments across dates, sometimes doesnt work and you lose the booking or it doubles up. Messages sometimes dont get sent to clients, replies sometimes dont come through at all so you dont know they have tried to confirm the appointment. Not sure if there is a way to put on ipad to give to clients to fill out their client card on first visit - that would be good
Response from Neko
Replied October 2017
Hi there, Thanks for your review. Text credits are shown on the main dashboard so you can see how many credits you have. You can also see unread replies from your clients even if they reply "No sorry". You can read previously read messages on the Marketing Menu under Display Messages. Sending of messages will stop if you don't have any credits, so check your dashboard from time to time. . You can open the client card of your client on the ipad and Select Client Mode at the top right for your clients to enter their details. Hope that helps! We are not aware of any issues with the moving of bookings, our support team would love to hear more from you on this as we don't want any bugs creeping their way into the system and we would love to make it easier as well for you.
April 2020
Ka from Cosmetics
Company Size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Cosmetics
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
4.0
April 2020
Optional to setup for clients
I know you guys keep improving your software cause this 3 years I can see the difference. But I believe that can be better
Pros
If there is a optional to set up what we can see on the schedule. For example, on the schedule screen, when the mouse(arrow) go or right click the scheduled appointment, we can see the basic details, like name, phone number, booking time , services & comment etc. but we cannot see the card number, cause we basically just located the client with card numbers not their name or phone number. So we need to open another page to use there phone number / name and search them out, click in to their profile, and also scroll down to the bottom and check the card number and find their card out.
Cons
Let us choose what we hope to display on the scheduled appointment (the little box when we right click the scheduled appointment) / add display “card number”
Reasons for Choosing Neko
Google search, it’s free trial at the beginning. Once I tired I loved it
March 2020
Katherine from Aurora Beauty Bar
Company Size: 1 employee
Industry: Retail
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
March 2020
Functional, Great Value for Money
Really great, it’s easy to use and pretty good value for what you get.
Pros
I love the layout and how easy Neko is to use! It is so customisable if you want it to be or you can use it for basic needs too. It’s easy to store client info and make bookings too. It has different payment options too which enable you to use the software with most payment systems
Cons
Sometimes it could be a little buggy and freeze but they have since seemed to correct this in the last few months I haven’t had an issue.
October 2017
Ryan from Cedar Cottage Massage and Beauty
Company Size: 1 employee
Industry: Health, Wellness and Fitness
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
5.0
October 2017
Neko has grown into an essential part of my business which I love using
Pros
It's easy, user friends for me and my clients. The online booking is great and the features are amazing. Best value on the market in my opinion.
Cons
Unable to get support (like actual assistance where you can talk it out) They are quite responsive to emails but if your not a techy, then some issues can be harder to fix. Iv never had a severe problem with Neko though - just more setting up in the early days when it only had a few tabs hehe
Response from Neko
Replied July 2018
Hi Ryan Many thanks for your review. Appreciate it :)
April 2020
Samantha from Aura Beauty
Company Size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Consumer Services
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
April 2020
Great easy software
Very easy to use quick and effective
Pros
Love the software it’s so easy and can log on anywhere phones iPad and computer I love it.
Cons
Would love to get a notification when sms credits are low so I know if txts aren’t being sent out because iv ran out.
Reasons for Choosing Neko
Easy cost effective
April 2020
Shelley from Le Spa Parisien
Company Size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Health, Wellness and Fitness
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
April 2020
Great value for money for a micro business
It was easy to start to use and very affordable
Pros
Very easy to use and covers most aspects
Cons
It does glitch out a lot and you can’t use 2 different gift vouchers for the one person treatment and if a mistake is made with transactions you can’t change it back of house
October 2017
Erika from Purity Salon
Company Size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Cosmetics
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
October 2017
Great software, only the booking system is very old style, needs a little facelifting.
Follow and analyse our sales and employees on daily base.
Pros
Value for money, great analyses, tailor-made beauty salon software, good customer service. Very helpful tool to analyse our sales, follow the staff's turnover.
Cons
Old fashion design, which isn't disturbing in the salon work, but if you have a very modern website, it's a little bit strange to use this old fashion booking system. It would be great to have a possibility to connect directly to our website. Actually we don't use the booking system, we use wix.com for bookings.
Response from Neko
Replied October 2017
Hi Erika, Sounds like you are taking about the online booking system not the actual Neko software. You can customize the online booking system to suit your store's website. Contact our support office if you need help on doing this.
March 2020
Mike from Oceangold
Company Size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Consumer Services
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
3.0
Value for money
3.0
Customer support
3.0
Functionality
3.0
March 2020
Trial requires credit card
The requirement to provide a credit card for evaluation purposes erodes trust. There is no valid rationale for this requirement.
Pros
We did not progress the trial due to the requirement for a credit card during the set up process.
Cons
The request for a credit card for evaluation purposes. We have tested many salon and spa management SAAS offerings, none of which requires credit card details for evaluation purposes.