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Competitor pricing — what they charge and how to use it

The question that actually matters on a competing studio isn’t what they offer — it’s what they charge, and whether it’s moving. If your classic lash set is priced at one number and the studio across the street is well above it, that’s something you want to know before your next price review. The pricing section captures their published service prices and tracks how they shift.

How to use it

On a competitor’s page, find the Pricing section. The app reads their prices from whatever source it can — their website, a photo of their price list, or one you upload yourself. Pick a source and it lays out their services and treatments with the price next to each.

The app never invents a number. If a service has no price published, it stays blank — everything you see came from a source the app can point at.

When you re-read a competitor’s prices later, nothing you captured is wiped. A price that changed gets a small badge showing the move (“was X, now Y”); a service that wasn’t found this time fades but stays on file. You see what changed without losing your history.

Fast results — and low cost

The first time anyone reads a studio’s menu, the app does a full read. After that it is saved in a shared library, so when you (or another studio) open the same competitor, you get a quick copy for a small fixed cost instead of a new read. Most pulls come straight from the library.

Some studios keep their price list on a booking site — Fresha, Booksy, Square — rather than their own website. When this is the source, the app keeps this read private to you: it shows in the menu marked “yours” and is never added to the shared library other studios use. You still get the prices; they just don’t leave your account.

When a studio maintains its own menu

Some studios have claimed their own venue — they keep their menu current themselves instead of letting the app read it off their website. When that’s the case the menu shows an “updated” date rather than a scan notice, and there’s no refresh button: it’s already current, straight from the business. If you corrected their price earlier, the owner’s price now shows as correct, with your earlier note kept next to it (”… · you noted X”) so you are not confused by old corrections. (Want this for your own studio? See Claim your venue.)

Correct a price yourself

Captured a price that’s wrong, stale, or that the app couldn’t read? Fix it by hand.

  1. Find the service — or the specific duration in a price ladder, like 60 / 90 / 120 min.
  2. Click the ✎ next to its price and type the right number.
  3. Press Enter. The price now shows your correction, marked “edited”.

Your edit is private to you and survives refreshes — the next time the app re-reads that competitor it updates everything else but leaves your corrected price alone.

Why “yours” and “edited” stay private

The shared library only holds neutral reads of a studio’s own published website — that’s what makes it fair to share across studios. Anything you read from a booking site, or correct yourself, is your own knowledge, so it stays private and never appears in another studio’s view.

Worked example

Maya captures a rival lash bar’s price list. Their volume set reads well above hers, and a refresh two weeks later shows their classic set just went up too. The badge surfaces the move before she’d have noticed. She holds her price, makes the value explicit in her next post, and articulates to her team why she’s the smarter booking — not just the cheaper one.

A competitor price list with a recent-change badge