Reviewflowz connects to Vagaro and asks the client for a Google review when the checkout is recorded. Every review is credited to the stylist who did the work.

Setup is a webhook URL you paste into Vagaro once. $70 per location per month billed annually, or $80 month to month with no commitment. The 14 day trial does not ask for a card.

This is the part most owners get wrong, so it is worth being precise: Vagaro is not failing to collect reviews. It collects them well.

When a client completes a service, Vagaro emails them and prompts them in the app. The client rates punctuality, value and service, writes a review of the business, and writes a separate review of the stylist by name. Here is Vagaro's own example of the email an owner receives:

Look at the bottom of that. Two overall ratings, side by side: Business and Service Provider. Vagaro knows exactly who did the work, because the review was written from an appointment that already had a provider attached to it.

Then it publishes that on your Vagaro listing page. Vagaro says why, in the same article: it considers itself the destination, not a route to somewhere else.

That is a reasonable position for Vagaro to take. It is a problem for you, because the client choosing between three salons is looking at Google, not at vagaro.com.

Search Vagaro's own help centre for "google review" and you get two kinds of article that never meet. Articles about Google that are not about reviews, and articles about reviews that are not about Google.

Vagaro's review documentation is six articles. Not one mentions sending a client to Google. The only outbound share the review flow offers is Facebook.

There is also nothing to switch on. Vagaro's single review setting controls who may leave a review, not what happens after they leave one.

Your stylists exist in Reviewflowz as people, and a review is credited to one of them when the client names them in it. Spelling is forgiven, so "Camille", "Camile" and "Camilla" all land on the same stylist, and anything genuinely ambiguous waits in a queue for a person instead of crediting the wrong one. A leaderboard your team does not trust is worse than no leaderboard.

The honest limit: the client has to write the name. Vagaro's checkout webhook does not tell us which provider did the work, so a review that says "she was amazing" and names nobody counts for the salon and not for a stylist. That is a real constraint and you should plan around it rather than discover it in month two.

What you get that Vagaro will not give you is the board itself. Vagaro collects a per-stylist review, emails it to the account owner, and offers no way to filter or rank by employee.

Vagaro captures the per-stylist rating and emails it to the account owner. It does not give you a report you can sort by stylist, and the Review Management report has filters for rating, photos, responses and sort order, but none for employee. This is the number that was always there and was never in front of you.

Commission structures already reward the things you want more of. Reviews fit the same shape, because each one arrives attached to the stylist who earned it.

Two things before you put it on the board. A review that names the stylist and describes the service is worth more than a bare rating, and it is also the only kind that can be credited to a person, so it is worth coaching for. And there is a line: rewarding your own team for asking is fine, rewarding the client for reviewing is not.

Vagaro has no API for this, so it is one manual step, done once.

In Reviewflowz, open Integrations, then Automate Review Requests, and click Vagaro. Copy the URL shown.

In Vagaro, go to Settings, then Webhooks, and add the URL. Subscribe it to the Transaction, Customer and Appointment events.

Nothing is enrolled until you confirm. Check out a real client, come back, and press Check status. Once a delivery has arrived, press Confirm.

Only visits after you confirm are enrolled. Nobody from before today is contacted.

A note on the trigger first, because it matters in a salon. Vagaro appointments have no completed status, they stay Confirmed, so the checkout is the reliable signal that the visit happened. Vagaro builds the cart at checkout and prompts you to rebook straight afterwards, which is the end of the visit by any reading.

The exception is worth knowing: if you take deposits or full prepayment at online booking, or the client is redeeming a package or a membership, the money moved earlier than the service did.

On cost, Vagaro is not the problem. It publishes its price, one plan, and lets you cancel any time. The bolt-on reputation tools are where it gets expensive: Podium is $399 a month on a twelve month term paid annually in advance, and Birdeye will not publish a number at all, asks for 90 days notice to cancel, and adds an 8% fee on renewal.

We are not that kind of software. Reviewflowz is laser focused on one job. It is light, it does that job properly, and there is nothing else in it to pay for, learn, or switch off.

Do I have to turn Vagaro's own reviews off? No, and most salons leave them on. They are useful inside Vagaro. They are just not visible on Google.

Will my past clients get a request? No. Only checkouts after you confirm the connection.

Two stylists worked on the client. Who gets credit? Both.

A client prepaid weeks ago. When does the request go out? When the transaction is recorded. If you take deposits at booking, check the timing before you rely on it.

Can I move my existing Vagaro reviews to Google? No, and nobody can. A review written on Vagaro belongs to Vagaro. What you can do is start asking every client from today.