Phorest API
A documented REST API at developer.phorest.com covers clients, appointments, services, courses, and vouchers across EU and US gateways. Credentials come from the partnerships team by email and may carry fees. Basic auth only, no webhooks, and no sandbox: testing hits live salon data.
Frequently asked questions
Phorest scores D+ on the API Report Card. A documented REST API at developer.phorest.com covers clients, appointments, services, courses, and vouchers across EU and US gateways. Credentials come from the partnerships team by email and may carry fees. Basic auth only, no webhooks, and no sandbox: testing hits live salon data.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly.
Phorest is a cloud-based salon, spa, and aesthetic-clinic management platform founded in Dublin, Ireland that bundles online booking, scheduling, client CRM, POS, payments (PhorestPay), marketing automation, loyalty, reputation management, branded mobile booking apps, and reporting into a single SaaS offering.
POS / Hospitality (Salon, Spa & Aesthetic Clinic Management), Used by hair salons, beauty salons, barbershops, day spas, and medi-aesthetic / aesthetic clinics, from single-location independents up to multi-site groups. Front-desk, stylists, and owners use Phorest to take online and in-app bookings via branded client apps, run the appointment calendar and staff rota, check clients in via PhorestGuest, take POS and card payments through PhorestPay, manage memberships and gift vouchers, send SMS/email marketing and review-request campaigns, run loyalty programs, capture digital consultation and consent forms (especially for aesthetic clinics), and pull reporting on revenue, retention, staff productivity, and inventory.
Phorest reports serving 'over 155,000 salon, spa and clinic professionals' worldwide across roughly 9,000+ businesses, operates in 8 markets (Ireland, UK, US, Canada, Australia, Germany, Finland, UAE), and is generally cited alongside Mindbody, Vagaro, Boulevard, and Zenoti as one of the top-tier global salon platforms.
Yes, Phorest holds each salon, spa, and clinic's full operating book: client profiles, appointment history, stylist schedules, POS transactions, gift voucher and membership balances, loyalty points, marketing consent and communications history, inventory and stock counts, and (especially for aesthetic / medi-aesthetic clinics) digital consultation forms, consent records, and treatment notes that are healthcare-adjacent.
~22 years old, founded 2003 in Dublin by Ronan Perceval.
No webhooks, every integration must poll the API to detect changes, which is wasteful and laggy. API access is gated behind a manual approval process (api-requests@phorest.com) and may carry integration fees. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Mindbody / Booker, Vagaro, Boulevard, Zenoti, Fresha, Mangomint. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.
Yes. Supergood maintains an unofficial Phorest API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write Phorest data. See the Phorest integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/phorest-api.