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Vagaro API

Salon, Spa & Fitness Business Management · vagaro.com

Vagaro publishes a REST API and webhooks documented at docs.vagaro.com, limited to employees, locations, appointments, and customers. Access requires Vagaro card processing on a paid tier, a request form, and up to seven business days for approval. Webhooks cost $10/month for 5,000 calls.

Last verified: July 2026Fitness & Wellness
API GRADE
C
VERIFIED JUL 2026

SCORECARD

ExistenceGOODA public REST API and a webhooks product, documented at docs.vagaro.com and support.vagaro.com.
AccessPOORRequires a paid tier with Vagaro card processing, a request form, and up to seven business days for approval.
CoveragePOOREndpoints cover only Employees, Locations, Appointments, and Customers; no POS transactions, memberships, gift cards, or inventory.
AuthMIXEDAccess tokens are generated as step one of the guide, but full OAuth flow details are not published.
Docs & DXMIXEDReference docs exist; webhooks cost $10/month for 5,000 calls with a hard cap of 10 subscriptions.
StabilityMIXED
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Vagaro scores C on the API Report Card. Vagaro publishes a REST API and webhooks documented at docs.vagaro.com, limited to employees, locations, appointments, and customers. Access requires Vagaro card processing on a paid tier, a request form, and up to seven business days for approval. Webhooks cost $10/month for 5,000 calls.

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API and webhooks blocked for free-trial accounts and any merchant not using Vagaro Credit Card Processing - effectively forcing the payments bundle to access integration support.vagaro.com
Manual access-request form with up to 7-business-day approval before any API call can be made support.vagaro.com
Webhooks priced at $10/month for only 5,000 calls and capped at 10 webhook subscriptions per account - quickly insufficient for moderate-volume integrations vagaro.com
Webhook product gated behind Enterprise Sales for many use cases vagaro.com
Third-party developers resort to scraping the Vagaro marketplace via Apify actors to pull listing/lead data, indicating absent or insufficient discovery APIs apify.com
Public API endpoint coverage is narrow (Employees, Locations, Appointments, Customers) - no documented public surface for POS/transactions, memberships, gift cards, inventory, or marketing docs.vagaro.com
Customers reported being charged monthly for over a year with zero usage after leaving a salon, with refund requests denied as 'non-refundable' trustpilot.com
Spas using Vagaro Merchant Services report repeated double-charges to clients with 62+ documented complaints and no resolution bbb.org
Merchant reported a legitimate $7,499 client transaction frozen and held in 'under review' status in January 2026 with no clear timeline bbb.org
Required 72 hours and a BBB complaint to get Vagaro's '24/7' customer support to respond trustpilot.com
Multi-day outages (2 days in August, 3 days in October) prevented client check-in; Vagaro denied any compensation for lost income trustpilot.com
Slow POS/booking page loads, slow checkouts, and booking errors harming in-studio customer experience wellnessliving.com
Hidden costs: base plans start at $30/mo but most salons end up paying $200+/mo after add-ons (Text Marketing, SOAP/forms, MySite, Branded App, extra storage) slotcut.com
Standard processing fees (2.75% + $0.15 in-person, 3.5% + $0.15 keyed) on top of subscription glossgenius.com