Kwickly Answers vs. Boulevard: Booking and Phone Answering for Salons and Spas

What Boulevard does, and what Kwickly Answers adds

Boulevard is booking, point-of-sale and client-management software for salons, spas, medspas and barbershops. Its pricing page, which opens on a Salon & Spa view (a Medspa view lists different plans and prices), shows Essentials, Premier and Prestige plans priced per location, with Essentials listed for "Up to 5 providers (bookable calendars)", and its comparison table lists online booking, email and text reminders, booking deposits, staff scheduling, a timeclock, memberships, loyalty and card payments. The buttons on those plans read "Get a demo".

Boulevard's AI receptionist is called Beau. Its page says you forward your calls to it, and that it can be set to answer all the time, to back up unanswered calls, or to cover after hours. The FAQ on that page says Beau sends an appointment link with the service requested when a caller is ready to book, offers a transfer to a team member when a caller asks for one or Beau cannot do the task, and takes a message after hours or when you switch transfers off.

With Kwickly Answers, a client opens your booking page and sees the times that fit your hours and the length of the service picked. The booking is confirmed by email, a reminder email goes out the day before, and the client is added to your customer list. A phone plan adds an AI assistant to the number you forward: you set it to book directly or to take a message, which is the default, and calls you treat as urgent are flagged to you by email. The plan price does not depend on how many chairs you have.

How do the plans compare?

Boulevard's Essentials plan is $159 a month for one location in the monthly, Salon & Spa view of its pricing page, and Kwickly Answers' Online booking plan is $14.99 a month for 100 bookings.

See Kwickly Answers' full published pricing. Prices change, so confirm Boulevard's current price on its own site before you decide.

Is Kwickly Answers a Boulevard alternative?

Yes, Kwickly Answers can stand in for Boulevard when what you need is booking, a calendar, a customer list and an assistant for the phone. Boulevard is priced by location and plan level, and also lists point of sale, memberships and card payments. Kwickly Answers begins at $14.99 a month for booking, sized by bookings, and from $129.99 a month for a phone plan.

How do Boulevard's plans and Beau compare with Kwickly Answers' prices?

Boulevard's bill follows locations, plan level and AI minutes, and Kwickly Answers' follows bookings and phone minutes, so the gap depends on your volume. The figures are monthly, taken from Boulevard's pricing and AI receptionist pages on 2 Oct 2026, and omit tax and card-processing fees.

Booking: in the Salon & Spa view of its pricing page, one location on Essentials is $159 in the monthly view or $143 in the annual view, for up to 5 providers. On the Online booking plan, 100 bookings cost $14.99, 300 cost $24.99 and 1,000 cost $44.99, whether two stylists share the calendar or six. Boulevard's plan also lists point of sale, memberships and card payments, which the Online booking plan does not include.

Phone: Beau is $125 for 200 minutes, so 350 minutes is $125 + 150 extra minutes × $0.60 ($90.00) = $215.00. Starter (Essential level) is $129.99 for the same 350 minutes, with the calendar, booking page, customer list and reminder emails inside it. Boulevard's page does not say whether Beau can be bought without a plan, so no plan price is added to its sum, and the pages we read (2 Oct 2026) print no rounding rule for its minutes.

Does Kwickly Answers work if I just need a booking page for my salon?

Yes, a booking page on its own is a complete Kwickly Answers plan, and nothing else is bundled in. It costs $14.99, $24.99 or $44.99 a month depending on whether you take up to 100, 300 or 1,000 bookings, each booking beyond your size is 10 cents, and there is no setup fee. A booking link and QR code can be made for each stylist and each service.

Can Kwickly Answers replace Boulevard?

Yes, where the job is online booking, the calendar, a customer list, reminder emails and, on a phone plan, answering calls. Boulevard also lists point of sale, card payments, memberships, loyalty and booking deposits in its plans, and those are not part of the Online booking plan or the phone plans. The plans compared here are priced around the booking and phone jobs.

Boulevard or Kwickly Answers for a small salon or spa that gets calls?

Kwickly Answers, if one account for the phone assistant and the booking page matters more to you than a per-location platform. A phone plan from $129.99 a month answers the calls you forward and, if you choose direct booking, drops the appointment into the calendar that comes with it. Boulevard prices Beau at $125 a month per location for 200 minutes, and its page describes Beau as part of the Boulevard platform.

Which Boulevard features are built, planned or not part of Kwickly Answers today?

• Built, not switched on yet: reminder texts outside the $39.99 Website & booking plan and a card saved at booking for deposits and no-show fees, where Boulevard's comparison table lists text reminders and booking deposits; loyalty points, which the same table lists; and point-of-sale checkout on a card reader.
• Not part of Kwickly Answers today: memberships sold to your clients, which Boulevard's comparison table lists.
• What Kwickly Answers does today: you build, print and publish your staff schedule at no charge on any plan, the Online booking plan from $14.99 a month is priced by bookings rather than providers, and a phone plan from $129.99 a month for 350 minutes answers your forwarded calls. Website & booking ($39.99 a month) includes 250 reminder texts a month, from the shared Kwickly Answers number, to customers who said yes.

Source: joinblvd.com/pricing, read October 2, 2026

Unhappy with Boulevard? What switching to Kwickly Answers looks like

Switching from Boulevard to Kwickly Answers means setting up your services, prices and hours in your portal, adding customers one at a time, handing out a booking link and QR code for each person or service, and, on a phone plan, forwarding your business line to your Kwickly Answers number.

Boulevard's pricing page (joinblvd.com/pricing, read 2 Oct 2026) prints Essentials at $159 a month for one location in its monthly Salon & Spa view and $143 in its annual view, and its AI receptionist page prints $125 a month per location for 200 minutes, then $0.60 a minute. Source: joinblvd.com/pricing, joinblvd.com/features/ai-receptionist, read October 2, 2026

For the forwarding step, your portal gives instructions for AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Comcast Business, Spectrum, RingCentral, Ooma and Vonage, and your phone company may bill forwarded minutes, so check with them. Plans on Kwickly Answers renew automatically each month until you cancel; you can cancel at any time under Account, Your plan, Cancel plan, and service continues to the end of the period already paid for.

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Why choose Kwickly Answers instead of Boulevard?

• The bill follows the bookings you take, $14.99, $24.99 or $44.99 at 100, 300 or 1,000, and it stays put when you add a chair or a stylist.
• Every price sits on our pricing page, and you can set the account up yourself in your portal without a setup fee.
• One account for calls and bookings: a phone plan from $129.99 a month brings 350 minutes, the calendar, booking page, customer list and email reminders, and extra minutes are $0.50 each, counted by the second.
• You decide what the assistant handles, booking directly or taking a message, and calls you treat as urgent are flagged to you by email.
• Callers who speak Spanish are answered in Spanish at no extra charge on every phone plan; 15 other languages add a flat $19.99 a month.

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Sources and last verified date

Last verified: 2026-10-02. Every fact about Boulevard on this page was read from its own pages, listed here with the date each was read.

• joinblvd.com/pricing, read October 2, 2026
• joinblvd.com/features/ai-receptionist, read October 2, 2026

Boulevard is a trademark of its owner. Kwickly Answers isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Boulevard. Boulevard's prices are from its public page on October 2, 2026.