Solaryx vs Planity
Planity is a booking platform for hair and beauty. Solaryx runs tanning salons and drives the beds. Both fill an agenda. Only one runs a solarium.
The short answer
For a hair or beauty salon, Planity is a serious option. For a solarium the part that matters most is missing: no bed control, no phototype file, no legal interval between sessions. You would still need a second tool and someone watching a clock.
Feature by feature
The same eighteen criteria for every software we compare, including the ones where we come up short.
| Criterion | Solaryx | Planity |
|---|---|---|
| Built specifically for tanning salons | ||
| Starts, times and stops the beds itself | ||
| Phototype assessment and signed customer declaration | ||
| Session history and legal intervals between sessions | ||
| Lamp hours and equipment maintenance tracking | ||
| Session packages, prepaid minutes and subscriptions | ||
| Point of sale with products and stock | ||
| Loyalty points and gift cards | ||
| Online booking, open 24/7 | ||
| Email, SMS and WhatsApp reminders | ||
| Staff planning and leave | ||
| Several sites on one shared customer file | ||
| Salon website included | ||
| Belgian accounting export and VAT report | ||
| French, Dutch, German and English, with support in Belgium | ||
| No commission on your bookings or your new customers | ||
| Consumer marketplace that sends you new customers |
Legend: a check means included as standard, a dash means partly covered or dependent on the plan, a cross means not available.
Based on information published by each vendor, last checked in August 2026. Offers change: confirm with them before you decide. Product and company names belong to their owners.
Where Planity is the better choice
It has a consumer platform
People browse and book from the Planity app, which brings you faces you would never have reached. Solaryx has no marketplace: it fills your agenda from your own site, your reminders and your counter.
It covers hair and beauty out of the box
If your business is mainly cuts, colour or nails with a sunbed on the side, Planity is designed around that trade.
Where Solaryx is the better choice
Four things a salon software written for hairdressers cannot do for a solarium.
The beds are part of the software
Relay boxes start each bed, run exactly the time that was sold, then ventilate. Nobody watches a clock, and no free minutes are given away.
Belgian compliance is built in, not a checklist
Phototype assessment, signed declaration, minimum interval and eID reading all happen at the counter, automatically. When the rules change, the change reaches you through the included updates.
One system instead of three
Booking, point of sale, stock, loyalty, planning and reporting run in one tool, on one customer file. Nothing to reconcile at closing between an agenda, a till and a spreadsheet.
A Belgian price from a Belgian team
A fixed subscription per salon, no commission on your bookings. Invoicing, VAT and exports follow Belgian rules, and support answers in French, Dutch, German or English.
Questions we get
You could, but you would pay twice for the same agenda and split your customer file in two. Salons that move over keep one system, so the numbers at closing always agree.
Yes. Your customer list and future appointments are imported during the setup. Depending on what your current tool lets you export, migration is either included or billed once per site.
Compare with something else
Or let us run the comparison on your own numbers: your beds, your sites, your current tools.