Solaryx vs Planity
Planity is a booking and agenda platform for hair and beauty salons. Solaryx is management software for tanning salons that also 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: it does not start or stop your beds, it keeps no phototype file with a signed declaration, and it does not enforce the interval Belgian law puts between two sessions. You would still need a second tool and a member of staff 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 | ||
| Bancontact and SEPA direct debit | ||
| 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.
Comparison based on information published by each vendor, last checked in July 2026. Offers change regularly: confirm the current details with them before you decide. Product and company names belong to their respective owners.
Where Planity is the better choice
It has a consumer platform
People browse and book from the Planity app and website, which can bring you faces you would never have reached. Solaryx has no marketplace: it fills your agenda from your own website, 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 and has a large installed base in France and Belgium.
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 installed in your salon start each bed, run exactly the time that was sold, then ventilate. No member of staff watches a clock, no free minutes are given away, and a session can never run longer than what the customer paid for and the law allows.
Belgian compliance is built in, not a checklist
Phototype assessment, the signed customer declaration, the minimum interval between two sessions and eID reading all happen at the counter, automatically. When the rules change, we build the change into the product and it reaches you through the included updates.
One system instead of three
Booking, point of sale, products and stock, loyalty, staff planning and reporting run in a single tool, on a single customer file, across every one of your sites. Nothing to reconcile at the end of the day 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 and no cut on your new customers. Invoicing, VAT and accounting 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: bookings, counter, beds and compliance in the same place, so the numbers at the end of the day always agree.
Yes. Your customer list and your future appointments are imported as part of the setup. Depending on your current provider and what it lets you export, migration is either included or billed once per site, confirmed with your quote.
Compare with something else
Or let us run the comparison on your own numbers: your beds, your sites, your current tools.