Phorest vs Jane App

Looking for a better alternative to Jane App?

Jane App is strong on booking and documentation, but Phorest is built to help growing med spas do more. From attracting new clients to keeping them coming back and getting more from every appointment, Phorest gives you the tools to run a smoother, more profitable business all in one connected system

Here’s exactly what Phorest can offer you that Jane App can’t.

Jane App

Supercharge your marketing

Facebook & Instagram Ads Manager

SMS & email marketing

Fallback SMS

Online Store

Expert Recommendations

Elevate the patient experience

Branded booking app

Cheat Sheet AI

Industry specific loyalty program

Easier management

Clinic management app

Set staff & team goals

Retail + professional stock management

Stock take app

Protect your business

Get alerted when a patient with multiple no-shows tries to book again

Client Reconnect

Flexible deposits for different services, clients, staff

Dedicated business advisor

Top reasons why Phorest is a better choice than Jane App for your med spa.

Read more in detail exactly what Phorest can offer you that Jane App can’t.

REASON #1 Supercharge your marketing

Facebook & Instagram Ads Manager

Phorest Ads Manager is designed specifically for social media advertising in the aesthetics industry, making it easier to create, launch, and manage campaigns in one place. Build ads from scratch or get started quickly with ready-made templates, then track performance from clicks through to bookings and payments — so you can clearly measure the revenue and return on investment from every campaign.

SMS & email marketing

Promote your business with Phorest’s built-in SMS and email marketing tools. Choose from a selection of ready-made templates or build your own from scratch with an easy-to-use editor, complete with images, call-to-action buttons, photo editing, and spell check.

Fallback SMS

Most clinics only have email addresses for 30% of their patients. Don’t put all that effort into beautiful marketing promotions, only to miss 70% of your patients! Phorest is the only software with a Fallback SMS feature that lets you send a link to your promotion, via SMS, to those that do not have a valid email address on their patient card.

Sell retail products online

Sell retail products online at any time of the day or night and make money while your business is closed! Your Integrated Online Store requires no web adjustment, dev time, or additional tools. Just select which products you want to sell online and let your customers place their orders!

Expert Recommendations

Maximize retail sales with Phorest’s Expert Recommendations. If a patient isn’t ready to purchase a product on the spot, your team can send personalized retail recommendations via SMS, allowing them to buy at their convenience through your Online Store. This seamless follow-up keeps your products top of mind, boosts sales, and enhances the client experience, all with just a few clicks. Unlike other systems that rely on in-clinic sales alone, Phorest helps you extend your reach, driving revenue anytime, anywhere.

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REASON #2 Elevate the patient experience

Your very own branded booking app

Your branded booking app puts your med spa into your patients' pockets. Created by Phorest and branded by you, your booking app allows patients to book, reschedule, and cancel appointments with ease while giving you the opportunity to send marketing material and special offers straight to their phones.

Instant patient insights with Cheat Sheet AI

Phorest’s Cheat Sheet AI helps your team deliver a more personal experience from the moment a patient arrives. With instant access to key details like visit history, preferences, notes, and past purchases, staff can tailor consultations, recommend the right services or products, and make every patient feel remembered.

Industry specific loyalty program

The beauty and aesthetics industry is unlike any other, and your loyalty program should reflect this. Phorest’s Treatcard Loyalty Program is the largest in the industry, allowing you to assign products or services as “treats” that patients can avail of as rewards. Create a clinic experience like no other while boosting retention and higher spending, too.

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REASON #3 Easier management

PhorestGo

Run your med spa from anywhere with PhorestGo, the mobile app that keeps your team connected in the treatment room, at the front desk, or on the go. Manage appointments, check client details, take notes, view staff schedules, and keep your day moving all from your phone or tablet.

Set goals and challenges for staff

Empower your team with clear, trackable goals based on the KPIs that matter most to your clinic. You and your team members can track progress anytime, anywhere, on the PhorestGo app. The app also keeps them focused on achieving targets with timely, automated notifications of encouragement.

Stock management

Keep retail and professional stock levels accurate without the stress. Phorest’s stock management tools update inventory in real time through your POS and PhorestGo, with low-stock alerts, smart reordering, supplier-linked order forms, and reporting to help you stay on top of best-sellers, avoid overstocking, and make smarter stock decisions.

Stock take app

Take the chore out of stock takes with our iPhone and Android app – just scan the barcode with your phone’s camera, enter your stock count, and you’re done!

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REASON #4 Protect your business

Multiple no-show alerts

Unreliable patients can leave you with empty time slots and cost valuable revenue. Phorest automatically adds a note to patient records when they don't show for an appointment, and you’ll get a ‘multiple no-show’ alert when they try to book with you over the phone. This allows you to turn them away, or request they book online with a deposit, allowing you to capture their payment details and charge a no-show fee should it happen again.

Client Reconnect

Protect your client base with Client Reconnect. Identify clients who haven’t visited in a while, reach out with targeted SMS or email campaigns, and encourage them to book back in before they drift away. Boost retention, safeguard revenue, and keep your appointment book healthy.

Flexible deposits

Did you know that clients who pay a deposit are significantly less likely to no-show? Phorest allows you to charge flexible deposits for all services booked online, in-person, or over the phone. Take larger deposits from higher no-show risks, such as new clients or those who have been no-shows in the past. And you can set custom deposits for services that require you to have costly professional products in-stock before the appointment.

Support from a dedicated Business Advisor

With many other software providers you’ll get an account manager to help you get set up, but once you’re up and running you won’t hear from them again. With Phorest you’ll be assigned a Business Advisor to make sure you’re getting the most from your software, supporting you to keep growing your business and increasing your revenue.

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Ready to switch from Jane App to Phorest?

Talk to us about how Phorest can help manage, market, and grow your med spa.

Switching to Phorest is easy because we are here to help in any way

Easy Migration

All our plans include tailored system set up for your salon or clinic. We’ll import your clients, staff, services, products and more for you. Our migration specialists have years of experience in safely migrating client record information from most other salon or clinic software.

Free Training for Life

We’ll set you and your team up with comprehensive onboarding training; and you can book additional online training sessions with us for as long as you like. New staff starting in the future? No problem, we’ll get them trained up too at no extra cost.

Top Class Support Team

Our friendly support team is on call or chat, and they’re renowned for going above and beyond to answer your questions, big or small, as quickly as they can. ‘Seirbhís go hiontach’ (excellence in service) is a driving mantra here at Phorest.

“We have successfully migrated many clinics from Jane App to Phorest. The team and I will help to make the process as simple as possible for you, bringing across your client information. If there’s anything we can’t migrate for you, our onboarding team will guide you through our simple input process, so you can make the transition with zero downtime at your med spa.”

Shane Kelly, Data Migration Specialist
at Phorest Software

What is the difference between Phorest and Jane App?

Jane App is a general practice management platform built for allied health professionals like physiotherapists, chiropractors, massage therapists, and mental health providers with medical aesthetics as one vertical among many it serves. Phorest is built specifically for med spas and aesthetic clinics, combining booking with marketing, patient experience, staff management, and business protection tools designed around how a med spa actually runs, rather than a general wellness practice.

How does Phorest’s marketing compare to Jane App’s?

Phorest includes marketing tools that Jane App doesn’t offer, including a Facebook & Instagram Ads Manager built for the aesthetics industry, built-in SMS and email marketing with ready-made templates, an integrated online store for selling retail products around the clock, and Fallback SMS, which texts a promotion to any patient without a valid email on file (typically 70% of a clinic’s list). Jane App’s revenue tools lean more toward payments, packages, and memberships than outbound marketing campaigns.

Does Jane App have a branded booking app or a loyalty program for med spas?

No. Jane App offers a custom-branded online booking page rather than a native branded app, and doesn’t include an aesthetics-specific loyalty program. Phorest gives every clinic its own branded booking app so patients can book, reschedule, and cancel from their phone, plus the Treatcard Loyalty Program, built specifically for the beauty and aesthetics industry to turn services and products into rewards that boost retention and spend.

How does Phorest protect med spas from no-shows and lost revenue compared to Jane App?

Phorest automatically flags a patient’s record after a no-show and alerts staff if that patient tries to rebook, lets clinics set flexible deposits based on service, staff, or client risk, and includes Client Reconnect to automatically re-engage patients who haven’t booked in a while. Jane App doesn’t include these protections as built-in features, so clinics using it typically manage no-show risk and win-back campaigns manually or through other tools.

How does staff and stock management differ between Phorest and Jane App?

Phorest includes PhorestGo, a mobile clinic management app for running the business from anywhere, KPI-based staff goal tracking, real-time retail and professional stock management with low-stock alerts and smart reordering, and a barcode stock-take app. Jane App’s tools are more focused on scheduling, charting, and billing, without this level of built-in inventory or staff performance tracking.

Is Jane App or Phorest built specifically for medical aesthetics?

Phorest is purpose-built for med spas and aesthetic clinics; Jane App was originally designed for general allied health practices and has since expanded to market itself to medical aesthetics as one of several industries it supports. Practices that need the deeper, aesthetics-specific tools like branded apps, treatment-specific loyalty, no-show protection, aesthetics-focused ad campaigns typically outgrow what a general practice platform like Jane App offers.

Does Jane App offer a dedicated business advisor like Phorest?

No. Phorest assigns every clinic a dedicated Business Advisor who stays with the account long-term to help grow the business, not just get it set up. Jane App, like most general practice management software, provides account support during onboarding but doesn’t include an ongoing, named advisor focused on business growth.