SWITCH FROM PABAU
Pabau to Calisto Spa
Spa books each treatment with its provider and a room, takes intake and waivers before the visit, keeps the chart behind clinical clearance, and sells passes, memberships and day passes on one register, with Sign, Forms, Proposals, Registry and Inventory built in.
- Spa & Wellness
- Medical Aesthetics
Feature by feature
Calisto Spa beside Pabau
- 29 In both
- 3 Only in Pabau
| 32 features | Calisto Spa | Pabau |
|---|---|---|
| Calendar | ||
| Calendar by provider and by roomCalisto: the Calendar by provider and by room; a treatment holds its provider and one room from each group of rooms it can be done in, together.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Couples and group bookingsCalisto: Group Bookings for couples, parties and spa days, each guest’s treatments booked together, and a couples suite that takes two clients at once.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Waitlist that fills freed timesCalisto: the Waitlist offers a freed time to waiting clients by WhatsApp, text or email.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Booking | ||
| Online booking on your own websiteCalisto: online booking on the business’s own website, with Sites, asking the treatment’s intake form, waiver and deposit before it is written.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Booking through GoogleCalisto: with Sync, Reserve with Google takes appointments, with the switch per channel on each treatment.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Client portalCalisto: the client portal, with Navigator: passes and visits left, confirming, changing or canceling an appointment.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Before the visit | ||
| Intake forms bound to a treatmentCalisto: an intake form bound to each treatment, with Forms; the answers are filed in the client’s chart.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Consent forms signed online, versionedCalisto: a medical waiver per treatment, with Sign, pinned to the version signed and asked again when the words change; a paper waiver is recorded with its scan.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Contraindication screening from intake answersCalisto: a treatment lists what rules it out, an intake answer or a chart alert; what a match does is the business’s setting.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Deposits, card on file and no-show feesCalisto: a deposit per treatment or by default (none, fixed, a percentage or a card held); Charge the No-Show Fee or Release the Guarantee.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Clinical | ||
| Clinical charting with treatment notesCalisto: the chart with alerts, intake visits, treatment records, chart templates, amendments and closing, read only with clinical clearance.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Face and body map chartingCalisto: the body map on each treatment record.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Before and after photosCalisto: before and after photos on the chart, compared side by side; photos shared from a phone reach a chart only through clearance.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| AI drafting of treatment notesCalisto: the scribe drafts the note on Calisto’s own servers, and a person checks it before it goes on the chart.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Medical director or prescriber sign-offCalisto: a treatment can need the medical director’s sign-off; it waits in Approvals until they sign it off or send it back.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Product batch or lot trackingCalisto: each product used is charted with its lot, with Inventory, and Lots lists every client who received a batch.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| PrescriptionsCalisto: prescriptions written on the chart and printed.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Treatment plans and quotes sent to the clientCalisto: a treatment plan sent to the client as a proposal, with Proposals.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Audit log of who opened a recordCalisto: every read and write of the clinical record, allowed or refused, in the Activity log; the chart shows Who Opened This Chart.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Prescriptions sent to a pharmacy networkCalisto: prescriptions are written on the chart and printed; none is sent to a pharmacy network.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | No | Yes |
| Lab orders and resultsCalisto: no lab orders or results.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | No | Yes |
| Selling | ||
| Packages or courses of treatmentsCalisto: Passes, treatments bought up front and used one at a time, and packages of several treatments in one booking.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| MembershipsCalisto: memberships with what each plan includes, allowances and a member discount, with Registry.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Gift cards or vouchersCalisto: gift cards for an amount, for chosen treatments or for one treatment paid whole, sold at the desk and online.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Point of sale with retail and stockCalisto: one Register on the appointment’s folio, treatments and retail together; Retail with Shop and Stock with Inventory.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Team | ||
| CommissionsCalisto: Commissions, what each provider earned on their pay agreement.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Staff qualification or credential checksCalisto: a treatment names the credentials it needs, held with Workforce’s certifications; what a lapsed credential does is a setting.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Pay runs for the teamCalisto: no payroll run. Commissions are reported, and Workforce’s timesheets and pay report carry the figures for the business’s own payroll.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | No | Yes |
| Retention | ||
| Rebooking and recall remindersCalisto: Rebooking lists who is due back by their treatment plan, their rhythm or the treatment’s interval; reminders and recalls are rules in Automations.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Two-way text or WhatsApp messagingCalisto: client conversations on WhatsApp, text and web chat, with Threads.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Operations | ||
| ReportsCalisto: reports by services, providers, provider hours, rooms, clients and sales.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
| Staff mobile appCalisto: Spa installed inside Calisto on a phone, with Today, Calendar, Register and Clients, and the till selling with no signal.Checked Oct 27, 2026Source | Yes | Yes |
What moves
Bringing your data from Pabau
Your data is read in your own browser and sent to your Calisto account. Calisto never sees your login for the old system.
From an export file
Export your data from Pabau and drop the file in. It is read in your browser and mapped onto Calisto.
Patients
Imported patients data
Appointments
Imported appointments data
Services
Imported services data
Invoices
Imported invoices data
Moving from Pabau
Questions about switching
Can I bring my clients and appointments from Pabau?
Yes. Appointments come in through Import on the Appointments screen, and clients by import into the shared client record, where every later visit adds its chart, photos and waivers.
Who can read the clinical record once it moves?
Only the owner and the people the owner clears in Team ▸ Clinical Access. Every read and change is recorded in the Activity log, and Calisto hosts the record in the EU as the business’s processor.
How do deposits and no-show fees move over?
Set a deposit per treatment or as the business default: none, a fixed amount, a percentage or a card held. A no-show fee is charged by hand or by a rule the spa turns on, and the cancellation policy is set in Settings.
Learn more
Everything Calisto does here
The pages behind this comparison: the sector, the apps and the guides.
- Health & WellnessCalisto for Spa & Wellness
The therapist, the room and the client held together: the couples suite ready, the intake answered and the next visit already on its way.
Open - Spa & WellnessIntake, Waivers & Retail
The treatment’s intake form and waiver answered before arrival, and the backbar and the retail shelf counted in one stock.
Open - PricingPricing for Spa & WellnessOpen
- Health & WellnessCalisto for Medical Aesthetics
Calisto Pro keeps the appointment, the consent, the chart, the lot and the photographs on one client record, so what was done, where, with what and by whom is a question with an answer.
Open - PricingPricing for Medical AestheticsOpen
- AppCalisto Spa
Spas, med spas and clinics: the calendar by therapist and by room, treatments priced by level with the room they need, intake and consent signed at its version, the chart and before-and-after photos behind the clearance you grant, the medical director’s sign-off, lot recall, series, memberships, day passes and vouchers.
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