Comparison
FitRoomLog vs Lightspeed Retail
Lightspeed Retail is a whole store platform for boutiques that live on inventory and purchasing, while FitRoomLog is the fit memory that sits next to whatever register you already ring on.
Comparison
FitRoomLog vs Square Appointments: booking the fitting or remembering it
Square Appointments fills your fitting room calendar and takes the payment, while FitRoomLog remembers what happened inside the room after she has her coat back on.
The short answer
These solve two halves of one Saturday. Square Appointments is a scheduling and payment product for appointment based businesses, so it handles staff availability, fitting lengths, deposits on bridal sessions and the reminder that cuts your no shows. FitRoomLog assumes the appointment already exists and asks a different question: when this customer sits down, does her fitter know she wears a 34E in one brand, a 32F in another, and will not wear a molded cup. Most boutiques should keep their booking tool and add the fit record underneath it rather than pick one.
FitRoomLog and Square Appointments side by side
| What you are deciding | FitRoomLog | Square Appointments |
|---|---|---|
| What the system is built around | What the fitting produced: sizes by brand, cuts that worked, cuts she refused, what to watch for in receiving. | The calendar: staff availability, appointment length, deposits and reminders for service businesses. |
| Before she arrives | Her fitter opens the record and pulls her sizes across every brand you carry before the hour starts. | You know who is booked and for how long, which is the job it is built to do well. |
| During the fitting | A one minute form on the stockroom tablet logs the band, cup, cut and hook setting that worked. | Appointment tools are built for check in and checkout rather than for what happens on the fitting room hook. |
| After the fitting | The record drives the wear out reminder and the note when her size comes back in stock. | Follow up is generally shaped as rebooking the next appointment rather than tracking a size in inventory. |
| New fitter on the floor | She reads two years of fittings in ten seconds and does not re-measure a loyal customer. | She sees the schedule, and whatever your team happened to type into the customer record. |
| Bridal and post surgical work | Holds the special order detail, the pocketing style and the treatment stage note the next fitter needs. | Handles the deposits and the longer session length that bridal and post surgical fittings need on a calendar. |
| Price shape | Flat monthly by store count: One Boutique $39, Two Locations $89, Small Chain $179. | Priced as a scheduling and payments product; check their current published pricing. |
| Best fit | Boutiques whose repeat business depends on knowing a body, not just filling an hour. | Boutiques whose main leak is empty fitting room hours and same day cancellations. |
On the right is the kind of tool Square Appointments is and the job it is shaped around, rather than a list of what it includes at any given price. Any product moves on, so confirm the live details on their own pages first. FitRoomLog is published by MLJ, SASU and this page is written by Jimenez Julien.
Choose FitRoomLog when
- When your calendar is already full and the problem is that every fitting starts from a blank tape measure.
- When a customer books with a different fitter and has to explain her surgery history a second time.
- When you carry six brands and nobody can say which of them she can actually wear.
- When you want a reorder message that names her cut and band rather than a generic rebooking prompt.
Choose Square Appointments when
- If you have no booking system and take fittings by phone, a scheduling product will fix a bigger leak first.
- If deposits on bridal and long appointment blocks are your live problem, that is what Square Appointments is designed for.
- If your no show rate is the number keeping you up, buy the reminders before you buy fit memory.
A booked hour is not a known customer
Scheduling tools measure a fitting in minutes. That is a fair unit for a business where the service is the same each time. A bra fitting is not the same each time, because the customer changes: she is nine months postpartum, or four weeks past a reduction, or she has finally admitted the 36C she has bought for a decade has never fit her.
The value the calendar cannot carry is continuity. Continuity is knowing that in 2024 she wore a 34F in a full cup and a 34FF in a plunge, that the seamed style dug at the underarm, and that the band you sold her in the spring stretched faster than she expected. That is the material of a repeat fitting, and it needs a home shaped like a record, not like an hour.
How the two fit together on a busy Saturday
In practice the handoff is simple. The booking tool tells the floor who is coming at eleven and how long the appointment runs. Before she walks in, the fitter opens her fit record, sees her sizes across brands and the two cuts she has always refused, and pulls a first armful from the stockroom that stands a real chance.
That is where the time saving lands. Fewer trips back for another armful, fewer sizes pulled on a guess, fewer minutes spent re-measuring a woman you measured in February. On a Saturday with back to back appointments in two rooms, saving three stockroom runs is the difference between finishing on time and running twenty minutes behind by two in the afternoon.
What to do if you can only pay for one this quarter
Look at where you lose money. If your fitting rooms sit empty for stretches, or you lose an hour a week to phone tag over appointment times, the calendar is the purchase. Scheduling pays for itself in filled hours and it is easy to measure.
If your rooms are full and the leak is further down, buy the fit record. The tell is a fitter saying she cannot remember what a customer wore, a regular walking out because nobody could find her size in the brands she can wear, or a case of 32G sitting on the floor while the four women who asked for it hear nothing.
Questions people ask before they choose
Does FitRoomLog schedule fitting appointments?
No, and that is deliberate. Booking is a solved problem and most boutiques already run one. FitRoomLog takes over once the appointment exists, holding the sizes, cuts and follow up that a calendar has no field for.
Can walk ins go into FitRoomLog without an appointment?
Yes. A fit record is created from the fitting itself, not from a booking. Saturday walk ins are logged the same way as booked customers, which matters because walk ins are often the ones who have never been fitted before.
Will my fitters really log a record between appointments?
They do when the form is short enough. Ours is brand, band, cup, cut, hook setting, plus what she turned down, on a tablet by the stockroom door. It runs under a minute, which is the only budget a busy fitting room actually has.
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Comparison
FitRoomLog vs Klaviyo
Klaviyo is a marketing platform built to send campaigns and flows to a whole list, while FitRoomLog sends one fitter's note to one customer about the band and cup that just landed.
Settle it on one real fitting
A table can only take this so far, and the two products stop looking alike the moment a real customer is on the screen. Send us one regular you have fitted for years, with her brands and the cuts she refuses, and we will show you what each side of this page would remember about her. Keep the other product open in the next tab while we do it.