Yes, for salons, spas, barbershops and mixed beauty groups. LABÉAU offers LHDN MyInvois and IRAS InvoiceNow e-invoicing, packages and staff commission management like Aoikumo, and multi-location reporting on Diamond, but with a flat monthly price from RM174.92 and no staff cap, unlimited WhatsApp reminders, WhatsApp marketing from the Gold plan and a 7-day free trial with no card. Aoikumo remains the stronger choice for medical aesthetics clinics with consultation-led clinical workflows.
Comparison
The best Aoikumo alternative for salons, spas & beauty chains
Aoikumo is a well-established regional platform built around aesthetics and medical spas. It is genuinely strong in that niche — and correspondingly heavy for a hair salon, nail studio or barbershop that just needs the day to run cleanly and the numbers to be right.
Quick answer
LABÉAU is the best Aoikumo alternative for salons, spas and beauty chains that want clinic-grade operations without clinic-grade complexity. Both cover multi-outlet beauty businesses across Malaysia and Singapore with e-invoicing and both publish prices, but they charge differently: Aoikumo bills per outlet per year (GROW from RM2,680/year, Aesthetics RM5,380, Medical Aesthetics RM6,680, with no refunds on the annual plan), while LABÉAU is a flat monthly price from RM174.92 on a 12-month plan with no staff cap, unlimited WhatsApp reminders, MyInvois included and a 7-day free trial with no card. Choose Aoikumo if you need EMR and prescriptions; LABÉAU does not offer clinical records.
Last updated 14 October 2026 · Written and maintained by the LABÉAU team, Kuala Lumpur
Where Aoikumo is the better choice
If you run a medical aesthetics clinic or medi-spa with doctor consultations, treatment courses, consent records and clinical workflows at the centre of the business, Aoikumo is built for that and its depth there is real. Choose it when the clinical side is the business.
Where owners choose LABÉAU instead
A flat monthly price from RM174.92 with no staff cap, rather than an annual per-outlet subscription.
Per-studio-type configuration, so a barbershop is not running a clinic’s workflow.
Unlimited WhatsApp confirmations and reminders on every plan, with marketing campaigns from the Gold plan.
A 7-day free trial with no card and no setup fee, plus free data import, so you can test on your own floor before committing.
LHDN MyInvois (Malaysia) and IRAS InvoiceNow (Singapore) e-invoicing built into every plan, with other countries’ tax configurable during onboarding.
Hands-on one-on-one onboarding in English, Bahasa Melayu and Chinese.
Aoikumo vs LABÉAU pricing, in ringgit
Aoikumo now publishes its plans, which makes a straight comparison possible. Its prices are per outlet per year; LABÉAU’s are a flat monthly price on a 12-month plan, whatever the team size. Figures as published in September 2026:
Aoikumo GROW: RM2,680 a year per outlet (or RM298 a month) — scheduling, customer management, basic e-wallet, service incentives, product inventory and loyalty.
Aoikumo AESTHETICS: RM5,380 a year per outlet — adds camera capture, e-forms, customer notes and collaging, advanced commissions and salon inventory.
Aoikumo MEDICAL AESTHETICS: RM6,680 a year per outlet — adds EMR with medical chit, prescriptions, telehealth and medication batch-expiry inventory. APEX is custom-priced.
LABÉAU Silver: RM174.92 a month, about RM2,100 a year — booking, checkout, tiered commission, packages and memberships, client records, unlimited WhatsApp reminders and MyInvois.
LABÉAU Gold: RM274.92 a month, about RM3,300 a year — adds the client-facing online booking page, stock, each team member’s own day and earnings, WhatsApp campaigns and a second studio.
LABÉAU Diamond: RM598.98 a month — adds brand customisation, stock and reports across every location, custom reports and API.
Check the e-invoice line on any quote: Aoikumo’s e-invoicing has been reported as a separate per-outlet add-on (around RM500 a year, indicative — confirm with Aoikumo); MyInvois is included on every LABÉAU plan.
What Aoikumo is genuinely strong at
It is worth being precise about this, because a comparison that waves away the incumbent is useless to anyone who has actually seen a demo. Aoikumo is tailored to how Southeast Asian wellness and aesthetic providers really trade, and two things in particular are ahead of general beauty platforms.
The first is package and prepaid-credit redemption. Regional clinics and wellness centres sell in courses and stored value far more than Western salons do, and the rules around them — part-redemptions, transfers between family members, credit split across branches, expiry — get complicated fast. Aoikumo models that complexity deliberately rather than approximating it.
The second is inventory and consumable control, including the items that never cross a counter: back-bar product, ampoules, machine consumables. Add ISO 27001 certification and Malay and Indonesian interfaces, and for a clinic-led group it is a coherent, serious product.
The question that actually decides it
Both platforms handle multi-outlet beauty businesses across Malaysia and Singapore, both file LHDN e-invoices, and both do commissions and packages. So the decision does not come down to a feature checklist — it comes down to what kind of business you are running, and there is a short way to find out.
Ask what your last three genuine operational problems were. If they were clinical — a record you could not produce, consent that was on paper, charting that did not fit — you want the clinic system, and Aoikumo is the regional answer. If they were commercial — a course balance nobody could reconcile, a barbershop being made to run a clinic’s workflow, an annual per-outlet plan with no refunds, a commission argument at month-end — you want the commercial platform, and that is the case LABÉAU is built for.
LABÉAU vs Aoikumo
| Capability | LABÉAU | Aoikumo |
|---|---|---|
| Best fit | Salons, spas, barbers, wellness, aesthetics | Medical aesthetics & medi-spas |
| Published pricing | Yes — from RM174.92/mo | Yes — from RM2,680/yr per outlet |
| Billing basis | Flat monthly on a 12-month plan, no staff cap | Per outlet, per year (GROW also RM298/mo); no refunds on annual |
| EMR, prescriptions, telehealth | No | Medical Aesthetics plan |
| Free trial | 7 days, no card, no setup fee | On request |
| Studio-type configuration | Hair, nails, aesthetics, barber, spa | Clinic-oriented |
| Unlimited reminders; campaigns (Gold+) | Reminders and birthday messages | |
| LHDN / IRAS e-invoice | Both built in | Yes |
| Multi-branch | Second studio (Gold); all locations (Diamond) | Per-outlet pricing; dashboard on APEX |
| Onboarding | One-on-one, EN/BM/中文 | Implementation-led |
Indicative as of September 2026, from each vendor’s published pricing — confirm current details with each vendor.
The bottom line
Pick Aoikumo if you are a medical aesthetics business and the clinical record is the core of your operation. Pick LABÉAU if you run salons, spas, barbershops or a mixed beauty group and want the same multi-outlet rigour with transparent pricing, per-studio-type fit, WhatsApp marketing and a trial you can run on your own floor first.
Also worth comparing
Businesses weighing Aoikumo and LABÉAU often also shortlist Zenoti at enterprise scale, Pabau and Clinicminds where clinic-native documentation is the priority, TunaiPro and Bookit at the budget end, and StoreHub where retail dominates. The full ranking is in our Malaysian salon POS guide and, for clinics specifically, in our aesthetic clinic software guide.
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Aoikumo publishes annual per-outlet prices: GROW RM2,680 a year (or RM298 a month), AESTHETICS RM5,380 and MEDICAL AESTHETICS RM6,680, with APEX custom-priced and no refunds on annual plans. LABÉAU is RM174.92 a month on Silver (about RM2,100 a year), RM274.92 on Gold (about RM3,300) and RM598.98 on Diamond, flat regardless of team size, with MyInvois included, no setup fee and a 7-day free trial. Two outlets on Aoikumo GROW cost RM5,360 a year; on LABÉAU a second studio is included from Gold. Figures as published in September 2026 — confirm with each vendor.
For clinic-led businesses that need medical records, Pabau, Clinicminds and Zenoti. For salons, spas and beauty groups that do not, LABÉAU, TunaiPro and KiraPOS are the Malaysian options most often compared, with Bookit at the budget end and StoreHub for retail-first shops. Review directories such as G2 and Capterra list mostly US scheduling tools as Aoikumo alternatives, which lack LHDN MyInvois and WhatsApp.
Two things stand out. Package and prepaid-credit redemption, modelled for how Southeast Asian wellness and aesthetic providers actually sell — part-redemptions, transfers, credit across branches, expiry — rather than approximated. And inventory and consumable control, including back-bar and machine consumables that never cross a counter. It is ISO 27001 certified with Malay and Indonesian interfaces, and for a clinic-led group it is a serious, coherent product.
Ask what your last three operational problems were. If they were clinical — a record you could not produce, consent on paper, charting that did not fit — choose the clinic system, and in this region that is Aoikumo. If they were commercial — an unreconcilable course balance, a device double-booked, a commission argument at month-end, e-invoices done by hand — choose the commercial platform. Some clinics run one of each, which is more common than either vendor advertises.
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