Phorest vs Streak

Phorest is working through a queue of small, concrete improvements, most of them customer-requested and most landing in the Phorest Go mobile app. The newest adds geofenced clock in/out, drawing a boundary around a branch so staff can clock hours from their phones. Around it sit client search on the diary itself, sales transaction history in the mobile client card, voice-to-text notes, pop-up client notes at booking, and locally formatted phone numbers.

Two directions run consistently through the window. Phorest Go is being brought toward parity with the desktop product, with transactions, notes, and now attendance all moving onto the phone, while the desktop diary is being made searchable rather than scannable. The roadmap is visibly vote-driven, with several entries thanking customers for votes on the idea. Geofencing is the first item here that governs staff behaviour rather than easing a task, which is a different kind of feature for this product.

Expect more desktop capabilities to land in Phorest Go, and expect geofencing to gain reporting or exception handling once salons hit the cases of staff clocking in just outside the boundary.