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After a feature-bearing 1.6.0, the first 1.6.1 cut is entirely fixes — four of them security.
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Phorest and Revenuegrid — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Phorest lets salons price the stylist, not just the service
Two back-of-house releases landed the same day. Staff pricing can now be set per individual staff member per service, replacing a model where variation came only from branch price or staff category, and it carries through to booking, checkout and online. Alongside it, everything a staff member is qualified for — service, service time, development time, finish time — collapses into one table instead of several screens. Brand creation also stops requiring a support ticket.
Revenue Grid's changelog feed is dominated by site chrome and a 2024 analyst-report citation — limited product motion is visible.
The available entries for Revenue Grid are mostly site-chrome scrape artifacts (cookie banners, navigation labels, page category fragments) plus a single analyst-report headline naming Revenue Grid a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Revenue Intelligence Platforms 2024 assessment. There are no clearly product-bearing changelog entries in this window.
Two back-of-house releases landed the same day. Staff pricing can now be set per individual staff member per service, replacing a model where variation came only from branch price or staff category, and it carries through to booking, checkout and online. Alongside it, everything a staff member is qualified for — service, service time, development time, finish time — collapses into one table instead of several screens. Brand creation also stops requiring a support ticket.
The recent run is consistently about removing steps from daily front-desk and manager work: clock-in by geofence, client lookup on the diary, transactions on the client card, voice notes, and now self-serve brands and consolidated staff setup. The direction is deepening the operational core rather than expanding into new surfaces like marketing or payments.
With pricing now granular to the individual staff member, the pressure moves to reporting — expect the analytics side to gain per-staff revenue views that make the new pricing dimension readable.
The available entries for Revenue Grid are mostly site-chrome scrape artifacts (cookie banners, navigation labels, page category fragments) plus a single analyst-report headline naming Revenue Grid a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Revenue Intelligence Platforms 2024 assessment. There are no clearly product-bearing changelog entries in this window.
Without first-party release notes coming through, the most concrete signal is the IDC MarketScape recognition — which positions Revenue Grid in the broader revenue-intelligence category alongside the established analytics-and-coaching vendors. Whatever shipping is happening underneath isn't reaching the changelog surface this scraper is reading, so it's hard to confidently call a trajectory.
Until a real release feed is available it would be speculative to predict specific moves. The most likely near-term observable outcome is a feed-source change or improved scraping that surfaces real product-update entries — at which point the analyst-report framing should be replaced with concrete shipping commentary.
Other CRM products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Phorest or Revenuegrid.
After a feature-bearing 1.6.0, the first 1.6.1 cut is entirely fixes — four of them security.
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Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Phorest is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 1.3), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Phorest is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 1.3), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other CRM products to evaluate alongside.
Top Phorest alternatives in CRM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Phorest alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/phorest for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
Top Revenuegrid alternatives in CRM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Revenuegrid alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/revenuegrid for the full list with editorial commentary on each.