Touchpix vs Fiesta

Choose Fiesta if:

• your fleet is built around Photobooth Supply Co. hardware;
• integrated LED controls and vendor-specific workflows matter;
• unlimited sequential events and captures are more important than platform breadth.

Choose Touchpix if:

• you want to choose hardware independently of one vendor;
• you need Android, Windows, macOS or Linux alongside iOS;
• unlimited devices, offline workflows and broader booth coverage fit your operation.

You're not buying software. You're buying into a hardware catalogue.

Look at how Fiesta's own pricing page is built. Each tier lists its hardware discounts as a headline benefit — and both are conditional on annual billing. Their page is explicit: "Annual subscribers receive a discount on all PBSCO photo booth hardware for as long as their annual plan is active."

• Plus (annual plan only): save US$500 on Tortilla, US$500 on Salsa 2, US$250 on Guac & Chips
• Pro (annual plan only): save US$1,000 on Tortilla, US$750 on Salsa 2, US$500 on Guac & Chips

That is a hardware company using software pricing as a sales channel. It is a perfectly legitimate business model — and it tells you exactly whose interests the roadmap serves.

The consequences are practical, and they're the vendor's own published terms:

• Your software costs are tied to a hardware product cycle you don't control.
• LED control only works on PBSCO booths. Outside their catalogue, that integration isn't available to you.
• The hardware discount only exists while an annual plan is active. Stop paying annually and the discount stops with it.
• PBSCO hardware is priced from US$2,999 for the Salsa 2.

Touchpix sells software. That's it. It runs on the iPad, Android tablet, Windows laptop, Mac or Raspberry Pi you already own, in whatever shell you already built. No hardware purchase, no ecosystem, no lock-in.

"Run 1 booth at a time" — on Plus and on Pro

This is written plainly on their own pricing page, and it is worth reading twice: "Run 1 booth at a time" appears under the Plus feature list and under the Pro feature list.

So the upgrade doesn't fix it. Their FAQ spells out the model: "Every plan includes unlimited events per month — run as many as you want, back to back. You only need additional licences when running two or more events simultaneously at the exact same time."

Unlimited events back to back is genuinely generous. But a profitable Saturday is rarely back to back — it's two events at once. And on Fiesta, that means buying an additional simultaneous-event licence at the base tier rate: from US$59/month on Plus, or US$119/month on Pro. Doubling your Saturday capacity means roughly doubling your software bill, at either tier.

Touchpix prices the same problem differently. Every plan includes unlimited devices, and the plan sets your active events: 2 on PhotoPass, 4 on MultiPass, 8 on MultiPass Pro, 12 on MultiPass Enterprise. One active event can run on as many devices as you like simultaneously — a second capture station, a sharing station and a roaming iPhone on the same event cost nothing extra. Two events on the same Saturday are simply what an entry PhotoPass licence already does.

360 is a Pro-tier upsell on Fiesta. It's standard on Touchpix.

On Fiesta, the US$59/month Plus plan does not include: 360 capture, printing, green screen, glam, advanced filters, surveys, slow-motion capture or advanced analytics. All Pro-tier, at double the price.

On Touchpix, the video modes a 360 booth needs — video, slow motion and boomerang — arrive on MultiPass at US$879.99/year (billed annually), with built-in Bluetooth that triggers the spinner automatically. That plan also includes unlimited devices and four active events. Printing, green screen, 300+ overlay designs, 60+ filters and effects and the Online Designer are published product-wide on Touchpix — included, not held back for a top tier.

For a 360 workflow, compare Touchpix MultiPass at US$879.99/year (billed annually) with Fiesta Pro at US$1,190/year (billed annually), or US$119/month month-to-month. MultiPass includes unlimited devices and four active events, and one event may run on multiple devices. On Fiesta, a second simultaneous event needs an additional licence at the base tier rate — US$119/month on Pro — on top of the plan itself.