Touchpix vs Fiesta

Choose Fiesta if:

• your fleet is already built around Photobooth Supply Co. hardware (Tortilla, Salsa 2, Guac & Chips, etc.) and you want the LED integration and annual hardware discounts;
• you mainly run one booth at a time and value unlimited sequential events more than concurrent multi-booth capacity;
• staying inside one vendor’s software + hardware + education ecosystem is more important than platform breadth.

Choose Touchpix if:

• you want to choose hardware independently of any single vendor and avoid lock-in;
• you need native Android, Windows, macOS or Linux alongside iOS, or permanent installs on Raspberry Pi;
• you run (or plan to run) multiple simultaneous events or devices and prefer unlimited devices with active-event limits over per-simultaneous-event licences;
• offline guest delivery (Scanpix) and offline background removal matter at real venues.

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."

• Pro (annual plan only): save US$1000 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$2999 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 Pro, that means buying an additional simultaneous-event licence at US$119/month. Doubling your Saturday capacity means roughly doubling your software bill.

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.

For four simultaneous events the difference is clear: Touchpix MultiPass stays at US$879.99/year while Fiesta Pro would require four licences (approximately US$4760/year).

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

On Fiesta, the features a real 360 booth needs — 360 capture, printing, green screen, glam, slow-motion capture and advanced filters — are all Pro-tier only.

On Touchpix, the video modes a 360 booth needs — video, slow motion and boomerang — arrive on MultiPass at US$879.99/year, with built-in Bluetooth that triggers the spinner automatically. That plan also includes unlimited devices and four active events. Printing, green screen / offline background removal, 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 with Fiesta Pro at US$1190/year. 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 US$119/month on top of the plan itself.