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Book the chair.
Keep the formula.

Clients pick a stylist, pick a service, pay a deposit, and lock the time. Color formulas, allergies, and last-visit notes load on the stylist's screen the moment the chair fills. Built for the booth — not for an admin you don't have.

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Typical investment
$2,200 – $4,200 one-time
Booking core first; color history and retail add-on layer in as you grow.
9:41 BOOK ●●●●
✓Service · 2Stylist · 3Time
Choose your stylist
M
Mara
Color · Balayage · 8 yrs
★ 4.9
J
Jules
Cuts · Razor · 5 yrs
★ 4.8
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Any available
Fastest opening
A real operator scenario

A four-chair salon on the Treasure Coast

Four stylists, two of them color specialists, one barber, one apprentice. The owner is at the chair six days a week. Bookings come in through Instagram DMs, a Square Appointments link, and a clipboard at the front desk. Half the time the apprentice can't see the schedule — she's been double-booked twice this month. Color clients get re-mixed every visit because nobody writes the formula down.

We build the booking core first. Public site shows services, stylists, real-time openings. Client picks a service, picks a stylist (or 'any available'), pays a 40% deposit on Stripe, locks the slot. SMS confirmation lands in their phone. Calendar buffers between bookings so the next client isn't waiting in the doorway. No-shows drop because the deposit is real money.

Phase two is the formula history. Every color appointment ends with a one-tap save: base, root tap, glaze, processing time. Next visit, any stylist can pull up the last formula in 2 seconds — even if Mara's out and Jules is covering. The client feels seen. The salon stops losing color clients to the next salon down the road.

What it looks like

Three screens that run the day

your-salon.com/book
Pick a service
Balayage + cut
2.5 hrs · color specialist
$240
Root touch-up
1.5 hrs · color specialist
$120
Men's cut
45 min · any stylist
$45

Public booking — branded, on your domain.

your-salon.com/admin/today
Mara's day
Tue · Apr 28
9:00 — 11:30
Lena R. · Balayage + cut
PAID
Buffer · 30 min
12:00 — 1:30
Sara M. · Root touch-up
Last: 6N + 9NV root tap
DEPOSIT
2:00 — 3:00
Open · accepting walk-ins

Stylist's day — buffers, deposits, color notes.

your-salon.com/clients/sara-m
SM
Sara M.
Client since Mar 2024 · 11 visits
Color formula history
LAST · MAR 14 Mara
Base: 6N · Root tap: 9NV
Glaze: 7G + clear · 10 min
Process: 35 min · low heat
FEB 02 Mara
Same as Mar — client loved it
⚠ Allergy: PPD-sensitive — use ammonia-free line

Color history — any chair, same formula.

Everything included

What runs the salon, end-to-end

Booking-first. Layer color history and retail when you are ready — modules, not a monolith.

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Service + stylist picker

Real-time availability per stylist. Clients pick a specialist or "any available." Service durations + buffers built into the calendar.

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Deposit on booking

40–50% deposit on Stripe (you pick the percentage). Refund window you control. No-shows drop the moment money is on the line.

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Per-client color formulas

Save base, glaze, root tap, processing time after every color visit. Any stylist on your team pulls it up in 2 taps next visit.

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SMS + email reminders

24-hour and 2-hour reminders, automatic. Clients can confirm, reschedule, or cancel by tapping a link — no front-desk phone tag.

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Walk-in waitlist

Same-day overflow goes onto a waitlist. Slot opens up — first person in line gets a text. Fills the cancellation gaps that used to bleed revenue.

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Tips on checkout

Stripe Tap to Pay or terminal. Tips split per stylist on payout. Owner sees who took home what, every Friday.

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Optional retail add-on

Sell the shampoo, the brush, the heat protectant. Same checkout, same database. Inventory updates automatically.

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Owner dashboard

Today's revenue. This week's chair utilization. Top services. Top stylists. On your phone, on a Sunday, in 10 seconds.

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Your data, your domain

Hosted on our IronGate server. SQLite or Postgres. Export your full database anytime. No SaaS lock-in, no per-booking fees.

Phased rollout

Start with the booking core. Add the rest when revenue covers it.

1

Booking core + deposits

Public booking site, stylist + service picker, Stripe deposits, SMS reminders, walk-in waitlist.

~$2,200
2

Color formula history

Per-client formulas, allergy notes, last-visit context. Loads on the stylist screen at appointment time.

+$1,000
3

Retail add-on + payouts

In-chair retail sales, inventory, per-stylist tip splits, weekly payout reports.

+$1,000

Bundle all three: $2,200–$4,200 depending on customization. Hosted on our IronGate server for $49/mo.

Common questions

Can clients book multiple services in one appointment?+
Yes. Stack a cut and a color, the calendar adds the durations together and reserves a single block. Stylist sees the full menu of what they are doing for that client.
We use Vagaro / GlossGenius / Square — can you migrate us?+
Usually yes. We import client lists, service menus, and (when exportable) past appointment history. What does not move automatically — color formulas in PDFs, sticky notes — we transcribe in the first month.
Does it use my own Stripe account?+
Yes. Deposits and full payments hit your Stripe account directly. We never sit between you and your money. Standard Stripe processing fees apply — no extra per-booking fee from us.
Can walk-ins book without an account?+
Yes. Public booking only requires a name, phone, and email — no password setup. The system creates a lightweight client record automatically; if they come back, the formula history is already there.

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Beauty supply & salons

POS + inventory for the product side
🎓

Beauty schools & training

Student IDs, attendance, waivers
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Studios & services

General-purpose booking + deposits

Ready to stop chasing bookings through DMs?

Book a free 30-minute call. Tell us how many chairs you run, who handles the front desk today, and what your no-show rate looks like. We'll map the booking core to your salon and tell you what it costs — before you commit to anything.

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On a tight budget?

Just need walk-ins to find your salon on Google?

Our Google Basic Package gets you a single-page site and a verified Google Business Profile so customers can find you on Maps and Search. No booking, no admin panel — just enough to be discoverable.

$850 total — $250 site + $600 Google package (already discounted).

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