Hair salon appointment software

Hair salon appointment software: salon appointment scheduling software for one chair or a full team

Your services, their real lengths and prices, and the hours each stylist actually works, turned into a page clients can book from. One flat fee per band, nothing per appointment.

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Service list

What you charge, and how long it takes

Cut and finish 45m $55 to $110
Root retouch 1h 15m $75 to $130
Balayage 2h 30m $210 to $340
Silk press 1h 30m $85 to $140
Blowout 40m $45 to $75

Availability on the booking page is generated from these durations. Sample list.

Short answer

Hair salon appointment software turns your service list, your stylists' hours and your booking rules into appointments clients can request without calling you. Hairdressers.io builds that page from services with real minutes and prices, accepts requests only inside the hours you set, and sends each one to your inbox with the client as the reply address, so confirming is one reply. It costs a flat $39 a month for one stylist, $89 for up to eight and $199 for up to 25, with 0% commission on every appointment and a listing on your city directory page included.

Most salons do not lose money on the appointments they take. They lose it on the ones that never get made: the text that arrives at 9pm and gets answered at noon, the client who calls during a color service and hangs up, the Saturday gap nobody knew was open. Hair salon appointment software exists to close that window. The job is narrow and it is worth being exact about it, because half the products sold under this name are really POS systems with a calendar bolted on, and you end up paying for inventory and payroll modules to get a booking page.

What is the best hair salon appointment software?

There is no single answer, but there is a single question that sorts the field faster than a feature list: what happens to the bill when you add a stylist. That one line decides what you pay over three years far more than any feature you are comparing today, and it is the line vendors put last. Software priced per bookable calendar or per team member grows with your headcount. Software priced in bands does not move until you cross a band.

The table below lays out the salon appointment software US salons reach for most, using each company's own published model. Prices move, so read their current pages before you sign; the shapes below are what you live with.

Appointment software	What happens when you add a stylist	What it leads with	Best fit
Booksy	One subscription for the account, then a monthly fee for every added team member, with no cap	Calendar, client records, POS and a consumer app with paid promotion	Salons that want a marketplace attached to the appointment book
Vagaro	Priced by the number of bookable calendars, so each new bookable person steps the price up	Calendar, payroll and forms, with marketing and a branded app sold as add-ons	Multi-chair salons that want payroll and forms in the same system
GlossGenius	Tiers that step up by team size, with one flat card processing rate	A polished booking page and calendar, no marketplace	Independent stylists and small teams who already have clients
Square Appointments	A tier with no subscription fee, then paid tiers charged per location	A calendar tied to Square POS and card payments	Salons already taking cards on Square
Fresha	An independent plan and per-team-member plans, with paid add-ons	Calendar, POS and a marketplace listing	Salons that want a marketplace and a register at once
Setmore	A free tier capped on users and monthly appointments, then a paid plan charged per user	A basic calendar and booking page	One person who needs a calendar and nothing more
Acuity Scheduling	Tiers by the number of calendars, no free plan, no marketplace	Deep scheduling rules, intake forms and packages	Salons with complicated booking rules and a full book
Hairdressers.io	Nothing, inside the band. $39 for one stylist, $89 for up to eight, $199 for up to 25	Services with real minutes, per-stylist hours, email requests, city listing	Salons that want one predictable bill and a way to be found

What salon appointment scheduling software has to get right

Four things, and everything else is decoration. The service list has to carry real durations, because a salon day is not a grid of thirty minute blocks: a root retouch and a full balayage are not the same appointment and software that treats them the same will either double-book your colorist or leave an hour empty after every cut. Hours have to belong to people, not to the building, because your Tuesday stylist and your Saturday stylist do not work the same week. Requests have to land somewhere you will actually see them within the hour. And the client list has to be exportable, because the day you outgrow a system is the day you find out whether the names in it were ever yours.

On Hairdressers.io your page lists every service with its own minutes and price, so a client picking balayage sees two and a half hours and a range before they ask what it costs. You set opening hours per day, and on the Salon plan each stylist has a personal link and their own hours. Requests arrive by email with the client set as the reply address, so one reply confirms. Your client list exports to a spreadsheet on any day, including the day you leave.

Real durations: Every service carries its own length, so a color slot and a cut slot are not the same size.
Hours per stylist: Requests only inside the hours that person works, not the hours the salon is open.
Nothing to install: Clients book in a browser from your link. No app, no account, no password on their side.
Your list stays yours: Export every client who has requested an appointment, whenever you want it.

How much does salon appointment software cost?

Hairdressers.io is $39 a month for a single stylist on the Chair plan, or $390 billed yearly. That covers your booking page on its own link with services, lengths, prices and hours, a listing in one city, booking requests by email and a private panel you run from your phone. The Salon plan is $89 a month for up to eight stylists, each with a personal link and hours, plus priority placement on the city page. Studio is $199 for up to 25 stylists across several locations. Everything is paid by card and cancels any time; the full list sits on the pricing page.

Across the rest of the market the headline fee is rarely the number that matters. Add up the lines underneath it before you compare: a charge per team member or per bookable calendar, a share of the first appointment from each new client a marketplace sends, a paid add-on for the booking page or the branded app, and card processing. A three-stylist salon can easily pay two or three times its advertised monthly fee once those are in. Do the addition on the plan you would actually be on, at the headcount you expect in a year, not the one you have this week.

Chair, $39 a month: One stylist, one link, one city listing, requests by email and a private panel.
Salon, $89 a month: Up to eight stylists, each with a personal link and hours, plus priority city placement.
Studio, $199 a month: Up to 25 stylists across several locations.
0% commission, every plan: Nothing per appointment, including the clients the city listing sends you.

Appointment scheduling software for a hair salon with more than one stylist

The moment a second chair appears, an appointment system stops being a calendar and starts being an allocation problem. A client who has sat with the same person for six years is booking that person, not the salon, and she will call rather than risk being handed to someone else. A new client usually does not care and should be able to take the first open slot. Good software serves both without making either one work for it.

On the Salon plan each stylist gets their own booking link, their own service list and their own hours, and the salon page shows the team so a client can pick the person or take whoever is open. Adding a stylist inside the band of eight changes nothing on the invoice, which is the structural difference from software priced per bookable calendar. That difference is worked through on the Vagaro alternative and Booksy alternative pages, where the per-seat math is the whole argument.

A link per stylist: Each person can put their own booking link in their own Instagram bio.
Own hours, own services: The colorist's week and the barber's week are different weeks, priced differently.
One bill inside the band: Hiring your fourth stylist does not change what you pay until you pass eight.
Priority city placement: Salon and Studio plans sit higher on their city directory page.

Does salon appointment software stop double bookings?

It stops the common kind, which is two people being written into the same slot because two people were taking bookings in two places. Once every request runs through one system against one set of hours, the front desk, the DM and the 9pm text all land in the same queue instead of competing. What no software stops on its own is a slot held open while someone decides, so it is worth knowing how a system behaves in that gap before you buy: some lock the time the moment checkout starts, others only release it when payment clears.

Hairdressers.io works on requests rather than an instant lock. A client picks a service and a time inside your hours and sends it; the request reaches you by email and you confirm by reply. That keeps a human decision in front of every appointment, which is what most salons want on a $300 color anyway, and it means nothing goes into your day without you agreeing to it. If you want a walkthrough of what the client sees at each step, the hair salon booking app page covers the client side in order.

Salon appointment software for a solo chair, a suite or a booth

A stylist renting a suite or a booth is buying appointment software alone, without a salon owner choosing it, and two things matter more in that position. The bill has to be yours and predictable, because rent already moves your margin around enough without a per-client fee on top. And the page should show where you are without publishing a suite or home address to strangers: your page carries your city and, if you want it, a neighborhood, and there is no street address field, so the exact address goes out when you confirm the appointment.

Most renters arrive from a marketplace, because that is where the first year of clients came from. The arithmetic changes once the book is mostly regulars, and it changes in a direction marketplaces do not advertise. That sum is on the StyleSeat alternative page, and if you are still weighing which booking page to pay for at all, booking sites for hair stylists compares eight of them by how each bill is built.

The part appointment software usually leaves out: being found

Scheduling software assumes you already have the client. It gives you a link and waits. That is fine when your chair is full and expensive when it is not, because the only route left is paying a marketplace a share of every new person it introduces, forever, on a relationship that might run twenty appointments.

Every plan here includes a listing on your city directory page, showing your services, your price band and your hours, with booking straight from the listing and no fee on anything it sends you. It is a page on the web rather than a national consumer app, and it costs nothing per client precisely because it is not one. Browse what a listing looks like from the city hub, and if your salon needs a public site rather than only a booking page, the salon website builder page shows how the same page doubles as one.

Included, not an upsell: The listing comes with every plan at every team size.
0% on what it sends: A client the listing introduces costs nothing, on the first visit and the fiftieth.
City and neighborhood only: No street address on the page unless you put it in the confirmation.
Booking from the listing: A person who finds you there requests a time without leaving the page.

Moving your appointment book across without losing a week

Changing systems is the part every salon dreads and it is mostly logistics. Export your client list before you cancel anything, because a list you cannot download is a list you do not own. Write your service menu out with the real length and price of each line, which usually takes an hour and is the only genuinely slow step. Put every already-booked appointment into the new system so nobody has to rebook. Then send your regulars the new link twice, a week apart, and change it in your Instagram bio the same day, because for most salons that bio is where the next appointment starts.

Run both systems for two weeks rather than switching on a Monday. Take new bookings only in the new one and let the old calendar empty itself out. If you want the wider feature picture before you commit, hair salon software covers the full product and beauty salon management software covers the management side for salons that run treatment rooms as well as chairs.

Pricing

Flat monthly, from $39. Never a cut of a booking.

Four plans by team size, from a single chair to a multi-location group. The 0% commission line is the same on all of them, including bookings that come from your city directory listing.

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Questions

About hair salon appointment software

The rest are on the salon booking system FAQ.

What is the best appointment software for a hair salon?

It depends on how you are priced as you grow. Salons that want a marketplace attached to the calendar pick Booksy or Fresha; salons that want a polished page without a marketplace pick GlossGenius or Acuity; salons that want a flat bill plus a way to be found pick a banded plan with a directory listing. Compare on what happens when you add a stylist, not on feature counts.

How much does hair salon appointment software cost?

Hairdressers.io is $39 a month for one stylist, $89 for up to eight and $199 for up to 25, with 0% commission on every appointment. Elsewhere the monthly fee is often only part of the bill: add any per-team-member charge, any share of new clients from a marketplace, paid add-ons and card processing before you compare.

Can salon appointment software handle different service lengths?

Yes, and it has to. Every service on your page carries its own duration and price, so a 45 minute cut and a two and a half hour balayage take up the right amount of the day. Availability is worked out from those real lengths against the hours each stylist works.

Do my clients need an app to book an appointment?

No. Your clients open your link in any browser, choose a service and a time inside your hours, and send the request. There is no app to download, no account and no password on the client side, which matters most with first-time clients.

Does appointment scheduling software work for a single stylist?

Yes. A solo stylist, suite renter or booth renter runs on the Chair plan at $39 a month with one booking link, one city listing and a private panel. Nothing about the setup assumes a front desk or a team.

Can each stylist have their own appointment calendar?

On the Salon and Studio plans, yes. Each stylist has a personal booking link, their own service list and their own working hours, and clients can request the salon or the specific person they always sit with.

Is there salon appointment software with no commission on bookings?

Yes. Hairdressers.io charges 0% on every appointment on every plan, including clients who arrive through the city directory listing. Schedulers such as GlossGenius and Acuity also take no share of bookings, but neither has a directory of its own.

Can I export my client list if I leave?

Yes, on any day, including the day you cancel. Your client list downloads as a spreadsheet from the private panel.

More salon software pages

Each one covers a different angle on the same product. The directory side lives on the salon directory.

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