Salon scheduling software
Salon scheduling software and hair salon scheduling system with a live calendar for every stylist
A calendar that knows how long a balayage takes, offers only the times you can genuinely work, and sends the reminder so you do not have to.
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This week
Thursday, chair 2
Thursday 7:30pm · Balayage · 2h 30m
- Sold this week
- 78%
- Rebooked
- 61%
- No-shows
- 2
Sample data, shown to illustrate the interface.
Short answer
Hairdressers.io is salon scheduling software that builds your bookable times automatically from four inputs: your services and their real durations, each stylist's hours, your buffers and your notice window. Every stylist sits side by side on a day calendar where you drag bookings, block time and type in walk-ins, and the booking page only offers times that are genuinely free. Your deposit and cancellation policy goes out with every confirmation, an email reminder goes two days ahead and on the morning, and clients reschedule themselves inside your notice window. Flat pricing from $49 a month, with 0% commission on bookings.
A salon calendar is not a general purpose diary. The appointments are different lengths, they belong to specific people, some of them have a gap in the middle that can be sold to someone else, and the cost of getting it wrong is a stylist standing still for two hours. Hair salon scheduling software has to model all of that or it quietly loses you money.
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Availability is calculated, not drawn
You never build a grid of open times by hand. You tell the system four things and it works out what is bookable, second by second, for every stylist.
- How long each service takes
- Including a separate buffer for setup and turnaround, so a back-to-back day is actually workable.
- Who does what
- A service is only offered on the calendars of the people who perform it.
- When each person works
- Individual hours, days, breaks and holidays, not one salon-wide schedule.
- What is already booked
- Including processing gaps that stay open for shorter appointments.
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What is the best salon scheduling software for a hair salon?
The best salon scheduling software for a hair salon shows every stylist on one calendar, books each service for its real length including processing time, lets the front desk add walk-ins that block the slot at once, and only offers online clients times that are actually free. Price it by the team you will have next year, because many products charge per stylist.
Hairdressers.io does all four on a flat bill: $49 a month for one chair, $89 for up to eight stylists, $199 for up to 25 across locations. The hair salon appointment software page compares eight products by what each one charges when you add a stylist.
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A day view of every stylist on a fifteen minute grid
Open the calendar and the whole floor is there: every stylist in a column, the day on a fifteen minute grid, each booking as long as the service really takes. Switch to one stylist and you see their week. Drag a booking to another time or another stylist and the client gets an email with the new time, so nobody has to make a call between foils.
Block time for lunch, a class, a meeting or a dentist appointment and it vanishes from the booking page. Days off and vacations go in per stylist, so a client never requests Thursday with someone who is in Cancun.
- Walk-ins in one tap
- The desk types a walk-in into the day for the stylist taking them. It is confirmed at once and the slot closes on the booking page.
- Statuses that mean something
- Mark a visit as confirmed, done, no-show or cancelled, so the week tells the truth afterwards.
- Stylist price levels
- A senior stylist can charge more than a newer one for the same cut, and the booking page shows the right price for whoever the client picks.
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Live free times the server checks twice
The booking page does not show a pretty grid that turns out to be fiction. It reads the live calendar, the service length, the buffer and the stylist's hours, and offers only start times where the whole appointment fits. If two clients reach for the same slot in the same minute, the server refuses the second one before it ever reaches you, so a double booking cannot happen.
Online bookings still reach you as requests with the client as the reply address, so a new client asking for a four hour color correction does not land in your week until you say yes. Salons that want instant booking for regulars and a conversation for new clients get both from the same page.
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Reports that come straight from the book
Because every visit, walk-in and no-show lives in one calendar, the numbers that matter fall out of it without a spreadsheet.
- Occupancy
- How much of each stylist's hours sold this week against last week.
- No-show value
- The visits marked as no-shows, priced at your own service prices, so you know what a policy is worth.
- First-visit channel
- Where each new client came from: the city directory, the salon link, a stylist's own link, an import or a walk-in.
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How much does salon scheduling software cost?
Salon scheduling software for a US salon usually costs a monthly subscription that grows with each stylist or bookable calendar, plus card processing, text credits and paid add-ons, and on marketplace apps a fee on the first visit of new clients. Price the team you will have in a year, not the one you have today.
Hairdressers.io is $49 a month for one chair, $89 for a salon of up to eight stylists and $199 for up to 25 across several locations, about half that per month on a yearly plan. No setup fee and 0% commission, including clients from your city directory listing. Every plan is on the pricing page.
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The two features that protect the money
No-shows and late cancellations do more damage to a salon than almost anything else, and two mechanisms prevent most of them.
A written deposit and cancellation policy the client sees before booking and gets again in the confirmation, which makes the appointment real; you collect the deposit the way you already do, because the app does not hold cards. And an automatic email sequence: confirmation at booking, a reminder two days out, and a short note on the morning. The two-day reminder is the one that matters, because it arrives while there is still time to sell the slot to someone else.
If you are writing the policy that sits behind those, we published a salon no show policy template that clients accept.
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Let clients reschedule themselves
Most reschedules are not a lost booking, they are an admin task that lands on you at the worst moment. Every confirmation and reminder carries a link that lets the client move themselves inside your notice window, which turns a phone call during a color service into a slot that quietly refills itself.
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A salon scheduling app that works from the floor
The calendar is a web app, so it works from the phone in your apron, the tablet at the desk and the laptop in the back room without installing anything. Same data, same view, nothing to sync. More on that in the booking app.
Pricing
Flat monthly, from $49. 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.
Is a general scheduler like Acuity enough for a salon?
It schedules well and costs less at one calendar, but it has no consumer directory, so every booking starts with someone who already had your link. A salon with gaps in the week is buying the wrong half of the problem. The comparison is laid out on the Acuity Scheduling alternative page.
Can clients reserve a time instead of booking instantly?
Yes. Every appointment here arrives as a reservation request inside your hours, and nothing enters your day until you confirm by reply. That suits long color work and new clients you want to talk to first. See salon reservation software for how the request model works.
Is salon appointment software the same as salon scheduling software?
Largely the same thing under two names. "Scheduling" usually describes the calendar you work from; "appointment software" usually describes the whole path from your service list to a booked time. The hair salon appointment software page covers that path and compares eight products by what each one charges when you add a stylist.
Can I block time out for lunch or admin?
Yes, for one stylist or the whole location, on any day and for any stretch of hours. Blocked time is simply unavailable on the booking page.
Does it stop double bookings?
Yes. Availability is generated from the live calendar, so a slot disappears the moment it is taken.
Can two clients overlap during processing time?
Yes, that is the point of modelling processing gaps. A color with a development gap frees the stylist for a shorter service inside it.
Is this a salon scheduler or full salon and spa scheduling software?
Both. A solo stylist uses it as a salon scheduler: services with real durations, working hours and a booking link. A salon or spa with rooms and several stylists uses the same system as salon and spa scheduling software, with hours per stylist and turnaround time per room. The room side is covered on the salon and spa software page.
More salon software pages
Each one covers a different angle on the same product. The directory side lives on the salon directory.
- Salon and spa software
- Beauty salon management software
- Hair salon booking app
- Barber shop appointment software
- Hair salon software
- Nail salon booking system
- Salon website builder
- Booking app for braiders
- Booking app for locticians
- Booking sites for hair stylists
- Hair salon appointment software
- Salon reservation software
- Hair stylist scheduling app
- Mobile hair stylist app
- Salon software for small business
- Salon appointment book app
- Hair salon advertising
- Website for hair stylist
- Barber website
- Braider website
- Salon software for independent stylists
- Salon client management software
- Hair salon CRM
- Hair salon scheduling app
- Online booking for salons
- Salon software for luxury salons
- Salon suite software
- Affordable salon software
- Hair color formula app
- Booking app for hair extension specialists
- Vagaro alternative
- Vagaro alternative for barbershops
- Square Appointments alternative
- Booksy alternative
- Fresha alternative
- StyleSeat alternative
- GlossGenius alternative
- Acuity Scheduling alternative
- Setmore alternative
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