Their screen, not yours
A salon booking system your client never has to think about
Your client is standing in a queue with one thumb when they book. Four screens, no account, no app. This page walks the whole thing from their side, including the parts that usually go wrong: the deposit, the time zone, and what happens when they want out.
Free to try, up to 15 bookings/month · calendar protection included on every plan
Your client is not loyal to your booking page
They are doing you a favour at 10 PM with one thumb. Three things lose them, and none of them are about your prices.
A price that only appears at the end. A client who reaches a card form without knowing what is being taken today closes the tab. The deposit has to be a number before it is a request.
A time that is wrong by an hour. Booking from another state, or from a laptop with the wrong clock, is where a guest quietly books 9 AM thinking it means something else. They find out in the chair.
No way out but a phone call. A client who cannot cancel will not cancel; they will simply not come, and you will not know until the chair is empty.
The whole thing, in the order your client meets it
Four screens. Nothing to install, nothing to remember, and the rules are already applied before any time reaches them.
The link opens on their phone
Your booking address, no app and no account. Your name, your photo if you added one, and the services you actually offer with the price and the length on each one.
They pick a service, then a time
Times are laid on a 15-minute grid inside that day's opening hours, shown on your salon's clock. A short service is never offered a time inside one of your protected blocks: the slot is absent, not greyed out, so nothing reads as a rejection.
The deposit is named before the card screen
If the service takes a deposit, the details step says what is due now and what is left for the visit. The client knows the number before they are asked to type a card, which is the difference between a deposit and a surprise.
They pay your Stripe, not a middleman
The deposit is a direct charge on your own Stripe account, and the screen says so, so the client knows who is charging them. Chairwarden adds no percentage and takes no cut. Stripe's own standard rate still applies.
They get a summary they can come back to
A confirmation screen with the service and the time, a confirmation email, and a link that works later. If the email fails to send, the screen says so and asks them to bookmark the link rather than leaving them with nothing.
They are reminded, and can cancel from the same link
Email reminders on every plan, SMS on Individual, sent in the day or two before. The link on the confirmation screen is the same one that cancels the appointment, up until it starts.
Why some times are missing from their list
- In Strict mode a short service is never offered a time that would break one of your protected blocks. In Relaxed mode a service at or under your quick threshold may take a place inside one.
- Events from your connected Google Calendar are never bookable in either mode, so a guest cannot land on your dentist appointment.
- Your own hands are never blocked by any of this: booking someone in yourself always works, and the booking is marked as an override so you can see what you did on purpose.
Their side of the trade, and yours
The reason the guest experience is short is that the rest of the system does the work.
Your client never has to
- Download an app or make an account
- Wait for you to reply before the time is theirs
- Guess what the deposit will be
- Phone you to cancel, or explain a no-show
- Work out your time zone from theirs
You get, on the same booking
- Reminders by email, and by SMS on Individual
- Deposits into your own Stripe, no cut taken by us
- A cancellation you can see coming, not a silent no-show
- Two-way Google Calendar sync and one client list
- Monthly stats: revenue, how full the week was, top services
Client importBring a CSV or an export file across, with a preview before anything moves.
One stylist per accountNo staff accounts, no second calendar. This is built for one chair.
No marketplaceIt will not find clients for you, and it takes no cut of the ones you have.
Your client’s side is not the paid part
$29 a month, or $23 a month billed annually. The booking link and calendar protection are on every plan.
Starter
$0
no credit card, enough bookings to prove the protection works
- Up to 15 bookings/month
- Calendar protection, Strict & Relaxed modes
- Public booking link, your own URL
- Email reminders
- Deposit & no-show protection via Stripe
- Google Calendar sync
No credit card needed to start.
Get startedIndividual
$29/mo
or $23/mo billed annually
Everything in Starter, plus:
- Unlimited bookings
- SMS + email reminders (500 SMS/mo included)
- Import wizard: bring your client list from Vagaro, Square & more
- Full stats dashboard: revenue, utilization, top services
Cancel anytime from your dashboard.
Get startedFree to try for 15 bookings a month, no card. Send the link to a real client and watch what they see, which is the only test that matters.
Questions about your client’s end
No. The link opens your booking page in whatever browser is on their phone. They pick a service, a time, and type their name, phone number and email address. There is no client app, no password, and no account to remember.
The booking still counts and the time is held. The confirmation screen tells them plainly that the deposit is outstanding, and the email carries the same. If you have set how many hours an unpaid deposit may hold a slot, that slot is released later and the time frees up, so an unpaid booking cannot quietly cost you an afternoon.
They can cancel, from the same link, any time before the appointment starts. After it has started the page says so instead of pretending it worked, and tells them to contact you. Moving is yours: when you move a booking on your side, the client gets an email about it, and the reminder goes out again for the new time.
Yours. Times are shown on your salon's clock, not on the device in their hand, so a client booking from two time zones away still sees the hours you actually work. This is the one place where getting it wrong is invisible until someone shows up at the wrong hour.
The booking goes through and they are told no payment is needed now. Nothing breaks and nobody is left staring at a card form that cannot work. You simply have no deposit on that booking until you connect your Stripe account.
Every email your client gets names your salon and carries the service, the time in your timezone, and the link to change it.
Send one client your booking link tonight
That is the whole test. If they get through it without asking you a question, the client side works.
Start freeNo card required, and your booking link works before you pay for anything.
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