A business of one
Salon suite software for one person paying rent every month
In a suite there is no front desk to catch the mess. You are the stylist, the receptionist and the bookkeeper, and the rent arrives on the same day whatever your week looked like. This is the page about the money: what a broken day costs, and what stops it.
Free to try, up to 15 bookings/month · calendar protection included on every plan
Suite rent
Due whether the chair is full or empty. It does not read your calendar first.
$2,750
The card the stats screen keeps for money held inside appointments that protection kept whole. The figure here is a sample; the one in your account is your own.
One broken block a week is four or five a month.
Your suite rent does not care how your day went
Same Tuesday, same four clients, two different days. The difference is not how busy you were, it is what the day was worth.
Tuesday, fragmented
Four clients, a full-looking day, and two mid-afternoon holes nobody can book. The rent for that day came out of the small services.
Tuesday, whole
The same client could have taken 10:30. She was never offered it, because that would have cut the four-hour block in half.
You do not need a busier day. You need the long appointment you already have not to be broken in two.
What a fragmented week costs, in your numbers
Your rent divided by the days you work is what each day has to earn before you are paid anything. A block split in two is a bite out of that number, every week, quietly.
Chairwarden protects roughly
$1,083/mo
that’s 37x what the Individual plan costs
It is an estimateArithmetic on your inputs, not a forecast. Nobody can promise what a calendar will do next month.
$29 is the only chargeNo percentage of your work, no per-booking fee, no cut of a deposit. Stripe’s own rate still applies to card payments.
A fixed cost against a fixed costRent does not flex with your month. This does not either, which is the point of a flat price.
The long appointment is the one that pays the rent
One four-hour colour covers a real share of a month’s rent. A 30-minute cut in the middle of it does not, and it takes the four hours with it.
A short service is never offered a time inside a protected block, so the block stays sellable as one appointment. This is the default.
A service at or under your quick threshold may sit inside a block, which suits a trim during colour processing.
Booking someone in yourself always works, and is marked as an override. Events from your Google Calendar block online booking in both modes.
Measured, not felt
The stats screen has three numbers. Revenue, how full the month was, and a third one highlighted on its own: the money that sat inside appointments protection kept whole. That is the number this page is about, and it is the one you can watch move as the rule starts doing its job.
Sample figures, so the shape of the screen is clear. Yours will be your own week.
Everything else a suite of one needs
Your own booking link, with a public page clients can use without an account.
Email reminders on every plan, SMS on Individual, so the no-show does not eat the block you protected.
Deposits into your own Stripe account, before the appointment.
Client import from a CSV or an export file, with a preview before anything moves.
Two-way Google Calendar sync, so the school run and the dentist live on the same day view.
The app on your iPhone, and the same account in any browser.
Where it stops
No bookkeeping, no expenses, no invoices, no tax anything.
No card terminal in the suite. Deposits are online only.
One stylist per account. No shared front desk, no staff logins.
Not a marketplace, and no marketing campaigns. It will not find clients for you.
No app for your clients, and no Android app yet.
No percentage of your work. Ever. Not on bookings, not on deposits.
Comparing this against what you use now? The written comparisons carry a source and a date for every figure.
A flat price against a flat cost
$29 a month, or $23 a month billed annually. Calendar protection is on the free tier too, because you should not have to pay to find out whether it works.
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 startedQuestions from a suite of one
No. It is not accounting software: no expenses, no invoices, no tax anything. What it does is keep the calendar that pays the rent from being broken into pieces you cannot sell, and the stats screen counts the money that sat inside protected appointments.
No, each stylist has their own. One stylist per account means one calendar, one client list and one booking link, so nothing of yours is visible to the suite next door. Three renters means three accounts, and each one is a full account on its own.
No card terminal and no point of sale. Deposits are taken online, before the appointment, into your own Stripe account. Whatever you already use for the balance at the visit stays exactly as it is.
No, it is arithmetic on your own numbers: your highest-value service, times how often a short booking breaks one of those blocks. It cannot know your calendar. Treat it as the size of the problem, which is the part you can act on.
Unlimited bookings, calendar protection, your public booking link, 500 SMS reminders a month alongside email, client import, Google Calendar sync and the stats screen. The free tier is 15 bookings a month with no card, to test the protection against your own week.
Protect the appointments that pay the rent
Set it up in two minutes, then watch the Protected figure on the stats screen instead of wondering where the week went.
Start freeNo card required. Cancel from your dashboard, not by email.
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