Processing time isn't dead time
Book someone else into the forty minutes your client spends developing.
The formula's on file
Mix, zones, timing and how it faded — per visit, per stylist.
Colour takes a deposit
Ask for one on the services worth protecting, and nothing on the ones that aren't.
The middle of a colour service belongs to you
Generic booking software treats a two-hour colour as two solid hours. Yours isn't. Set the split — application, processing, toning and finish — and the processing window goes back into your day as bookable time.
Buffers do the opposite job: the fifteen minutes for the bowl, the section, the sweep are held back without being sold to the client as part of their appointment.
- Application, development and finish, timed separately
- Someone else bookable while colour develops
- Buffers after, so the room is ready for the next head
Eight months later, they want the same thing
Every colour service can leave a record: the formula, which zone it went on, how long it processed, and how it faded before they came back. The next appointment starts from a result rather than a memory.
The stylist's name is captured at the time, so an entry still reads correctly long after that person has moved on.
- A running formula log per client
- Fade notes, so the next timing is better than the last
- Notes for the allergies, the parting, the thing they hate
Your colour menu, priced the way you price it
Grouped into your own categories, with the starting-at prices and the real durations. A client picking a root touch-up is quoted the same number you'd quote them at the desk.
The rest of the salon
Deposits where they belong
Full head of highlights takes one. A fringe trim doesn't. Set it per service, not across the board.
Cut and colour in one booking
Multi-service appointments are built from the real segments, so the timing holds end to end.
Checkout at the chair
Adjust the ticket for the job that was actually done, take the card, ask for the tip.
Every stylist's own book
Their hours, their services, their clients, all inside one salon.
Questions
- Can I book a client into another client's processing time?
- Yes — that's what the work/processing/work split is for. The developing window is treated as available rather than blocked, so your calendar reflects how you actually work.
- Can different colour services take different deposits?
- Yes. Deposits can be set for the whole salon, for one service, or for one option within a service — a balayage and a root touch-up don't have to ask the same.
- What if a price depends on the hair?
- Show it as starting at, or don't show a price at all and quote at consultation. Both are options per service.
- Can clients choose their stylist?
- Yes, and only the stylists who actually perform that service are offered for it.
Set your booking page up in an afternoon.
Bring your clients across, take your first deposit, and stop answering booking messages on your day off.
Get startedFree import from your old app