Your first twenty minutes
The four things worth doing before you send anyone your link, in the order that avoids redoing work.
You don't have to finish setting up before you can take a booking. But four things done in this order will save you doing them twice.
The order
- [Services and pricing](/services). Everything else refers back to your menu — how long a slot is, what a deposit is worth, how long the chair stays blocked after it. Start here.
- [Opening hours](/settings/hours?tab=opening). The salon's opening hours, in your salon's timezone. Set the timezone first under Settings → Business (opens in a new tab), because changing it later moves every hour you've already entered.
- [Booking rules](/settings/booking-rules). How much notice you need, whether a booking confirms itself or waits for you, and whether you ask for a deposit or a card on file.
- [Stripe](/settings/payments). Only if you want deposits or card payments. If you do, connect it before you turn a deposit on.
A deposit is collected on your own Stripe account. Until it's connected, clients book online without paying one, so connect Stripe first, then turn the deposit on.
What's good enough to open with
Five services with honest durations and the hours you actually work. You can add variants, add-ons, per-stylist availability and everything else once bookings are coming in — none of it blocks a client from booking today.
The one thing worth getting right on day one is duration, and what happens after it: clean-down either goes into the duration or into the service's own Buffer after (minutes), which keeps the chair blocked once the service ends. A slot that's fifteen minutes short compounds across a full day and it's the hardest thing to fix once people are booked into it.
Then send the link
Your booking page opens at your address on inchair.app when you press Go live in Settings (opens in a new tab). You don't have to connect a domain, style anything, or finish your client list first.