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Who it’s for

Bookings for salons, done properly.

Appointment-style sessions with a deposit taken up front and a cancellation window that protects the chair.

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A stylist blow-drying a client's hair in a salon chair.

A salon sells a chair for a fixed stretch of time. A cut and finish takes forty-five minutes, full highlights take three hours, and a blow-dry bar turns over every thirty. A no-show does not cost product; it costs the chair for the length of the slot, and the stylist is paid either way. Clients book a specific person, so each stylist keeps their own diary. The salon wants a deposit up front, a reminder the day before, and a canceled slot offered to someone waiting rather than left empty. account42 treats every slot as a session with one seat, a price and a rule.

A week at Alder & Vine Salon.

This is the booking widget, not a picture of it. Take a seat and watch the count move and the confirmation text arrive.

Every session carries its own price, seat count and rules, so a course, a drop-in and a free session sit in the same timetable.

Book an appointment

This week

  • Tue 10:00 am

    Cut and finish

    60 min · $70 · deposit $20

    4 seats left

  • Thu 1:00 pm

    Color consultation

    30 min · free · deposit held

    1 seat left

  • Sat 9:30 am

    Full highlights

    3 hours · $210 · deposit $60

    Full

  • Sun 11:00 am

    Blow-dry bar

    45 min · $45 · drop-in

    9 seats left

How a salon uses account42.

Set up the schedule
Set up each stylist as their own set of sessions. Cut and finish runs every half hour on Tuesday and Thursday, color consultations on Wednesday afternoons, highlights on Saturday mornings. A weekly pattern generates the slots ahead of time, each with one seat, and the blow-dry bar runs as its own run of thirty-minute slots.
Take bookings and payments
A client picks the stylist, the service and the time from your website and pays the deposit there. The deposit is a direct charge on your own Stripe or PayPal account, and the slot is confirmed once it clears. A confirmation goes out by email or text, and a reminder follows the day before.
Handle changes and waitlists
If the client cancels inside your window, the deposit is kept or refunded exactly as you set. The slot is offered to the waitlist with a time-limited offer, so a Saturday morning that emptied at breakfast is full again before the doors open. A stylist off sick cancels their slots and every client is told at once.

The parts that are hard to get right.

A no-show costs the chair, not the product

Take a deposit at booking and set what happens if they cancel late.

Under the hood

The deposit is a direct charge on your connected account, captured before the appointment is confirmed rather than after.

Long services and short ones share a day

A three-hour color and a forty-five minute blow-dry sit in the same timetable.

Under the hood

Duration, price and capacity belong to the session, so a long service does not need a separate calendar.

A canceled slot should not stay empty

When a client cancels, the next person on the list is offered the time.

Under the hood

Promotion fires on the cancellation with a time-limited offer, so the slot is filled without you watching for it.

Works where you are : your currency, timezone and language, on your own Stripe or PayPal account.

Questions people ask about booking for salons

Can I take a deposit rather than the full price?
Yes. Set the session price to the deposit and take the balance in the salon. The booking is confirmed once the deposit clears.
Do clients get a reminder?
Yes. Confirmations and reminders go by email, text, or both, depending on which channels you require and offer.
Can each stylist have their own diary?
Yes. Run each stylist as their own set of sessions, or use the Multi plan for separate locations.
Can I charge different prices per stylist?
Yes. Price belongs to the session, so a senior stylist's cut and finish can cost more than a junior's. Both appear on the same booking page under the same service name.
How does the deposit work for a long service?
Price the slot as the deposit, take the balance in the salon, and set the window so that a late cancellation keeps the deposit. The rule runs the same way for every client without a conversation.
Can clients book a package of blow-dries?
Yes. Sell a pack of six as credits. Each blow-dry spends one, and a credit is returned when a booking is canceled inside your window. Regulars book faster and you are paid up front.

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Every feature above is on every plan. See what account42 does and how it works, from install to the first booking.

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