VoltsBook

08:00 For hair salon

Colour takes three hours and a chair for two of them.

Cuts, colour, blow-dries and treatments, grouped the way a salon menu reads. Choose “Hair salon” when you sign up and this is the menu you start with — 6 services, priced, with opening hours and a first team member.

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New booking · #1 Cut and finish · Thu 09:30 · $45 paid
Taken this week $2,480
A stylist working on a client at a salon station

09:12 The problem

A salon’s day is not a queue of equal appointments. A colour occupies a stylist, then a chair while it develops, then a stylist again — and the processing time in the middle is time somebody else could be working.

Booking software that treats every appointment as one solid block either overbooks the salon or wastes half of it.

Buffers where the time actually goes

Attach the development and clean-down time to the service so it is held, and the next customer cannot take the fifteen minutes you need.

A menu that reads like your menu

Cuts, colour, blow-dries and treatments arrive grouped the way a salon board is written, not as a flat list of thirty items.

Extras that change the length

A toner or a treatment added at booking extends the appointment as well as the price, so the diary stays honest.

Products at the counter

Sell the shampoo against the appointment and the stock count stays right, including when two people buy the last bottle at once.

12:00 Your price list

The menu you start with.

Real services at real prices, created with the account. Rename them, reprice them, delete the ones you do not offer — none of it is locked.

Cutting

Cut and finish 1 hr · $45
Dry cut 30 min · $28

Colour

Full head colour 2 hr · $95
Highlights 2 hr 30 min · $120

Finishing

Blow-dry 30 min · $25
Conditioning treatment 30 min · $20

08:00 A day on it

What the day actually looks like.

  1. 09:15 A full head of colour goes in with its development time held, not guessed at.
  2. 12:00 A blow-dry slots into the gap the colour left, because the gap was modelled rather than blocked.
  3. 16:40 The client pays, buys the aftercare, and the stock count moves by one.
  4. 17:00 Tomorrow’s clients get a reminder; the two with deposits get theirs with the balance shown.
  5. 18:00 Takings, product sales and stylist commission all reconcile from the same figures.

10:30 What it does

Everything else it handles.

Online booking

A booking page on your own link that only ever offers times you are genuinely free.

Payments and deposits

Take a deposit or the full amount, through Stripe, PayPal or Square.

Reminders and confirmations

Twenty ready-made messages by email and text. Switch on the ones you want.

Staff and scheduling

Two chairs, three staff, four rooms — the calendar still adds up.

ASKED Questions

What hair salon businesses ask.

Can I block the chair but free the stylist during processing?
Model the chair as a resource with its own schedule, and use buffers on the service for the time the stylist is occupied.
Can I sell retail products through the booking page?
Yes — attach them to a service as an upsell at booking, or ring them up against the appointment at the counter.
Do I have to take deposits from everyone?
No. Deposits are set per service, so you can ask on a full head of colour and not on a fringe trim.
How long does it take to set up hair salon booking?
Minutes. Choosing “Hair salon” at signup creates 6 services with durations, prices, opening hours and a first team member. Change or delete any of it — nothing is locked.
Do my customers need an app?
No. They open a link and book in a browser. Nothing to install and no account required.
What does it cost?
There is a free plan, forever. Paid plans add the money and scale features, and every account starts with fourteen days of everything switched on. No card to begin.
Can I move across from another system?
Yes. Customers, services, staff and appointment history import from most booking systems or an older VoltsBook, keeping the original booking numbers so a regular quoting a number still finds their appointment.

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