Bookings only happen in opening hours
Most people decide they need a cut at nine in the evening. If the only way to book is to ring you tomorrow, half of them never do.
Foundation Who we build for Salons & barbers
Websites and booking
for salons and barbers.
Your chair is empty on a Tuesday and your phone rings while you have your hands in someone's hair. We build the site that fills the chair and the booking system that stops you answering the phone at all.
11pmWhen people book
£250Where websites start
0Double bookings
AutoReminders sent
The bit that hurts
The phone rings
mid-colour.
Every salon owner we have built for describes the same three hours a week: taking bookings by phone, rewriting the book, and texting the people who did not turn up.
No-shows cost a whole slot
An empty chair on a Saturday is money you will never get back. Without a deposit there is nothing stopping somebody forgetting entirely.
A paper book only one person can read
Two stylists, one book, and a queue at the desk. Someone always writes over someone else, and nobody can check tomorrow from home.
Instagram is not a website
It is a great shop window and a terrible booking system, and it does not appear when someone searches for a balayage in your town.
An example site
A site that looks
like your work.
A salon site is judged in two seconds on whether the place looks like somewhere you would sit for three hours. This example goes for editorial luxury, and books straight from the header.
Ivy & Iron is a fictional salon. This is a working example site — click through it.
What we build for you
Booking that behaves
like a good receptionist.
Everything below is in the booking system we already build. It is not a plugin bolted onto a template — the site and the diary are the same thing.
Clients book themselves
Service, stylist, time. The system knows how long a full head of highlights takes and will not let it be squeezed into forty minutes.
Deposits through Stripe
Take £10 to hold a Saturday slot and watch no-shows fall off a cliff. Refunded automatically if they cancel in time.
Reminders that send themselves
A text the day before and an email when they book. No one sits down on a Friday to send them.
Per-stylist diaries
Everyone sees the same day. Holiday, training days and a stylist who does not do colour are all handled without a phone call.
Waitlists and cancellations
A cancelled slot gets offered to the waitlist automatically, so the gap fills itself while you are working.
Client history and preferences
Formula, timings and what they said last time, on the record. New stylist, same result.
The system behind it
This is the booking
flow, working.
Five steps, real availability, a deposit and a confirmation — the same flow we build for salons, clinics and studios. Click through it and try to double-book yourself; it will not let you.
Ashcroft Physio · a fictional business, but a genuinely working booking flow.
How it goes
First working build
in 72 hours.
The site and the booking go live together, because a salon site without booking is half a job. Your prices, services and stylists go in before launch.
A twenty-minute call
Services, timings, stylists, prices and how you like your day to run.
A working site in 72 hours
Real link, real booking, on your phone, before you have paid for anything beyond the deposit.
Your diary loaded
Services, durations, stylists, holidays and deposit rules, set up with you rather than handed over as a blank system.
Live, then left alone
It runs itself. We are on the end of the phone when you want a price changed or a new treatment added.
Sound like your week?
Tell us what eats it — you'll have a fixed price back today, usually within the hour.
Where we work
Salons in Surrey,
Berkshire and London.
Nobody searches for a hairdresser in general. They search for a hairdresser in their town, and often for one treatment. Every site gets pages built around exactly that.
On your doorstep
Surrey, Berkshire & London
We're in Windlesham, and we'll come to you — a coffee and a whiteboard beats a video call. Anywhere within twenty miles, plus the whole of London.
- Windlesham
- Woking
- Guildford
- Camberley
- Farnborough
- Bracknell
- Ascot
- Windsor
- Staines
- Weybridge
- Esher
- Richmond
And everywhere else
Worldwide, remotely
We build for salons across the UK and beyond. The booking system does not care where the chair is, and the whole build works over a call.
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Europe
- Anywhere with wifi
- Coffee anywhere — flights on you
What it costs
Fixed, in writing,
before we build.
A salon website starts at £250. Online booking with deposits, reminders and per-stylist diaries is quoted free.
Your website
From
£250one-off — yours outright
- Designed around your work, not a template
- Price list that is honest about long hair
- Stylist profiles so clients can pick a person
- Built to be found for your town and treatments
- Google Business Profile set up and filled in
- Two rounds of design changes included
Or £220 up front and £19 a month — we host it, back it up nightly and keep the certificate valid. Compare both →
Get my priceOnline booking
Fixed quote
Quoted freeyour number, usually the same working day
- Clients book themselves, day or night
- Deposits taken through Stripe
- Automatic confirmations and reminders
- Per-stylist diaries, holidays and skills
- Waitlists that fill cancellations
- Client history, formulas and preferences
Nothing gets built until you've seen the price, and the price doesn't move afterwards. If it takes us longer than we thought, that's our problem, not your invoice.
Quick answers
Salon questions,
answered straight.
How much does a salon website with booking cost?
The website starts at £250, or £220 up front plus £19 a month hosted and looked after. Online booking is quoted free and priced on what it does — you get one fixed number in writing before anything is built.
Will it stop no-shows?
Deposits are the thing that works, and they are built in. Take a small deposit to hold a slot, refunded automatically if they cancel in time, and no-shows drop sharply.
Can different stylists have different services and hours?
Yes. Services, durations, skills, working days and holidays are all per stylist, and the system will not offer a slot that cannot actually be worked.
Do clients have to download an app?
No. It is a web page on their phone. No app, no account to create unless they want one, no friction between wanting an appointment and having one.
Can I still take bookings over the phone?
Of course — you add them to the same diary, and the system stops the two from clashing. Nothing forces a client online.
What about card payments in the salon?
Deposits and prepayment go through Stripe. If you want a full till with product stock as well, that is the sort of thing we build — ask and we will quote it.
Answered?
Two fields and a tap. You'll hear back from a real person, usually today.
Also built for
Nearby trades,
same toolbox.
Different words on the front, the same machinery behind it. See every trade we build for →