Booksmith › For beauty salons
Online booking for beauty salons
Your therapists' columns fill while the salon sleeps, deposits land with every booking, and patch-test questions are asked before anyone walks in. And because Booksmith isn't a marketplace, nobody takes a cut of your appointments or markets your clients to the salon round the corner.
Booking marketplaces charge heavily for new faces and hold your client relationships inside their app, next to your competitors. If your clients already come from Google, Instagram and referrals, you need booking software, not a marketplace. That's what this is.
A salon day with Booksmith
The agenda email lists the day by therapist: who's in, who they're treating, which bookings carry notes. Lash lift at nine already answered her patch-test question at booking.
New client picks her therapist, adds nail art to the service, pays the deposit, gets the confirmation. Total interruption to the salon: none.
Every client gets a reminder the evening before and another an hour ahead. The 10am who would have forgotten now turns up, or frees the slot in time for the waitlist.
Built for the treatment room
Each therapist has her own hours, services and column. Clients book the person they always see, and cover staff can be switched on for a week and off again.
Card deposits per service through Stripe, settling to your account. Colour corrections and Saturday afternoons stop being gambles.
Services can ask their own questions at booking: patch test done? Any allergies? Pregnant? The answers are on the booking before the client is through the door.
Nail art, extra lash rows, a brow tint on the end: extras add price and minutes so the column never quietly overruns.
Fully booked? Clients join the list and get an automatic message the moment a cancellation frees a matching slot.
Post-treatment, clients get your Google review link. The salon's own profile grows, not a marketplace's.
Questions from salons
If most of your bookings are regulars and referrals, you may be paying marketplace rates for clients who were coming anyway, while your client list lives in their ecosystem. Our Treatwell comparison and Fresha comparison set out the differences fairly, including when a marketplace IS the right call.
Yes. Each therapist offers only the services she does, with her own hours. Clients choosing a treatment see only the therapists and times that genuinely fit.
Yes, per service. Most salons put deposits on long or high-product treatments and leave quick appointments free to book.
In your own private database, on your own address, exportable by you at any time. It is never pooled with other salons, never marketed to, and if you leave, it's exported to you and then deleted.