Websites for salons: book the chair without a phone call
Salon customers book when they think of it, which is rarely during your hours and never when your hands are free. A salon website has to book by stylist and service, show real work, and make the policies clear.
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What a salon website must do
- Book by stylist and service, with real durations. Connected to your scheduling software, so the right length of time lands with the right person. Chat that answers and books handles the "do you do balayage and how long does it take" questions first.
- Show the work. Real photos from your chairs, organized by service. This is what people are actually choosing.
- Introduce the team. Photos, specialties and a line in each stylist's voice. Clients choose a person.
- Make prices and policies clear. Service menu with starting prices, consultation requirements for big color changes, and your cancellation policy stated kindly and clearly.
- Reminders that cut no-shows. A missed appointment is an empty chair. Reminder texts with easy confirm or reschedule fix most of it.
- Reviews, recent. Your Google rating visible, and a review request after every visit, the same request to every client.
- Retail and gift cards. If you sell products or gift cards, the site should make it a tap, especially before holidays.
What usually goes wrong
Salon sites are often a single page with a logo, a phone number that isn't tappable, an Instagram link, and "call to book." The booking software is there, but the site sends people around it. Prices are missing, so every booking starts with a price question. And the cancellation policy lives only in a text sent after the fact, which is where arguments start.
How the website and the front desk work together
Most bookings should happen online; the phone still rings. Our AI receptionist for salons books with a specific stylist, handles reschedules and answers the usual questions while you're mid-color. Reminders cut no-shows, review requests keep the profile fresh, and reactivation campaigns bring back clients who drifted.
What we build
A fast, good-looking salon site built around booking: service menu with prices, stylist profiles, galleries by service, online booking connected to your software, policies stated clearly, gift cards and retail if you want them, AI chat ready, and pages written for the searches clients in your area make. Fixing a decent existing site is free with any of our packages; a rebuild is priced below.
Website questions from salons
Can the site book with a specific stylist?
Yes, when connected to your scheduling software, with each stylist's services and durations set up correctly.
Should we list prices?
Starting prices for each service, yes. Big color changes can require a consultation; the site should say so.
We mostly use Instagram. Do we still need a website?
Instagram shows the work; the website books it and shows up in search. The two work together, and the site links to your profile.
What does a salon website cost?
A rebuild of up to six pages has one fixed price, shown below; the refresh of an existing site is free with any package.
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