Features
The appointment booking software your salon needs. Nothing more.
Calendace does one thing and does it well: your appointments book themselves, your clients remember to show up, and you never pay a commission for it.
Your booking page
Your salon, with a link of its own
Your own web address
Your business gets its own page at its own address (mybusiness.calendace.com), with your services, your team, your opening hours, your photos and your map. On the Premium plan, you choose the address yourself.
Booking in five steps
Service, professional, day and time, details and confirmation. Your client can pick whoever they want, or let you assign the first one free.
Link and QR code
Share your link on Instagram or on your Google listing, and download the QR code to put on the counter or in the window.
In six languages
Your booking page detects the language of whoever visits it. Handy if you work in a tourist area.
Your schedule
The whole day at a glance
Day and week views
Filter by professional or see the whole team at once. Each one in their own colour, so you know whose slot is whose without thinking about it.
Add appointments by hand when you need to
The walk-in and the client who calls you still fit. You add the appointment straight from the schedule in two taps.
Mark who showed up and who didn't
Client arrived, client no-show, confirmed, pending or cancelled. No-shows pile up on the client record, so you know who to watch out for.
Time off, public holidays and split shifts
Close for the holidays, block off an afternoon or set up a split shift. Public holidays in your area are marked automatically every year.
Reminders
Fewer empty slots, without chasing anyone
Email, SMS and WhatsApp
You choose which alerts go out on each channel. Email is included in every plan; SMS and WhatsApp come with the paid plans and run on credit packs.
Seven automatic alerts
Booking pending, confirmed, rejected, cancelled, rescheduled, a reminder before the appointment and a review request once it's done.
You decide when the reminder lands
A day ahead, three hours ahead, whenever you say. And if the appointment moves, the reminder adjusts on its own.
Let the client cancel, not you
Straight from the alert, your client can cancel without calling you. You find out right away and have time to fill the slot.
Your clients
The client record you never had time to keep
Full history
How many times they've been in, when the last visit was, what they have booked and how often they didn't turn up. All without writing anything down.
Private notes
The colour formula, the allergy, what they like and what they don't. Only you and your team can see it.
Block whoever costs you money
If someone stands you up again and again, you block them and they can no longer book online.
Your data leaves with you
Export your client list to a file whenever you want. They're yours, not ours.
Client area
Your page, installed on your client's phone
Signs in without a password
With their phone and email, or straight from the link in any alert. Nothing to remember, nothing to reset.
Their appointments, and self-cancellation
They see what they have booked and everything before. If they can't make it, they cancel right there within the window you set, and you know immediately.
Installs like an app
Your name and your icon on their home screen, no App Store. And your alerts reach them as notifications, free and unlimited.
Waitlist
When there's no slot, they join. When someone cancels, we alert those waiting in order and the first to book keeps it. Standard and Premium plans.
Booking rules
Your schedule runs the way you say
Manual approval
If you'd rather give each appointment the nod before it is confirmed, switch it on. Nothing lands in your schedule without you knowing.
Minimum and maximum notice
No appointments ten minutes from now, no bookings a year out. You set the window.
How often a slot starts
Every 15, 30 or 60 minutes. Fit the grid of your schedule to the way you actually work.
Cancellation window
Set how late a client can cancel on their own. After that, they have to talk to you.
Growth
What brings them back and helps them find you
Automatic Google reviews
Once the appointment is over, your client gets the invitation to rate you on your Google listing. Nothing moves the needle more in local search.
Stats that actually help
Appointments and revenue by day, week, month or year. You spot the slow week before it shows up in the till. Available on the Premium plan.
Your brand, not ours
On the Premium plan every mention of Calendace disappears from your booking page and your emails. Up front, all anyone sees is your salon.
Install it on your phone
Add Calendace to your phone's home screen and open it like an app. No app store involved.
Guides
Practical guides
Short articles on the questions businesses like yours ask us most.
How to choose booking software for a small salon: ten questions before you sign up
Ten questions worth asking any appointment software before you put your clients into it, and Calendace's honest answer to each one, including the things it doesn't cover.
WhatsApp or SMS for appointment reminders: what each costs and when to use which
SMS always arrives and has cost the same for years. WhatsApp is cheaper and gets read more, but it has rules. And there's a fourth channel that costs nothing.
How to reduce last-minute cancellations with a waitlist
A cancellation at eleven for twelve doesn't get filled by phone. What a well-built waitlist does, which rules it needs and how much money it recovers for a small salon.
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Try it with your own services and your own hours
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