Setting up online booking for a hair salon in Singapore

Comparing booking systems? Our guide to the best booking software for hair salons in Singapore covers that. This one is for the salon that has chosen BookAndGo and wants to set it up so the booking page does the work at the front desk.

One column per stylist

Set each stylist up as their own calendar and link them to the services they actually do. If only two of your team do Korean perms or balayage, only their times appear for those services. A client can book their favourite stylist by name, or take any available stylist for a simple cut.

Let the service length decide the slot

A men's cut might be thirty minutes, a cut and colour two and a half hours, a rebonding four. With generated times, BookAndGo works out availability from each service's length and the stylist's day, so a client choosing a four-hour treatment only sees starts that genuinely fit, and a quick cut can slot into the gap before lunch.

Prepare for the pre-Chinese New Year rush

Many clients want a fresh cut or colour before Chinese New Year, and many prefer not to cut their hair in the first days of the new year. That makes the weeks before the holiday the busiest of the year. Open those weeks early, consider limiting long colour services to quieter days so cuts are not crowded out, and close the holiday days themselves on your booking page so nobody books when you are shut.

Use the waitlist on busy weekends

Saturday slots go first. When a client cannot find the time they want, they can join the waitlist, and when a booking is cancelled you can offer the freed time to the people waiting. A cancellation turns into a booking instead of an empty chair.

Confirmations and reminders

Every booking gets a confirmation email and a reminder before the appointment, with a link to reschedule or cancel within your rules, so fewer clients simply forget.