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Software for salons & hospitality

For salons and hospitality, the website’s only real job is to fill the diary or the tables. A beautiful site that doesn’t take bookings is decoration. We build sites and apps where booking is the point, not a bolt-on.

The problem

What usually gets in the way

  • Bookings still taken by phone during your busiest hours
  • A pretty website that doesn’t actually convert to reservations
  • Deposits and no-shows handled manually, if at all
  • No easy way to promote quiet slots or last-minute availability
What we build

How we'd help

  • Booking and reservation systems built into the site
  • Deposit-taking and no-show protection
  • Loyalty and repeat-booking prompts
  • Fast, mobile-first pages that convert on the phone
How it works

Working with salons & hospitality businesses

Almost every salon and hospitality enquiry starts on a phone, usually in a spare moment — a bus ride, a lunch break. If your site takes more than a couple of seconds to load or the booking button is buried, that moment is gone and so is the booking. So the build priorities are speed, an always-visible book-now action, and a flow that takes seconds, not minutes.

No-shows are the other conversation. Card-on-file deposits or a small booking fee transform no-show rates, and the technology for it is now cheap and well-trodden — Stripe handles the card details so you never touch them. The system can also do the quiet work: prompting lapsed regulars, promoting off-peak slots, and asking happy customers for the Google review at the right moment.

Where a platform like Fresha or ResDiary already fits your operation, we'll integrate with it rather than rebuild it. The custom work goes where it earns: a site that actually converts, and the pieces the platforms don't do for your specific business.

FAQs

Common questions

Can you take deposits to stop no-shows?
Yes — deposits, card-on-file with a no-show fee, or full prepayment, whichever fits your business. Payment details are handled by Stripe, so nothing sensitive touches your systems, and the drop in no-shows is usually visible within the first month.
We already use a booking platform. Do we have to leave it?
No. If Fresha, Treatwell or ResDiary works for you, the website integrates with it — the job is making sure visitors actually reach the booking step. Custom booking only makes sense when platform fees or restrictions start genuinely hurting.
How quickly can a salon or restaurant website go live?
A booking-led site typically goes live in two to four weeks. Websites start from £1,500 fixed price, including mobile-first design and the booking integration.

Let's talk about your salons & hospitality project.

A free 30-minute chat, no obligation. We'll tell you honestly what would help and roughly what it would take.