Hair salon booking software for businesses that care about presentation, repeat clients, and smooth operations
SimplyBook.me helps salons, barbershops, and grooming businesses do more than take bookings. It helps them present services properly, bring clients back more easily, protect appointment time with clear rules, and keep better control over payments and sales.
- Branded booking pages
- Service organisation
- Repeat booking
- Rescheduling control
- Payments and invoices
- Front-desk sales
- Show your work in a stronger way Use visual and branding features to make the booking experience feel like part of the salon, not a generic scheduler.
- Make rebooking easier for regular clients Give returning clients a smoother path back to the salon with cleaner account and booking flows.
- Protect time and reduce admin Set clear policies, allow controlled rescheduling, and cut down on manual appointment handling.
- Manage the money side properly Handle online payments, invoices, sales visibility, and front-desk transactions more cleanly.
A booking system that fits the way salons work
Salons do not just sell time slots. They sell trust, results, atmosphere, convenience, and consistency. That is why a salon booking system needs to help the business look credible, explain services clearly, make rebooking simple, and reduce the friction around cancellations, payments, and front-desk administration.
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Presentation
Make the booking page feel like your brand
For a salon, the booking page is part of the client experience. It should feel polished, visual, and aligned with the business, not like a generic form sitting outside the brand.
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Clarity
Show services in a cleaner, more useful way
A well-structured service menu helps clients understand the offer faster and helps the salon present its services more professionally.
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Control
Keep bookings, changes, and payments easier to manage
Good salon software should save staff time, not create more admin. That means stronger rules, easier rebooking, and better payment visibility.
Custom features that are especially useful for salons
SimplyBook.me custom features add specific capabilities to the system. For salons, the most valuable ones are the features that improve presentation, make the service menu easier to understand, help repeat clients come back, and give the business better control over payments and daily operations.
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Photo Gallery
Photo Gallery lets the salon upload service photos directly to the booking page. That is useful because hair is visual. A stronger gallery helps the business show quality, support premium positioning, and build trust before the client ever books.
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Custom CSS
Custom CSS gives the salon more control over how the booking page looks. That is valuable for businesses that want the booking experience to match the rest of the brand and avoid the generic scheduler feel.
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Google Business
Google Business helps make the salon easier to discover in search and on Google Maps. That matters because many new salon clients begin with local search, and stronger visibility supports first-time bookings.
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Event Categories
Event Categories helps organise the service menu into clean groups like cuts, colour, styling, beard services, or consultations. That makes the booking page easier to browse and helps the business present services in a more professional way.
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HTML Description Field for Events
This feature allows richer service descriptions. That is good for the business because it helps explain what is included, set expectations clearly, and reduce mismatches between what the salon offers and what the client expects.
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Event Fields
Event Fields lets the salon collect extra booking details from the client. That can make preparation easier before the appointment and reduce the need for follow-up questions later.
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Client Login
Client Login allows clients to register, book more quickly, and see their booking history. It is especially useful for salons because regular clients are a major part of the business, and a smoother repeat-booking experience helps keep them coming back.
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Cancellation Policy
A visible cancellation policy helps protect appointment time and set expectations early. For salons, that matters because time is inventory, and missed appointments have a direct revenue cost.
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Reschedule Booking Plugin
This feature lets clients move appointments within the rules set by the salon. That is useful because it reduces phone calls and message backlogs while still keeping control over how and when clients can change bookings.
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Accept Payments
Accept Payments allows the salon to take payment online when the client confirms a booking or purchase. That supports a cleaner checkout flow and makes payment handling more predictable.
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Point of Sale
Point of Sale helps staff create and track sales for bookings, products, and gift certificates, view purchase history, approve pending transactions, and print invoices. It is valuable for salons that want a cleaner front-desk workflow and better visibility over in-person sales.
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Financial Dashboard
Financial Dashboard helps the business see more clearly what is happening on the revenue side. That matters because salons need more than a calendar. They need to understand what is selling and how the business is performing.
Payments and sales, handled more seriously
Salons need more than a system that records appointments. They also need to manage invoices, sales visibility, transactions, and front-desk payment flow in a cleaner way.
- Accept online payments for bookings and purchases
- Keep clearer visibility over transactions
- Manage invoices and sales records more easily
- Support front-desk sales for services, products, and gift certificates
Where SBPay fits
SBPay is a separate system created by the SimplyBook.me team and offered to all SimplyBook.me users. It works alongside SimplyBook.me and strengthens the payment and sales side of the business, including invoices, sales tracking, payment visibility, and related financial administration.
- Online and offline payment visibility
- Invoices and transaction history
- Sales tracking and payment records
- Refund handling where supported
Salon and grooming businesses using SimplyBook.me
These examples were selected because they have been using SimplyBook.me for years and their public presentation is strong enough to reference. Where the business uses a separate main website, the link below goes to that site. Otherwise it goes to the live booking site.
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BULLET Hairdressing Club
Using SimplyBook.me since 2018
Strong premium branding with a polished public website and booking flow. Relevant features in use include Custom CSS, custom domain, Event Categories, Event Fields, Google Business, Google Reviews, HTML Description Field for Events, and product sales.
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blatto.
Using SimplyBook.me since 2020
A modern salon example with a strong branded feel. Relevant features in use include Custom CSS, Image Gallery, Event Categories, Event Fields, Financial Dashboard, Google Business, POS, product sales, Reschedule Booking, and Waiting List.
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Babour Barbershop
Using SimplyBook.me since 2020
A barbershop example with a premium visual feel and practical operational tooling. Relevant features in use include Custom CSS, Financial Dashboard, HTML Description Field for Events, Image Gallery, POS, and product sales.
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Mick’s Barbers
Using SimplyBook.me since 2020
A clean grooming example with strong booking controls. Relevant features in use include Appointment at Fixed Time, Cancellation Policy, Financial Dashboard, HTML Description Field for Events, Image Gallery, and Reschedule Booking.
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