A business journal for independent beauty pros, by salonMonster
The New York Times posted a great article about the growing use of the iPad as a customer tool in salons. We liked the way it focuses on how the iPad can be used to improve stylist-client communication. Some of the great uses for the iPad they discuss are: – As a customizable “style-book”. By … Read more
We’re excited to announce our latest upgrades to salonMonster. As of today your salonMonster account will include these nifty new features: – Support for book-backs / split appointments. This includes a switch to duration from start and end times (meaning choosing the length of an appointment instead of selecting a start time and end time … Read more
We’ve added a new staff-selector to the salonMonster calendar. This tool should make changing between stylists and to and from multi-stylist/single stylist view so much easier. You’ll notice a discreet new down-arrow beside your name. Simply click on the name or arrow to display a list of all staff within the salon. Click on a … Read more
We’re happy to announce that you can now subscribe to a feed of all your appointments through iCal on your Mac or iPhone. We’ve been testing this feature for a couple of months, and are excited to release it to everyone. To set this up, simply click on the “subscribe to iCal” link to the … Read more
We’re happy to announce that a new version of the salonMonster application went live this weekend. We’ve made big changes to the system to support global timezones. We’ve had a lot of requests for this and are excited to welcome more of you to the salonMonster family. Other great new features include a monthly datepicker … Read more
We’ve been working hard adding new features to salonMonster. We put a new version live today, here are some of the highlights: Manual appointment confirmations (which is optional). This gives you the option of checking the appointments your clients’ book before approving or denying them. The appointments menu shows a badge with the number of … Read more
Progress is going well on the application and we’ve sent out our new multiple stylist calendar view to our beta testers for some quality control. It’s really exciting for us as we’ve just been testing a single stylist version of the application so far. Here’s a sneak-peek at it:
We thought it would be kind of fun to profile some of the tools that we find ourselves using on a regular basis here at SalonMonster. We work in a distributed office with people based in various cities and thus rely a lot on our software. So, with this in mind we’ll probably mostly be … Read more