Hybrid & connected salons
Separate businesses. One connected salon.
With salonMonster, everyone in the room keeps an account of their own and connects it to the people they work beside. Share your calendar with the front desk or a coworker, choose exactly how much they see, and keep your clients and payments your own.
14 days free · no credit card · we import your current data for free
- Since 2010
- built by salon people
- 600+
- salons
- 1,500+
- stylists
- 8.5M+
- bookings
- $650M+
- in services booked
The patchwork
One room. A different system at every chair.
Your employees are on the salon's system. One renter keeps a paper book, another books through her DMs, and a third pays for an app nobody else can see. Clients ring the front desk for someone who is not on your calendar, and you end up taking messages for businesses that are not yours.
Most software makes you choose. Put everyone on the salon's account, and renters hand over their client lists. Keep everyone separate, and nobody can see who is in.
Mixed is not the problem.
Chaos is.
Connected accounts
Share your calendar. Keep your business.
Level 1 / View calendar
See when I’m booked.
A coworker can see your day: who is in, for what service, at what time and for how long.
- Client name, service, time and length
- No client contact details
- Nothing can be changed
Level 2 / View booking details
Open my bookings.
Everything in the first level, plus the client’s contact details on each booking, as read only.
- Booking details and client contact details
- Read only
- Handy when someone needs to reach your client
Level 3 / Book, edit and cancel
Book for me.
A coworker can book, move and cancel appointments in your calendar, with your clients and nobody else’s.
- Book, edit and cancel in your calendar
- Your own client list only
- Made for a front desk that books for you
Connecting is stylist to stylist. You invite a coworker by email, they accept, and you choose one of three levels. Not sure which fits your room? Book a walkthrough and we will help you work it out.
How it fits
However your room is set up, it connects.
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A front desk and renters
Reception can book for every chair.
Each renter connects their own account to the front desk and chooses what it can do. Reception opens that renter’s calendar from the salon’s own login.
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A room of independents
See who is in without sharing a login.
Everyone runs an account of their own and connects with the coworkers they choose, at the level they choose.
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Part team, part renters
Employees together, renters independent.
Your employees share the salon’s account with staff permissions. Renters keep an account of their own and connect in.
What stays yours
Connecting shares a calendar. Not a business.
Nobody has to hand over a client list to work in the same room. Every account stays the business of the person who owns it.
- Clients
- Your client list stays in your account. A coworker you let book for you can see it in order to book, and that is your choice to give.
- Payments
- Each account takes its own payments and keeps its own sales and reports.
- Control
- You choose the level for each coworker, and you can disconnect whenever you like.
- Your account
- It is your business, so it goes with you if you change salons.
What changes
And the same simple app in every account.
Booking
Clients book the right person, at any hour.
Online booking is open around the clock, so the front desk stops being the switchboard for every chair in the room.
Reminders
Reminders send themselves.
Email and text confirmations and reminders go out on their own, and they are included in the plan.
Service menu
Each person at their own price and pace.
The same service can have a different price and duration for each person who offers it.
Client records
Formulas somewhere safer than memory.
Colour formulas, notes and reference photos sit on each client record, ready for the next visit.
Payments
Everyone gets paid their way.
Take cards through salonMonster, or keep the reader and processor you already use.
Your numbers
Numbers without the spreadsheet.
Sales, tips and taxes are already totalled in your reports, person by person on a shared account.
Want to see all of it? Take the tour.
Pricing
One price list, however you split the room.
Staff who do not have a schedule, like a front desk, are free.
- On the salon’s account
- $30 a month for the first person, then $15 for each person added, up to $120 a month for seven or more.
- On an account of their own
- $30 a month for each renter, billed to them, with everything included.
From shared spaces
“Customer service is the stand-out thing that separates salonMonster from others. I encourage my renters to use the service.”
“This booking system is like the lifeblood of our whole space. Can't live without blood.”
“You guys do great work, and I appreciate your exceptional customer service. I always refer new chair renters to you.”
How it works
Getting the whole room on board, in four steps.
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Everyone signs up free
Each account starts with a 14-day free trial. No credit card, no commitment.
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We import your data
We bring over clients, colour formulas and appointment history from whatever each person uses now, for free.
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Connect with your coworkers
Invite each other by email from your settings and choose what each person can see or do.
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Get back to the floor
Booking, reminders, payments and records run in the background for every chair in the room.
We'll set it up together. No pitch.
The No-Trap Promise
A room full of people is a lot to move. Leaving should never be the hard part.
No contracts.
Month to month. Add or remove people, change or cancel any time, no fees.
Your data is yours.
Export your records as CSV files from your settings whenever you like, at no extra charge.
No hidden fees.
The price you see is the price you pay, with card processing rates published up front.
A real human sets you up.
We import existing data for free and walk everyone through the app ourselves.
See the full pricing and card processing rates.
Questions
What mixed salons ask before they switch.
How do connected accounts work?
Each person keeps their own salonMonster account. You invite a coworker by email, they accept, and you choose what they can see or do in your calendar. You can disconnect at any time.
What can a connected coworker see?
Only what you choose. There are three levels: your calendar without client contact details, your bookings with contact details as read only, or the ability to book, edit and cancel appointments for you with your own clients.
Does the salon get my client list?
No. Your clients stay in your account. If you let someone book for you, they can see your client list in order to book, and that is your choice to give.
Can the front desk book for a renter?
Yes, if the renter connects their account to the front desk and chooses the level that allows booking. The front desk then books in that renter’s calendar, with that renter’s own clients.
Do connected accounts share payments?
No. Each account takes its own payments and keeps its own sales and reports. Connecting shares a calendar, not a till.
A renter is moving on. What happens?
Their account goes with them, with their client list, history and settings exactly where they left them. They disconnect, and the sharing stops.
What does it cost?
Every account is its own subscription. A renter on an account of their own pays $30 a month. A salon account is $30 a month for the first person and $15 for each person added, up to $120 a month for seven or more, and staff who do not have a schedule, like a front desk, are free. Reminders, online booking, client records and reports are included either way.
Will everyone actually use it?
We walk people through it before you go live, so nobody is learning it on a busy Saturday. Emily Curran at Shine in the Market told us all her stylists commented on how much they liked it compared to anything they had used before.
Are we locked in?
No. It is month to month with no contract, and you can export your records as CSV files at any time. If you pay and change your mind in your first 30 days, you get a full refund.
Not ready to switch?
Check your service prices against what the room really costs to run.
Our free pricing calculator works out the minimum price for every service on your menu, and a recommended price you can defend.
Connect the room. Keep your own business.
Start your free 14-day trial. No credit card, no contract. We'll bring everyone's clients and history over, and help you connect the room.
Or reach a human directly: [email protected] · 1-800-901-1001