Hair Salon Booking Software for Your Chair Time.
Your calendar fills up while you're behind the chair.
Your clients book the treatment, their stylist and a time themselves — from slots that are actually free. Confirmation, reminder and cancellation deadline run automatically. The phone can ring without anyone putting down their scissors.
Appointment requests land mid-treatment
In a salon there is no moment when "nobody's busy". Answering the phone means interrupting a treatment — not answering means the scheduling waits for later.
Slotara takes appointment intake out of the salon: your clients book themselves — at night, on Sundays, between two stories. The calendar is filled before you even look at your phone.
Color is processing, the phone rings
Your client is sitting in foils under the heat lamp, and you've planned twelve minutes for the next cut. Right now, someone wants to know if Thursday at 4 works.
The DM shift after closing
Instagram messages, WhatsApp, voicemail: "Anything free on Saturday?" Every answer needs the calendar — and a reply that often comes hours later.
Saturday, full house
Every chair taken, the team in full swing. The least time for scheduling is exactly when the most requests come in.
An empty chair is time you can't get back
An appointment someone "quickly" agreed to on the phone is a promise. An appointment that was self-booked, confirmed and added to a calendar is a commitment. Slotara builds a chain around every booking that makes the appointment binding:
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Booked, not loosely agreed. Your clients choose the treatment, the person on your team and a time themselves — the booking is documented, the slot is blocked immediately.
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Confirmation with a calendar file. The confirmation email goes out automatically — with a calendar file, so the appointment lives where people actually look every day.
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Exactly one reminder, at your time. 1–168 hours before the appointment, default 24 hours. You decide when it goes out.
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A cancellation deadline you set. Up to your deadline, the appointment can be cancelled self-service — after that, the self-service cancellation window ends.
And if someone still doesn't show up: you mark the appointment — and see in the dashboard how often that really happens, instead of guessing. No miracle rate, no promise in percent. A clear process before the appointment — and transparency when someone doesn't show.
Clients don't book your salon. They book Lena.
Regulars don't book a treatment — they book their stylist. Slotara maps exactly that: during booking, the client picks the person on your team they want — and only people who take on the treatment and are free at that time are offered.
Skills with levels. Balayage can only be booked with someone you've set up for coloring — not with whoever happens to have a gap. You maintain who takes on each service.
Every stylist, their own schedule. Part-time, later starts, breaks: everyone has their own weekly plan — and the booking knows it.
45 minutes next to 3 hours — without holes in the day
A hair treatment takes 45 minutes, a balayage three hours — and both have to fit into the same day. Slotara calculates bookable times from treatment duration, weekly plans and buffers; conflict checking flags anything that would overlap. The buffer after a color — cleaning the station, prepping material — belongs to the treatment and is blocked automatically, without anyone entering it by hand.
The day plan: long and short treatments, buffers included — without holes.
The person first, the treatment later: Freestyle mode
In some shops — barbers especially — what gets done isn't decided up front: clients book a person on the team and a time, and the rest is decided in the chair. That's exactly what Slotara's Freestyle mode is for: what's bookable is the time slot with the stylist they want, and the treatment is decided on site. Appointment business and walk-in culture no longer rule each other out.
- Fixed treatment appointments and Freestyle slots run in the same calendar — you decide where each mode applies.
- Freestyle bookings go through the same commitment chain: confirmation, reminder, cancellation deadline.
Start with a prepared salon template
Slotara ships with a real hair & beauty template: typical treatments, skills like cutting, coloring and styling, plus a weekly schedule structure with breaks. You pick it at the start and adapt everything to your salon — instead of starting from scratch.
Pick & adapt the template
Treatments, skills and the weekly plan are prepared; you turn them into your salon.
Add your team
Who takes on what, who works when? That's all the slot calculation needs.
Share the booking path
Widget on your website, booking link in your Instagram bio, QR code for the mirror or the shop window.
More than one salon? Locations with their own team stay within one Slotara environment — depending on your plan.
Where your data lives
Servers in Germany
Slotara application operations run on servers in Germany.
DPA under Art. 28 GDPR
The data processing agreement becomes effective automatically when the contract is concluded.
TLS encryption
Booking page, widget and app are delivered over TLS-encrypted connections.
Common questions from salons and studios
Yes. During booking, clients choose from the people on your team who take on the treatment and are free at the requested time. Anyone who doesn't take on the treatment isn't shown at all.
Every treatment has its duration and its buffers. A three-hour balayage blocks the entire period with the assigned person — including the follow-up time you've set.
Binding self-booking, automatic confirmation with a calendar file, exactly one reminder at the time you choose (1–168 h before, default 24 h), and a cancellation deadline you set. Appointments where nobody showed up can be marked and reported on. We don't promise a miracle rate.
Yes, with Freestyle mode: clients book a person and a time, and the treatment is decided in the chair. Fixed appointments and Freestyle run in the same calendar.
Yes — up to the cancellation deadline you set, the appointment can be cancelled self-service via the link in the confirmation. After that, the self-service cancellation window ends.
Yes — you register yourself and try Slotara for 14 days, no credit card. After that, you pick a plan.