Set Up Online Booking

Logging your clients and appointments via pen & paper is ok, but going virtual allows you to send appointment reminders, the clients can require to change their appointments, and you can typically email them within the software. Having an online booking system is detrimental for any independent stylist, consider it your own personal front desk. It literally takes so much of the small to-do’s off of your hands, and keeps you focused and engaged on clients while working on them.

And while on this topic, you’ll notice that in this list, I will not be mentioning having a website as a prerequisite for starting business. I much rather you invest your time and energy on designing your menu, so that you can start sharing your booking link, ASAP.

Now if you would use Square as your merchant processor they actually also have a booking system. Which by the way now it is offered for free!! Yes, and it is the best merchant processor and booking system in my opinion, it is super streamline and easy to use. Their booking system used to be $30 per month and even then it was totally worth it.