Your hands are busy. The chair books itself.

You set the rule, not us: a deposit on balayage and anything over two hours, or only on first-timers, or on everyone. The client sees your cancellation policy and agrees to it at the moment she books, and the card is held by Stripe — never on your phone and never in the drawer at the front desk. If she cancels inside your window, the charge runs under the rule you set, so it isn't you asking a regular of eight years for forty dollars while she's standing there with her coat on.

Yes — that's the whole reason the schedule is built on service time instead of one closed block per client. The color gets its own processing window, and the chair is offered for a cut inside it, so a $45 trim fits inside a $300 balayage without either one running long. You decide which services can share a chair and which can't: a lash set holds the bed for the full two hours, a soak-off doesn't need you standing there. And if the color runs over, the next client's reminder moves with it instead of her sitting on the bench wondering.

Yes. Each one gets her own column, her own service list with her own prices, and her own booking link — the one that goes in her Instagram bio, so a DM asking about Saturday gets answered with her real open slots instead of yours. She sees only her own book; you see the whole floor. Rent on the 1st, a commission split, or a mix of both — each chair settles the way you already agreed, and the walk-in the barber takes at 11 lands in the same column as everything else, with the same client history behind it.

No. Every formula, every guard number and every before-and-after photo lives in the salon's system, not in a notebook or on somebody's phone — including the shot from eighteen months ago that reminds you why she hated that toner. Access is per stylist: each one sees only what she needs to work that day. Export the whole book — clients, formulas, photos — any day you ask for it.