Unisex salon software that keeps both sides of the salon straight
Three price lists, two areas that fill up independently, and one team that has to cover whichever side is busy.
30 days free · No card required
How does a unisex salon keep separate price lists in one system?
By attaching the distinction to the service rather than to the customer. Each service carries its own category — ladies, gents or children — with its own price and duration, so a haircut is genuinely three different priced services in one catalogue. Nobody has to remember which rate applies, and the reports can tell the two sides of the business apart.
One catalogue, three real price lists
A unisex salon does not charge one rate and adjust it verbally. A ladies' cut, a gents' cut and a child's cut are three separate pieces of work at three prices and often three lengths, and the honest way to model that is three services rather than one service with an explanation. Each carries its own category, price, duration and tax treatment, and the person at the counter picks the one that was actually performed.
- Ladies, gents and children as distinct categories on the service itself
- Independent price and duration for each
- The right rate reaches the bill without anybody recalling it
- Reports separate the sides rather than reporting one blended average
The two areas fill up independently
The gents' side being empty does nothing for a ladies' section with a queue, so a single figure for how full the salon is misleads everybody who reads it. Capacity is declared as named pools of physical units, which means the ladies' chairs and the gents' chairs can be counted as separate pools and each service can name the pool it draws on. Booking availability then reflects the part of the salon a customer is actually coming to.
- Separate pools of chairs, basins or rooms, counted individually
- A service draws on the pool it genuinely needs
- Availability computed against the relevant side, not the building
- A private room can be declared with its own capacity where the salon has one
One team covering both sides
Staffing is where a unisex salon differs most from two salons in one building: the same people move between sides through the day, and pay has to follow the work rather than the section. Skills are recorded per person, attendance and shifts are kept for the whole team in one roster, and every line on a bill names whoever performed it. Someone who spent the morning on one side and the afternoon on the other is paid correctly without anyone splitting the day by hand.
- One roster, one attendance register, one set of leave records
- Skills held per person, so who covers what is recorded rather than assumed
- Commission from billed lines, wherever in the salon they happened
- Role-based access, so a stylist sees the day and not the accounts
Families booking together
A parent booking a child alongside herself is ordinary in a unisex salon and awkward in software that assumes one person per appointment. Each family member is their own customer record with their own history, and the visits are separate appointments that can sit in the same window where the capacity allows. Billing them together is a matter of raising one bill with the lines that were performed, whoever they were performed on.
- A record per person, so a child's history is not buried in a parent's
- Concurrent appointments where the capacity genuinely supports them
- One bill covering several people's services when that is how they want to pay
- Loyalty and membership benefits applied at checkout against whoever holds them
Common questions
- Do I have to create every service twice?
- For anything genuinely priced differently, yes — and that is the honest model rather than an inconvenience. A ladies' cut and a gents' cut are different work at different prices and often different lengths, so keeping them as separate services is what lets the reports tell the two sides of your business apart.
- Can the ladies' section have its own chairs and availability?
- Yes. Capacity is declared as named pools of physical units, so the two sides can be counted separately and each service draws on the pool it needs. Availability for a ladies' booking then reflects that section rather than the salon as a whole.
- Does it stop a man booking a ladies' service?
- No. The gender setting on a service exists to price and categorise the work, not to police who requests it, and nothing blocks an unusual booking at the form or at the counter. Your team is what catches that, not the software.
- Can a mother and daughter be billed together?
- Yes. They stay separate customer records with separate histories, but a single bill can carry the lines performed on both, so paying together does not force you to merge two people into one record and lose the history of either.
What it doesn’t do
Worth knowing before you start, not after.
- There is no notion of a family or household group. Related customers are separate records, and nothing formally links them.
- Gender on a service drives pricing and cataloguing only. It does not restrict who may book what, and it is not enforced at the counter.
- There is no separate staff rota per section. One roster covers the salon, and which side someone is working is not a scheduled attribute.
- Loyalty points and memberships belong to an individual customer. They cannot be shared or pooled across a family.
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