Hair
Hair salon software forAustralian salons — fitted tothe work, not the other way round
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Where generic booking tools fall over
Most booking software is built around a fixed slot: pick a 30-minute window, pick a person, done. Hair does not work that way. A full-head colour with a cut can hold a chair for four hours, the price genuinely depends on length and thickness, and the person doing it works three days a week.
Force that into slot-shaped software and you get the familiar mess — double bookings, a booking page offering times that do not really exist, and prices on the website that nobody can honour at the counter.
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What is built in for hair
Appointments as long as the work
A full-head colour is not a 30-minute slot repeated eight times. Each service carries its true length, and the diary and booking page both respect it.
From pricing and free consultations
Fixed, from and free are all first-class price types, so a colour correction can honestly say from $180 and a consultation can be free without a workaround.
Multi-service visits
Cut, colour and treatment in one booking, timed as one block, charged as one sale at the counter.
A column per stylist
Colour-coded, side by side, so the floor is readable at a glance and nobody is double-booked.
Individual working hours
Part-timers, one late night a week, a stylist who only does Saturdays — each set once, and honoured everywhere.
Recurring two, three and four-week schedules
Regulars rebooked on their rhythm rather than remembered and chased.
Formulas, notes and allergies on the record
What was used last time, at what developer, and anything that must never be used again.
Retail with real margin
Product sold at the counter tracks cost against margin and warns before a line runs out.
The diary and the client record
One visit, several services, timed as the work actually runs.
Formulas, notes and allergies on the record, open at the chair.
Fixed, from and free — priced the way you actually quote.
Each stylist's own days and hours.
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Built in a working salon
Kairo was built and is run in production for a Melbourne hair salon — the diary, the counter, the client records and the booking link are its day-to-day system, not a demo. That salon is not named here, and no before-and-after figures are quoted, because neither has been put in writing yet. A number you cannot check is worth nothing, and a client you name without asking is worth less than that.
Questions from salon owners
01Can it handle a four-hour colour appointment?
Yes. Services carry their real duration, so a full-head colour occupies the diary for as long as it actually takes rather than being forced into fixed 30-minute slots. The booking page will only offer a time where the whole service fits.
02What about pricing that starts from an amount?
Services can be priced as a fixed amount, as a from price where the final figure depends on length and thickness, or as free for a consultation or a fringe trim. The booking page shows the price type honestly instead of pretending to a number nobody can promise.
03Can one visit include a cut, a colour and a treatment?
Yes. Several services can be booked into one visit, and the total time is the sum of them, so the diary and the booking page both stay accurate.
04Can each stylist keep their own hours?
Yes. Every stylist has their own working days, hours, colour and title. Somebody who works Wednesday to Saturday only appears as bookable Wednesday to Saturday.
05Where do colour formulas live?
On the client record, with their notes, past visits and any allergy or patch-test information — open on a phone at the chair, not written in a book behind the desk.
06Can I book a client in every four weeks?
Yes. Repeat visits on a two, three or four-week rhythm can be set at the time of booking, which is how most regulars actually work.
See Kairo running for a Melbourne salon — book a walkthrough
A live look at the real diary, the real client records and the real booking page, then we set yours up the same way.