The setup wizard
Updated on 2026-08-23
The setup wizard sits in the menu under Getting started and makes your salon usable in four steps. It is built for how this actually goes: not in one quiet sitting, but between two clients, while a colour develops.
That is why every step stands on its own. You save what you filled in, you walk away, and next time you come back to the first step still outstanding. There is no "finish it or lose it".
You do not have to wait
The wizard blocks nothing. Even with half-finished settings you can schedule an appointment, ring up a sale and open a client record. What is not filled in yet is simply missing — it never stands in your way.
As long as the wizard is unfinished, a block at the top of your overview screen takes you back to the first step that is waiting. Click Not now and it is gone until you log in again. Once all four steps are done, the block disappears for good.
Step 1 — Opening hours
Seven switches, one per day, with a start and end time.
Whatever is closed here is not offered on your booking page. So actually switch off what is closed: leave a day open and a client will see a slot there — and that slot gets booked.
No day is closed by default. HairConnect does not know when you are shut and will not fill that in for you.
The window in which you see the agenda on screen is set separately under Settings → Opening hours. It makes nothing bookable or unbookable.
Step 2 — Staff
Everyone who gets a column in your agenda.
Switch on This is a cabin or chair for anything that is not a person — a wash basin, a cabin. Those get scheduled too, and in HairConnect's model they are simply a schedulable place alongside your staff.
This step never removes anyone. If you take a row out before saving, that person is simply not created. Whoever already exists stays; taking someone out of service is done under Salon → Staff.
Step 3 — Services
Per service: a name, a duration and a development time.
That development time is what this whole package is built around. For a colour you work for 30 minutes, after which the colour develops for 30 minutes — and during that time you serve another client. Fill it in and the agenda keeps those minutes free for you, occupying only the chair. Leave it at 0 and the service is one continuous block.
Name your services the way your client recognises them. "Women's cut" means something to someone; an internal code does not.
Prices are not filled in here. What you charge is your decision, and no amount is invented for you. Set them yourself under Salon → Services, and only then switch on Show prices on your booking page.
Step 4 — Booking page
Your welcome message, your cancellation terms, and the windows within which a client may cancel or reschedule on their own.
Two switches make the biggest difference:
- "No preference" allowed — this is the button that opens up an otherwise full week. Without it, a client attached to one particular hairdresser often sees nothing free and does not book.
- Have the e-mail address confirmed — stops the no-shows who had a typo in their address and therefore never got a reminder.
Everything in this step can be refined afterwards under Settings → Online booking; there are more options there than here.
Skipping a step
Skip this step saves nothing and ticks nothing. The step stays outstanding and surfaces again by itself when you come back. Skipping is postponing, not deciding.
Continue later takes you back to the overview screen.
Returning to a step
Click any step in the list on the left, including one already ticked. You will see what you filled in earlier and can update it. A finished wizard stays accessible.
Done?
Once the four steps are complete, the wizard shows the link to your own booking page. Walk through it once the way a client sees it, from service to confirmation. That is the only check that counts.
After that there is still work outside the wizard: your salon details and VAT number, your branding, your work schedules, your products and your e-mail settings. They are listed in Setting up the salon.