Client management for hair salons: what counts
What client management in a hair salon has to do: show formula and allergy before the client sits down, tell you who to call, and let clients self-serve.
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On hair salons and the software behind them
What we run into while building this: in real client files, in real calendars, and in the Belgian rules that apply to a salon. With figures that were measured and sources you can check.
The app is in the stores
HairConnect now also runs as an app on the iPad at the desk and on the phone in your pocket. What is in it, why the calendar keeps working when the network does not, and where to get it.
An Optios alternative: what to check before you switch
Changing salon software is frightening — not because of the new package, but because of your history. What happens to your clients, your colour formulas, your booking link and your gift card balances.
A colour service is not a time slot. And that is where your calendar breaks.
Forty minutes of work and thirty minutes of processing are not seventy minutes of occupancy. Why software that misses that difference leaves your chairs empty, and how to model it properly.
Getting your salon data out: how to ask, and what comes back
Your client file is yours, even when it lives in someone else's software. What article 20 of the GDPR gives you, what a usable request looks like, and why an export is never finished on the day it arrives.
Your colour formulas live in a text box. That is the problem.
Eight years of colour history in a free-text field: unsearchable, undeductible, unshowable. How it got that way, what it costs you, and what becomes possible once it has structure.
Registered cash register and e-invoicing: what applies to a Belgian salon in 2026?
Two rules that get mixed up. What the official Belgian sources say about the registered cash register and about mandatory e-invoicing — and what that means in practice for a four-chair salon.
Curious how this works out in your salon?
Set your salon up yourself and work in it for thirty days, with your calendar, your services and your file.