A website for your hair salon: what it needs
What a hairdresser’s website needs: prices, opening hours, address and a button to book. And how to avoid keeping that information up to date twice.
A client who opens a hair salon’s website is almost always looking for one of four things: what does it cost, are you open today, where are you, and can I book right now. A site that answers those four quickly does its job. Everything else is a bonus.
What it needs
- Your services, with price and duration. "From" where the price depends on length or the amount of colour.
- Your opening hours for the whole week, with your closing days. And ideally at the top: until when you are open today.
- Your address with a directions button, your phone number, and WhatsApp if you use it.
- A button to book, which stays at the top while the client scrolls.
- Your team and a few photos of the inside, so a new client knows where they are walking into.
The trouble with a separate website
If your prices and hours live on a website that is separate from your calendar, you keep them up to date twice. Raise your prices in January, or close for a week in summer, and you have to remember to change the site as well. Forget, and something wrong is online.
In HairConnect the website is built from the data you already keep: your services, your hours and closing days, your team, your address, your logo and your colours. Change a price tomorrow and it is on your site tomorrow. You do not have to do anything for that.
Only services with a public name appear. Internally a service is sometimes called "nl women"; on your site it should say "Ladies’ cut". If names are missing, the screen tells you how many.
How the site is laid out
- A bar with your logo, links to the sections and the appointment button.
- A header with your first photo across the full width, your name, the buttons to book and to call or WhatsApp, and until when you are open today.
- About us: your own text with a second photo.
- Prices: your services per group.
- Team: a photo per staff member.
- A look inside: your remaining photos.
- Opening hours and contact: the whole week, your closing days, your address with directions, and your buttons for calling, WhatsApp, email, your Google reviews and your social channels.
A section with no content is left out. The type of business you choose sets the mood: a barber gets a dark site, a hair salon a light and warm one, a beauty salon a soft one with lots of white. Your own accent colour tints the buttons and headings.
What you write yourself
| Field | What goes in it |
|---|---|
| One line about your salon | The sentence under your name, for example "Your hairdresser in the centre of Ghent". |
| About us | Two to four sentences about who you are. |
| Photos of your salon | Up to six. The first runs across the full width at the top; landscape and sharp works best. |
| Your own words from Facebook or Instagram | Paste what you write about your salon there. |
The "Write the texts for me" button gives you a first version, which you then adjust. We do not read your Facebook or Instagram ourselves: they do not allow it, and such a connection breaks as soon as they change something. Copying and pasting once keeps working.
Look first, publish later
There are two checkboxes. The first creates the site: you can work on it, but nobody sees it. The second puts it online. Until then you open a preview in a new tab. That link works for an hour; feel free to send it to your phone, but not to your clients.
On your own domain name
Without a domain of your own, the site lives at hairconnect.be/site/ followed by your salon’s name. If you already have a domain name, the site can live there. You add one CNAME record pointing to sites.hairconnect.be at your registrar and press "Check now". As soon as we see your domain pointing to us, we request the security certificate and put your site on it. That usually takes a few minutes.
How to switch the site on, step by step, is in the manual. How booking itself works is on the features page.