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.
Since the end of August 2026, HairConnect exists as an app in the stores. Not a second product and not a slimmed-down version: it is the same salon as in the browser, on the screen that is lying next to the basin anyway.
That sounds like a detail, and in part it is — a web page in a shell, the purists will say. But there are three things a browser cannot do that come up every day in a salon. This piece is about those.
One: the day stays readable when the network drops
A salon in a basement, a shop in a village with one bar of signal, a router restarting while somebody is standing at the till. In a browser that is a white page. In the app it is not: today’s calendar and the days around it are on the device, and they simply stay there.
What you change meanwhile does not vanish, and it does not go out blindly either. It goes into a queue, and as soon as there is a connection again it leaves in order, one at a time. After that the day is fetched again — the server wins — and you get a report: what was sent, what turned out to be there already, and what was refused, with the reason.
One thing the app deliberately does not do: a day it does not hold locally is not shown as empty. An empty day reads as “nothing booked”, and then somebody books a client on top of another. So the app says it does not have that day.
Two: clocking in with your own phone
A time clock on the wall is a time clock somebody presses for somebody else. In the app you clock in and out on your own device, behind your own Face ID, by scanning the code on the salon screen. So you have to be there, and you have to be you.
No biometric data reaches our servers in the process. That is not just a reassuring phrase: the app asks the device whether it is you, the device answers yes or no, and nothing else passes. We only see that a clock-in happened.
Three: processing time is in there on a small screen too
A colour is not a one-hour block. You work for thirty minutes, the colour develops for thirty minutes, and in that time you serve somebody else. Anyone who plans that as a single block blocks half an hour in which another client could have been cut.
HairConnect therefore does not model an appointment as a time slot but as a series of blocks: the active blocks occupy the hairdresser, the processing time occupies only the chair. That is the heart of the package, and it was the hardest question of the app — four staff columns with hatched blocks between them, readable on a tablet operated with wet hands.
What else is in it
- The client record with the colour formulas and the history, on the screen you are looking at anyway.
- Taking payment at the desk, with the salon’s receipt printer and cash drawer attached. The same receipt and the same journal as in the browser — there is one till, not two.
- A notification for a new or changed booking, on the device that needs to see it: the tablet in the salon or the owner’s phone.
Where to get it — and what to watch out for
There is another app in the stores that is also called HairConnect. It belongs to a different company, goes with a different package, and has nothing to do with us. So do not look at the name but at the publisher: ours says Fades Management LTD EOOD, the same company that appears at the bottom of every page on this site.
The current addresses are on the page about the app. That page also says what a device needs at a minimum — iOS 16 or Android 8 — and what the app is not meant for. In short: it is for the salon, not for your clients. They simply book on your own booking page, and nobody has to install anything for that.
No salon in HairConnect yet? The app signs in to your own business, so start there: you can try it for thirty days with your own data.