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A three-hour colour cannot be refilled at short notice.
Missed colour appointments, twelve months
$5,040
$140 × 3 missed a month × 12, or $420 a month. Your figures, our multiplication.
A gap in the book at eleven is not a gap you fill at noon. Sessurely takes a deposit, holds a card, charges the no-show for you, and offers the freed-up slot to your waitlist.
Want late cancels in the figure too? The full calculator splits them out and subtracts our fee.
The business you are actually in
A colour slot is perishable. The one o’clock is three hours long, and it expires at one o’clock.
Which is why a no-show in a salon costs more than an hour. It costs the afternoon.
A Tuesday at your chair
Left is how it goes now. Right is the same Tuesday with a deposit and a policy behind it.
Today
What it costs you
With Sessurely
What changes
Today
The eleven o’clock colour cancels at ten.Three hours of chair time, and there is nobody who wants a full colour at an hour’s notice.
With Sessurely
The eleven cancels at ten, inside your window, and the fee is charged.The $50 deposit is forfeited to your Stripe balance before you have swept the station.
Today
You already mixed the bowl.Colour, developer, toner, foils. The product cost is spent whether she sits down or not.
With Sessurely
The deposit covers the product before you open a tube.It is taken at booking, so the thing you cannot un-mix is already paid for.
Today
“Just a trim” turns out to be a colour correction.You booked forty minutes and it needs three hours, so the rest of the day runs late and someone else waits.
With Sessurely
Each service carries its own duration, price and deposit.A colour correction is a different service from a trim, so it books the right amount of your day.
Today
Her formula is in a notebook you cannot find.You mixed it perfectly in March and now you are guessing, in front of her, from memory.
With Sessurely
The formula is on her record.Every visit, every note, every photo of the result, in the client book on the phone in your apron.
Today
“Any chance we can do Saturday?” arrives while your hands are in gloves.You answer at seven, Saturday went an hour ago, and now you are negotiating by text.
With Sessurely
She reschedules herself, inside the rules you set.A private link, your window, your availability. The freed slot goes to the waitlist automatically.
Today
You would have to ask her for money for an appointment she did not attend.You will not do it. She has been coming for four years and it is not worth the conversation.
With Sessurely
Nobody asks. The card was authorised at booking.The awkward part happened in writing, weeks earlier, when she agreed to the policy on your page.
Deposits, the card on file, no-show and late-cancel fees, packages and gift cards, follow-ups drafted for you, and a freed slot offered to your waitlist on its own are part of Pro. Starter keeps the booking page, the client book, intake forms, a waitlist you offer by hand, and email and text reminders, free with no clock on it. Compare the plans.
What a $50 deposit on a $140 colour is worth
One sum, at salon prices, that you can check between clients.
Three missed colours a month
$5,040
A year of empty chair time at $140 a colour. Nothing recovers any of it, because there was nothing held.
With a $50 deposit on each
$1,800
Forfeited to you across the same year, on the card she agreed to at booking. Stripe’s processing and our 2% come off that, line by line here.
Pro, for the year
$599.99
An effective $49.99 a month. One recovered colour a month more than covers it at these prices.
Arithmetic, not a forecast. Most of the value is that fewer people miss at all once a deposit is attached, and that is deliberately not in these figures because we cannot measure it for your salon.
Day one
What to set, and then leave alone
A deposit that covers the product
$40 to $60 on a $140 colour is enough to make someone turn up or tell you they cannot. It counts toward the price, so nobody pays extra to book. Keep a fringe trim or a consultation free if you like.
Twenty-four to forty-eight hours
Long enough to refill three hours of chair time, which a twelve-hour window will not do. Inside it, a late cancel is charged the fee you set. Outside it, she moves herself and nothing is charged.
Then nothing
Reminders go out before every appointment. The waitlist offers a freed-up slot to the next person. Follow-ups are drafted so a client six weeks past her colour gets a nudge instead of drifting to someone else.
None of this is a tactic you can run from a notebook. A deposit needs a payment processor, and a no-show fee needs a card that was authorised at booking. That is the part software has to do. How the charge works.
Never the same word twice
A saved card is not a payment. You should never have to wonder which one you have.
- Due
- What a client still owes you. Nothing has arrived.
- Held
- Deposits already paid, sitting in your Stripe balance, set aside for a booking that has not happened yet.
- Collected
- Money that arrived, including cash you recorded by hand.
- Recovered
- Fees kept or charged on appointments nobody attended. Green, because it is money kept.
Deposit paid
$50 taken · counts toward the $140
Money already in your Stripe account, set aside for that appointment. It comes off what she owes on the day.
Card held
$0 taken · $140 on the card
Nothing charged. The card is saved and only used if she misses it or cancels inside your window.
No deposit
$0 · nothing to charge
If she does not arrive, the time is simply gone. This is the state every other booking link leaves you in.
Different words, different borders, and the amount on every row. Your accent colour is yours to choose, which is exactly why colour never carries the meaning on its own.
More than no-show protection
No-show protection is where most hairstylists start. Sessurely runs the whole chair: your own booking page, a calendar that stays in sync, and a real client book with formulas, notes and photos of every result. Add your services and deposits, sell gift cards and packages. Reminders go out on their own, and follow-ups are drafted for you to approve.
You keep what you earn. There is no commission on your appointments, money goes straight to your own Stripe account, and your clients are always yours.
Pricing
Free for everyone, with no clock on it.
Starter does not expire and never asks for a card. We would rather be paid when appointment protection actually produces money than charge you for a calendar.
So when it produces money, we take 2% of a deposit or a no-show fee, capped at $10.
Nothing on your prices. Nothing on packages or gift cards. Nothing added to what your client pays.
Starter
Free for everyone
Start on StarterNo card. No trial clock. It does not expire. Your booking page, client book, calendar, intake forms, a waitlist, email reminders and 100 texts a month to U.S. numbers.
Pro
Free for 7 days$69.99/mo
Get paid with ProOr $599.99 a year, an effective $49.99 a month. Deposits, no-show and late-cancel fees, card on file, packages, gift cards, and unlimited texts to U.S. numbers. Follow-ups are drafted for you to approve, never sent on your behalf.
FAQ
Questions from hairstylists
Can I require a deposit for colour appointments?
Yes, and per service. Put a deposit on colour, balayage and corrections while leaving a fringe trim or a consultation free. Sessurely collects it at booking and it counts toward the price on the day.
Can I save colour formulas and notes per client?
Yes. Each client has a record with every past appointment, your notes, the formula you used and photos of the result. It is on the phone in your apron, not in a notebook at the station.
What deposit works for a long colour appointment?
$40 to $60 on a $140 colour is the range most stylists settle on. It is enough that somebody either turns up or tells you in time, and it comes off what she owes, so nobody is paying extra to book.
Can different services have different rules?
Yes. Every service carries its own price, duration, deposit and cancellation window. A three-hour colour can need forty-eight hours notice while a twenty-minute trim needs twelve, on the same page.
I rent a chair in someone else's salon. Is this for me?
Yes. If you set your own prices and keep what you charge, this is built for you. The account is yours, not the building's: your booking page, your clients, your policy and your prices stay separate from whoever else works in the room, and you can export everything we hold in one file on any plan.
I am on commission at a salon. Is this for me?
Probably not yet, and we would rather say so. The deposit, the no-show fee and the cancellation window would be your employer's decisions rather than yours, and those are the parts of Sessurely that do the work. When you go independent, this is here.
Get started
That $5,040 is still sitting in your book.
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