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The first response matters
If you can deal with the enquiry while they are ready to book, you have a much better chance than if you call them back hours later.
Your team can’t answer the phone while they’re colouring hair, cutting, styling or looking after a client — but the customer calling still wants an answer. Your automated front desk answers calls, handles website enquiries, checks availability and books appointments for you.
When someone is ready to book a cut, colour or treatment, they usually want an answer there and then. If nobody answers, it is very easy for them to try another salon instead.
If you can deal with the enquiry while they are ready to book, you have a much better chance than if you call them back hours later.
Checking availability, answering price questions and moving appointments might only take a few minutes, but those interruptions happen while your team is trying to look after paying clients.
Calls, website enquiries and messages can all arrive while the salon is busy, leaving someone to work out who still needs an answer and what needs booking or changing.
A simple look at the difference it makes.
Whether somebody calls or messages through your website, your front desk can handle the conversation around your existing salon diary. Here is exactly what happens.
Your front desk starts with a natural conversation, identifies the service they want and answers the everyday salon questions you have taught us how to handle.
You choose what should be asked for each service — for example whether they are a new client, stylist preference, hair length, treatment type or any booking notes your team normally needs.
Your front desk checks your connected diary and only offers appointments that are genuinely available for the right service, team member and duration.
Your front desk offers suitable appointment times from the diary. Once the client chooses one, the booking can be added straight into your existing system.
Your team can be updated with what has been booked, while the client receives their confirmation by email or WhatsApp so everybody has the same appointment details.
The client details, requested service and appointment information stay with the booking, ready for your team when the client arrives.
We build your front desk around the way your salon works, then keep looking after it once it is live.
We set the voice and wording to match your salon, so clients are spoken to in the warm, polished way you would expect from a member of your own team.
We give your front desk the information clients regularly ask for, including services, prices you choose to share, opening hours, team members, appointment lengths and salon policies.
You tell us what can be booked directly, what needs a consultation first, what should be passed to the salon and what details should always be collected.
If a client genuinely needs a member of the salon, the call can be passed through. If nobody is free, your front desk can take the details and arrange the right follow-up instead.
You are not left with software to figure out. We handle the setup and make changes when your services, prices, opening hours, team or booking rules change.
Once real clients start using it, we can see where a question could be clearer or where the booking flow needs adjusting. We use that to keep improving your front desk over time.
You do not need hundreds of calls. If missed calls, after-hours enquiries and booking changes are costing appointments or interrupting your team, Front Desk can make sense.
We build it around your salon, connect the diary and communication tools it needs, and keep looking after it for you.
For established UK salons that want their phone and booking enquiries handled without hiring another full-time receptionist.
Try the demo →Normal use of messages and confirmations is covered. If your usage becomes unusually high, we will speak to you before anything changes.
If you have a larger team, several salon locations, multiple numbers or more complex diary rules, we will put together a plan that fits the way your salon works.
You tell us what a great salon receptionist would need to know. We take care of the rest.
We learn your services, team, opening hours, booking rules, common questions and what should happen with different types of appointment enquiry.
We build your front desk, connect the salon systems it needs, then test it with realistic booking, rescheduling and everyday client enquiries.
You try it yourself. Once you are happy with how it sounds and handles salon enquiries, we put it live.
The setup fee covers building your front desk around your salon, connecting the parts it needs, and testing realistic booking conversations before it goes live.
The standard plan includes up to 750 voice minutes each month. If your salon needs more, we will agree higher-volume pricing around your actual usage.
Yes. Yes. If you have more than one salon location, phone number or diary, we will look at what you need and price the setup around that.
No. Front Desk UK is designed to sit in front of the systems your salon already uses, not replace your diary or client records. We confirm what can be connected during setup and build the booking flow around your existing process.
Use the demo like a client would, then decide whether the experience feels right for your salon.
We will show you how Front Desk could handle a real booking conversation for your salon.
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