Salon software for India that answers, even when nobody can.

The base plan starts at ₹5,999 a month, and includes billing, appointments, customers, inventory, loyalty, staff pay and leave, reports and 2,500 WhatsApp messages a month. Where you land depends on how many chairs you run and which modules you switch on.

On top of that, only what reaches a customer is billed on use: WhatsApp campaigns, messages beyond the included 2,500, and AI calling minutes. If usage would take your bill higher than you expect, we stop and ask you first.

You can try it before you pay: ask on WhatsApp and we set Salonwise up for your salon with a standard menu of services you can change, send your login, and you use it free for 14 days.

It really telephones them. The agent dials out, speaks Hindi or English, answers what it is asked, and files what came back: whether they were interested, what they asked about, and whether somebody needs to ring them.

Somebody at the salon gives it a list and presses start; from there it works through the list on its own, five minutes between calls, carrying on each morning until the list is done. It stops after three unanswered attempts rather than hounding anybody, and it only dials between 11am and 6pm, narrower than the law allows, because a sales call at half past eight in the evening lands on somebody at home.

It answers from your salon's own facts: your menu, your opening hours, your address, and a page of answers you write yourself for the questions you get asked most. It cannot invent a price: where you have not given it a figure it says so and offers to have somebody call back.

The same applies on WhatsApp. It answers in whatever language the customer wrote in, and the moment anyone at the salon replies in that chat it stops talking, because two voices answering one customer is worse than a slow reply.

No. Salonwise charges a flat monthly fee and never takes a cut of a booking or a bill. Marketplace booking platforms commonly charge commission on new clients they introduce. That model can work if you want footfall above all, but your regulars end up costing you a percentage forever. Yours stay yours.

Yes. Each salon connects its own WhatsApp Business number, and replies come back to you. It is never a shared platform sender, which is what makes a reminder look like spam.

The name shown above the message is a separate thing, and worth being straight about: WhatsApp approves a sender name against the business that owns the WhatsApp account, so until your salon owns its own account the header shows Salonwise, and your salon's name appears in the profile, the photo and the words of the message itself. We help you get your own name approved during setup.

Yes, over WhatsApp. They message the number they already have, tap through category, service, day and time, and the request lands in your diary marked as asked for, holding no chair and blocking nobody until somebody at the salon assigns a stylist and confirms it.

There is no separate booking page to build, and nothing for the customer to install. That is deliberate: a booking page has to be found, and WhatsApp is already open on their phone. It also means nothing is ever promised in your name that you have not agreed to: the times offered are your opening hours, and the customer is told outright that nothing is held until you confirm.

Most are not, and the software does not assume otherwise: a bill is the amount, the discount and the total, with no tax lines cluttering the receipt or the counter.

The arithmetic is there for the day you need it. Tax can be switched on per salon, computed on the discounted amount and split into CGST and SGST, with money held in whole paise so a total cannot drift by a rounding error, and amounts printed in Indian digit grouping with paise only when there are any: ₹1,23,456, or ₹1,23,456.50. Switching it on later does not touch the bills you have already raised.

Yes, and this is the part most salon software leaves to a diary. A salary is dated, so a raise in October does not quietly rewrite September. A month is prorated for somebody who joined or left part way through. Advances are tracked against the month they are for, and come off what you hand over at the end of it.

Attendance is marked by exception only (an ordinary month needs no taps at all), and a paid-leave allowance is counted against each person's own pay month rather than the calendar's. When somebody asks for three days off, the form tells you what those three days will cost before you say yes. Suppliers' bills sit in the same place: what you owe each supplier, with a photo of every bill, and paying one is recorded as an expense against it.

That was the design brief. Body text is 15px, every tap target is at least 44px, and the pressed state is visible enough to confirm a tap on a smudged tablet screen. A bill is three taps. Staff sign in with their mobile number, because most of them have no work email.

Setup includes loading your services, prices, staff and customer list, and training the team on the counter flow.

Yes, with one thing worth knowing before you plan around it. Each branch is its own book, with its own staff, stock, diary, takings and WhatsApp number, and a member of staff belongs to one branch and signs in there. If you run two, you hold a login for each rather than switching between them behind one.

Inside a branch, a role decides what each person may do, and there are three. An admin runs the business: settings, cost prices, expenses and what the team is paid. A manager runs the floor: bills, bookings, customers, stock, campaigns and the reports, with cost prices but not salaries or expenses. Everybody else can look up the diary, customers, services and bills, and changes nothing. What somebody is (stylist, receptionist, helper) is a job title your salon names for itself, and it gates nothing.

There is no lock-in contract and billing is monthly, so leaving is a month's notice and nothing else.

On the data: your figures reach you every night without being asked for: the day's takings on WhatsApp, and an email with a spreadsheet of every transaction. A self-serve export of the whole customer and bill history is not built yet, and we would rather say so here than have you find out on the way out. Ask us and we produce the files ourselves.