The concept of marketplaces has revolutionised the way products and services are consumed by the world population. The advent of on-demand availability has been like a Tsunami flooding over one industry sector after another. Uber for X has been the constant buzzword for at least half a decade now. This has started a trend of Aggregation in the traditionally personalised businesses like personal grooming and paramedical care.
An online app for business makes it more attractive and customer worthy. Despite an unstable national economy, there is a constant high demand market for salon services.
An easy to use salon software will help to boost your online presence and your marketing efforts. Using a spa or salon management software will provide safety to your valuable business records. Your appointment schedule, client information, inventory count, and sales history will be safely guarded.
Get report analysis that will help you to get a quick view of sales. Reliability plans urge your customers to return for further treatments and also refer to friends and family for services.
Given the pace of digitisation in all aspects of our daily life, it is now considered mandatory for any and all businesses to have a mobile first strategy. For Salon owners, competition from apps like Urbanclap, has made it necessary to think of having a mobile app, to be in touch with their legacy clients, as well as acquiring new ones.
Dramatically boost sales of your featured services.
Boost your customer loyalty and retention by sending coupons, via mobile push notifications - a great mobile marketing tool.
The estimated cost of developing the salon marketplace platform will be in the region of CAD 30000 to CAD 40000. Let us have a look at the features users will be able to avail on salon marketplace:
The estimated cost of developing the salon marketplace platform will be in the region of CAD 30000 to CAD 40000. Let us have a look at the features users will be able to avail on salon marketplace:
| App Users | Customers App | Employee App | Salon Owner App | Admin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic Features | Guest User | Login/Register | Login/Register | Login |
| Login/Sign up | Manage business account | Choose services offerings | Add Services Categories | |
| View Featured Services | Select speciality in category of services offering. | Add Service details | View,Activate/Disable Services | |
| Explore Different Services Categories | Select availability for preferred location for service offerings. | Add services pricing | View Registered Users | |
| Explore Location Specific Services | Accept/reject Appointments | Add Services booking time schedules | View Appointments made | |
| Explore Blogs | Explore blogs | Manage Bookings (View and Cancel) | View Registered Employees | |
| Book Appointment by selecting, location, | View Booked Services | Assign Employees for booked services | Manage Registered Salon Owner | |
| Update Appointment | View Booking History | Manage Employees (View, add, Remove) | Manage Offers | |
| Cancel Appointment | Reject Upcoming Services | View Booking History. | Manage Payments | |
| Save Packages for later use or Add to wishlist | Notifications and Reminders for booked services | Receive Notifications and Reminders | Export reports and View Analytics | |
| Choose payment type as available (COD, Online payment) | Filter bookings by week,month and year. | Manage Billing and Invoices | View, Enable/Disable Review and Ratings | |
| Report Services | Add Reviews for Customers. | View Reviews and Ratings made | Manage Inventory | |
| Book Products | Push notifications | Push notifications | Manage Products (Add/Edit/Update) | |
| Track your Order | Account Settings | Account Settings | Manage Orders | |
| Cancel your Order | Logout | Logout | Dashboard Management | |
| Add review & ratings for product and services booking | Manage CMS | |||
| Notifications and Reminders for booked services and products. | Account Settings | |||
| Push Notifications | Logout | |||
| Account Settings | ||||
| Logout | ||||
| Cost of Development | CAD 30000 to CAD 40000 for Both Android and iOS + Web Admin. | |||
It is easy to schedule appointments using the Salon app, it facilitates to block day time when you don’t want the appointments and accept online booking appointments according to your will. Managers can keep an eye on stylist or technician schedules on demand.
It has an integrated POS system. Swipe your card in the card reader, and when payment is confirmed, an auto generated email will be sent to the customer.
Glamsquad has features that are rich in client management and allow viewing past product/service purchases and upcoming appointments of clients. Using Glamsquad app, it is easy to keep up-to-date data of the client, it enables us to contact clients easily through text/emails.
Tracking product sales and inventory allows a regular stock review for quick analysis of current and future needs of salon products.
We are having a bunch of expert app developers, product managers, business analysts and UI/UX developers with much-needed experience in developing on-demand marketplace platforms over the years. The app development and integration with a salon marketplace platform will require the following resources:
Let’s Nurture is a unique pool of expert resources who will make your Salon App awesome.
Let’s Nurture is an ISO 2015:2009 certified mobile App development company. Our Android/ iOS app developers, business consultants, web developers and designers are savvy of business ideas across all industries. Their understanding of client requirements help in delivering a quality product with flawless UI/ UX with best-in-class features.
Expert Professionals for iOS/Android app development.
Experience in successfully deploying numerous On-Demand Mobile Apps.
Effective & transparent Testing Strategy.
Coding as per App Store Guidelines.
Free set-up & Deployment on production environment.
Expertise in App Marketing Services (Paid)
Based on our initial assessment, developing and deploying an app like this typically takes around 20-25 weeks.
No, it won’t affect the cost much. The development cost depends on what features you are looking to incorporate in your application. Additionally, what mobile platform (iPhone/Android) are you targeting.
Generally two types of mobile app you can think for Beauty/hair Salons or Spa:
Yes, we can integrate Loyalty programs in our apps and it's always a great way to encourage clients to choose your salon and product over your competitors.
Yes we can allow users to split their services but not every service can be split. However, we can have a service package that offers different salon services for multiple users.
Yes. In order to locate the nearby salon, Geo-location needs to be integrated into the app.
It takes around 3-6 months to develop the first version of a booking website. This includes web front-end development, back-end development as well as a basic admin panel.
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