Practical advice to fill your appointment book, cut no-shows and grow your hair salon.
A full Saturday book, a dead Monday, a junior on day release and ten public holidays a year: how Irish salon owners build a roster that holds.
A salon roster is two jobs in one: an employment document with legal rules attached, and a plan for matching stylists to booking demand. Here is how New Zealand owners handle both.
An empty chair at 2 pm with the colour trolley already prepped is money you never see again. Here is the Singapore playbook: reminders, waitlists, booking windows and the deposit question answered honestly.
An empty chair on a fully booked Saturday is revenue you never see again. Here is the New Zealand playbook: what the law allows, reminders, deposits and habits.
An empty chair on a booked-out Saturday is money you never see again. Here is the Irish playbook: what the CCPC says, reminders, deposits and the habits that work.
The advertised price is rarely what leaves your account. Every cost line of salon software for a Singapore hair salon explained, with figures checked at the source, including the two charges nobody advertises: GST on foreign invoices and your bank's FX margin.
The advertised price is rarely what leaves your account, and in New Zealand it is often not even in your currency. Every cost line of salon software explained, with figures checked at the source.
The advertised price is rarely what leaves your account. Every cost line of salon software for an Irish hair salon explained, with figures checked at the source and a 12-month total you can actually compute.
Phorest is the hometown heavyweight of Irish salon software, and a genuinely strong product. It is also quote-priced on a one-year rolling contract. Here is what its own site and terms actually say, and what the alternatives cost an Irish hair salon.
Registering with ACRA takes a morning, but the lease, the HDB paperwork and the GST question deserve more thought. Here is the opening roadmap for a Singapore hair salon, in order.
New Zealand scrapped hairdresser registration in July 2025, but IRD, your council's planning team and your lease still have opinions. Here is the opening roadmap, in order.
No licence is needed to open a hair salon in Ireland, but the CRO, Revenue, your county council and your lease all have paperwork waiting. Here is the opening roadmap, in order.
