Practical advice to fill your appointment book, cut no-shows and grow your hair salon.
No chair rent, no landlord, and a city's worth of driveways between appointments. Mobile hairdressing works in Canada, if you price the road and plan for February.
Mangomint may be the most polished salon software a Canadian owner can shortlist, and its pricing page never says whether that $120 is USD or CAD. Here is who gets their money's worth, and the verified Canadian alternatives if you do not.
Your 1 pm colour is stuck behind a snowplough and your 2:30 arrived early. Here is the minute-by-minute playbook for when the clock starts slipping.
Toronto lets a hairdresser work from a house. Calgary caps client visits at 15 a week. Ottawa draws the line at your front door. There is no Canadian answer, only your city's answer, and here is how to find it.
There is no national salon inspection regime: Ontario wants written notice 14 days before you open, Alberta wants an AHS notification, and BC wants your floor plan reviewed. Here is what inspectors actually check, province by province.
In Saskatchewan a salon cannot open its doors without a journeyperson on duty; in British Columbia nobody needs a certificate at all. Here is the province-by-province map.
No statute in Ottawa or any provincial capital requires your salon to carry liability insurance. Your city hall and your landlord are another story.
In Canada it is grad, not prom, and it all lands in May and June. Here is how to fill the chairs with updos without losing your regulars' Saturdays.
Montréal-built, bilingual, unlimited texting: GOrendezvous has real strengths. But a hair salon pays for clinic features it never opens. Here is what the alternatives really cost.
Reviews decide which salon a new client books. Here is how Canadian salons collect them steadily, reply well, and stay inside Google's rules and the Competition Act.
GlossGenius' own terms limit its service to the fifty US states, so a Canadian salon cannot sign up. Here is what Canadians searching for it actually want, and the verified options that work here.
Send an e-Transfer within 24 hours to confirm: half of Canada's independent stylists run on that sentence. Here is how to make it work without losing your evenings.
