Booking software for brow artists across Canada
A brow diary is a strange mix: twenty-minute tints between hour-long laminations, and microblading clients who come back once, months later, for a top-up. Slotora books all three online, puts the patch test in front of a first tint, and lets a top-up be booked a season ahead. It runs 14 days on trial, then on a monthly plan in Canadian dollars with nothing taken from your appointments.
Open a 14-day trialThe tint on your shelf, and what its label forbids
Health Canada's Cosmetic Ingredient Hotlist puts a blunt warning on hair dyes made with p-phenylenediamine or coal-tar dyes: they must not be used for dyeing the eyelashes or eyebrows, because doing so may cause blindness. The same caution travels with other hair-dye ingredients on the list. Brow and lash tints are a separate kind of product, and products for use on brows or lashes that contain peroxide are restricted to professional use.
That is why a brow tint deserves the same patch-test discipline as a lash set, and why some tints carry a minimum age on the box. Slotora's part is narrow but useful. A tint can require a valid patch test before a client may book it online, with 48 hours between test and tint unless you change it. A tint can also ask the client to tick that she is over 16 or 18 — a confirmation she gives, stored with the time she gave it, never an ID check.
Setting up a brow menu
There is no brow trade at sign-up. Choose lashes and brows: half of its starter services are brow work, all with lengths and no prices.
01
Separate what people buy on its own
A tint at twenty minutes, a shape and tint at forty-five, a lamination at sixty, henna at forty-five. A tint added to a shape is an extra underneath it, carrying its own minutes so the shape is never offered a slot too short for both.
02
Keep tints from scattering the morning
Change which starting times guests see so a short service fills the gaps between bookings first, rather than landing in the middle of an empty hour you were saving for a lamination.
03
Open the calendar far enough for top-ups
Guests can book ninety days ahead unless you raise it, up to two years. Mark the top-up as for returning clients only and strangers never see it on your page.
04
Write the reaction where it cannot be missed
Each client card has a separate field for allergies and sensitivities, shown in red above her notes and repeated on every appointment she books.
Things a brow client does that the diary should handle
Brows and lashes in one visit
She can pick up to six services in one go; Slotora finds a time where they sit back to back with one artist and shows her the total length and price before she confirms.
A deposit that holds a microblading date
Taken at booking through your own Stripe account, in Canadian dollars. Put it on the microblading service and leave tints without one.
Reminders by email
Confirmations and reminders go by email, as many and as far ahead as you choose. Texts to Canadian numbers are not available yet.
Your province's statutory holidays
Listed on the hours page for a year and a half ahead, from New Brunswick Day to B.C. Day; tick the ones you close.
Microblading is a different conversation with public health
Brow shaping and tinting are personal services in every province, but microblading and other semi-permanent work break the skin, and public health treats that more seriously. Alberta's personal-services rules name microblading and permanent make-up alongside waxing, and a business there must notify Alberta Health Services before it offers a service. Ontario's personal-service-setting rules, O. Reg. 136/18, are enforced by local health units, which inspect premises and look at what you record about each client.
In Nova Scotia, the Cosmetology Act counts hair removal by waxing, tweezing and similar means as cosmetology, which needs a licence there. Threading is not named in the Act's own definition; ask the provincial body before you rely on that either way.
Questions from brow artists in Canada
Can I stop a new client booking a tint without a patch test?
Yes. Set the tint to require a test and a client with no valid test on file is offered the patch-test service instead. The gap between the two is 48 hours unless you set another figure.
Which trade do I choose when I register?
Lashes and brows. Brows are not a separate trade in Slotora's list, and the starter services under it include lamination, tints and henna, so you can delete the lash rows if you never do lashes.
Can a microblading client book her top-up eight months away?
Yes, once you raise how far ahead guests can book. It starts at ninety days and goes up to two years, under your booking rules.
Can I use regular hair colour on brows?
That is a product question, not a software one, and Health Canada answers it: hair dyes with p-phenylenediamine or coal-tar dyes carry a warning that they must not be used on eyebrows or eyelashes. Use products made and labelled for brows.
Do you take a percentage of my bookings?
No. After the trial you pay a monthly subscription in Canadian dollars; bookings, deposits and tips are not touched. Card payments carry Stripe's own fee.
What Slotora does not do for brows
Said before you build your menu around it.
- It will not refuse a lamination booked too soon
- Nothing on the booking path stops a client booking a second lamination three weeks after the first. The alert field and booking her next one yourself are the tools.
- No face map for microblading
- You record strokes, pigment and healing notes as written notes and photos on her card. There is no drawn brow template to mark up.
- Vagaro promises texts here, we do not yet
- Vagaro's Canadian pricing page, read today, lists one location with one bookable calendar at $35 a month and says unlimited notifications and appointment reminders come with every plan. If texts matter more to you than anything else, Vagaro offers what we do not offer yet.
Sources, read on 10 November 2026
Federal and provincial pages first, the competitor last. None of it is legal advice.
- Health Canada — Cosmetic Ingredient Hotlist — https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/consumer-product-safety/cosmetics/cosmetic-ingredient-hotlist-prohibited-restricted-ingredients/hotlist.html · Read on p-Phenylenediamine and coal-tar dye warnings; peroxide products for brows and lashes.
- Alberta — personal services regulation — https://www.alberta.ca/personal-services-regulation-and-standards · Read on
- Ontario e-Laws — O. Reg. 136/18, Personal Service Settings — https://www.ontario.ca/laws/regulation/180136 · Read on
- Nova Scotia Legislature — Cosmetology Act — https://nslegislature.ca/sites/default/files/legc/statutes%20HTML/cosmetology.htm · Read on
- Vagaro — Canadian pricing page — https://www.vagaro.com/en-ca/pro/pricing · Read on The plan price is shown with a dollar sign and no currency code.
Put the tint behind its patch test
Add your brow services at their real lengths, require a test on tints and raise the booking horizon for top-ups. Then give it 14 days with real clients.