Lash tech booking software for Canada's lash artists
Two and a half hours of volume is the most expensive slot in your week to lose, and in a Canadian February it is also the easiest. Slotora lets clients book your sets and fills online, holds a patch test in front of a first appointment, and takes the deposit that makes a snow-day cancellation cost something. Try it for 14 days; after that it is a monthly subscription in Canadian dollars and never a cut of your appointments.
Start the 14-day trialHow a lash week is built in Slotora
Register as a lash tech and these arrive as starting points with lengths, ready to change.
Each set at its own length
Classic at 120 minutes, hybrid at 135, volume and mega volume at 150, a fill at 60, a removal at 30 and a lift at 60. Change any of them; the booking page only offers a start where that length fits before your next client.
Patch test before a first set
A service can require a valid patch test. Set to require, a new client without one cannot book the full set online and is pointed at the patch test instead, which by default has to be at least 48 hours earlier. A softer setting warns her and lets her book.
An age tick for tints
A service can ask the client to confirm she is at least 16 or 18 before she books. It is a tick and the time she ticked it, kept on the booking; Slotora does not check an ID, and says so.
The fill on your cycle, not hers
Each lash service can carry its own refill interval — three weeks for a fill, never for a removal — and the next-appointment suggestion uses it. The reminder letter that goes with it respects Canada's anti-spam rules, explained below.
Deposits: Stripe, or the e-transfer your clients already send
Connect your own Stripe account and a full set can take a percentage, a fixed amount or the whole price at the moment of booking, in Canadian dollars, straight into your account. A fill can carry nothing at all. A late-cancellation window decides when a deposit is kept; it starts at zero hours, so set it before your first stormy week.
Many solo lash artists in Canada would rather ask for an Interac e-transfer than a card. Slotora can work that way too, with one caveat. Switch your page to take bookings as requests, send your e-transfer details yourself, and approve the request when the money lands. Record the transfer on the booking as a bank transfer so the balance is right. What Slotora cannot do is see your bank account: nothing is matched automatically, and while a request is waiting no card is taken either.
Where Slotora will disappoint a lash artist
- Reminders are email only in Canada
- Texts to Canadian numbers are not switched on yet. A client who never reads email will not be reminded by us; a quick message from your own phone the evening before is still the safety net.
- The lash map is fields, not a drawing
- Curl, thickness and five zone lengths are typed in, visit by visit, with a photo of the finished set. If you are used to tapping lengths onto a drawn eye, that picture is not here.
- GlossGenius may suit an American look
- GlossGenius is built around solo beauty pros and publishes its plans openly. Its pricing page, read today, shows plans from $28 a month without naming the currency and does not say whether it serves Canada, so we could not confirm it is an option for you.
What Health Canada says about the glue and the lift
Lash work is one of the few beauty services where federal cosmetic rules land directly on the products at your station. Health Canada's Cosmetic Ingredient Hotlist says cyanoacrylate adhesives for eyelash extensions must be sold for professional use only, with label warnings that application is for trained professionals and that the eye must be protected and kept still while you work.
The same list caps thioglycolic acid in eyelash curling products — the active step of most lash lifts — at 11%, for professional use, and keeps peroxide products for lashes and brows to professional use as well. None of this is a booking setting. It is a good reason to write down which glue went on which client, and the lash map on her card has fields for exactly that: the glue's brand, name, batch number and expiry, next to the curl, the thickness and the length in each of five zones from the inner corner out.
Provincial rules sit on top. Nova Scotia's Cosmetology Act names the affixing of eyelashes in its definition of cosmetology, which needs a licence under the Act there. Ontario treats lash studios as personal service settings under O. Reg. 136/18, inspected by the local public health unit.
The refill reminder and Canada's anti-spam law
A booking confirmation and a reminder about an appointment she made are not marketing. A message saying it is time for your next fill is closer to it, and in Canada that falls under CASL. Section 10 of the Act lets you rely on an existing business relationship for two years after a purchase.
Slotora follows that window for Canadian salons. Its rebooking and win-back emails go to a client who has had a visit with you in the past 24 months, or who has said yes to your marketing; a client who lapsed longer ago than that is left alone until she books again.
What it costs a lash studio
Monthly, in Canadian dollars, counted by the people clients can book.
| One lash artist | C$19 a month |
|---|---|
| A second or third artist | + C$10 each a month |
| From 6 artists | C$69 a month, no more |
Prices in Canadian dollars. No GST/HST is added at present. No commission on sets, fills or deposits. Stripe's own fee applies to card payments.
What lash techs in Canada ask
Can a new client book a volume set without a patch test?
Only if you allow it. With the full set set to require a test, a client with no valid test on file cannot book it online and is offered your patch-test service instead. Your own desk can still book her, and you see a warning when you do.
Can I take deposits by Interac e-transfer?
Yes, by hand. Take bookings as requests, send your e-transfer details, approve once the money arrives and record it as a bank transfer on the booking. Slotora does not connect to your bank, so nothing is detected or matched for you.
A client cancels the morning of a snowstorm. What happens to her deposit?
That depends on the cancellation window you set in hours before the start. Inside it, the deposit is kept; outside it, it is refunded. Because you might want to be kinder on a day the roads are closed, a booking you cancel yourself always refunds.
Do clients need to download an app?
No. Your booking page opens in the browser on her phone, she books without an account, and her confirmation email carries a link to move or cancel. You run the day from the Slotora app on your own phone.
Will Slotora send texts before appointments?
Not to Canadian numbers yet. Email confirmations and reminders are included, and you can stack more than one reminder at the times you choose.
Put a patch test in front of your first set
Add your sets at their real lengths, make the full set require a test, and choose card or e-transfer deposits. You have 14 days to run it on real clients first.
Sources
Read on 10 November 2026. Product rules and statutes summarized for orientation only.
- 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 Cyanoacrylate eyelash adhesives, thioglycolic acid in eyelash curling products, peroxide.
- Nova Scotia Legislature — Cosmetology Act — https://nslegislature.ca/sites/default/files/legc/statutes%20HTML/cosmetology.htm · Read on
- Ontario e-Laws — O. Reg. 136/18, Personal Service Settings — https://www.ontario.ca/laws/regulation/180136 · Read on
- Justice Laws — CASL, section 10 — https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/E-1.6/page-2.html · Read on
- GlossGenius — pricing — https://glossgenius.com/pricing · Read on Plans shown with a dollar sign, currency not named; Canadian availability not stated.