Makeup artist booking software for Canadian weddings and events
Canadian wedding season is short and crowded, and a bride enquiring in November is usually asking about a Saturday next July. Slotora lets you take that date as a request you approve, price the bridal party per face, charge a call-out fee for the drive to the venue, and keep the trial as its own appointment months earlier. Run it for 14 days; after that it is one monthly subscription in Canadian dollars.
Try Slotora for 14 daysOne wedding, from the enquiry to the morning
How each stage maps onto a setting.
Enquiry
Open next summer to bookings
Guests can book ninety days ahead until you change it; raise it as far as two years, so a July date can be asked for in the autumn. Let her attach a reference picture or two to the booking.
Request
Approve the date before it is confirmed
Take bookings as requests and nothing is confirmed until you say yes. Know the trade-off: while a booking is a request, no money is taken. When you approve, she gets an email with a payment link for the deposit, so she needs to have given an email address.
Trial
Keep the trial as its own service
Give it its own length and price and limit it to the weekday evenings you actually do trials. It is a separate appointment on her card, not linked to the wedding; your notes on the card tie the two together.
Party
Price the morning per face
A service can take more than one person with a price for each one beyond the first. Set its length for the whole morning, because the diary reserves the service's length, not one face times the headcount.
Morning
Add the drive
Travel minutes before and after a service block the diary while you are on the road, and a call-out fee is added to the visit as its own line.
What a deposit really protects
A deposit through your own Stripe account makes a cancellation cost something; it does not stop one. Whether you keep it depends on a cancellation window in hours before the start, and that window starts at zero, which means every cancellation is refunded until you set it. A booking you cancel yourself always refunds the client.
Set the window to match your contract, put a sizeable deposit on the wedding morning and none on the trial, and write the same terms into the booking policy that travels with her confirmation email, so the contract and the email never disagree.
Working on location
Where you travel to
A distance from your base or a list of towns, and a call-out fee that can be the same everywhere or set by zone. An address outside it is politely refused on the booking page.
The day's route
Your on-location bookings for one day in order, with the estimated drive between them, a warning where a gap is too short, and Google Maps links for each stop.
A safety check-in
Ask whoever goes out to check in on arrival and on leaving, so someone knows where the artist is at six in the morning.
Statutory holidays and long weekends
Your province's holidays are listed on the hours page. A wedding on Canada Day or Labour Day weekend is your choice, not the diary's.
Two things a bridal artist will not get
- The party is a count, not a list of people
- A per-person service records how many faces and the total. There is no list of names with their own times, and a per-person service cannot be combined with another treatment in the same booking. Keep your running order of the morning yourself.
- No text the morning before
- Confirmations and reminders go by email; Slotora does not send texts to Canadian numbers yet. Square Appointments' Canadian page, read today, includes text reminders on all plans, though its no-show and cancellation fees are only on its paid Plus and Premium plans.
Makeup artists ask
Can a bride book a date a year away?
Yes, after you raise how far ahead guests can book. It starts at ninety days and goes up to two years.
Can I approve wedding enquiries before they are confirmed?
Yes, by taking bookings as requests. No money is taken while a request waits; on approval she is emailed a payment link for the deposit.
How do I charge for travel to the venue?
Set the area you travel to and a call-out fee, the same everywhere or by zone. The fee is added to the visit as its own line, and travel minutes keep the diary clear while you drive.
Is there a makeup trade to choose when I register?
Choose beauty. It includes a sixty-minute make-up service among its starting treatments, and you can delete the facials and waxes you do not offer.
Do you take a cut of my wedding bookings?
No. Slotora charges a monthly subscription in Canadian dollars after the trial and nothing per booking. Card payments carry Stripe's own fee.
One province licenses makeup
Of the provincial rules we read for this page, one names makeup outright. Nova Scotia's Cosmetology Act lists the application of non-permanent make-up in its definition of cosmetology, and says nobody may practise cosmetology there without a licence under the Act. If you take weddings in Halifax, check that with the provincial body before the season.
Lashes applied on the morning fall under the same Act in Nova Scotia, which names the affixing of eyelashes as cosmetology too.
Sources
Read on 10 November 2026.
- Nova Scotia Legislature — Cosmetology Act — https://nslegislature.ca/sites/default/files/legc/statutes%20HTML/cosmetology.htm · Read on Definition of cosmetology, including non-permanent make-up and affixing eyelashes; licence requirement.
- Square — Square Appointments pricing, Canada — https://squareup.com/ca/en/appointments/pricing · Read on
Take next summer's dates as requests
Raise your booking horizon, switch to requests, add your trial and your bridal party, and set your travel area. 14 days to see the first enquiries come in.