A login for the front desk
The person on reception needs more than a stylist and less than you. Slotora has a seat for exactly that, and this page is the list of what it opens — read out of the permission sets themselves, not described from memory.
Two seats, and you choose per person
A salon hands out two kinds of login. Nobody is charged for either, and there is no limit on how many people are on the team.
Front desk
Runs the floor: every column of the diary, the client book, payments at the counter and a refund with the guest still standing there. Not the salon's takings, and not the settings.Stylist
Her own column, her own hours, her own numbers. You can widen her to the whole salon's diary with one tick if she books for other people, and that tick changes nothing about money.
What each login reaches
Each row below is one permission set in the code, not a summary of several. Where a row says the owner, a colleague's login cannot get there by typing the address either. The table is the starting point: the rows that say „or a login you allow” can be handed to one person at a time.
| What somebody wants to do | Who can |
|---|---|
| See the whole team's diary and move an appointment | Owner, manager, front desk — and a stylist for her own column |
| Open a guest's card: past visits, notes, tags, photos | Owner and front desk |
| Take a payment at the counter — cash, card, QR code | Owner, front desk and stylist |
| Give a guest her money back at the desk | Owner and front desk — and you can take it away from one login |
| See what the SALON took today, this month, per person | The owner — or a login you allow |
| Change the price of a visit or give a discount | The owner — or a login you allow |
| Change services and their prices | The owner — or a login you allow |
| Export data to a spreadsheet | The owner — or a login you allow, and then only what she may see |
| Change hours, the booking page, payment settings | The owner only |
| See what the salon owes each person | The owner — and each person her own row; a login you allow to see reports |
Giving somebody the seat
You add the person to the team, choose which of the two seats she gets, and Slotora e-mails her a login. She never sees a password of yours.
Six permissions, per login
On top of the seat, six switches for one person: see reports, see everyone's takings, give a discount or change a price, refund, export, and edit services and prices. Each starts at what her seat allows, so nothing changes until you change it. The owner and admins always have everything.A login that works at one premises
With more than one address, bind a front-desk or stylist login to one premises or several: her diary, her bookings and her exports narrow to them, and she can only book there. The client book stays whole, and a report she may see shows only her premises — never another shop's figures.Set from the phone too
ComingThe permissions and premises screen comes to the Slotora app with its next version. The rules themselves are checked on our side, so a phone on an older version already obeys them.From the browser
The team screen, next to her name. Choosing the seat is part of adding her, not a separate settings page to find afterwards.From the phone
The same two seats in the Slotora app, so an owner who never opens a browser can put somebody on reception on a Saturday morning.Taking the seat back
One switch on the same screen. Her diary history stays — what she changed and when is still on the booking she changed.
And you can keep the phone numbers to yourself
One setting hides every guest's phone number and e-mail address from the team while leaving the notes, the tags, the caution field and the receipt exactly where they are. It is the setting a salon asks for when somebody leaves and takes a client list with her, and it applies to the front desk as well as to stylists.
Questions a salon owner asks first
Can the receptionist see how much the salon made?
Not unless you let her. By default that is the owner's, and it is a separate permission from the client book on purpose — she counts the till at the end of the day without ever seeing the month. You can switch on reports and everyone's takings for her login if you want her to.
Can a receptionist at one branch see only that branch?
Yes. Bind her login to that premises: the diary, the bookings and what she can book narrow to it. The client book stays whole, and a report she may see shows only her premises — never another shop's figures.
Can she refund a card payment?
Yes, at the desk, because that is where the guest is when she asks. An online card payment is a separate matter and follows whoever was paid.
How many logins can I give out?
As many as you have people. There is no per-seat charge and nothing in Slotora counts your team before letting you add somebody.
Does a stylist see the other stylists' guests?
Only her own column unless you widen her, and widening her is about the diary alone. She never sees what anybody else earned.
Next
The two other things a salon asks about, both on their own page:
The rest of this product
The other pages about Slotora for busy salons.
- The team's diary
- Rooms and chairs
- Reports and the log
- Now and next
- Fresha compared
- Treatwell compared
- Timely compared
- More than one location
- No per-seat fee
- UK salon software compared
- Switching software
- Self-employed stylists
- API and webhooks
- Rota and holidays
- Colour records and patch tests
- Two stylists, one visit
- One bill at the counter
- Packages and courses
- Salon software in the UK
Set up tonight, take bookings tomorrow
Register, add your services and each colleague's hours, and your booking page is live. No card, no contract, no notice period.