What works now, and what is coming
This is the whole plan for a salon, on one page, and anything not built yet says so. Some of it is not built. It is here anyway, because the alternative is a feature list that mixes the two and leaves you to find out which was which after you have moved your salon across.
How to read this
A line with no mark works the day you open a salon account. Coming means it is written into the plan and is not there yet — so do not choose Slotora because of a line marked coming.
24 of these work today. 0 are coming. Nothing here is marked with a date.
The day, and who works it
The diary stops being one person's and becomes the salon's.
A column per person, all in one day view
Every colleague's day side by side, with her own hours, breaks and time off, and a single day that can be changed or closed on its own.
An alternating week
A rota that differs on odd and even weeks, because a lot of salons genuinely work that way and were retyping it every fortnight.
A login for the front desk
The whole diary, the client book and the counter — without the salon's takings or the settings. Handed out from the browser or from the app.
One stylist widened to the whole salon
For whoever covers the desk on a Saturday: she sees everybody's day without becoming a manager, and it changes nothing about money.
Opening hours for the salon, over everybody
One closing time over the whole team, set once for the salon. It only ever takes time away: nobody's own rota can put her in the building while the salon is shut, and a single date can be closed on its own.
Two people on one guest
A colour and a cut on the same visit. The second person's own day is taken for the part of it she is there for, so nothing else can be booked into her at that hour. A guest can book it online too, and the month's statement pays each person for her own part.
Clocking in and out
A colleague clocks in when she arrives and out when she leaves, who is still on the clock is on one screen, and a card somebody forgot can be corrected afterwards. When her pay agreement sets an hourly rate, her clocked-out shifts become hourly pay on the month's statement.
Rooms, chairs and machines
The thing a booking needs besides a person.
A place, a chair or a machine that a service needs
Say how many you have of each and which services need one, and the diary stops offering two treatments that cannot both happen. It is wired into every path that writes a booking, and two people racing for the last chair is tested against a real database.
Rooms and chairs on the phone
The same list in the Slotora app, so somebody who works from a handset can add a room without opening a browser.
A stocktake, counted in one go, with the difference shown
Count the whole shelf in one pass, and every line shows what the software believed, what you counted and what the difference is worth. Closing the sheet writes the difference to the stock record, not the counted level.
Retail and back-bar as a labelled choice
Each product says whether it is sold to guests, used in the salon, or both — a label of its own, not a blank price field. Say nothing and it keeps exactly what the price already implied, and the price itself is never touched.
The money, and whose it is
A salon has more than one purse, and the product has to know which is which.
Deposits and fees into your own account
Your Stripe, your money, and Slotora takes 0% of it — no commission and no per-transaction fee on anything.
Each person's money straight to her
Where somebody takes her own takings, the card goes to her own account and Slotora records which person each payment reached.
A day-close that counts only the salon's cash
If somebody rents her place, her cash is named beside yours rather than inside it, and the two add back to the day's total.
What the salon owes each person
Last month's statement, a percentage per person, retail on its own rate, and every figure showing what it is made of.
Product sales in the month's figures
A bottle sold over the counter now reaches the monthly report. Before this it did not, and a salon that sells shampoo was reading a report that was quietly short.
A rent ledger: who has paid and who has not
An amount per person, weekly or monthly, a line per period, whoever is behind at the top, and how full that place actually was. In the browser; the app shows it read-only.
Splitting one tip between several people
Say who a tip was for, from the payment it came in on: everybody gets an even share to the penny, and you can adjust it. It changes whose column it appears in on your reports and moves no money.
Knowing what happened
With several people in one diary, the question stops being what happened and becomes who did it.
A feed of the salon's own edits
Who moved your three o'clock and when, for the whole salon rather than one booking at a time. In the browser.
Guests' phone numbers hidden from the team
One setting, and the notes, tags, caution field and receipt all stay exactly where they were.
Thirty and ninety days, per person
What the salon took and what each person brought in, over a period you choose.
Taking the whole lot out again
Clients, bookings and services as a spreadsheet, or everything as one file. At any time, without asking us.
A rebooking rate
How often a visit ends with the next one booked. Slotora can tell you how many of a period's guests had been before, which is a different question, and we will not offer one as the other.
A second premises on one account
Add a second (or third) address under the same login. Each one has its own rooms and its own working hours, guests choose where they book, and their letters name that address. One country, one time zone and one service list per account — each service can be limited to some premises and priced per premises, and takings and stock can be read per premises. In the browser now; the owner's screens on the phone come with the next app version.
There are no dates on this page
Not one, and that is deliberate. We do not know the order yet — it depends on which of these a real salon asks for first, and we would rather ask you than guess. A date on a page like this is a promise that gets quoted back at us in six weeks.
Questions about this list
Why publish the parts that are not finished?
Because you are choosing a system for a salon, and the edges matter more than the middle. A list that showed only what works would make the decision look easier than it is.
Can I ask for one of these to come first?
Yes, and it is the most useful thing you can do. The order is not settled, and one salon telling us what actually blocks her is worth more than any amount of guessing here.
Will the price change when the coming parts arrive?
Nothing on this page is priced separately, and the parts marked coming are not a paid tier we are building towards.
The three in detail
Each of the built parts a salon cannot get anywhere else:
The rest of this product
The other pages about Slotora for busy salons.
- The team's diary
- Rooms and chairs
- Reports and the log
- 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.