Colour with one stylist and the cut with another, booked online in one go
In a salon with a colourist and a cutter, the most common visit is the one most booking pages cannot take: two services, two people, one afternoon. Slotora's booking page now lets the guest book exactly that — one visit, a person for each service, back to back — and the salon gets the services linked as one visit, each in the diary of the person doing it.
How a guest books it
The same booking page, with one question more when it matters.
She picks her services
A colour and a cut, say — up to six services in one visit, in the order she wants them done.
She chooses a person for each, or leaves it to you
If you let clients choose a team member, she can pick a person per service. If one person does everything she asked for, the page offers her that person first and a quiet link to choose per service; if nobody does it all, the per-service question is there straight away.
She sees times that work for everyone
The services run back to back — the only gap is each service's own buffer — so she never sits waiting for the next person. Each part takes the length that person takes, and is checked against her hours, her diary and any room the service needs.
One booking, one deposit
She confirms once. If the services take a deposit, it is one payment for the whole visit, priced for the people doing it.
What she is sent
One confirmation, one reminder e-mail and one calendar file for the visit. Each lists the services with their times and, where your team is shown, who does each one: the colour at 2 pm with Anna, the cut at 3:30 with Bea.
Her own link to the booking shows the same, and if she moves the visit from it, each service stays with its person.
On her own page the visit is one appointment naming who does each service, and „Book again” opens the same services with the same people, where they still do them — she only picks a new time.
What the salon sees
| Where | What happens |
|---|---|
| The diary | Each service is its own booking in the person's column, at its own time, linked as one visit |
| Each person's day | Taken only for her part, so nothing else is booked into her at that hour |
| The deposit | One payment for the visit, into the salon's account |
| The month's statement | Each service counts for the person doing it; a deposit paid online for the whole visit is divided between the services by what each one owed |
| Several premises | Every part at the premises the guest chose, with that person's hours there |
The switch, and who is never part of it
It is one setting on the booking page settings: „Clients may book different team members for one visit”.
It is on unless you turn it off, and it takes nothing away: every time a guest could book before is still offered, with the same person.
| Situation | What the booking page does |
|---|---|
| Switch on, team shown | A person per service, or anyone; times for shared visits where one person cannot do it all |
| Switch on, team hidden | No names: the guest just sees times, which may be shared between people |
| Switch off | One person per online visit, as before |
| A self-employed team member | Never part of a shared visit; she still takes whole visits alone |
| Each person paid to her own account | Shared visits are not offered, because one payment cannot land in two places |
What it does not do
So you know the edges before a guest finds them:
- The AI phone receptionist does not plan a shared visit yet; the booking page does, and so does the chat on it, at your salon's own address.
- The services run in the order the guest chose; Slotora does not reorder them to find an earlier time.
- Two people working on her at the same time is not something a guest can book online; the desk still can.
- Up to six services in one visit, on one day. The guest can move or cancel the whole visit from her link, not one service of it.
On the phone
The guest's side is your booking page, so it works on any phone today. In the Slotora app, the owner's screens — the setting, and a shared visit that names who does each service — arrive with the next app version.
Questions about shared visits
Can a client book a colour with one stylist and a cut with another online?
Yes. She picks both services, chooses a person for each if you show your team, and books one visit with the two back to back. She gets one confirmation that says who does what.
Do I have to switch anything on?
No. „Clients may book different team members for one visit” is on by default. Turn it off if you want one person per online visit.
Does a self-employed stylist renting a chair take part?
No. A visit is paid as one, and her money goes to her own account, so she is never part of a shared visit. She still takes whole visits on her own.
Who gets the commission?
Each service in a shared visit is that person's own booking, so what is paid for it counts towards her — a deposit paid online for the whole visit too, divided between the services by what each one owed.
Can she book it through the AI phone line?
Not yet: the phone receptionist books one person per visit. The chat on your booking page does offer it — ask it for a colour and a cut and it offers times that say who does each part, at your salon's own address.
The rest of this product
The other pages about Slotora for busy salons.
- The team's diary
- Rooms and chairs
- The front desk
- Renting a place
- What you owe each person
- 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
- One bill at the counter
- Packages and courses
- Salon software in the UK
Let the guest book the visit she actually wants
The salon account is free, with no per-seat fee and no contract. Add your team, say who does which service, and the booking page does the rest.