Nail salon software your techs actually open
Stop being your booking system. You opened a salon to do nails — not to spend Tuesday night rescheduling the seven clients your booking page froze on. Appointible is nail salon software for owners who are still at chair number three after fourteen years in the trade — booking that actually loads, reminders that actually send, a custom cancellation policy clients see before they book, and a person on the phone when you need one.
If your booking page is the reason your clients text you instead, your booking page is broken.
You know the week. Three reschedules came in Friday night. By Saturday morning two had booked someone else. You just thought it was a slow weekend. Then you opened the reminder log and found out three of them never went out. Owners we talk to are tired of paying forty bucks a month to be their own receptionist — that is $1,920 across four years to do the work the software was sold to do — and tired of watching a $39.99 plan turn into a $309 surprise bill in October. They are tired of vendors who charge them marketplace fees on regulars they brought themselves. Appointible does three things: fills chairs, kills no-shows, and lets your clients book themselves. The price you sign for is the price you keep. When you switch, free onboarding assistance plus free import and export move your client list, your gel and acrylic services, and your tech calendars over with you — we do not hand you a CSV file and walk away.
Online Booking
A booking page your clients can actually finish.
Two-tap booking for every service
Most owners tell us the same thing — their current booking page has too many steps and clients give up halfway through a gel set or fill-in. Appointible's page works in two taps. Pick a service. Pick a time. Done. Manicures, pedicures, polish changes, full sets, fills, nail art add-ons — every service shows the right duration and price so a Saturday slot does not get held by someone trying to book a quick polish change for an hour. A custom-branded link, your colors, your salon's name — not a generic vendor URL pasted on top of your Instagram.
Open 24/7, even when you cannot pick up the phone
You cannot answer the phone with your hands in dust and gel for the next ninety minutes. The text from a regular asking to reschedule, the DM from someone new asking about Saturday, the missed call from a walk-in — by the time you stand up to clean the station, those bookings are at the salon down the block. Clients book on Appointible at 10 PM Sunday, at 6 AM Monday, on the train, in line at Target. You see them in the morning. The ones who would have given up after one frozen page now finish.
A booking & cancellation policy clients see before they book.
Set a custom booking and cancellation policy per service — your terms on a polish change, stricter terms on a four-hour acrylic set. The client sees the rule in the booking flow before she confirms, so the Saturday slot the bride asked to hold three weeks out is booked under terms she already agreed to — not a one-line text and no recourse.
Client Communication
Reminders that actually go out.
Text and email reminders that send every time
Owners switching to us almost always tell the same story — they had a slow week, checked the reminder log, and three of the messages were never sent. They never knew if those clients would have come. Appointible sends a reminder the day before and a confirmation request the morning of. You can see the send log for every appointment, in plain English, with timestamps and delivery status. No more 47 minutes of demo videos guessing whether the next vendor is any different — open the log yourself before you sign.
Two-way texting from your salon number
When a client replies to a reminder asking to move from a full set to a fill-in, you do not want her texting your personal cell at 9 PM. Replies land in one inbox you and your front desk can both see. You answer in three taps between clients, the appointment updates itself, and the conversation stays on the business line. The card reader can freeze and the regulars will tip you anyway — but they should not also be the IT department keeping your booking running.
The client history that travels with the client
Every client carries her own record — the color she had last time, the photo of the set you did in October, her allergies, her preferred tech, the note that her gel is overdue for a fill and not a soak-off. It is the same record whether she sits with you or the tech who only works Thursdays, so nobody has to ask her twice and nobody starts from a blank station. The fourteen years you have spent learning your regulars finally live somewhere other than your head, where the whole front desk can use them.
Employee Management
Run your techs without becoming the dispatcher.
One calendar for every chair, walk-ins included
Six chairs, eight techs, three of them part-time, one who only works Thursdays through Saturdays — Appointible holds the whole crew on one screen. Set each tech's hours, days off, and the services she does and the ones she does not. Walk-ins drop onto the day's calendar as same-day appointments — visible to the whole front desk, not a sticky note on the mirror. Online bookings respect every rule, so the request that should have gone to your senior tech does not land on the new girl.
Pre-book the party before the week is finalized
You do not always know who is working in three weeks when the bride calls about her party of four. Hold the slot on Appointible against the salon's open hours, then dispatch it to a specific tech once the schedule is set. The client is confirmed, you do not lose the booking because you could not answer in the moment, and the party-of-four that used to get lost between a DM and a phone tag thread is on the books before you finish her gel set.
Pay for the users you actually have
Appointible is priced per user — $5 per user per month on annual billing, $8 per user per month month-to-month. A six-chair shop with six techs as users pays for six, not for twenty. When you add the new tech in April you add a user. When the part-timer leaves in October you drop one. No annual contract holding the bill hostage, no quiet jump from $39.99 to $309 when a vendor's pricing tier kicks in. The price you sign for is the price you keep.
Start appointment booking in simple three steps
Start free, no credit card. Free onboarding assistance with Pro — most owners are taking online bookings within a day or two.
Create your account
Sign up for the Free plan, no card needed, and free onboarding assistance with Pro walks you through what you want before you touch a setting.
Create a booking page
Add your services — manicures, pedicures, gel sets, acrylics, fills, polish changes, nail art — your prices, your techs, your hours, and your custom cancellation policy. Free import and export brings the client list over so you do not retype it.
Share and get booked
Drop the link in your Instagram bio and your Google profile. Bookings start coming in the same week. Free import and export plus onboarding assistance move your client list, services, and tech calendars with you.
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The features below cover the parts of the week most owners we talk to are quietly working around.
Text marketing for fill-ins and slow weeks
When Wednesday afternoon is half-empty, you can text the regulars who are due for a fill and watch the calendar fill up before close. Send a holiday promo, a last-minute opening, a polish change special — no list scraping, no copy-paste, replies come back to the same inbox.
Explore SMS Marketing SoftwarePlain-English numbers about your salon
How many new clients came in last month, who rebooked, which service makes you the most per hour, which tech is fully booked and which one has gaps. The numbers are there when you open the app — you do not have to hand-count anything to get them.
Explore Business Insights SoftwareReminders that send, every time
Text and email reminders go out automatically the day before and the morning of. The send log shows you exactly what went out, when, and whether the client confirmed. The no-show streak that made you check the log in the first place stops being a thing you have to check.
Explore Appointment Reminders SoftwareYour salon in your apron pocket
The Appointible app shows you the day, the week, every tech's chair, and every new booking — between clients, on your lunch, on the train home. Your techs see their own day on their own phones. Nobody is calling you on a Sunday to ask what time they start Monday.
Explore Employee Scheduling AppManage the crew without being the dispatcher
Track which tech is bringing in repeat clients, who needs more bookings, who is running over on time. Set permissions so your senior tech can manage her own schedule and your newer tech cannot accidentally double-book the pedicure room.
Explore Employee Management SoftwareClient records you can actually use
Every client has a profile with her service history, the color she had last time, a photo of the set you did in October, her allergies, her preferred tech, and her notes. The next time she comes in you know her gel set is overdue for a fill, not a soak-off. Your tech opens the profile and knows what to do before the client sits down.
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