Tanning salon software that runs the bed list
You weren't behind. You were holding it alone. You run a small tanning salon — six beds, a couple of spray booths, maybe a red light pod, two or three girls on staff, and a printed grid taped behind the front desk that you correct with a Sharpie. Appointible is scheduling that finally sees your equipment the way you see it, so the bed your regular wants is the bed she can book at 9 PM in her pajamas. Start free, no card needed for the Free plan. Free import and export plus onboarding assistance moves you off whatever tool you're on now.
Your beds sit empty at 2:15 and turn people away at 5:40 — the schedule never sees it.
Tanning is an equipment business. The bed is the asset, the bed is the bottleneck, and most software you've tried schedules people first and beds second. That's why the lulls feel empty, the peak feels chaotic, and a regular who's been with you for years quietly drifts because it got too hard to get the bed she wants — the Tina-stopped-coming-and-I-don't-know-why moment that the system was never going to flag. You've been running a T-Max timer, exposure notes on paper, and a credit-card terminal for eleven years on software that called you not-tech-savvy. You weren't. You were holding it alone. Appointible books around the beds and booths, lets your regulars reserve their own session, and sends the reminder before they forget. Free onboarding assistance and free import and export move your client history off whatever tool you're leaving — and chat, email, and phone support stays with you after launch.
Online Booking
The bed your regular wants, bookable from her couch at 9 PM.
Booking that schedules the bed, not just the slot
Your members don't want a 10-minute window. They want bed 3, the high-pressure one, at 5:40 on Thursday. Appointible treats every bed, booth, and pod as its own bookable resource. Levels and session lengths belong to the equipment itself — set the service duration to cover the room-reset time — so when she opens the booking page she's picking the exact bed at the exact time, not asking the front desk to figure it out. The Sharpie grid behind the desk can come down. The next eleven years of this salon were never going to fit on it anyway.
Self-service booking around the clock
Regulars on weekly or biweekly schedules want to lock in their session without calling during business hours. Appointible's custom booking page lets every client book, reschedule, or cancel her own session — including the Sunday-afternoon and after-close hours when your phone goes unanswered. When she walks in, the bed assignment is already on the screen at the front desk, so the line keeps moving while you're wiping down bed 3 and Brittany is finishing a spray tan. Front-desk bottleneck — gone.
Same-day slots without the Saturday chaos
Pre-booking and walk-ins aren't a tradeoff. Pre-booked regulars free up your front desk so the people who came in cold actually get served instead of leaving. Leave bed levels open for same-day appointments and set the working hours each bed and booth actually runs. The 4:30-to-8 crush stops being a crisis. The owners who built this with their two hands don't need a different identity to use it; they need a schedule that finally matches the way they already run the room.
Client Communication
Stop missing the 7:12 PM call you don't know you missed.
Automated SMS reminders that actually land
Half your no-shows are people who genuinely forgot. Appointible sends the reminder text the night before and the morning of, with a one-tap link to reschedule if life happened. Custom scheduled notifications go out before her appointment with the prep notes you set once — so a first-timer arrives knowing what to bring and what to expect, and the front desk isn't talking her through it while three regulars wait behind her. You set the timing, the wording, and the cancellation window once. Then the reminders run on their own.
Two-way texting from one shared inbox
The phone rings while you're wiping down a bed at 7:12 PM. You don't hear it. The caller doesn't leave a voicemail — you see the missed call at 9:14 from the couch and never follow up. With Appointible, those questions come in as text instead — bed availability, spray tan prep, the regular asking if Brittany is on Saturday — and you or your full-timer answers between sessions instead of after close. Nothing gets lost in a personal phone, and the missed-call leakage you've felt for years finally has a place to land.
Regulars, history, and notes inside the booking flow
Your regulars are the majority of your money. Appointible tracks each client's session history, preferred bed level, and last visit inside the same booking screen your staff already uses. When she books her Thursday session, you see what she had last time and which bed she likes. The notes you've been keeping by hand for eleven years — preferred level, allergies, Fitzpatrick type — live on her profile, not in a binder under the counter. The relationships that made her a regular stay where they belong: at the front desk, not in a reconciliation task you do alone.
Employee Management
Get the schedule off the wall and off your shoulders.
Staff schedules your team can read from their phones
The printed grid behind the front desk works until the Sharpie correction makes Tuesday unreadable, and then nobody on the floor knows when Brittany is in. Appointible holds the staff schedule online, your team sees their shifts from their phones, and changes don't need three text threads to communicate. Time-off requests, swap requests, and shift notes live in one place you don't have to chase. The vacation you haven't booked because no one else can read the schedule? You can book it. Brittany can finally read the schedule too — and so can the new girl on Saturday shifts.
Equipment and staff bookable side by side
A spray tan needs a tech and a booth. A red light session needs a pod but no staff at all. A high-pressure UV bed needs extra room-reset time between sessions. Appointible lets you set each service's actual resource requirement — bed only, booth plus tech, pod self-serve, the right duration to cover reset — so a booking can't go on the calendar unless the equipment and the person are both free. No more 5 PM realization that two clients are scheduled on the same bed. The equipment business you've been running for eleven years finally has software that operates at the level you already operate at.
A dashboard that puts a dollar number on the leakage
You suspect you're losing revenue to walk-aways and unfilled lulls. You'd rather not know the number — and most owners are seeing it for the first time when they open the dashboard. Appointible shows you bed utilization by hour, no-show rate, busiest days, and which beds turn over fastest, so the next time you're deciding whether to add a Sunday shift or replace a bulb, you're deciding from numbers instead of from the feeling in your chest.
Start appointment booking in simple three steps
Most salons are taking online bookings within a week. Start free, no card needed for the Free plan — free import and export plus onboarding assistance moves you off whatever tool you're on now.
Create account
Sign up in a few minutes. No card needed for the Free plan. Chat, email, and phone support pick up when you call — not a ticket queue.
Create a booking page
Add your UV beds by level, your spray booths, your red light pod, your session lengths, and your pricing. Free import and export plus onboarding assistance moves your client history off whatever tool you're leaving — we help you get set up before launch.
Share and get booked
Drop the branded booking link on Instagram and your Google Business profile, or paste the embed into your existing site — styled to your salon's colors, not ours.
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Text marketing for win-backs and slow days
Send a targeted text to the regulars who haven't booked in a few weeks, or fill a slow Tuesday with a one-tap booking link. SMS open rates beat email, and the link lands them directly on the bed-level booking page — not a generic homepage.
Explore SMS Marketing SoftwareDashboard that finally puts a dollar number on the leakage
Bed utilization by hour. No-show rate by day. Retention and rebook cadence by month. The revenue most six-bed salons are losing to empty lulls without seeing it, on a single screen you can open in two minutes between sessions.
Explore Business Insights SoftwareAutomated reminders that cut your no-show rate
Reminders go out by SMS the night before and the morning of, with a reschedule link and the prep notes you set once. The reminders run for as long as your salon is open.
Explore Appointment Reminders SoftwareStaff schedule on the phone, not on the wall
Your team checks shifts, requests time off, and swaps coverage from the same app you use to manage the calendar. The Sharpie grid retires. The vacation you haven't booked finally has a calendar slot.
Explore Employee Scheduling AppBeds, booths, and people all bookable as resources
Assign tanning beds, spray booths, and staff to the services that actually need them. Bookings can't double up. Equipment availability is visible to whoever is at the front desk — and to the regular trying to book from home.
Explore Employee Management SoftwareFitzpatrick skin type and visit history on every profile
Fitzpatrick skin type, visit history, preferred session level, and contact info live on a single client profile via custom fields and notes — so a new staffer sees what she's safe to be on before the bed timer starts. The exposure tracking you've been doing manually for years, finally in the same place as the schedule.
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