Appointment scheduling software for beauty salons
A salon calendar is rarely tidy. A balayage takes three hours, a blow dry takes thirty minutes, and both are booked by people who found you on Instagram at eleven at night.
Obano turns those conversations into structured appointments: the client picks the treatment, the specialist and a time that fits the real length of the service, and your team sees one clear calendar instead of four sources of truth.
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Where salon schedules break down
Treatments with wildly different durations
Booking a three-hour colour into a thirty-minute hole is the classic salon mistake. Because each Obano service carries its own duration, the booking page can only offer a slot when the whole treatment fits.
Several specialists with different skills
Not everyone does colour, and not everyone does extensions. In Obano each service is assigned to the specialists who perform it, so clients never book a treatment with someone who does not offer it.
Reschedules eat the day
Salon clients move appointments more than most. Instead of a phone call in the middle of a colour application, clients can reschedule themselves through a secure link, and the calendar updates immediately.
Bookings arrive through Instagram and WhatsApp
Direct messages are how many salons get discovered, but they are a poor diary. Put your Obano booking link in your bio and in your WhatsApp replies, and the conversation ends with a confirmed slot instead of eight messages.
What a salon gets in Obano
A branded booking page
Add your logo, cover image and colours so the booking page looks like your salon, not like generic software.
Specialist-level calendars
Filter the calendar by specialist or service, switch between day, week and month, and see gaps you can fill.
Confirmations, reminders and cancellations by email
Every booking, change and cancellation triggers a message to the client and to the salon, in English or European Portuguese.
A client history that stays with you
Contact details, past appointments and notes live in Obano, so you are not scrolling a chat thread to remember which formula someone had.
From an Instagram reply to a confirmed colour
The point is to stop retyping the same three questions in direct messages.
- 1Someone asks about balayage in your Instagram messages.
- 2You reply with your Obano booking link instead of listing free times by hand.
- 3They choose 'Balayage, 180 min' and the specialist they saw in your photos.
- 4Obano only shows times where a full three-hour block is free for that specialist.
- 5They confirm, receive an email, and get a reminder before the appointment.
- 6If they move it a week later, they do it themselves and your calendar reflects it instantly.
Common questions from salons
- Can I approve bookings before they are confirmed?
- Yes. You can require approval so that requests arrive as pending and you confirm or decline them.
- Can different specialists offer different services?
- Yes. Services are assigned per team member, in both directions, so you can manage it from the service or from the person.
- Can clients cancel or reschedule without an account?
- Yes. Each appointment email contains a secure management link. No account, no password.
- Does it work in Portuguese?
- Yes. The whole product and the client emails are available in English and European Portuguese.
Try Obano with your own services and team
Set up your services, add your team, share your booking link and take your first online appointment the same day.