Appointment & scheduling software
Salon management software for appointments — not an all-in-one suite
Appointly manages the appointment side of your salon: one shared calendar, real opening hours and closed days, service durations, parallel capacity, and automatic WhatsApp confirmations and 24-hour reminders. It does not do billing, GST, POS or CRM — and says so.
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What does Appointly manage — and what does it not?
Appointly manages appointments: an online booking page, one shared salon calendar, weekly opening hours, per-date holiday closures, service durations, a cap on parallel bookings, automatic WhatsApp confirmations and 24-hour reminders, customer self-reschedule until 2 hours before, and simple booking insights. It is not a full salon management suite: there is no CRM, no POS, no GST invoicing, no inventory, no payroll or commissions, no per-staff calendars and no multi-location management. If you need those, keep your existing tools and use Appointly for bookings and reminders.
Scheduling problems every small Indian salon knows
Two clients booked at 4 PM in the diary. You notice when the second one walks in.
One shared calendar in Appointly. When a slot is booked online, it disappears from availability instantly.
Clients book at 9 PM Sunday when the salon is closed. You spend Monday morning apologising.
Weekly opening hours and per-date closures. The booking page only shows real available slots.
Festival week: too many parallel appointments and you're overwhelmed.
Global max-parallel-capacity plus per-date overrides. Cap 11 AM to 3 bookings on Karva Chauth without redoing your calendar.
Rescheduling is a phone-call ping-pong: 'is 5 free?', 'no try 6', 'busy, try 7'.
Clients pick a new slot themselves from the WhatsApp manage link until 2 hours before. You don't answer the call.
The scheduling features that keep the day under control
Weekly opening hours
Set Monday–Sunday opening hours once. Bookings can only land inside those windows.
Per-date closures & holidays
Block Diwali, Holi, Rakhi, a wedding you're attending or a full week off. Booking page respects them.
Service durations
Each service has its own duration in minutes — a facial isn't booked into a 15-minute gap meant for threading.
Global parallel capacity
Cap how many appointments can run at the same time so 6 bookings at 11 AM don't crash into each other.
Per-day capacity overrides
Lower capacity on festival day, raise it on a slow Tuesday — without redoing your weekly schedule.
Shared salon calendar
One calendar the whole team sees on the Android app or web dashboard. No parallel calendars to reconcile.
Auto-confirm + 24-hour reminder
Every scheduled booking gets an instant WhatsApp confirmation and a reminder the day before. No missed messages.
Client self-reschedule
Clients change their slot themselves until 2 hours before. The freed slot goes back to online availability.
What proper scheduling software changes at a small salon
Zero double bookings
One shared calendar and live availability on the booking page mean the diary contradiction ends today.
Bookings only when you're open
Real opening hours and holiday closures on the booking page — no 9 PM Sunday bookings you didn't want.
The day flows, not chaos
Duration and parallel-capacity limits stop back-to-back overlaps and 4-clients-at-once panic.
Fewer no-shows
Automatic 24-hour WhatsApp reminders catch the client who genuinely forgot.
Reschedules without a phone call
Clients pick a new time themselves from the manage link. The freed slot appears online for someone else.
Mobile-first for Indian owners
Manage everything from an Android phone in your apron pocket — no laptop required.
How Appointly works
A single, WhatsApp-first flow from setup to completed appointment.
- Step 1Salon sets services
- Step 2Share booking link or QR
- Step 3Customer books online
- Step 4WhatsApp confirmation
- Step 5Owner notification
- Step 6Appears in dashboard
- Step 724-hour reminder
- Step 8Reschedule before cutoff
- Step 9Appointment completed
How it looks on WhatsApp
Your client never installs an app. The booking happens online and the confirmation and 24-hour reminder are delivered through WhatsApp.
Why small salons choose Appointly
No inflated stats. Just the reasons owners tell us they made the switch.
Easy to set up
Add services, opening hours, share your link — you're taking bookings the same evening.
WhatsApp-first
Confirmations and 24-hour reminders go out on the channel your clients already use.
Transparent pricing
One plan in INR. No per-booking fees, no per-message surcharges.
Built for India
Designed around how Indian salons actually run — WhatsApp, phone-first, quick to learn.
No complicated software
No POS jargon, no long training. If you can use WhatsApp, you can use Appointly.
Works on Android
Manage bookings from your phone. A dedicated Android app is available.
Booking page in minutes
You get a public link and QR code you can share on Instagram, Google or a poster in your salon.
For non-technical owners
Clear labels, no dashboards you have to decode, help when you need it.
Appointly scheduling vs the tools salons currently use
| Feature | Appointly | Paper diary | Google Sheets | WhatsApp chat |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live availability for clients | ✓ | — | — | Only if you reply |
| Blocks bookings outside opening hours | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Per-date holiday closures | ✓ | Manual | Manual | Manual |
| Service duration awareness | ✓ | — | Manual | — |
| Prevents double bookings | ✓ | — | Manual | — |
| Auto 24-hour reminder | ✓ | — | — | Manual |
| Client self-reschedule | ✓ | — | — | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Appointly right for you?
A short, honest self-check so you can decide in under a minute.
Recommended for
- Small and independent salons, spas and clinics
- Owners who want customers to book without calling
- Businesses already using WhatsApp with clients
- Solo stylists, home salons and mobile artists
- Salons that want fewer no-shows via automatic reminders
- Owners comfortable with an Android phone
Not ideal for
- Large chains needing multi-branch reporting
- Salons that need a full point-of-sale with cash drawer
- Businesses that require GST invoicing inside the tool
- Teams needing complex per-staff shift and payroll management
- Salons that need inventory or product stock tracking
- Businesses that need built-in CRM or loyalty campaigns
Manage your salon's appointments from one shared calendar
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