Clients save a card when they book and pay nothing up front. If they don’t turn up, or cancel inside your notice period, you choose whether to charge the fee you set. Nothing is ever charged automatically.
Free forever for 1-2 staff. Flat €6/month for larger teams. No marketplace commission.
The diary you run the business from, with everything about each appointment on it. These are real screens from Slotivo’s demo businesses.
The tools salons ask for most: no-show protection without a deposit, clients who move appointments rather than miss them, and offers for quiet days. All included on every plan, free plan too.
No-show protection
Clients save a card when they book a colour or a cut and pay nothing up front. If they don’t turn up, or cancel inside your notice period, you choose whether to charge the fee you set or let it go. Nothing is ever charged automatically.
Every confirmation and reminder email has a reschedule link that only offers times that are really free, so a clash becomes a new booking, not an empty chair.
Percentage or fixed-amount codes, limited to chosen services, a number of uses, once per client or a closing date. Fill a slow Tuesday without discounting Saturday.
Write your own booking terms. The booking page links them next to a cancellation policy written from the notice and refund settings you actually enforce.
Show “From £85” where length and thickness change the price, and group the menu into categories so clients find balayage without scrolling past every cut.
Drag services into the order clients see them, so the treatments you want booked are the first they find.
Slotivo flags the fee and you make the call, so a regular with a genuine emergency never gets charged by a machine.
Clients save a card through Stripe when they book and tick a consent box. They aren’t charged anything.
Set the fee as a percentage or a fixed amount (never more than the service price), and how many hours’ notice clients must give. 48 hours is the default.
A late cancellation or a booking you mark as a no-show shows a fee to review. You press Charge or Waive, on the web or in the Pro app.
Refund a fee in full or in part. If the client’s bank asks them to approve the charge, Slotivo emails them a link to do it.
In Settings → Payments choose “Card on file instead of a deposit”, then set your fee and notice period.
Your booking page shows the policy, asks for consent and saves the card to your own Stripe account. Bookings you make by phone or for walk-ins are never asked for a card.
A late cancellation or no-show appears as a fee to review. Charge it, waive it, or refund it later. Reports keep fees separate from booked takings.
No. Slotivo only flags that a fee is due. The business decides whether to charge it or waive it.
Card on file replaces a salon-wide deposit. A service that has its own deposit still takes the deposit, so you can keep deposits for your longest or most valuable treatments.
No. Card on file is included on every plan, including the free plan. Stripe charges its standard fee on any fee you collect.
The fee shows as failed with the reason, and you can try again later or let it go.
No. Clients save their card on your online booking page, and any fee is charged through your own Stripe account.
Set up your services, staff, opening hours, deposits and optional modules after signup. You can publish when everything is ready.
The things that are different for Irish salons, clinics and studios.
Free for one or two staff. Bigger teams pay a flat €6 a month for unlimited staff, billed in euro, so there’s no sterling price to convert.
Add St Brigid’s Day, St Patrick’s Day and the June, August and October bank holidays as closed dates, and clients can’t book you on them. Your booking page runs on Irish time.
Hairdressing moved to the 9% VAT rate on 1 July 2026. You only have to register for VAT once your services pass €42,500 in a rolling 12 months. Set your prices the way you charge them; Slotivo doesn’t add VAT to your clients’ bookings.
Phorest, founded in Dublin, is the name many Irish salons know. It suits larger salons that want marketing built in. Slotivo is for teams that want online booking and deposits without a per-staff bill.
Slotivo vs Phorest →VAT details from Revenue and Budget 2026, checked September 2026. This isn’t tax advice; check your own position with Revenue or your accountant.