Why You Need a Top Salon Software This Wedding Season

Your wedding day is probably the most important day of your life. You want that perfect wedding with beautiful hair, a luxury manicure, enjoy relaxing spa packages or full body massage with your bridesmaids... imagine the horror, then, if you turn up at the salon and the receptionist had forgotten your booking and they not can’t fit you in before your big day.

This is a scenario that you simply can't afford to happen as a salon owner as you would end up with no customers. You need customer service to go perfectly, especially during the busiest time of year—wedding season! All salon owners and managers know that wedding season is the busy season. Keeping things organized is essential during this time and having a reliable software system to help you do so makes everything easier.

For many salons, wedding season is their “Black Friday.” It’s the time of year that puts them in the black financially speaking and is an essential part of their success. Unfortunately, as exciting and necessary as this season is it is also the most stressful time of year for salons. In order to manage it effectively and make the most of this annual opportunity, you need a plan and you need to be sure things run smoothly.

Our salon software program is a tool that can be used to manage your busiest time of year and ensure you come out of it looking like a professional, well-managed establishment.

What do the top salon software programs offer?

Appointment Scheduling

The best system provides a variety of features related to scheduling appointments for your clients. You’re able to send reminders with just one click and you can create multiple bookings—something that is essential during wedding season.

It should also be easy to view the availability of your rooms and services providers in any given time period, which makes it easy to handle multiple people per wedding party for multiple weddings. This balancing act that occurs in salons during wedding season is one of the main reasons businesses trip up and look unprofessional. The best software ensures you can juggle large parties without stress or mistakes.

Top salon software also offers the ability to see appointment details on screen, so you’re able to quickly check in clients or, if necessary, reschedule appointments. It can also make it easy to contact and confirm appointments and look at client profile details. This ensures you’ll know who belongs to whom when it comes to dealing with wedding parties.

Personalized Service

One of the best parts of using a salon software program to help you through wedding season is it allows you to provide the customized service brides and their wedding parties crave. There are few more special events in a person’s life than their wedding and the role the salon plays during a wedding is essential.

Software that makes it easy to view detailed information and consult with clients concerning their likes and dislikes is essential. You’ll be able to provide clients with a managed salon experience for their big day—taking one less burden off their plate. The most reliable programs help your staff feel confident, so you’re able to help brides and their wedding parties relax and enjoy their prep time.

Day-of Service

Your busiest days during wedding season—usually Saturdays—tend to get hectic in the salon. Using salon software makes it easy to see the current activity within your salon. You need to be able to view which rooms and stylists are active and which need maintenance. This makes day-of service management easier than ever and frees up managers to deal with other issues that are bound to arise during these crazy days.

You need a software program that is customized for your salon, allowing you to see a layout of each room. One that offers layouts featuring hundreds of room types configured to the services you offer. 

Staff

The client experience is only one part of why it’s essential to utilize top salon software this wedding season. You also need to make sure your staff is organized, which, in turn, helps you make that client experience even better.

The software allows you to organize employee schedules—one of the most frustrating wild cards that can throw you off track on your busiest days. Employees need to be able to view their work schedules, deal with the time cards, and evaluate their tasks for the day. Instead of having to oversee and micromanage your employees, you have the option of automating a great deal of staff management so everyone is able to focus on other their job.

Finances

​Another important feature of top salon software is its ability to help you automate the financial aspects of your business. You don’t need to be wasting time worrying about money and bank issues when you have a full salon of clients. A salon software program can help you identify which EFTs were processed successfully, if there were declines, or if there is missing information you need. It should also be easy to bill clients and deposit money into your account. This time of the year is essential to your salon’s bottom line and you need to take a no-nonsense approach to managing your finances.

There are other financial aspects of your business salon software can help you manage, too.

If you’re trying to generate business for wedding season, a salon software program can help you discount certain products or services automatically. This means you won’t need to deal with discounts at the register. Looking to promote your wedding services or encourage brides to bring their wedding parties in for day-of services? Discounts and coupons can help.

Inventory

​Finally, you need to be sure you have what you need when you need it. Managing inventory becomes even more important when you’re dealing with back-to-back appointments with multiple clients in single parties. Imagine running out of something you need at the worst possible time—that’s what would happen if you don’t have a solid inventory organization structure in place during.

Best of all, with a salon software program in place before wedding season, you’ll be able to deal with restocking well in advance of the rush. This frees up your time to focus on clients and allows you to relax in terms of whether or not you’ll have what you need.

​If you would like to know more about how our top salon software can help you this wedding season, give us a call or email, or fill out the contact form to get in touch.