Salon schedule app

Average hours per person per week

42

Shifts each person works in a cycle

7

Hours each person works in a cycle

84

Every figure here comes from the figures you enter and the method stated beside it: your crews, your shift length, your days on and off, your people per shift and your own hourly rate. Where a guide names a published figure it names the source and the date it was read. This site publishes no legal opinion on hours, rest or pay: what your state requires of your schedule is your employment lawyer's answer, and the federal and state rules cited on each guide are the starting point, not the ruling.

A salon schedule app has one job the salon's booking system does not do: decide which stylists are in on which days and hours, so that the chairs are covered when the bookings come in and nobody is scheduled for a Saturday they were promised off. Most salons run the stylist schedule on a whiteboard and the appointments in the booking system, and the two disagree by Thursday. This page sets out what a salon schedule app has to carry, how the weekly stylist schedule is laid out against the booking pattern, and what it costs to keep it as a record rather than a photo.

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Lay out the week from the booking pattern

Saturdays and late evenings carry most of a salon's bookings, so the stylist schedule starts from the hours that need chairs covered and works back to who is in. The free worksheet on this site gives the hours per person and the coverage a pattern implies before anyone's name goes on it.

Put names on the shifts and publish a dated version

Each stylist gets their days and hours, part-timers get the hours their agreement promises, and the schedule is published with a date so the version everyone saw is the one that counts. California and several other states expect a day of rest in seven, and the published copy is what shows it was given.

Record every swap and call-out against the shift

A stylist swapping a Tuesday for a Thursday is agreed in a message and forgotten by payroll. Holding the swap against the shift with both names on it keeps the hours right, keeps the chairs covered and settles the argument when a client's booking meets an empty chair.

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Keeping the schedule everyone actually saw

Upgrading turns the worksheet into the record. The pattern becomes a schedule with names on it; every publish is a dated version; a swap or a call-out is recorded against the shift with who covered it; every person's hours add up on their own page. Export is always available, so the schedule history is yours whether or not you stay.

• Download the schedule as a file to send to the crew
• Your schedule and shift sheets without our name on them
• Save a pattern and open it again next cycle
• Your business name and logo on every printed schedule
• Take every schedule and shift sheet out at once
• Send the published schedule or a shift change to the crew from inside the record

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What a shift manager asks before running the Salon schedule app

Is a salon schedule app the same as a salon booking system?

No. The booking system schedules clients into chairs; the schedule app decides which stylists are in and when. The second has to be published before the first can take bookings for a stylist, and most salons run the two on different tools.

How far ahead should a salon schedule be published?

Two weeks is common and some cities require it for larger employers under predictive scheduling laws. A dated, published version is what shows the notice was given.

Does the app handle part-time stylists and booth renters?

Part-timers are scheduled like anyone else, with the hours their agreement promises. Booth renters set their own hours and are not on the employer's schedule; a salon that schedules them is treating them as employees, which has consequences your lawyer should explain.

Will it hold your crew's schedule, beyond the Salon schedule app?

Tell us how your shifts run today, what pattern you are on or thinking about, and what keeps breaking.

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