Salon Booking Software That Fills Your Chair

Running a salon means you're paying for a stack of software that barely talks to each other: Fresha or Timely for bookings, Xero for invoicing, Mailchimp for email campaigns, and maybe Podium or Google Business tools for review management. Each subscription adds up, and you still end up copying client details between systems or manually reconciling your till at the end of the day. OneBookPlus brings bookings, client management, invoicing, reminders, review requests, and marketing into one platform built specifically for Australian hair salons, beauty studios, barbers, and spas.

The system is designed around the client journey. A new customer finds your booking page through Instagram, Google, or your website and books an appointment online, choosing their service, preferred stylist, and a time that suits them. They receive an automatic confirmation email immediately. Twenty-four hours before the appointment, OneBookPlus sends a reminder to reduce no-shows. When they arrive, you can see their full profile: previous visits, invoices, and the notes you keep on their record, special instructions included. After the service, you process payment and send a GST-compliant invoice. Then OneBookPlus automatically sends a polite review request with a direct link to your Google Business listing.

Your Daily Workflow

Imagine a busy Saturday. You arrive at the salon and open your OneBookPlus dashboard: sixteen appointments booked across three stylists, two of which came in overnight through your online booking page. A regular client messages asking to reschedule her balayage. You pull up her profile, see her visit history and notes, and move the appointment in two taps. She gets an updated confirmation automatically. Walk-ins during the day are added to the schedule with a quick tap. At checkout, each service is invoiced with GST calculated automatically. End of day: you close the till, check your dashboard: $3,400 across card and cash, twelve clients served, two no-shows flagged. On Monday, you send a bulk review request to Saturday's clients. The invites go out automatically, timed to land when the visit is still fresh.

Takings & Accounting

Every checkout writes an invoice, and the payment taken against it is recorded there and then, card or cash. Cash takings are counted off in the end-of-day till screen. Product expenses, rent, and supplier costs are tracked and categorised, entered by hand or drafted from a photographed receipt, so you can see your real salon profitability, not just turnover. GST is calculated on every invoice and expense. When BAS time arrives, export a clean summary of GST collected and GST paid in one click. No more weekend spreadsheet sessions or shoebox accounting.

Getting Started

Sign up in under five minutes. No credit card, no lock-in contract. Add your services, durations, prices, and team members. Upload your logo and customise your booking page colours to match your salon branding. Share the booking link on your Instagram bio, Facebook page, and Google Business profile. Most salons receive their first online booking within a day of going live. The free plan supports up to 250 contacts, 10 invoices a month, and automated reminders, enough to test the system on real appointments before upgrading. Paid plans start at a fraction of what Fresha charges in per-booking commissions.

Most salon software stops at the front desk. The bookings look after themselves, but the money side still means a separate accounting subscription, a shoebox for the bookkeeper, or a Sunday night with a spreadsheet. OneBookPlus treats salon accounting as part of the same workflow as the appointment book: every checkout becomes a GST-compliant invoice, every colour order or rent payment is an expense against the business, and the reports draw on live figures rather than a month-old export.

Bookkeeping that keeps up with the chair

The books build themselves out of the day you already worked. Each checkout records the payment against its invoice, card or cash, the till is counted off at close, and supplier costs (colour, foils, retail stock, rent) go on as you buy them, keyed in or drafted from a photo of the receipt. GST is calculated on every sale and every expense, so the BAS summary is ready when the quarter closes, and profit and loss shows what each month actually made after product costs, not just turnover. See the finance and accounting features for the full picture, or sanity-check a quarter with the GST calculator.

Payroll and the Hair and Beauty Award

Wages are the biggest line in most salons, and the Hair and Beauty Industry Award 2020 makes them fiddly: classification levels for stylists, apprentices and beauty therapists, penalty rates, and super on top. The Rostering & Payroll add-on ($29/mo, 14-day trial) rosters your staff, turns their hours into a pay run, and calculates PAYG withholding to the current ATO tax schedules, plus penalty loadings, leave accrual and super guarantee, then produces payslips and an ABA file you upload to your bank. Commission tracking per stylist sits on the Growth plan. You set the pay rates, and the Hair and Beauty Award rates guide keeps the current classification minimums on hand while you do. Two things OneBookPlus does not do: it does not lodge Single Touch Payroll pay events to the ATO, so you keep reporting each pay run through STP-enabled software, and super is calculated and recorded against its quarterly due date rather than sent to the funds, so you still pay it through your clearing house. Everything else stays in one login, where the Saturday takings, the stylist wages and the BAS all agree with each other.