FOR NAIL STUDIOS
Built for the bowl.
The AI receptionist and business OS made for 1–4 chair nail studios. It answers the phone while your hands are wet with acrylic, books gel and dip clients with deposits, tracks product usage, and handles the paperwork so you can handle the art.
Used by independent nail techs · 15-minute setup · No long-term contracts
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"Hi, I'd like to book a balayage for Saturday..."
Booking appointment...
10:00 AM - Color
1:00 PM - Cut
2:30 PM - Balayage (New)
$1,600
avg. missed-call revenue recovered per nail studio, per month
5x
rebook rate lift from automatic 3-week fill-in reminders
100%
of your product usage tracked, per service
The phone rings on coat #2. You know how this ends.
You're mid-application, curing time running, hands full of brush and pot. The phone rings. Voicemail picks up. By the time you're done, that new gel client has already booked somewhere else.
For most 2-chair nail studios, that's 6–10 missed bookings a week. A full set runs $60–$120. A no-chip fill is $35–$55. The math isn't subtle.
And the rest of the job — sanitation logs, product inventory, rebook reminders, commission math — gets shoved to after hours, or skipped.
SalonSub AI picks up the slack. All of it.
Answers every call. Books every set.
Our AI picks up in one ring, in your studio's voice. It books fills, full sets, pedicures, and nail art consults against your live calendar, and can take a deposit on the big-ticket services to keep the book full.
- Books gel, dip, acrylic, pedis, and art consults
- Takes deposits on full sets and pedicures to stop no-shows
- Sends you a transcript and summary of every call
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Fills rebook themselves.
Three weeks after every fill, she gets a text: "Hi Dana, it's Studio Name — time to fill those nails before they lift. Tap to book." One tap. Booked. You didn't lift a finger.
- Automatic 2/3/4-week fill reminders (configurable per service)
- Waitlist that auto-fills cancellations
- Birthday, holiday, and win-back campaigns preset for nails
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What she got last time. One tap.
Square shape, medium-length, French tip with ring-finger nail art. Builder gel base, OPI topcoat. Allergic to MMA. It's all on her profile, with before/after photos. She doesn't explain it again — you don't guess again.
- Style, shape, length, and product history per client
- Photo gallery per visit, with consent stored as PDF
- Allergy and sensitivity flags surface on the profile
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30-second checkout. Commission calculated.
Tap-to-pay on a Stripe reader. Tip prompts built in. Commission splits — flat %, tiered, or booth rent — calculated the second the card clears. Monthly statements generate themselves.
- Stripe Terminal reader with tip prompts
- Commission and booth-rent splits
- Auto-generated 1099-ready monthly statements per tech
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Know your product levels. Before you're out.
Link each service to the products it consumes. Every service auto-decrements your stock. Low on that nude gel everyone asks for? You get an alert before your 10am walks in.
- Auto-decrement gels, polishes, dips, and tips per service
- Par-level alerts for the colors you can't run out of
- One-tap reorder from your supplier
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From the bowl.
"Three new clients booked by the AI in the first weekend. I didn't even know until I checked the app Monday morning."
Priya Shah
Polished Nail Lab, Miami FL
"The fill-reminder texts alone paid for the software. Every client rebooks now. Every one."
Sam Delgado
Lacquer House, Houston TX
"I used to do commission math on a calculator every Sunday. Now I get a PDF in my email on the 1st. That's it."
Emma Chen
Buff Studio, Brooklyn NY
Pricing that pays for itself in a few fills.
Every plan includes the AI receptionist, online booking, payments, and client history. One missed full set costs more than a month of software.
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Everything you need to run the studio.
Limited-time show pricing · Billed annually
+ $13/month per additional operator
- AI receptionist, online booking, and payments
- Unlimited appointments
- Service notes and treatment history
- Before/after photo galleries
- Commission tracking and tip-outs
- Daily social content generator
- Review request automation
- Gift cards, memberships, loyalty
- Email and SMS campaigns
Card processing: Stripe's standard rates — 2.9% + $0.30 online, 2.7% + $0.05 in-person. We don't mark it up. Ever.
Hardware: The Stripe Terminal reader is a one-time pass-through cost. $59 for the Bluetooth reader, $349 for the standalone.
Straight answers, no fluff.
Yes — and it sounds like your studio, not a generic robot. During setup, you pick a voice, a greeting, and how it should describe your services. Most clients can't tell it's AI. The ones who figure it out are usually impressed.
You decide. The AI can transfer to your cell, take a message, send you an SMS summary, or offer to text a booking link. You're in control of every escape hatch.
No. Keep your existing number. We forward calls from your number to the AI in seconds. You can turn forwarding on and off from your phone — answer calls yourself when you're free, let the AI handle them when you're not.
You are live in 15 minutes. You enter your services, connect Google Calendar, upload 10 photos, and forward your number.
Yes. It's a free service. If you're on Square, Vagaro, Fresha, or GlossGenius, our team will import them free for your clients, services, and appointment history.
Export everything — clients, appointments, financials — to CSV with one click. No lock-in, no fees, no guilt trip. We earn your business every month.
No. You pay Stripe's published rates directly. We make money on software, not on your sales.
Beauty services aren't covered by HIPAA, but we treat client data like it is. All data is encrypted at rest and in transit, hosted in US data centers, and scoped per studio — no one at another studio, or at SalonSub, can see your book. SOC 2 Type II is in progress.
We support Stripe Terminal (recommended) and Square Terminal. If you already have a Square reader, keep it — we integrate with Square's Connect API for in-person payments. Online payments always run on Stripe for reconciliation.
Yes. Each operator can be set to commission-split (configurable %, optionally tiered) or flat booth rent. Monthly commission statements are generated automatically as PDFs.
Not in v1. But we are happy to implement it for you. SalonSub AI is built and priced for single-location 1–4 chair studios. If you're multi-location, contact us.
Not yet, and it's deliberate. We generate three platform-tuned posts every morning with images and captions, and you copy-paste them yourself. It's a 90-second task that avoids Instagram API rule changes breaking your marketing overnight. Auto-posting is on the roadmap when Meta's API becomes dependable.
No. Trial is free. First month is the first month. Hardware is the only one-time cost, and only if you want in-person card-present payments.
Month-to-month. Cancel anytime in the app, no email required.
Your next nail client is on the phone.
Start your free 30-day trial. We'll forward your number, import your clients, and have the AI answering by the end of the week.
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