Solutions · Hair salons
Run your salon on one platform.
Appointments, POS, marketing, website, and AI—built in. Faster checkouts, fewer no-shows, happier clients.
What that day adds up to
- 0%
- of tips taken by NeonO
- Tips route to the people who earned them and payroll exports on what the floor actually made.
- One ledger
- service, retail, tips and payroll
- Nothing to reconcile at close — the day is already balanced when the lights go off.
- 15–30%
- of mixed colour is discarded per service
- Colour Studio prices every bowl to the gram, so that waste stops hiding inside product cost.
- Industry Benchmark · professional beauty distributor waste studies
Appointments, POS, marketing, website, and AI—built in. Faster checkouts, fewer no-shows, happier clients.
- 99.9% uptime
- 2-tap checkout
- No add-on traps
- Colour tracking included
On every screen at the salon
The front desk, the chair, and your phone — same day, same numbers.
Start on hair salons
No booking commissions, no marketplace fees, no client-poaching.
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Cut no-shows
Automatic SMS and email confirmations and reminders go out on your schedule, with replies handled without anyone at the desk chasing them.
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Fill slow hours
Win-back and gap-filler campaigns target the clients most likely to take a quiet Tuesday afternoon.
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Fast checkout
Tap to pay at the chair, with tips split across stylists and assistants by your house rule.
Colour Studio
Stop guessing what colour costs you.
Mix, cost and bill colour in the same motion. Every gram is priced from live Metro Beauty distributor pricing, and every formula is saved to the client profile.
Colour Studio is for salons doing 10+ colour services a week. If colour is core to your revenue, you'll see ROI in week one.
- Recover $200–500/month in unbilled colour — one tap adds the exact cost to the bill.
- See waste percentage by stylist and by week (salons typically waste 15–20% of colour product without realising).
- Every formula saved to the client profile with automatic versioning.
- Three input methods: type the grams, voice command, or any Bluetooth scale.
Colour tracking, not a $99 add-on
Stop paying $99/month extra for colour tracking. Vish charges $99/mo. SalonScale charges $49/mo. Neither includes booking, POS, or marketing. NeonO includes colour tracking free — alongside everything else.
Metro Beauty pricing, built in
Live Metro Beauty pricing feeds the cost-per-gram calculation, so costs reflect what you actually pay your distributor — something no US or UK platform can do for a Canadian salon.
- Any Bluetooth scale — no proprietary hardware
- Any device: phone, tablet, or shared colour-bar kiosk
- Included free
- 15-minute setup
Colour Studio — live mix
Drag or use arrow keysProduct cost for this mix
$18.40
80g/ml mixedSuggested charge $27.60
One tap adds this to the ticket and saves the formula to the client profile. Illustrative distributor pricing — your own Metro Beauty costs are used in the app.
What changes in the first month.
Cut no-shows
Automatic SMS and email confirmations and reminders go out on your schedule, with replies handled without anyone at the desk chasing them.
Fill slow hours
Win-back and gap-filler campaigns target the clients most likely to take a quiet Tuesday afternoon.
Fast checkout
Tap to pay at the chair, with tips split across stylists and assistants by your house rule.
Free website
A booking page and link-in-bio are included, so search and social traffic books directly with you.
Track colour costs
Know your cost-per-gram, save formulas, and stop losing $200+/month in unbilled colour.
- Formula saved to the client
- Grams weighed at the bowl
- Waste flagged per service
Everything the day needs, in one place.
Appointments & Calendar
A calendar designed for stylists.
- Chair and room views with drag-and-drop rescheduling.
- Walk-ins, waitlist, and two-tap rebooking at checkout.
- Per-stylist service menus with their own timing and resources.
POS & Payments
Faster checkout, zero fuss.
- Tap, chip, or phone with tip splitting handled automatically.
- Split bills and tips across services and retail in one ticket.
- Faster payouts optional, with clear published rates.
Marketing & Reviews
Keep your calendar full.
- Segmented SMS and email campaigns with CASL-compliant consent handling.
- Automatic win-backs for clients drifting past their usual interval.
- Review requests after checkout, routed to your Google listing.
Online Booking & Website
Be bookable everywhere.
- A free booking website and link-in-bio, live from day one.
- Deposits and cancellation rules applied per service.
- Your booking link on Google, Instagram, and anywhere else you post.
Team, Commissions & Payroll
Built for owners and teams.
- Commission tiers, booth rent, and hourly staff side by side.
- Tip distribution and timesheet export your bookkeeper can import.
- Permissions so stylists see their own numbers, not the whole shop's.
This pay period
| Staff member | Pay model | Period |
|---|---|---|
| ChloéSenior stylist | Commission 45% | $1,480 |
| MarcusBarber · booth | Booth rent | $650 |
| PriyaAssistant | Hourly + tips | $820 |
Reports & AI
Insights you'll actually use.
- Revenue, retention, and rebooking rates per stylist and per service.
- Plain-language weekly summaries with the one thing worth fixing.
- Forecasts for staffing and stock based on your own booking history.
This week
Retail on the ticket
One checkout
The week, before and after.
| Today | Without NeonO | With NeonO |
|---|---|---|
| Reminders | Manual reminders, texted one at a time between clients. | Automated SMS confirmations and reminders with replies handled for you. |
| Close of day | End-of-day tally on paper, reconciled the next morning. | Instant reports and payouts, ready before you lock the door. |
| Quiet hours | Empty weekday afternoons nobody has time to fill. | Smart promos fill the gaps with clients who are due anyway. |
| Colour | You mixed 80g of colour. 25g went down the drain. You charged a flat fee that didn't cover your product cost. You lost $6.40 and didn't know it. | You mixed 80g. 8g waste. You charged $27.60 for $18.40 in product. You made $9.20 margin. The formula is saved for next time. |
Economics
What unbilled colour is costing you a month.
Set your colour volume and typical product cost per service to see the estimated monthly recovery.
Estimated monthly recovery
$259
Projection using the 15–20% industry-benchmark colour waste range, not a NeonO result.
Run the full savings calculatorThe numbers behind the model.
Published industry ranges, not NeonO results. They are here so you can sanity-check our claims against your own salon.
Industry Benchmark
15–30%
of mixed colour discarded per service
Industry Benchmark · professional beauty distributor waste studies
Industry Benchmark
6–12%
of salon revenue spent on back-bar product
Industry Benchmark · salon financial benchmarking reports
Industry Benchmark
10–20%
of appointments lost to no-shows without reminders
Industry Benchmark · appointment-based services no-show research
Works with the rest of your counter.
Payments
Card terminals
Tap-to-pay terminals paired to the till; processing billed separately at published rates.
Finance
Accounting export
Daily sales, tax and tips exported in a format your bookkeeper can import.
Discovery
Google Business Profile
Your booking link on your Google listing, so search traffic books directly with you.
Scheduling
Calendar sync
Two-way sync so personal commitments block the book without double entry.
Inventory
Distributor invoices
Enter an invoice once and every tube's cost per gram updates across the menu.
Moving over takes a week, not a quarter.
Client records, appointment history and notes come across. Structured colour formulas transfer when your current platform can export them; otherwise they are captured from your first day on NeonO.
Commonly switching from
- Fresha
- Vagaro
- Phorest
- Salon Monster
- Square Appointments
- Spreadsheets and paper
- 1Export your clients, appointment history and service menu from your current platform.
- 2We import and reconcile them, then show you a preview before anything goes live.
- 3Run both systems in parallel for a week while your team gets comfortable.
- 4Switch the booking link over and retire the old subscription.
One price list, in Canadian dollars.
Processing is billed separately from your subscription. 2.69% + $0.25 per card-present transaction (CAD); 2.99% + $0.30 per online transaction (CAD). These are all-in rates — there is no separate application fee on top.
NeonO
$24.99per seat, per month, CAD — seats 8 and up are free
- Online booking, scheduling & reminders
- Point of sale, payments & tap to pay
- SMS & email marketing
- Free booking website & link-in-bio
- Multi-chair scheduling, commission & tips
- Analytics, reports & timesheet export
Explore the platform
Every part of NeonO your trade touches — open any product for the detail.
Questions we get asked.
We're on another system — how hard is it to migrate?
Export clients, appointment history and your service menu, and we import and reconcile them with you. Most salons run both systems in parallel for a week before switching the booking link over.
What hardware do we need?
Any modern tablet, laptop or phone with a browser. Card terminals pair to the till if you want tap-to-pay at the chair; a receipt printer and cash drawer are optional.
Do SMS and the website cost extra?
The booking website and link-in-bio are included in your plan. SMS is included in your plan's messaging allowance; heavy campaign senders can add capacity, and there are no add-on traps for core features.
How do tips and commissions work?
Tips can be split across stylists and assistants by your house rule at checkout. Commission tiers, booth rent and hourly staff are all supported, and payouts and timesheets export for payroll.
Does it handle multiple locations?
Yes. Each location keeps its own calendar, staff, menu and reporting, with a roll-up view for owners and shared client records across the group.
Does it work for barbershops and spas too?
It does. The same platform runs barbershop queues and spa room-and-resource scheduling; the salon-specific tooling like colour tracking simply sits unused if you don't need it.
Is colour tracking included or an extra?
Included. Formula saving and cost-per-gram tracking are part of the platform, not a paid add-on.
Do we need a special scale?
No. Any kitchen or salon gram scale works — you enter the grams you mixed. Connected scales are supported if you'd rather not type.
How is HST handled on services versus retail?
Tax rules are set per province and per item type, so services and retail can carry different treatment on the same ticket and report separately at period end.
What happens to our client data if we leave?
It stays yours. You can export clients, appointment history, formulas and sales data at any time in standard formats, and we don't market to your clients.
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