Clippers in one hand, phone ringing in the other.

    An AI receptionist that answers in your salon's name while you're with a client, takes booking requests, cancellations and price questions, and texts them to you between appointments.

    £80 to set up, then £80 a month plus 16p a minute of call time.

    You can't stop mid-colour to lift the phone

    Saturday morning. Every chair is full, you're mid-colour with one client and there's another in the backwash. The phone rings and rings on the desk. Nobody can get to it, and the girl on the other end books herself in somewhere else before lunchtime.

    A missed booking in a salon is worth around £60 — and it's rarely just the one visit, because the client who couldn't get through goes on somebody else's books for the next two years.

    Then there are the calls you actually want to catch: a cancellation for two o'clock, somebody running ten minutes late, a client asking what a full head of foils costs. All of them ring out while your hands are busy.


    What it does for a barber shop or a salon

    Answers in your salon’s name

    Your greeting, your opening hours, on the first ring — while you're at the chair, at the backwash, or shut for the day.

    Takes booking requests properly

    The service they want, the stylist or barber they ask for, the days and times that suit, their name and number — taken as a message for you to confirm.

    Catches cancellations early

    A cancellation reaches you in seconds with the name and the appointment, so you can start refilling that slot the same morning.

    Handles "I'm running ten minutes late"

    The message lands on your phone straight away instead of the client turning up unannounced and throwing the column out.

    Answers hours and price-list questions

    Cuts, colours, foils, blow-dries, beard trims — whatever prices and hours you give John, it quotes those and nothing else.

    Texts and emails you between clients

    A text to the salon mobile and an email with the full transcript, so you can clear the lot in two minutes while somebody develops.

    A call on a Saturday morning

    SamGood morning, The Hair Room — how can I help?

    CallerHiya, I'm looking a cut and half a head of foils, have you anything next week?

    SamI can take the details and the girls will come back to you with a time. Is there anyone you usually go to?

    CallerRachel normally does me.

    SamGrand. What days and times suit you best?

    CallerThursday after four, or Saturday morning if there's anything.

    SamAnd can I take your name and a mobile number?

    CallerEmma Hughes, 07725 661 042.

    Illustrative — John writes the script around your own business.


    What it costs

    £80 to set up, then £80 a month plus 16p a minute of call time. No VAT on top — we're not VAT-registered, so the price you see is the price you pay.

    Call time a monthMonthly bill
    100 minutes£96 a month
    300 minutes£128 a month
    500 minutes£160 a month

    All three are after the one-off £80 setup, and include 16p a minute of call time. Cancel any time with 30 days' notice.

    Prices correct as of 13 September 2026

    Try it the way a client would

    We won't put a salon's name on this page that isn't a client. We don't have a salon live yet — we have a working salon agent you can ring today, built on exactly the same setup that answers the phone for a parts shop in County Tyrone.

    Ring 028 9622 8892, ask for a colour appointment, change your mind halfway through, ask what it costs. That's the honest way to judge it.


    What it does not do

    • It does not write into Booksy, Fresha, Treatwell or any other booking app. It takes the request and you confirm it.
    • It does not know who is on the floor or which chair is free. It will never promise a client a slot.
    • It does not take deposits or card payments.
    • It does not quote a price you haven't given John.
    • It does not transfer a live caller to the salon phone as standard — it takes the message and pings you.

    Standards, training and employment guidance for hair and beauty businesses in the UK come from the National Hair & Beauty Federation.

    Client names, numbers and booking details are personal data, and we handle them as your processor under UK GDPR — the rules are set out by the Information Commissioner’s Office.

    Questions we get asked

    No, and we'd rather say that plainly than sell you something we haven't built. It does not write into Booksy, Fresha, Treatwell or any other booking app. It takes the request — the service, the stylist they ask for, the days and times that suit, name and number — and you or whoever is on the desk puts it in. If your salon runs everything through an app and the phone barely rings, this isn't for you. It suits phone-heavy salons and barbers.

    It quotes what you give John at setup. Send us the price list and it will read the price of a cut, a colour, a set of foils or a full head, and say plainly where a price depends on hair length or a consultation. If you haven't given it a price, it takes the details and says you'll come back to them.

    That call is worth as much as a booking. It takes the name, the day and the time they were booked in for and sends it to you within seconds, so you can start filling the chair that morning rather than finding out when they don't turn up.

    It can tell callers your opening hours, whether you take walk-ins at all and what your usual advice is on a Saturday — all from what you tell John. It cannot see your floor, so it will never claim there's a chair free in ten minutes.

    Yes. The number on your window and your Instagram stays exactly as it is — you just forward it, either all the time or only when it rings out while you're at the backwash.

    £80 a month plus 16p a minute, so 100 minutes of call time comes to about £96 a month, 300 minutes about £128 and 500 minutes about £160, all after the one-off £80 setup. A missed booking is worth around £60, so it doesn't take many caught calls to cover it. There's no VAT on top — we're not VAT-registered.

    That's the whole point of it. It answers on the first ring whether you're at the mirror, at the backwash or on your lunch, and every call reaches you as a text and an email so you can deal with the lot between clients instead of stopping halfway through a foil.

    Yes. It asks who they usually go to and writes the name down with the request, so you're not ringing back to find out. It doesn't know that stylist's day off unless you tell John, and it won't promise a person is free.

    Ring our own receptionist on 028 9622 8892Sam answers it

    Test it with the hardest question you get all week. Then talk to John about your own setup.

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