Avana's online calendar fills itself with every booking the moment it's made, including the ones at midnight, and never gives the same slot to two clients. It's in every Avana plan, with your whole day on your phone between clients.
Facials and treatment courses, each with the right length, booked straight into your calendar.
Gel polish, new sets and maintenance, with a deposit that keeps the chair from sitting empty.
Clients pick their own stylist and book themselves, evenings included.
Full sets and maintenance appointments, in a calendar that never double-books.
A calm calendar with reminders, so clients arrive on time.
You set your working days and hours once; bookings from your page, your website and your Instagram DMs then appear automatically.
For each day you enter when you start and finish. Add your regular break, a free afternoon or your holiday, and those hours disappear from your booking page straight away.
Avana knows how long each service takes and only offers times where it really fits. A walk-in you add yourself in two taps.
See who's coming and what for by day, week or month. Tap an appointment and the client's whole history is there, right down to last time's colour formula.
Copying appointments from messages into a calendar is where mistakes creep in. In Avana every booking lands in the right place on its own.
A booking from your page, your website or your DMs lands in the same calendar. Nothing to write down twice, nothing lost.
As soon as a time is taken, it disappears for everyone else, even if two people are booking at the same moment.
Out and about, on the sofa or between clients, you can see who's coming, what for and how long you have.
Avana's calendar gives you all of this from your first day, and anything tied to a bigger plan is marked.
Reminders, an extra pair of hands and, from Business Plus, your waitlist all work from the same calendar. Nothing to set up twice.
The confirmation goes after booking and the reminder before the appointment, with your address. You don't have to message anyone.
When someone cancels, your waitlist gets an email about that slot straight away. From Business Plus.
If someone joins you on Saturdays or a few days a week, they get their own hours and services, and clients choose who they book with.
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On the same bill as your plan, and you can stop any month.
Link your Instagram once. From then on, an assistant answers client messages with your own prices and free times, and clients can book right there in the chat.
Sell your own course to people who want to learn your craft. You record the lessons once, the practical day sits in your calendar and certificates go out on their own.
Text reminders for clients who never open their email. You buy texts in bundles, the credits never expire and there is no extra subscription.
Avana's online calendar is your salon's appointment book online, and it updates itself as soon as a client books. In Avana every booking lands in the right place, the length of each service is taken into account, and the same slot can never be given away twice. You see the same calendar on your phone, tablet and laptop.
Yes. Your Avana appointments then appear in your own Google Calendar automatically, and your private events keep your working hours closed so no client books over them. If you use your iPhone calendar or Outlook, you can subscribe with a calendar link instead; see Google Calendar.
Yes. In Avana you add an appointment yourself in two taps, just like a phone booking. It counts like any other appointment, so that slot can't be booked online afterwards.
Avana never gives one slot to two clients. As soon as the first booking is complete, that slot disappears for the other person and they're shown the next free time instead.
Yes. In Avana you can block a single afternoon, a whole day or a period in advance. Clients simply see that time as unavailable and don't need a reason.
Yes. The free Avana app shows your whole day and lets you manage clients and bookings too. Clients don't need to install anything; they book in their browser.
Yes, the calendar is in every plan, starting at £15.99 a month, VAT included. The waitlist comes with Business Plus and treatment rooms with Business Max. The pricing page lists each plan.
When a client pays online, a small service fee is part of the price they see from the very first screen: 3% of the booking, at least £1.49 and at most £2.29. You pay nothing on your takings, because Avana charges no commission. That small amount from the client is what lets us pay you out in full, so the whole treatment price stays with you.
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Avana is salon scheduling software with an online calendar that keeps itself up to date. You set your working days and hours once, and every booking from your booking page, your website or your Instagram DMs appears in it automatically. Avana takes the length of each service into account, so the same slot can never be given away twice, and you can view your day, week or month on your phone, tablet and laptop. For a solo salon, Avana Business costs £15.99 a month, VAT included, which is £0.53 a day.
If you work from a paper appointment book or a shared phone calendar, sooner or later something goes wrong: an appointment that never got copied across, two clients at the same time, or an afternoon you meant to keep free. An online salon diary removes that, because booking and planning become the same thing. Whatever a client chooses on your booking page is in your calendar straight away.
Avana works with the length of every service, your breaks and your days off, so a three-hour balayage is only offered where three hours are genuinely free. If you have more than one room (in Business Max) or someone helping out, those calendars sit side by side. Connect your Google Calendar too, and your appointments show up there while your private events keep your working hours closed.
The calendar is on your phone as well, and that's where most salon owners use it: a quick look between clients to see who's next. To make sure people actually show up, turn on automated reminders and ask for a deposit on long services. Each plan is set out on the pricing page.
An online salon calendar is your appointment book on the internet, updating itself as soon as a client books. You see it on your phone, tablet and laptop, and it's the same everywhere. It solves what goes wrong with a paper book or a separate phone calendar: a booking you forgot to copy, two clients at once, or an afternoon you wanted to keep free.
Avana is that calendar for the independent salon: the hairdresser, nail tech, beauty therapist, barber or massage therapist who usually works alone and plans between clients. Bookings from your booking page, the widget on your site or the QR code at your desk land in it straight away, and walk-ins or phone bookings you add yourself. Avana only offers times that genuinely fit your services and opening hours.
Start with your services and working hours, because that's what the calendar uses to work out free times. A service without a length or a day without opening hours gives clients no times at all.
Add each service with the time it really takes, including processing or drying. Then set your opening hours for each day with your break. If you work differently every other week, or later on one day, you can set that too. Holidays and single days off go in as days off, and a weekly free afternoon can be blocked as a repeating block. If you need time to tidy up between clients, add buffer time; if you prefer fixed start times such as 9:00, 11:00 and 14:00, see availability.
By letting the next client book straight after the previous appointment. Avana already does that: if an appointment ends at 10:15, the next client sees 10:15 as an option alongside the usual times. The same happens after your break and after a block.
Gaps mostly appear before an appointment. If someone's booked at 11:00 and a client books a 75-minute service at 9:30, you're left with fifteen minutes. If you want a tighter day, switch on back-to-back booking in your booking rules, with a rhythm that suits your services. A nail studio with fixed one-hour slots often chooses fixed start times, while a hairdresser with a mix of short and long services gets more from back-to-back booking.
Bring your clients and upcoming appointments across first, and only then share your new booking link. That way everything is in one place before the first online booking arrives.
If you're coming from another salon system, export your clients and appointments there as Excel or CSV and import them in Avana's settings; Avana works out which column is which. Nobody gets an email during the import, but upcoming appointments do get the normal reminder. If you use a paper book, add your upcoming appointments yourself, marking any you only want on record so the client isn't messaged. Then tell your regulars they can book online, and keep notes and past visits for each client in client management.
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