The colour is processing, the next client is in the chair and your phone starts ringing. With Avana, clients book their own cut or colour, even late on a Sunday, and you carry on working.
From home, at your client's place or in a salon with a team. You set Avana up the way you work.
Regulars of many years who book their next appointment themselves.
Short appointments, often, and at a set time.
A balayage of a few hours is properly blocked out in your calendar.
Every service gets the time that suits that curl.
Parents book for their child without phoning.
Trial and wedding day both fixed, with a deposit if you want one.
You travel to your clients, and your calendar leaves room for the drive.
Your own chair in a salon, your own clients and your own calendar.
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Avana is online booking software for independent hairdressers in the UK. Clients book cuts and colour themselves on your own booking page, can pay a deposit on long colour appointments, and get a confirmation and a reminder, while Avana takes no commission on any appointment.
While you cut, clients book themselves. Anyone who wants to know what a colour costs and when you have a gap can see it on your page.
Ask for a deposit on your long colour appointments if you want to. If the client cancels on the day, you keep it.
One fixed monthly price and no commission on any appointment. Whether a client books a quick trim or a full head of foils, the full amount is yours.
Your booking page shows your services, your prices and your free times. Put the link in your Instagram bio under your before-and-afters and clients choose a time themselves, long after you have locked up.
A blow-dry takes half an hour; a colour with a cut and finish takes two and a half. Give each service its own time and price in your services, and the calendar blocks out exactly the right amount, processing time included.
After the appointment the client pays at your desk, just like now. If there is a three-hour balayage in the calendar, you can ask for a deposit when they book. For a cut, you leave it off.
Most colour brands ask for an allergy alert test 48 hours before colouring. Add a short patch test as its own service, and put a line in the confirmation for new colour clients so they book it before the big appointment. You can add a consultation form too, so you know about previous reactions before anyone sits down.
Colour needs looking after every five to six weeks. After the appointment the client books the next one with a single tap, and your client records hold last time's formula, so the colour comes out the same every visit.
The client gets a confirmation straight away and a reminder the day before, with the time and your address. Add your own sentence, such as "bring a photo of the colour you would like". If they never read their email, the reminder can go by text as well.
Avana features work best for a hair salon in pairs. Turned on together, they catch the appointments a salon misses most often: the question that lands in your DMs at night, and the colour that cancels on the day.
Avana Connect and deposits
At eleven at night someone asks on Instagram what balayage costs. The AI replies with your price and your free times, the client picks Saturday morning and pays the deposit there and then. You see the booking when you wake up.
Avana ConnectYour booking page and reminders
The client picks a time for the colour and gets a confirmation straight away. The reminder follows the day before. If it no longer suits, they move it themselves and the slot is open to book again.
Booking pageYour clients and Avana Academy
You already explain your balayage to every junior. Record that explanation once, sell it as a course and fit the practical day between your appointments.
Avana AcademyThis is how a Saturday changes for a hairdresser who switches to Avana: the same day twice, first with the phone propped by the mirror, then with clients booking themselves.
| How it goes now | How it goes with Avana | |
|---|---|---|
| The phone mid-cut | Scissors down, answer, call back later | The client books on your page |
| A cut and colour in one go | Working out the time in your head | The calendar holds two and a half hours by itself |
| A colour that cancels | Half a day sitting empty | A deposit you keep |
| Patch tests | A note on a sticky label, hoping you remember | A bookable service and a line in the confirmation |
| The reminder | A message you send at ten at night | Goes out by itself, with your own note about the colour |
| The colour formula | In a notebook, or in your head | On the client's record |
| What it costs you | Your evenings | £15.99 a month, VAT included |
Deposits on colour services and text reminders are switched on by you, and just as easily switched off.
Every Avana plan includes an online booking page, a calendar on your phone, payment in the salon or online, deposits, email reminders and client records. Anything that only comes with Business Plus is marked. Tap a tile to read more.
Avana costs £15.99 a month on the Business plan, VAT included, and that covers one person working alone. Avana takes no commission on bookings, you can cancel any month, and the first 7 days are free with no card details needed.
£0.53 a day, and no commission on your revenue.
Start free£0.97 a day. One extra appointment a month covers it.
Start free£1.87 a day, with Avana Academy included.
Start freeAll prices include VAT. Add someone who helps out in your salon for £5.99 a month. If you change plans, you only pay the difference.
Billed on the same invoice as your plan, and you can cancel them any month.
Switch it on once for your Instagram. From then on, AI answers your DMs with your own prices and free times, and lets clients book inside the conversation.
Sell your own courses to people who want to learn your craft. You set up the lessons once, the practical day sits in your calendar and the certificate goes out by itself.
Text reminders for clients who skip their email. Credits never expire and there is no subscription attached.
Avana is built for the self-employed hairdresser: clients book a cut, a colour or both in one appointment, and the full time is blocked out, processing included. Avana does that on your own booking page, keeps last time's colour formula on the client's record, and sends the confirmation and reminder for you. Your calendar is on your phone and there is no commission on your appointments. It costs £15.99 a month, VAT included.
Avana costs £15.99 a month, VAT included, for a hairdresser working alone. That covers your booking page, calendar, client records with colour formulas, online payments and email reminders. No commission is taken from your cuts or colours, and you can cancel any month. Text reminders are bought separately in packs, from £4.99.
Avana lets you ask for a deposit per service, which is the most direct way to stop colour no-shows. You choose a deposit per service, so you can ask for one on a three-hour balayage and leave it off a half-hour trim. The client pays the deposit when booking and the rest after the appointment. If they cancel too late or do not turn up, you keep the deposit under your own cancellation policy.
In Avana you can add a patch test as its own short service, so new clients book it at least 48 hours before their colour. Your own sentence in the confirmation email reminds colour clients to do this, and a consultation form lets you ask about previous reactions before the first visit. Avana does not block the colour booking automatically, so it is still worth checking your notes before you mix.
With Avana, clients pay at your desk after the appointment, by card or cash, as they do now; online payment is only there if you switch it on. If you ask for a deposit, that part is paid when booking with a card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Any service fee for paying online is shown in the price from the start, never added at the end, and your own price stays exactly as you set it.
Yes. In Avana you set up the combination as its own service with the full time, processing included, or you let clients add a cut as an extra when they choose a colour. Either way nothing gets booked over the colour and you do not run into your next client. After the appointment, the client can book the next one from the QR code by your mirror.
Yes. Avana is built for one person, one chair and one calendar, with nobody needed to answer the phone. If you work alone, Business at £15.99 a month is enough. If someone joins you later, add them for £5.99 a month with their own hours and services, and clients choose who they want when they book.
You can try Avana free for 7 days without entering card details, then pay month by month with no notice period. Use that week to set up your services and share your link, so you know it works before you pay anything. Your client records and colour formulas stay yours: if you stop, you take them with you, and Avana never sells your clients to anyone.
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Good hair salon software lets clients book a cut, a colour or both in one appointment, and holds the full time for it, processing included. Avana is online booking software built for the hairdresser who works alone: clients book on your own page while you work, last time's colour formula sits on their record, and confirmations and reminders go out by themselves. You can ask for a deposit on long colour appointments and add a patch test as its own service. It costs £15.99 a month, VAT included, with no commission, and you can try it free for 7 days.
If you are looking for hair salon software, there is a good chance you work alone: a chair you rent, a room at home or a small salon of your own. Your day runs on the clock, with a two-and-a-half-hour colour next to a half-hour blow-dry, and there is no moment in between to pick up the phone. With Avana your cuts and colours go on your own booking page with prices and free times, and clients book themselves while your hands are in the colour bowl.
Every service gets its own time and price: cut, colour, blow-dry, and a cut and colour as one appointment. A trim never eats into a colour slot, and your calendar shows exactly when the chair is free. Each client's last formula is kept in your client records, so the result matches every time.
Colour brands generally ask for a skin test 48 hours before a first colour. With a patch test as a bookable service and a consultation form sent before the visit, new clients come in prepared, and you have their answers on file before you start.
A colour that cancels on the morning is almost impossible to fill. That is why you can ask for a deposit on colour services when people book, and leave cuts free. Email reminders and text reminders go out on their own, and with Avana Connect AI answers your Instagram DMs with your own prices and times while you are busy cutting.
If you pass a colour technique on to people learning the trade, you can sell it as a course through the Avana Academy, with the practical day sitting in your normal calendar. Avana costs £15.99 a month, VAT included, and nothing is taken from your appointments. See all pricing or get your salon online this afternoon.
Set up your services with their own times, from blow-dry to balayage, and paste the link into your Instagram bio. The first 7 days are free.
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