The gel is still wet, you are holding someone's hand and your phone lights up. With Avana, clients book a new set or their infills themselves, even late in the evening after scrolling your work, and it is in your calendar by morning.
From home, at your client's place or in a studio with a team. You set Avana up the way you work.
You work from home, and clients book themselves when you have room.
You travel to your clients, and your calendar leaves room for the drive.
Regulars who come back every few weeks, with a reminder beforehand.
Designs that take time get that time in your calendar too.
Trial set and wedding day both fixed, with a deposit if you want one.
Every tech has their own hours, and clients choose who they see.
Your own desk, your own clients and your own calendar.
You teach courses alongside your work, through Avana Academy.
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Avana is booking software for nail technicians in the UK who work alone. Clients book a new set or an infill online and can pay a deposit, reminders go out by email or text, and Avana takes no commission on any booking.
A new set keeps you busy for an hour and a half or more, and you cannot answer anything in that time. Clients book in the meantime, and your page tells them what a set costs.
Ask for a deposit on new sets if you want to. If the client cancels on the day, that amount stays with you, so those ninety minutes are not a total loss.
You pay one price each month and Avana takes no commission. A simple gel polish or a full set with hand-painted art, what the client pays is what you earn.
Your booking page shows your sets, your prices and your open times. Pop the link in your Instagram bio and clients choose a time themselves, even at eleven at night.
Every service gets its own time and price. A new set might hold two hours and an infill one, and taking off another salon's work goes on as an add-on with its own time.
When the last coat is cured, the client pays at your desk. A ninety-minute new set can be secured with a deposit when they book; for a polish change you would not bother.
Right after booking the client gets a confirmation, and the day before a reminder with the time and your address. Add your own line, like "come with clean nails and no hand cream". For clients who never read email, the reminder can go by text.
Gel and BIAB need attention every two to three weeks. After the appointment the client books the next one with a single tap, and your client records show the colour and shape from last time.
Some clients react to gel products, and many techs like to know about it before they start. A consultation form goes to new clients before their first appointment, so you can ask about allergies, past reactions or damaged nails in your own words and read the answers in advance.
Avana gives nail salons online booking, deposits, reminders and AI replies to Instagram DMs. Turn two of them on together and the sets that now get lost in your DMs end up in your calendar after all.
Avana Connect and deposits
A client asks on Instagram what a new set costs, long after you have gone home. The AI gives your price and your open times, the client picks Saturday morning and secures the set with a deposit.
Avana ConnectYour booking page and reminders
The client chooses a time for the new set and gets a confirmation immediately. A reminder arrives the day before, and if it no longer fits, they move it themselves and the slot opens up again.
Booking pageYour clients and Avana Academy
People who want to learn already ask how you build your structure. Put your method into short videos, sell the lot as a course and fit the practice day in between your clients.
Avana AcademyAvana replaces the DMs and the paper book of a nail salon with an online calendar that clients book into themselves. Here is the same week twice: once with your phone propped by the lamp, once with clients booking themselves.
| How it goes now | How it goes with Avana | |
|---|---|---|
| A question in your DMs | Answered at night, ten messages per booking | The client sees prices and times and books |
| Your calendar | A paper book or the notes app | On your phone, always with you |
| A new set that cancels | Two empty hours you cannot fill | The deposit stays with you |
| The reminder | Typed out between two clients | Goes out by itself, with your prep notes |
| The infill in three weeks | Hoping the client messages in time | Booked at your desk straight after the set |
| What it costs you | Your evenings | £15.99 a month, VAT included |
The deposit on new sets and text reminders are your choice. If they do not suit your studio, switch them off again.
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 a booking app built for the self-employed nail tech: it gives every service its own time, lets clients book from your Instagram bio and protects long sets with a deposit. It all runs on your own booking page: clients book a new set, infills or a polish change while your hands are busy, nail art and soak-off are added as extras, and confirmations and reminders go out by themselves. Your calendar and client records are on your phone and there is no commission on your sets. It costs £15.99 a month, VAT included.
Avana costs £15.99 a month, VAT included. That covers your booking page, calendar, client records, online payments and email reminders. No commission is taken from your sets and you can cancel any month. Text reminders are bought separately, in packs from £4.99.
Yes, Avana lets a nail tech choose per service whether a deposit is needed, for example on a new set that takes an hour and a half but not on a gel polish change. The client pays the deposit when booking and the rest at your desk afterwards. If they cancel too late or do not show, you keep the deposit under your own cancellation policy, and you can switch it off again whenever you like.
In Avana every nail service has its own length and price, so a new set might hold two hours and an infill one. Nail art, extra length and soaking off another salon's work sit underneath as add-ons with their own time, so the client ticks what they need and sees the total before the booking is confirmed. Your client records keep the colour and shape from last time.
With Avana, nail clients pay at your desk after the appointment, by card or cash, as they do now; online payment only appears if you switch it on. If you ask for a deposit on a new set, that part is paid while booking with a card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Any service fee for paying online is shown in the price from the start, and the price of your sets does not change.
With Avana, the client books the next appointment with one tap through the QR code on your desk, and your client records show the colour and shape they had. From Business Plus, Avana can also send a rebooking reminder per service, for example three weeks after a gel set, with a button to pick a new time straight away. If your day is full, clients can join a waitlist from Business Plus and get an email as soon as a slot opens.
Yes, Avana imports your client list from an Excel or CSV export of your current booking system, and you can see column by column what Avana will do with it before you confirm. If you would rather not do it yourself, we help you switch, including your services and prices. After that you share your new booking link with your regulars.
Yes, nail techs can try Avana free for 7 days without giving card details, and after that you pay month by month with no notice period. Spend the week setting up your sets and prices and sharing your link, so you know it works before paying anything. Your client data stays yours: if you leave, you take your client list with you, and Avana never sells your clients to anyone.
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Avana is nail salon software that gives a new set, an infill and a polish change their own time, so your day adds up and nothing gets booked on top of something else. It is built for the nail tech who works alone: clients book through the link in your Instagram bio while you paint, nail art and soak-off are added as extras, and each client's record holds last time's colour and shape. Confirmations and reminders go out by themselves. It costs £15.99 a month, VAT included, with no commission on your sets, and you can try it free for 7 days.
If you are looking for nail salon software, you most likely work by yourself: a nail room at home or a small studio of your own, and a phone that goes off while you are holding a brush over someone's hand. Plenty of nail techs still run their bookings through Instagram DMs and WhatsApp, which easily eats an hour every evening.
Avana takes that over. Your sets, prices and open times sit on your own booking page, and clients book themselves, even when you have a hand under the lamp. It costs £15.99 a month, VAT included, with no commission on your sets.
Each service gets its own length and price: a new set of BIAB, gel or acrylic, infills, a polish change, and removing another salon's work as an add-on. A short infill never runs into the time for a full set, and your calendar shows exactly when your desk is free.
A new set takes up your desk for an hour and a half or more, and a same-day cancellation is almost impossible to fill. A deposit when booking makes that set firm, and you decide which services need one. Email reminders and text reminders go out on their own, so an appointment made three weeks ago is not forgotten.
Gel and BIAB need infills every two to three weeks. Your client records keep the colour, shape and your notes for every client, and after the set they book the next appointment through the QR code on your desk. With Avana Connect, AI answers your Instagram messages with your own prices and times in the meantime.
If you also teach people who want to get into nails, you can sell your training as a course through the Avana Academy, with the practical day in your usual calendar. What each plan costs is on the pricing page.
You do not have to start from zero. Import your client list from an Excel or CSV export, or let us help you switch, services and prices included. Then share your new link in your bio and your regulars book themselves from then on.
Set up your new set, infills and polish change with their own times and paste the link in your bio. The first 7 days are free, with no card details needed.
Set up your booking page