Color corrections, installs, balayage — the three-hour appointments that hurt most when a client ghosts. Here the deposit is paid before the slot confirms, your policy is agreed to in writing, and if anyone fights the charge later, the evidence packet is one tap. On the $0 plan, under your own brand.
Long services mean you turned other clients away for that block. When it dies, nothing fills it. A deposit sized to the service — $100 on a correction, $50 on color — means the block was never free to abandon.
In Phorest's analysis of 5,000+ salons, 50% of clients charged for a no-show came back, versus 37% of those who weren't charged (Salon Today). A clear policy, shown before payment, reads as professionalism — and it filters the clients who were never going to show.
$20 holds a trim, $100 holds a correction — per service, your amounts, paid while they're still holding their card.
Deposit up front, then send a link for the rest — card on their phone, receipt in their inbox, no reader needed.
yourname.takingclients.com with one of ten looks styled to you — a booth renter's own storefront, not the salon's software, not a marketplace page next to competitors.
A disputed no-show charge meets the policy they agreed to, the timestamp, and the booking IP — printed in one tap.
Booking texts follow consent rules — each client opts in with their own number, so your sender reputation stays clean.
One-click CSV in and out, on every tier. The book you built leaves with you — always.
Honest framing: we won't pretend deposits end no-shows. They turn an empty chair from a total loss into a paid hold — collected before the appointment existed, with the policy and the evidence to keep it.
It won't send you clients. If your chair isn't full and discovery is what you need, a marketplace's new-client fees are the honest price of being found — the math is on our Booksy, Fresha, and StyleSeat pages, and sometimes it comes out in their favor. TakingClients is for the stylist whose book already fills from Instagram, referrals, and regulars — where every marketplace fee is a tax on demand you created yourself.
Phorest's data across 5,000+ salons says the opposite: 50% of clients charged for a no-show returned, versus 37% of those who weren't charged. Clear policy, shown in writing before payment, reads as professionalism.
That's the point. Your page, your prices, your policy, your look — not the salon's software, not a marketplace profile. And your client list exports any time.
Yes — per-service amounts. A trim can hold at $20 while a correction holds at $100, and a balance link covers the rest after the chair.
One tap prints the evidence packet: the policy they agreed to, the timestamp, the booking IP — the paperwork the card dispute asks for.
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