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For hair & beauty salons

Nearly a third of your bookings happen after you've closed. Answer them anyway.

Your stylists have their hands full, literally. Vocalenda answers your salon phone 24/7, books clients straight into your calendar, and texts them a confirmation, from your own business number.

£49/month flatWorks with Google or OutlookCancel anytime

Tuesday, 7:52pm, after closing

Call answered in two rings

“Hi, you’ve reached Bloom & Co. I can book you in. What day suits you?”

Mar

12

Full head colour · Sophie · 6:15pm

Added to your calendar mid-call

Text confirmation · your number

Booked: full head colour, Thu 12 Mar, 6:15pm at Bloom & Co. Need to change it? Just call this number back.

Don't take our word for it: call the demo line and book a fake appointment. The demo diary belongs to a barbershop, but the manner, the booking flow and the confirmation text are exactly what your clients would get.

Call the demo line: 07888 866273

Set up in minutes, not days

Three steps. No new booking system.

1

Connect your calendar

Sign in with Google or Outlook. Vocalenda reads your real calendar. No new booking system, nothing to migrate from.

2

Tell it about your services

Cut, colour, treatments, how long each takes, your prices and hours. Ten minutes, once.

3

If you want, point your number at it

Forward your salon number, or use a new dedicated one Vocalenda provides. Every call gets answered, even mid-blow-dry.

What it handles

Everything the front desk does when nobody's free to pick up.

Clients get an answer on the first try, the calendar fills itself, and anything it can't handle is waiting for you on your dashboard before the call ends. Everything a great receptionist does at the front desk, it does while your hands are full, around the clock.

The calendar fills while your hands are full

“Any chance of a cut and blow-dry on Saturday?”

Cut & blow-dry · Sat 11:15am

In your calendar, mid-call

Regulars get their stylist

“It's Claire - am I alright with Megan as usual?”

Booked with Megan · Fri 2:00pm

Megan's calendar, not just the salon's

Nothing gets lost

“Can you ask if the colour's OK over highlights?”

Message for you

On your dashboard before the call ended

…and the rest of the shift

Reschedules & cancels

Finds the appointment, moves it, updates your calendar cleanly.

Services & prices

Cut, colour, treatments: answers what things cost and how long they take.

Opening hours

Tells late-night callers exactly when you're open, so they book instead of drift.

Every call, written down

Full transcripts on your dashboard, plus a live view while the call happens.

SMS confirmations & reminders

Confirmed by text, reminded the day before. Fewer no-shows, no awkward chasing.

Evenings & Sundays

Nearly a third of bookings happen out of hours. Now they land in your calendar, not voicemail.

Hear it for yourself

Hear a sample call

Sample call

Thalia voice avatar

A cut and colour booking at a hair salon

Thalia · Briarlow Hair Studio

1:06

A sample call with a made-up business. The receptionist's voice is the one real callers hear.

Read the transcript
  1. Receptionist: Just so you know, you're speaking with an AI assistant, and this call is transcribed. Thank you for calling Briarlow Hair Studio, how can I help you today?
  2. Caller: Hi, I'd like to book a cut and colour with Megan, please. Thursday morning, if she's got anything.
  3. Receptionist: Of course. Let me check Megan's Thursday.
  4. Receptionist: Thursday the 22nd, Megan has nine thirty AM or eleven AM.
  5. Caller: Eleven would be perfect. It's Emma, by the way.
  6. Receptionist: Thanks, Emma. Have you had a colour patch test with us in the last six months?
  7. Caller: Yes, I had one back in August.
  8. Receptionist: Lovely. So that's a cut and colour for Emma with Megan on Thursday the 22nd at eleven AM, and you've had a patch test with us in the last six months. Shall I book it?
  9. Caller: Yes, please.
  10. Receptionist: Great, let me book that in.
  11. Receptionist: You're booked in. You'll get a confirmation text shortly, and a reminder the day before. Anything else I can help with?
  12. Caller: No, that's everything. Thank you, bye.
  13. Receptionist: Thanks for calling Briarlow Hair Studio, have a great day!

37%

of UK adults would give up on an unanswered call within 60 seconds and ring a competitor instead, in YouGov polling of 2,046 adults for Answer4u in June 2026.

Source: Answer4u / YouGov, 16 June 2026

Running the salon on Timely, Fresha or Treatwell?

Vocalenda books into Google Calendar or Outlook, not into salon software, so what matters is which way your salon system syncs with Google.

Timely
Two-way Google Calendar sync, one Google Calendar per staff member
Timely sends a copy of its bookings to the connected Google Calendar, blocks out time in Timely for events marked busy in Google, and cancels a Timely booking if you delete it from Google or move it to another Google Calendar, which is what a staff change does here. A booking Vocalenda writes into that Google Calendar can therefore hold the time in Timely; test it on one stylist first.
Fresha and Treatwell
Their own calendars, with their own AI receptionists
Fresha's AI Concierge books into the Fresha calendar and Treatwell's AI Receptionist into the Treatwell calendar. If your book lives on one of those, compare those products first; our Fresha comparison is here.

The maths is short

One colour appointment you'd have missed pays for the month.

Phorest found 30% of salon bookings are made outside opening hours, when nobody's at the desk. A full head of colour is worth more than a month of Vocalenda on its own. And the client who hits voicemail just books the salon down the road.

Pricing

One plan. Everything in it.

No tiers to compare, no per-minute meter running while your caller decides between Tuesday and Thursday. £49 a month on the founding rate, locked for the first ten businesses, and you can leave whenever you like.

Try it free for 30 days first. If it doesn’t book you more work than it costs, don’t keep it.

£69£49/month

Everything included · cancel anytime

Founding rate for the first 10 businesses, locked while you stay subscribed. Then £69/month.

Answering

  • A dedicated UK number, or keep your own
  • Minutes to last the month - and then some*
  • 24/7 call answering
  • Up to 3 calls answered at once
  • Remembers regulars' preferences
  • No per-minute charges

Filling the diary

  • Booking, rescheduling & cancelling
  • Two-way calendar sync, Google or Outlook
  • Up to 5 stylists, each with their own calendar - included

Keeping you posted

  • Live call transcripts & message inbox
  • SMS confirmations, day-before reminders & cancellation texts
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*Fair use: 500 call minutes a month - enough for around 250 bookings at a typical two-minute call.

An honest note

We’re new. This space is where our first customers’ results will go.

We won’t invent testimonials. Instead: the first three businesses willing to share their real numbers get 60 days free in total, the usual 30-day trial doubled. And every founding business (the first ten) keeps the £49 rate for as long as they stay subscribed.

Claim a founding spot

After the 60-day results deal? Email hello@vocalenda.com.

Built by one person who got tired of watching small businesses lose work to voicemail. I answer the support email myself.

- Radu, founder · read the story

The founding ledger

Ten founding seats at £49, locked.

Two seats are taken; eight are open today. Three of the ten carry the 60-day results deal, and those numbers will be published right here, nothing invented in the meantime.

Questions

The things people ask first.

Vocalenda answers instead of the client hitting voicemail. It checks the calendar and books them in. Nobody has to stop mid-service to grab the phone.

Something else on your mind? Email hello@vocalenda.com and a person reads it.

The next client who calls after closing could still book tonight.

30 days free. Set up before your next customer walks in.

Start free trial

Or hear it first: ring the demo line on +44 7888 866273.

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