The parlour diary, finally off paper
For beauty parlours and beauticians running facials, waxing, threading, mehndi and bridal work from a paper diary and a phone. Services go on one page, clients book and pay online, and the client book becomes something you own rather than remember.
Free plan, no card and no call. One flat monthly price when you upgrade, zero commission on payments, cancel yourself in the app.
Who this is for
Written for the way beauty parlours actually run
- Neighbourhood parlours run by the owner and one or two staff
- Home-visit beauticians managing travel between appointments
- Parlours whose bridal season is chaos of calls and advances
- Owners who have lost a diary once and never want to again
What operate1 replaces
A booking tool, a payment link, a client spreadsheet and a reminders routine, folded into one account at one flat monthly price.
Zero commission on every plan. You connect your own payment account and the money settles to you; we charge the subscription and nothing else.
Three things that go wrong every week
The diary is one physical book in one place. When you are mid-facial, nobody can book, and if the book is lost the business's memory goes with it.
The diary becomes a page anyone can book from and a record you cannot lose. Every appointment, payment and note lives against the client, backed up, exportable, yours.
Bridal bookings mean advances collected over UPI screenshots, and festival-season slots held on a promise that sometimes evaporates.
The page collects payment at booking through your own account. A held slot is a paid slot, and the screenshot-matching evening at month end disappears.
Regulars call at 9 pm to ask what is free tomorrow, and the answer requires the book, which is at the parlour.
Real availability is on the page around the clock. The 9 pm client books herself in for 11 am and neither of you makes a call.
How it works
How a booking runs here
Every service on the menu
Threading at ten minutes, a facial at fifty, a bridal package at half a day. Each with its own price and honest duration.
Clients book around your day
Working hours, closed days and travel buffers for home visits shape what the page offers. It cannot double-book you.
Advance collected without asking
UPI, card or net banking at booking through your own Razorpay account. Festival slots stop being held on trust.
The client book builds itself
Visits, payments, skin notes and allergy flags accumulate on each client's record. Email reminders reduce the no-shows.
What you get on day one
One page, the whole menu
Waxing, facials, threading, mehndi and packages, each a bookable service with its own duration and price.
UPI at booking, into your account
Advance payment through your own gateway with zero operate1 commission. No screenshots to reconcile.
The client book, permanent
Every client's history, preferences and skin notes on a record that cannot be left in a drawer.
Bridal and festival packages
Sell a package at your bundle price, paid in one advance payment, listed plainly on your page.
Travel buffers for home visits
Add buffer time around services so two home visits across town can never be booked back to back.
Reminders you do not send
Automatic email reminders at 24 hours and 2 hours, unmetered, on every plan including Free.
Not built yet, named plainly
Commonly asked for by parlours, not built yet.
- WhatsApp reminders. Today reminders are email; WhatsApp delivery is on the roadmap and we know it matters in this market.
- Hindi and regional-language booking pages. The page is English today.
- Staff commission tracking. Revenue per service exists; per-staff commission maths does not.
- Inventory for retail products. Not built.
Questions beauty parlours ask us
My clients book over WhatsApp. Will they use a page?
Keep WhatsApp; change what you send. Instead of a back and forth about times, reply with the page link, and the client picks a slot and pays. The conversation stays; the negotiation goes.
Can I take an advance for bridal bookings?
Bookings collect the service price at booking time through your own account, which for most parlours replaces the informal advance. A separate part-payment deposit feature is not built yet.
I do home visits. Does this handle travel time?
Yes. Set buffer time on your services so the calendar spaces appointments apart, and set your bookable hours per day so the page never promises a slot you cannot physically reach.
What does it cost to start?
The Free plan has no time limit and needs no card: your page, bookings and client records. Paid plans add payments collection and more, at one flat monthly price for the whole parlour.
How it works
The parts of operate1 this uses
- Booking pageServices, prices and real availability on one link
- UPI paymentsPaid at booking through your own Razorpay account
- Client recordsOne record per client, with every visit on it
- PackagesPrepaid packs that deduct themselves
- RemindersEmail, 24 hours ahead, unmetered on every plan
- TeamEvery practitioner on one flat price
Spas
Long treatments, room turnover time and advance payment, handled by the booking page instead of the front desk.
See how it fitsSalon at home and beauticians
Home visits with travel time built into every slot, and advance payment so a locked door is no longer a free cancellation.
See how it fitsNail salons
Gel, acrylic and art appointments with honest slot lengths, booked and paid online while your hands are busy.
See how it fitsTake the next booking properly
Built for beauty parlours and home-visit beauticians. The free plan needs no card and no call. Put your services on a page tonight and decide in the morning.
One flat price for the whole team. Cancel yourself in the app and take your data with you.