Hair salon website design that turns the hair menu into bookings

Your pages, the features on them, the final price and the timescale, in writing before you pay a deposit. Hosting, care and any ongoing SEO are listed separately, so you can see what is one-off and what is monthly. On the Business package the first year of hosting and care is included.

A menu with what each service costs and how long it takes, a way to book from every page, your stylists and what each does best, your own work, and your address, hours and parking, or the areas you visit if you are mobile. For colour clients, add when a skin test is needed and how to arrange one. The first demo puts each of these on its homepage and gives each its own page.

The first part, yes. The first demo's booking request reminds a new colour client about the skin test, so it can be booked at least 48 hours ahead, and asks which stylist and which service they want. The rest of the consultation, including your colour brand's questions, happens with the stylist at the appointment, in the salon or the client's home, where it can be checked against the client's hair and skin.

Your colour brand's instructions decide. Wella's leaflet, for example, uses a consultation to decide, and calls for an allergy alert test for a new colour client, a different brand or shade, more than six months since their last colour in the salon, more than 12 months since their last test, a skin tattoo, henna or permanent make-up since their last colour, or a reaction to any product since then. The NHBF's guidance on the harmonised test has the client watch the test area for 48 hours, and says to check your insurer's wording too. The site then says what you ask for, in plain words, on the menu and the booking form.

A booking made online or by phone, through a system you run for that, is a distance contract under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013. For a service, the client normally has 14 days to cancel without a reason, and you start the service within that time only if they expressly ask. The rules list exceptions, including services related to leisure activities booked for a specific date. How they apply to your bookings is a question for your own adviser; the site states your terms plainly, and we do not write legal terms.

Three fixed prices, all including VAT: Starter from £295 for a one-chair salon or a mobile hairdresser on a single page; Essentials from £595 for five pages with your timed price list, stylists and reviews; Business from £995 for a page per service, from cuts to colour, and a gallery of your own work. How bookings reach you can change the quote, so we check that first and fix the price in writing before you pay.

An app takes the booking once a client has chosen you. A website is where a new client chooses: your hair menu with times and prices, the stylists and what each does best, the skin test before colour, and a gallery of your own work, all on a domain you own. The two work together, and the site sends people on to book the way you already take bookings.