Nail salon website design that prices the art before the appointment

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.

Your menu with a time and a price on every set, what nail art adds, your infills and removals, the technicians and the styles each does, a lookbook of your own sets, and your address, hours and how to get there. The demo puts the menu, the lookbook and the booking on its homepage and gives each its own page.

In the London boroughs, yes: the London Local Authorities Act 1991 counts premises used for manicure as an establishment for special treatment, which needs a licence from the borough, and the licence conditions can cover how the business is advertised. Each borough sets its own terms; Kingston, for example, lists manicure, pedicure and nail extensions as medium-risk treatments, exempts fully mobile services and renews licences every year. Outside London that Act does not apply, so ask your council what applies where you trade.

You can, if the terms are fair and clear before the client books. Government guidance on fair contracts says a deposit you keep should reflect a genuine estimate of what you lose when a client cancels, that a deposit of no more than a small percentage of the price can be kept in full if you make clear when it becomes non-refundable, and that a deposit kept whatever the reason is unlikely to be fair. Bookings made online or by phone bring one more rule: under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013 the client can usually cancel within 14 days unless an exception applies, and a set done inside those 14 days needs their express request first. How a deposit is taken online is something we check and price before the quote.

By choosing the art tier when they book. The demo's booking request asks for the treatment, then a technician who does that style, then the set and art tier, and each tier adds its own minutes, so the slot fits the work. Clients can say if they are bringing a picture, and the studio confirms the time.

A one-desk studio's menu, art tiers and booking request fit on one Starter page, from £295. Essentials, from £595, spreads the menu, technicians and reviews over five pages. Business, from £995, adds a lookbook of your sets and a page per service. VAT is included, a deposit taken online is priced once we know how you take it, and the total is fixed in writing before you pay.

Price the set, then the art. The demo lists each base set with its time and price, then nail art in three tiers, from accents and lines to hand-painted detail, each with the minutes and the amount it adds. A client can work out roughly what their set will cost, and how long to book, before they message you.