Most salon software assumes the owner employs everyone.
Same Roof is for the salons where that isn’t true: where every stylist rents their chair and runs a business of their own.
Why I built it
Same Roof started inside a working salon in Soho, where the stylists rent their chairs.
A chair rental salon works differently. The owner looks after the building and the rent. Each stylist runs a business of their own, with their own clients, their own diary and their own way of working.
So I built one app for both, with the salon’s name on it. The owner sees the room and gets the rent by Direct Debit. The stylists book their chairs, keep their own diary and take their own clients, and those clients stay theirs.
The salon it started in has two sites, run as one team, so Same Roof does that too.
What’s built so far.
What works today, what’s in testing and what’s being built next.
- RentFloor plan, invoices and rent by Direct DebitLive
- Chair bookingBy the hour, half day or day, or a standing bookingLive
- Diary and booking pageEach stylist’s own, with confirmations and remindersLive
- The appOn the web today; the iPhone app is coming to the App StoreiPhone in testing
- FrundeskA front desk for each stylistIn the works
If you run a salon like that, I’d like to hear how you do it today.
Write to hello@sameroof.uk and a person will reply.
Sam AllenFounder, London