Hair & barber · Melbourne VIC
Booking software for hair salons & barbers in Melbourne
Few cities take hair as seriously as Melbourne. Fitzroy, Brunswick, Collingwood and Northcote are packed with salons and barbershops that have genuine followings — places where the fit-out, the playlist and the stylist's Instagram matter as much as the cut. That also means the competition is fierce: a client on Smith Street can walk past half a dozen salons before they reach yours, so the booking experience needs to be frictionless and unmistakably yours.
BookAndGo gives you a booking page on your own URL with your branding, your stylists and your services — not a profile buried in a marketplace alongside everyone else on the strip. It's a flat $59 a month with no per-chair fee and no commission taken from your bookings, so a multi-stylist salon in Brunswick and a single-chair barber in Coburg pay the same flat rate.
Clients book the stylist they want, choose their service, and the appointment lands straight on your calendar with an AU-based SMS reminder queued up. For a city where a lot of booking happens late at night on a phone, that self-serve, after-hours booking is the difference between catching the appointment and losing it to the salon down the road.
Flat $59/month
No per-client fees and no commission on your bookings — your bill doesn't climb as you grow.
Australian data + GST invoices
Client data hosted in Sydney under the Australian Privacy Principles, with GST tax invoices showing your ABN.
AU SMS reminders + no-show protection
Reminders from a real Australian number, plus deposits and card-on-file protection to cut no-shows.
Built for Melbourne hair salons
Melbourne's scene is full of multi-stylist teams and rent-a-chair arrangements, especially in the inner north. BookAndGo supports up to 20 providers on one subscription, each with their own diary and booking link, so adding a third or fourth chair doesn't mean a bigger software bill. Independent stylists renting space can manage their own bookings while the owner keeps a view of the whole floor.
Recurring appointments suit the regulars who come back every four to six weeks for colour or every fortnight for a tidy-up, and gift vouchers are an easy upsell heading into the Christmas and Melbourne Cup runs. Your data stays on Australian servers, paid invoices come out as proper GST tax invoices, and for the longer colour and treatment appointments that eat half a day, you can take a deposit up front to protect against no-shows.
Frequently asked
Is the price really flat, or does it climb as I add stylists?
It's a flat $59 a month for the salon, full stop. You can run up to 20 providers — handy for the multi-stylist teams common around Fitzroy and Brunswick — with no per-chair or per-stylist surcharge.
Can rent-a-chair stylists take their own bookings on my page?
Yes. Each stylist can have their own services, hours and booking link under the one subscription, so chair renters and the salon owner can all be bookable from the same page without any per-chair fee.
How do I stop no-shows on long colour appointments?
Take a deposit at the time of booking for balayage, full colour or any long service — it filters out the bookings that were never serious. Combined with automatic AU-based SMS reminders, it noticeably cuts no-shows.
Do paid bookings produce a GST invoice?
Yes. Each paid booking generates a compliant Australian GST tax invoice with your ABN and sequential numbering, with a receipt emailed automatically. All your data is held on Australian servers.
Why choose this over Fresha?
Flat $59 a month, no commission on your bookings, and no marketplace listing your salon next to every other one on the strip. There's a free trial and a mobile app, and the client relationship stays yours rather than being a lead the platform owns.
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