Website builder
Website builder for hair salons
The price list, the work, and a booking that holds the chair — built from a description of the salon.
Two things decide whether someone books: what it costs, and whether the work looks like what they want. Everything else on a salon website is decoration.
Describe the salon and both are built first — services with real prices, a gallery laid out as a set rather than one photo on a wall of text — and the booking form holds the slot and stops taking bookings once it's full.
What they came for
What people want from a hair salon website
Four questions a visitor arrives with. Everything below is what the generated page does about them.
What does a cut and colour cost here?
Price is the first filter and the most commonly hidden thing on a salon website. The list is real data: the service, the price, how long it takes.
Does the work look like what I want?
The gallery is planned in as a set rather than one photograph dropped into a wall of text, because colour work is judged on photographs and on nothing else.
Can I get in on Saturday?
The booking takes the service, the date and the time, holds the chair against the capacity you set, and stops accepting once it's gone.
Who is actually doing it?
A stylist section with a face and a line each. For a salon, that is carrying more of the decision than any sentence of copy above it.
Common problems
What tends to go wrong on hair salon websites
Three patterns that come up often. None of them is a design problem, and each is a sentence or two of work to fix.
Prices are "from" and nothing else
"From" pricing signals that the real price is higher without saying by how much. A list with the service, the price and the duration answers what the phone call would have asked.
The gallery is four photographs from 2021
Colour work is judged on photographs. A small or out-of-date set gives a client less to go on than a current set of eight or nine.
Booking is an Instagram DM
A message thread depends on somebody being free to read it. A form that holds the slot records the booking while the chair is busy and keeps it where it can be found.
What gets built
What a hair salon website needs
The sections Sitemo plans for hair salons, in the order it puts them on the page.
The opening screen
The first screen: a photograph of the real place, the name, and the one thing you want a visitor to do next.
The facts people decide on
The handful of facts a visitor decides on — walk-ins welcome, open Sundays, free parking, fully insured.
Services
What you sell, with prices. A list when there are many, cards with photographs when there are a few.
Gallery
The work, the room, the finished job. Laid out as a set, so one good photograph isn't carrying the whole page.
Your story
The short version of why the place exists, in your voice rather than a company profile.
Testimonials
Room for the reviews you already have. Your words from your customers — nothing invented to fill the space.
FAQ
The questions you answer on the phone all day, answered once on the page.
Contact form
An enquiry that reaches you as an email and is kept as a record you can open later.
The ask
The line that asks for the call, the booking or the visit.
Not a fixed list. Sitemo decides which of these your site actually needs from what you describe — a hair salon with four things to sell gets a different page from one with forty.
Underneath the page
And the parts that aren't pages
Most hair salons need somewhere to keep this. It comes with the site rather than being a plugin you go and find.
Each one is a table you edit in your dashboard — change a price, add a service, take something off the list — and the published site follows. Bookings hold the slot against the capacity you set and stop accepting once it's full, so the site can't promise a time you can't keep.
The words
The same line, written twice
A general version of a line and a specific one, both about the same length. The difference is how much a visitor can do with it.
General
“A luxury salon experience tailored to you.”
Specific
“Three chairs, specialists in colour correction and curly cutting. Consultations are free and take twenty minutes.”
Naming the specialism gives a client a reason to choose this salon over another.
General
“Prices on request.”
Specific
“Cut and finish £45. Full head of highlights from £120, two and a half hours.”
A published price answers the question that otherwise arrives by phone.
The prices and areas above are made-up examples; what is being shown is the shape of the sentence. Yours go in the box below, and the site is written from them.
Try it
Describe your hair salon
This is the same box that's on the home page, filled in with the example above. Change it to yours.
Free to try · No credit card · Your site stays exportable
Questions
Websites for hair salons
- Can clients book online?
- Yes. The booking form takes the service, the date and the time, holds the slot against the capacity you set, and refuses once it's taken instead of accepting a booking you can't honour. You hear about each one by email, and it's kept as a record.
- Can I show different prices per stylist?
- Yes. Services live in a table with whatever columns you need — the service, the price, how long it takes, who does it — and the page renders whatever is in it.
- Can I change the prices myself?
- Yes, and without touching the design. Prices are rows in a table you edit in the dashboard; the page follows without anything being rebuilt by hand.
- I already use a salon booking system. Can I keep it?
- Yes. Paste your scheduling link and the booking section embeds it — Calendly, Cal.com, Acuity and Square are recognised. Or use the built-in booking, which holds the slot, refuses when it's full and keeps the record.
- Can I add a consultation form for colour clients?
- Yes. A form's fields are yours to choose, so a colour consultation can ask about previous colour, length and the photo they're bringing — and each answer is kept with the enquiry as a record.
- Can I move a section higher up the page?
- Yes, by dragging it in the editor or by asking in chat. The page is structured data rather than a blob of markup, which is why moving the price list above the gallery takes a second and breaks nothing.
Where this isn't the right tool
This is not salon software. If you need a rota per stylist, automated reminders, deposits taken at booking and a client history, keep the system that does that — paste its link and the page embeds it. Sitemo is the site around it.