A column in a booking system is not a schedule anyone at home can see
Salon hours are set by bookings. Your day runs as long as the diary does, late nights are the norm on certain days, and Saturday is the biggest day of the week — which is exactly when everyone else is free.
The schedules this actually has to cope with
Freeish is built around these, not around a nine-to-five with the occasional exception.
Diary-driven days
You finish when the last client does, which the diary decides.
Late nights
One or two evenings a week running well past normal closing.
Saturdays
The busiest day, permanently, and everyone else’s day off.
Self-employed chairs
You set your own hours, which means nobody else has any idea what they are.
What it sounds like at home
- “My finish time depends on the last booking.”
- “Saturdays are work and everyone forgets.”
- “Late nights are not obvious to anyone who does not work here.”
- “I rent a chair and set my own hours, so nobody knows them at all.”
- “Family events are always on the days I earn the most.”
Where Freeish fits
Put the day in with a realistic finish rather than the advertised closing time.
Late nights are visible in advance rather than mentioned on the day.
If you set your own hours, this is the only place anyone else can see them.
Your genuinely quiet weekdays are visible, which is when family can actually see you.
One week, start to finish
Kemi, stylist
- Kemi puts the week in with realistic finishes on the two late nights.
- Her partner stops holding dinner on Thursdays.
- Saturday is visibly work, permanently.
- A quiet Tuesday shows as a genuine afternoon free.
- Her family plan a lunch on the Tuesday rather than a Saturday dinner.
Questions salon and barbershop staff ask
I am self-employed. Is this still useful?
Should I put the advertised close or the real one?
Do clients see anything?
Stop being the schedule. Start sharing it.
Now on iPhone — Android coming soon. Free to start. Import a photo of your next schedule and see who stops asking.