A salon website that starts with the book, not a theme.
A three-chair color salon does not need a 40-page brochure. It needs a menu a stranger can understand, hours that match the door, a deposit rule that keeps no-shows from wrecking Tuesday, and a URL you can text when someone says “send me the link.” Bizzit is built for that paragraph. You describe the salon. We build the site and host it. Free is live on your-slug.bizzit.io after Google sign-in. Pro is $19 a month when the name on the window should be the name in the address bar.
Write the brief like a stylist, not like a marketer
Bad: “Luxury hair experience in a relaxing atmosphere.” Every template already said that. Good: “Three chairs in Biddeford. Color that still looks like you in six weeks. $50 deposit to hold a double-process. Walk-ins for bangs only on Wednesday mornings. Parking behind the hardware store.” That is a business. We can build from it. If the blank box stalls you, the brief builder asks who it is for, what they can do on the site, whether money changes hands, and what should keep running.
Say the money part out loud. If you take deposits, write that you take deposits and that you will connect your own payments. Bizzit Pro is not a cut of those deposits. If you only take Venmo at the chair, write that the site is for the menu and the book, and that payment is in person. A site that pretends to checkout when you cannot charge is worse than a site that says “text to book.”
What the live salon site is for
Look at Atelier Rose for the shape — a menu, a tone, a deposit story — then write your own names and prices. Do not copy their copy. Your bleach math is not theirs. Your town is not Biddeford unless it is.
Hours belong in English and in JSON-LD. Use OpeningHoursSpecification so Tuesday 10–6 is Tuesday 10–6. NAP belongs in one spelling: name, street, phone. Put the same block on Google Business. We will not generate fake five-star schema. If you have real reviews, they live on Google, not as invented AggregateRating on bizzit.io.
The homepage headline can come from the headline tool if you want eight options from the same sentence. Pick one that a client would say. “The deposit holds the chair” is better than “Welcome to our studio.”
Free URL first
Publish on a slug. Send atelier-yourname.bizzit.io to the next person who DMs “are you taking color?” If they can see the menu and the rule, the site is doing the job. Print a QR for the mirror. A 160-character Instagram bio can end with the hostname. You do not need Pro for any of that.
When the custom domain matters — cards, a neon sign, an ad — that is $19 and either a name you buy in search or a name you already own. Until then, do not pause the book because the URL has bizzit.io in it. Clients care that the time is real.
What we are not
We are not a full salon OS. We do not sync a Google Calendar as a sold booking product today. We do not run your chair software, your pigment inventory, or your payroll. If you need that, keep the tool you already pay for and let Bizzit be the public face: menu, hours, the rule about deposits, the address. Durable Launch at $25 lists more operating tools; we are $19 for a hosted site. The compare table stays honest about the gap.
We are not going to promise that overnight jobs will fill your empty Thursday. A brief can mention reminders; buying Pro because a sentence said “keeps running” is the wrong reason. Buy Pro for the domain and for us continuing to host the business you described.
A Monday launch that fits between clients
- One paragraph: chairs, services, deposit, parking, town.
- Google sign-in. Preview. If it looks like a shop, you used shop words — rebuild with salon words.
- Publish free. Text the slug to yourself on LTE. Check the menu.
- Hours + NAP. Rebuild if the first pass invented a fourth chair.
- When you want yourname.com, Pro. Cancel if the month is dead — cancel anytime.
The salon is the work. The website is the paragraph plus hosting. Describe it on Create.