Nail salon software that books mani and pedi as one appointment.

OpenChair is built for nail salons in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Pricing is in your local currency (AUD, NZD, or GBP). Payments process through Stripe with Tap to Pay on iPhone and Stripe Terminal in all three regions. Calendar Closures includes one-tap import of AU, NZ, and UK national public holidays. Support runs in local hours.

OpenChair Pro is capped pricing. AU: $34.95 base + $20 per additional tech, capped at $199/month. NZ: $24.95 base + $20 per additional tech, capped at $199/month. UK: £19.95 base + £10 per additional tech, capped at £99/month. A free tier runs forever for solo techs with 5 services. Card processing is 1.8% + 30c on Pro (AU; equivalent rates in NZD and GBP). No marketplace commission, no per-SMS line item, and SMS/email/Sparks (AI credits) are included up to clear seat-based caps.

Yes. Calendar Closures includes one-tap import of AU, NZ, and UK national public holidays. State-specific holidays (Victorian Labour Day, NSW Bank Holiday, the various UK regional holidays) you add manually. Closures cascade through your bookings with options to cancel and notify, reassign to a qualified tech, or keep on the calendar with a flag.

Yes. Mani and pedi book as one appointment with two services on the same booking. OpenChair checks the manicure table and the pedi chair together before offering the slot, so the chair holds, the table holds, and the schedule stays accurate. Your storefront can list "Mani + pedi" as a single bookable item. The second service is on the booking before the client confirms it, so it stops getting forgotten at the counter.

Pedi chairs, manicure tables, polish wall, curing lamps (any shared kit) are bookable resources on Pro. Each service is linked to the resource it needs. A spa pedi books a pedi chair; a BIAB books a manicure table. When all six pedi chairs are full at 11am Saturday, the slot isn't offered for a pedi booking even when a tech is free. Chair utilisation surfaces in Intelligence beside revenue per chair.

Walk-in queue runs on every plan. Clients scan a QR at the door or tap an iPad kiosk, choose a service, optionally pick a tech, and join the queue with a live wait estimate. When they're two clients away, their phone gets a "you're up next" SMS so they can step out for a coffee without losing their spot. Walk-ins and pre-booked appointments share one calendar. No more sticky notes at reception.

Yes. Removal can be tagged as an add-on against any service that requires it. When a returning client books an infill on a set that's older than your removal threshold, the soak-off line is added automatically. The duration adjusts. The tech doesn't have to remember it. The receptionist doesn't have to ring it up separately at checkout. Removal stops being a freebie.

Per-service rebook clocks. BIAB at 21 days, acrylic at 28, full pedi at 42. All configurable. The next visit can be locked at checkout before the client leaves the chair. Missed rebooks trigger a Reconnect SMS and email sequence on the schedule you set. The 3-week rebook cycle that lives in your head now runs automatically.

Yes. Set per-tech compensation as commission (% of services and retail) or hourly. Tips are tracked separately from service revenue and roll through to each tech's earnings report. The owner sees a consolidated payout view in Intelligence. Works for employee, contractor, and chair-rental arrangements side by side. Booth-rent modelling is on the roadmap for nail salons running a hybrid commission + chair-rent model.

Yes. Clients can book from your branded storefront without creating an account. After booking, they manage, reschedule, or cancel through secure token links sent by SMS or email. Returning clients can use a lightweight My Bookings view if they want to see their nail history. Most nail clients don't want another app. They want to confirm and show up.

Yes. Treatment photos are stored privately against the client. The last colour, shape, technique (gel, BIAB, acrylic, dip, Gel-X), and infill date sit on the client record so the tech sees them the moment the booking opens. Photos can be promoted to your public portfolio with explicit client consent, captured digitally and revocable. Front-desk staff can be locked out of clinical-style notes with role-based permissions.

OpenChair Assistant is trained on your salon's bookings, clients, services, revenue, and team. You ask it questions in plain language: "who's overdue for an infill?", "draft a rebook nudge for BIAB clients I haven't seen in six weeks", "which colours moved the most last month". It answers with your real data. You can also ask it to pull a client's nail history, check tomorrow's walk-in forecast, or write storefront descriptions. Assistant runs on your salon's data only, never sees other venues, and stays inside your account.

Yes. Deposit rules are per-service: fixed amount or percentage, charged at booking via Stripe. Take a deposit on a first-time full set, a wedding party of four, a Saturday-night booking with a no-show-prone client. If a client cancels late or doesn't show, the deposit forfeits according to your cancellation policy. Configurable per service, so a $30 polish change doesn't get the same gate as a $200 full set.

OpenChair runs in any modern web browser (Chrome, Safari, Edge, Firefox) on Mac, PC, or Chromebook, with native iOS and Android apps for phone and tablet. Stripe Terminal handles card-present payments on the front desk. The mobile apps are designed for techs working between chairs: check in a walk-in, take a payment, snap a finished set, all one-thumb. An iPad mounted at reception becomes the walk-in kiosk. The web app is where the owner-side work lives: Intelligence, configuration, the big-screen calendar.

Yes. Each location runs as its own venue with separate techs, calendars, services, chairs, deposits, and storefront. You keep one login and one combined view of revenue, retention, and team performance across the group. Clients can move between locations without losing their colour history or photos. Reach out if you run more than one location, and we'll help you set up the right structure for your group.

Fresha brings marketplace discovery and takes 20% of every new client booking. On a $90 mani-pedi that's $18 you keep with OpenChair. GlossGenius is beautiful for a solo nail artist but doesn't model pedi chairs as resources or run mixed payroll cleanly once you have 4+ techs. Vagaro is a workhorse, but the UI is cluttered and per-seat pricing climbs every time you hire. OpenChair's angle is different: pedi chairs and manicure tables as first-class resources, mani-and-pedi captured as one booking, walk-in queue with live wait estimate, capped pricing, zero commission.

Pro includes SMS, email, and AI credit allowances that scale with your team. You get 100 SMS plus 50 per additional seat (capped at 550 per month), 1,000 emails per seat (capped at 10,000), and 500 Sparks per seat for AI features like Assistant and add-on suggestions (capped at 5,000, where 1 Spark equals 1 cent). Overage runs through your Wallet with prepaid balance and auto top-up. No per-SMS line item, no surprise bill at the end of the month.

Most nail salons are live within 24 to 48 hours of starting their trial. Your service menu (BIAB, acrylic, gel, spa pedi, removal, art), chair and table mapping, deposit rules, rebook clocks, and storefront branding can be configured in an afternoon. If you're migrating from another platform, we handle the client and booking history import for you in parallel. From signup to taking real bookings is usually under a week, even with a full data migration.

Yes, and migration is free. We pull your client list, service menu, staff, and past appointments out of your existing system and into OpenChair. We support imports from Fresha, Timely, GlossGenius, Vagaro, and Booksy, plus CSV exports from anywhere else. Nail photos and colour notes come across where your previous system exposes them. If they don't, we help your team set up structured client memory from the first OpenChair visit forward.

No. OpenChair is month-to-month by default. You can cancel any time from your account, and you take your data with you: client history, photos, colour notes, the full set. Annual billing is available if you prefer to lock in a discount, where you pay for ten months and get twelve. Annual is opt-in, never the default.