Salon apps for Birmingham's bridal, threading and high street beauty trade.

Brides choose a package covering several days, such as mehndi night, wedding day and reception, with hair, make-up and draping for the bride and her party. The app holds every date, every guest and every artist in one booking, with a deposit and a staged payment plan agreed upfront. Venue addresses across the city and beyond sit with each event, so artists know where they are going and when to leave.

Clients often choose a make-up artist from photos of past work. Each artist has a gallery the salon controls, tagged by style, with honest labels for skin tone and occasion. Clients pick an artist and see only that artist's free dates.

Threading and brow bars in shopping areas such as Grand Central and the Bullring run on quick visits. Clients join a queue from their phone, see their place and arrive when they are next. Booked and walk in clients share one line that staff manage from a tablet. Opening hours follow the shopping centre, so the queue closes itself when the doors do.

One person can hold profiles for parents, children and in-laws and book for several of them at once, with each person's preferences and allergy notes kept separately. Reminders go to whoever made the booking. This suits Birmingham households who visit as a family before weddings and festivals.

Birmingham City Council requires both premises and practitioners offering semi-permanent skin colouring, piercing or electrolysis to register under the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 and follow its byelaws. The app stores those registrations and only offers these treatments with registered staff at registered premises. Registration certificates can be uploaded so you have them to hand when an officer asks.

Deposits secure busy Saturday and festival slots, and larger bridal packages can be paid in instalments that the app collects on agreed dates. Clients pay by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Refund rules and transfer of a deposit to a new date are set by you.

Each stylist and artist sees the day on their own phone: who is next, what the client had last time, any allergy flags and travel time if the booking is at a venue. Artists mark services complete, add retail products and log breaks, and the owner sees the picture across the whole salon without walking the floor.

Reminders and booking confirmations can be sent in English and, if your clientele needs it, in further languages spoken widely across Birmingham such as Urdu or Punjabi. Staff choose from approved templates so messages stay consistent whoever sends them. Messages are short and plain, because a reminder read at a bus stop on the Hagley Road has to make sense in a glance.

Points or visit stamps reward regulars, and you can verify students with a university email if you set separate student rates. Rules stay simple enough to explain at the till, and points never expire without warning.

See bookings, deposits held, artist utilisation and upcoming wedding commitments in one place. Forecasts show which weekends are close to full months in advance, so you can bring in freelance artists early or close the diary for a date.