Services · Mobile app development · Beauty salon apps
We offer beauty salon app development Los Angeles studios use to take bookings, sell memberships, hold deposits and pay out card tips correctly under California rules. Clients here juggle shoot days, auditions, long commutes and last-minute events, so they want to book, move and prepay on their phones at odd hours. A branded app gives them that, and gives your team a single calendar, client history and payout record instead of three disconnected tools.
Codeeo has no Los Angeles office. Our 80+ people are based in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi and collaborate with California clients remotely, holding every workshop and review over video. Across the UAE and the US we have shipped 200+ projects, and Google reviewers rate us 4.7 from 23 reviews.
200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer
What we can build
Los Angeles beauty businesses range from one-chair suites in Silver Lake to busy Koreatown nail salons and polished studios near Beverly Hills and West Hollywood. The common thread is a client base with irregular days. A stylist's regular might work early call times on a set one week and nights the next, then need a glam appointment the morning of an event. Booking has to flex around that. Traffic adds another layer: a client crossing from the Valley to Santa Monica at five in the afternoon can lose an hour on the 405, so reminders and late arrival notices need to arrive in time to be useful.
These are the modules we draw from. Few salons need all of them at launch. We sequence the list with you during discovery, putting the features that cut phone time and protect your calendar first, and leaving loyalty or retail for a second phase once the core flow is stable. Retail matters in this market, where clients often buy the exact shampoo or serum their stylist used, so we plan the product catalog early even if it ships later.
Stylists can open pre-dawn or after-hours slots for specific clients only, at a different rate if you choose, without showing them to everyone. Clients see what is genuinely available to them and can book from the app at any hour, including the night before a call time.
Premium time slots are offered to the right people without manual texting.
A request form for bridal parties, red carpet prep or on-location work collects the date, address, number of people and look references, then routes it to a manager who quotes and confirms inside the app.
Big bookings arrive complete instead of as a chain of DMs.
California Labor Code section 351 treats tips as the employee's property and bars deducting card processing fees from them. The app records each tip at its full value against the right person, ready for the next payday.
Tip records match what California law expects.
Recurring blowout, nail or facial memberships with clear terms, express consent at sign-up and a cancel button inside the app, designed around California's Automatic Renewal Law and its online cancellation rules.
Recurring revenue without renewal complaints.
For salon suite buildings, each renter gets their own booking page, client list and payouts, while the building operator sees occupancy and shared services. The Board of Barbering and Cosmetology has published guidance on suites, which we help you reflect in the setup.
Independent renters and the building run on one platform without mixing money.
Extensions, color transformations and bridal trials can require a deposit at booking, with the policy displayed plainly. Apple Pay and Google Pay make paying quick.
Long services stop disappearing at the last minute.
Koreatown, Glendale and much of the Eastside run on more than English. Service menus, reminders and staff screens can be offered in the languages your clients and technicians prefer.
More clients finish booking without phoning to ask.
Stylists post their recent work by category, and clients save looks to their profile so the stylist sees exactly what they want before the appointment. Posts can be shared to social channels from the same screen.
Consultations start with a shared reference, not guesswork.
Clients can view, download or delete their data, and opt out of marketing, from inside the app. Sensitive notes such as skin conditions are limited to the staff who need them.
Data requests are handled in minutes rather than weeks.
Rebooking rate, chair utilization, membership churn and tips per stylist, filtered by location if you run more than one studio across the county. Reports export cleanly for your bookkeeper at month end.
You can see which chairs and services are actually earning.
Who this is for
Los Angeles County is a patchwork of cities and neighborhoods, each with its own beauty culture. A Santa Monica blowout bar sells speed and convenience; a Koreatown nail salon competes on detail and turnaround; a Studio City color specialist sells expertise and a long waitlist. The app has to fit how you compete, so we start from the client you most want more of.
When demand already outstrips supply, the job is protecting the calendar. Deposits, consultation forms, patch test reminders and a waitlist that offers cancelled slots in order of priority keep high-value appointments filled. Formula history stays on the client record so any colorist in the studio can follow up a correction. Clients who travel for work can also hold a recurring slot every six weeks, released automatically if they do not confirm by a set day, which keeps your premium chairs from being blocked by people who have moved on.
Protect your best hours first; marketing features can wait.
Speed matters more than anything. Clients want to open the app, pick a time near their office or home, pay and go. Memberships and prepaid packs drive repeat visits, so cancellation and renewal flows must be clear enough to satisfy California's rules and simple enough that clients do not need to call. Location matters too: a client should see the nearest studio first, whether they are near Downtown, Westwood or Pasadena, with parking notes shown before they commit to a time.
Short visits need the shortest possible booking flow.
Operators renting suites to independent stylists need one platform with many small businesses inside it. Each renter controls their prices, hours and clients; the operator manages leases, shared marketing and building access. We keep finances separate and give renters a portable client list so the arrangement stays fair. Building operators also get tools to publish open suites, take applications from stylists and track shared costs such as laundry or reception cover, all without seeing renters' private earnings.
Groups with studios in Koreatown, the Valley and the South Bay need shared client profiles, technician scheduling across sites and bilingual staff screens. Walk-ins and bookings share one queue per store, and owners compare performance across locations without exporting spreadsheets. Fair technician rotation, break tracking and a running list of who is free next help managers keep the floor moving when a busy Saturday fills every station.
Ways to engage
Independent studios often choose a fixed-scope build covering booking, deposits and tips, with a clear list of what is in and out. Growing groups usually add a monthly retainer after launch so memberships, loyalty and new locations roll out on a steady schedule. Suite operators and larger beauty brands sometimes prefer a dedicated team that works through a longer roadmap. Whichever model you choose, reviews happen over video, and you can follow every task on a shared board. We also write short release notes after each update so your front desk knows what changed before clients start asking about it, and we keep a list of requested features ranked by how often your clients and staff raise them.
A defined build with a deadline
We agree what the product has to do, write it down with a price and a date, and build exactly that. Changes are priced before they are made, not discovered on the invoice.
A product that keeps evolving
Named engineers who work your hours, join your standups and stay on the codebase. You direct the backlog; we own the quality of what ships.
Something live that needs looking after
A monthly block of hours for improvements, fixes and the small requests that otherwise wait months. Unused hours carry for a quarter.
Technology
For most LA salons we use a cross-platform framework such as Flutter or React Native, a cloud backend you own, and payment processors with Apple Pay, Google Pay and card-on-file support. If you already use a point of sale or payroll provider, we connect to it where its API allows. Image storage for lookbooks and before and after photos runs on a content delivery network, so galleries load quickly even on a weak signal inside a parking structure.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
Timing follows from the agreed scope, not a fixed template.
A booking and payments app for one studio is a much shorter project than a suite building platform with dozens of renters and separate payouts. We confirm the plan once discovery has fixed the feature list, the integrations and any data you are bringing from another booking tool. Apple and Google review time is built into that plan. You see progress at each demo, so there are no surprises near launch, and we pick a go-live date away from wedding and holiday peaks, when your staff have time to learn the new screens.
Schedule a free consultation and get a written recommendation, with costs, before you commit to anything.
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