Services · Mobile app development · Beauty salon apps
Codeeo provides beauty salon app development USA salon brands, franchise groups and suite operators rely on to run booking, payments, memberships, tips and loyalty from one platform in every state where they trade. The hard part of a national salon app is not the booking screen. It is handling fifty different licensing boards, a patchwork of state privacy and renewal laws, several time zones and payroll rules for tips, without making clients or staff notice any of it.
Codeeo is not based in the US. Our 80+ specialists in Dubai, Riyadh and Karachi deliver for American brands remotely, running discovery and every review by video call. We have completed 200+ projects in the UAE and the US and carry a 4.7 rating across 23 Google reviews.
200+ companies across the US and the UAEFrom a first store to a listed developer
Platform capabilities
A brand with locations in Arizona, Florida and Illinois has three sets of state rules, at least two time zones and franchisees or managers who each want their own view. Clients, meanwhile, expect the same app experience at every location and the same loyalty balance wherever they book, whether at home or while traveling for work. Head office needs to change a service menu once and see it everywhere, while still letting a single store adjust its prices and hours. Sales tax on beauty services and retail products also varies by state and sometimes by city, so checkout has to calculate it per location rather than with one national rate.
These capabilities form the core of most national salon platforms we scope. We decide with you which belong in the first release, usually those that protect revenue and keep each location compliant, and which can follow once the first market is live and stable. Loyalty, retail ordering and referral programs are common second phase items, because they work best once clients already book through the app every visit.
One client account works at every location. The app finds the nearest stores, shows real availability in each store's local time and keeps a single profile with history, preferences and loyalty points.
Clients book anywhere in the network without a second sign-up.
Head office sets the master service menu, brand content and promotions; each location or franchisee adjusts prices, hours and staff within limits you define. Permissions decide who can change what.
Brand stays consistent while local managers keep control of daily operations.
Each state licenses practitioners and salons through its own board, such as TDLR in Texas, the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology in California and the Department of State in New York. The platform stores license details per state and warns before renewals.
Compliance records are ready whichever state an inspector visits.
Clients tip in the app and choose who receives it. Tips are attached to each worker and exported to payroll, with rules configurable by state, because some states set stricter requirements than federal law.
Tip handling stays consistent with the law in each location.
Recurring plans with clear disclosure, recorded consent and in-app cancellation. Renewal notices and cancellation steps can follow the strictest state where you sell, so one flow works across the network.
Recurring revenue without a patchwork of different membership screens.
Reminders and marketing texts run through carrier-registered numbers, with prior written consent captured for promotions under the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act and opt-outs honored instantly across every location in the network.
Messages reach clients and avoid consent complaints.
Clients can see, correct, export or delete their data from the app, and requests are logged by state, covering laws such as the CCPA in California, the TDPSA in Texas and similar acts elsewhere.
One process answers privacy requests from any state.
Screens built to WCAG guidelines with screen reader labels, large text support and sufficient contrast, reflecting how courts have applied the ADA to digital services.
More clients can book on their own, and legal exposure drops.
Every appointment is stored with its location's time zone, so a client in Phoenix booking a store in Denver, or a manager in New York reviewing a California schedule, always sees the correct local time. Reminders fire at the right hour wherever the client is.
No missed appointments caused by a time zone mismatch.
Head office compares regions, states and individual locations on bookings, rebooking, membership retention and tips, with drill-down to stylist level. Franchisees see only their own stores, while regional managers see the territory they look after.
Expansion decisions rest on store-by-store evidence.
Who we build for
Most US salons are small independent businesses that can run on an off-the-shelf booking tool, and we will say so if that describes you. A custom app starts paying off when a brand spans several states, sells memberships at scale, runs a franchise or suite model, or wants client data and the brand experience fully under its own control rather than inside a marketplace listing next to competitors.
A brand that grew in one state meets new licensing boards, privacy laws and payroll rules with every expansion. We design the platform so a new state is a configuration task: add the location, apply the right rules, train the staff. Client accounts carry over automatically when someone moves or travels. Local marketing can still differ by state, so a promotion in Florida does not show up in Ohio, and each new market can launch with its own opening offers controlled from head office.
Plan for the third state while building for the first.
Franchisors need brand consistency and network reporting; franchisees need control of their own staff, prices and payouts. The platform separates finances per franchisee, enforces brand standards through permissions and gives head office the aggregated view the franchise agreement depends on. Royalty and marketing fund reports can be produced from the same data, and new franchisees are onboarded from a template so their app location goes live with the brand menu already in place.
Clear roles prevent most franchise disputes before they start.
Operators running suite buildings in several metros host hundreds of independent professionals. Each renter needs a booking page, payments and a client list they own; the operator needs leasing, occupancy and shared marketing tools. We keep these layers strictly apart. A professional who moves from a suite in one city to another in the same network keeps their profile, reviews and client list, which makes the network more attractive to the best renters.
Blowout, waxing, lash and facial brands built on monthly plans live or die by renewal and cancellation flows. We build those flows to satisfy the strictest state rules you trade under, with clear billing history, pause options and transfer between locations. Reporting shows churn by location and by plan, so head office can see whether a cancellation spike is about price, staffing or a single underperforming store.
Engagement options
National programs rarely fit one contract. Many brands start with a fixed-scope platform build for the first market, then move to a retainer that funds the rollout and new features. Larger networks with an internal product owner often prefer a dedicated team that works through a roadmap quarter by quarter. Every model runs remotely by video and shared project tools, without promises of particular hours. You get a named product lead, written status updates and a demo at the end of each cycle, and your operations team can raise issues from any location through one shared channel.
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
We typically build with React Native or Flutter for iOS and Android, a cloud backend in your own account and a web console for managers and head office. Payments run through a PCI DSS compliant processor supporting cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay, with card details tokenized so they never sit on your servers. Texting, payroll and CRM integrations are chosen around what your network already uses.
01Mobile
02Data and cloud
03Marketing and tracking
It depends on the number of states, roles and integrations at launch.
A single-state launch with booking, payments and tips is a far smaller first phase than a franchise platform with separate finances, memberships and a dozen integrations. We fix the plan after discovery and the rules matrix, then deliver in phases: first market, then further states in an agreed order. Store review, data migration from existing tools and staff training are written into the plan from the start, so rollout dates hold. Each later state is planned as its own short phase, with time set aside for local staff to learn the system before clients are invited.
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