Salyntra for multi-service salons
One appointment, several services, a different specialist on each — and each one finishing when it actually finishes.
The hard part of running hair, nails and beauty under one roof is not the service list. It is that a single client visit involves several people, several start times and several finishes, and most salon software models an appointment as one client with one stylist for one block of time. In Salyntra every service line on an appointment carries its own specialist, its own start and end, and its own completion state — so a visit that starts with colour, moves to a manicure while it develops and ends with a brow shape is one booking, not three that somebody has to keep in their head.
How does one appointment hold several specialists?
Each service on the appointment is its own line with its own staff member and its own time. The colour is with one person from two o’clock, the manicure is with another from half past, and both belong to the same visit.
That is a structural difference rather than a display one. Because the line carries the staff member, commission lands on the person who actually did the work — not on whoever happened to be named on the booking.
What happens when one service finishes before another?
The line closes on its own. Each service moves through its own states independently of the parent appointment, so the manicurist can finish and move on while the colour is still developing.
When every line on the visit has reached an end, the appointment follows automatically — completed if anything was done, cancelled if everything was called off. Nobody has to remember to close the parent.
How do you price a visit with several services?
Line by line, and the total is the sum. Each service carries its own price, its own VAT treatment and its own back-bar cost, so a visit combining a two-hundred-naira brow shape with a colour service reports correctly on both rather than averaging into something meaningless.
A service can also be excluded from loyalty accrual on its own, which matters when one of your categories runs on a much thinner margin than the others.
Will my calendar be readable with this many categories?
Services carry a category and a colour, and the calendar has a colour mode you switch — so a floor running hair, nails, beauty and waxing at once can be read by department or by staff member depending on what you are trying to see.
The setup wizard starts a multi-service salon with a cross-section rather than one trade’s list: cuts, colour, braids, manicure, pedicure, facial, massage, beard, lashes, brows, makeup and waxing, so the first day is editing a list rather than building one.
What is the same whichever type you are?
The whole platform. Salyntra is one product, not several editions — the business type you pick at setup changes the service templates you are offered and how your public page describes you, not which features you can reach.
A multi-service salon simply reaches more of it on any given day, because it is running several trades against the same calendar, the same client list and the same till.
Common questions
Can two services on the same visit run at the same time?
Yes. Each line has its own start and end, so overlapping is a matter of what you schedule rather than something the model forbids — which is how a manicure gets done while colour develops.
Can a client book several services themselves online?
Yes, from the public booking page. The stylist step then applies per service, so a client can pick a specific person for one and leave the other to you.
Does each specialist get their own commission rate?
Commission is per staff member, and because the service line names the person who performed it, a visit split across three people pays three people correctly without anybody splitting it by hand.
Other business types
Colour processing, back-bar stock and commission — the three things generic booking tools get wrong.
BarbershopsWalk-ins without paperwork, and a booking page that does not insist on choosing a barber.
Nail salonsTwo technicians, one client, one appointment — scheduled the way it actually happens.
SpasLong appointments are expensive to lose. Take a deposit, and let unpaid slots free themselves.
Lash & brow studiosTwo-hour appointments, a fill cycle that only makes sense next to the last full set, and a portfolio built from your own clients.
See it on your own salon
Thirty days, every feature, no card. Import your clients and services and judge it against how you actually work.