Guides to run your appointments

Looking for a free booking app for your small business? Compare limits, bookings and manual work before choosing between a free plan and a subscription.

Separate bookings from inventory, accounting, packages and medical records. Pick salon software that covers what you really need, without assuming modules.

Compare appointment scheduling apps for salons: price, free plan or trial, WhatsApp reminders, deposits and commission per client. With source and date.

Which WhatsApp messages you can automate for appointments, which need the official channel and which you should keep answering yourself, with examples.

Tell a shared calendar used as a record from an online booking flow with a catalog, availability and deposits. Evaluate the process your team needs.

How DepiLab, a laser hair removal studio, organizes 23 services in Citalu, packages and single areas, with one practitioner and her Google Calendar.

What a WhatsApp booking chatbot does, when it helps a salon, when it gets in the way and what to ask before paying for one. Includes a simpler option.

Download a checklist to close out your schedule: appointment statuses, pending payment receipts, changes and prep for tomorrow. No sign-up needed.

Download a checklist to review your catalog, hours, deposits and mobile experience before you share your business's booking link.

Review completed appointments, changes, no-shows and pending receipts. Leave the next day ready with a short, orderly operational close.

How to collect an appointment deposit on WhatsApp without awkwardness: messages to copy, what to send and how to check the money arrived before you confirm.

Don't confuse a free staff member with an available room. Set up an extra check for the treatment rooms, tables and equipment your business shares.

What a WhatsApp CRM is, when it helps a business and what a salon really needs to organize its clients and appointments without overpaying.

Work out bookable times from your real routine: check-in, the service and cleanup. Stop offering slots that only work in the fastest case.

Write service names and descriptions that help clients book: what each service includes, how long it takes and when they should ask first.

Send Instagram visitors to a service menu with open times. Pick the right link, tell people what to do and test the full path on your phone.

Compare a spreadsheet with an online booking schedule: who enters appointments, how you check availability and how much manual work you can keep up.

How to use a WhatsApp Business broadcast list at your salon: who gets the message, promo examples to copy and how to avoid annoying clients.

Away message examples for a salon's WhatsApp Business: after hours, day off, vacation and while you're with a client. With your booking link.

Greeting message examples for your salon's WhatsApp Business, ready to copy: with your booking link, prices, a deposit and for when you're busy.

What automatic messages WhatsApp Business has (greeting, away and quick replies), salon examples and what to leave to your booking schedule.

Write confirmations with the date, time, service, staff member and location. Tell a confirmed appointment apart from a request waiting on a deposit.

Examples of WhatsApp messages to win back clients, ready to copy, when to send them and how to know who is due without checking your notebook.

Move upcoming appointments from your paper book using a cutoff date, a check by staff member and a link test before you open online booking.

Avoid duplicate profiles and outdated contacts. Set up a routine for finding clients and saving only the information their appointments need.

Separate business hours, each staff member's shifts and one-off absences. Check services and appointments before you change your team's shifts.

Compare access, changes and team coordination between a paper book and a digital schedule. Decide when to switch and how to keep a clear reference.

Check your team, long services, payments to verify and prep time before you open more hours on next week's schedule. A simple weekly routine.

Download a CSV template to prepare service names, what's included, durations and staff before you load your service menu. No signup required.

Download editable messages for confirmations, pending deposits and rescheduling. Adapt each text to the real status of the booking before you send it.

Check services, times, contact info and deposits from your phone. Run a full test of a client's path through your booking page before you publish.

What WhatsApp lets you schedule as of October 2026, and why for appointment reminders you don't need to schedule anything: Citalu sends them for you.

Set up a QR code that goes to the right page, print a test and check that it scans. Make it easy for clients to book their next appointment.

Review confirmations, instructions and how easy it is to reschedule. Tell no-shows from cancellations and track changes without promising automatic results.

Bring phone bookings into the same online schedule. Confirm the client, services, staff member and time before you promise availability.

Check availability, services and staff member before you move an appointment. Send the full new date and see how the deposit stays on record.

Ready-made quick replies for your salon's WhatsApp Business: prices, booking link, location, deposit, changes and aftercare. Download and adapt them.

Set up a manual check of payment receipts: right booking, amount, date and reference. Confirm the money actually arrived before you approve.

Plan the changeover between clients: station setup, supplies and breaks. Build those minutes into your availability so your schedule stays realistic.

What the WhatsApp Business API is, how it differs from the app, what it costs, and how to send automatic reminders without buying or setting it up.

What WhatsApp Business is, how it differs from WhatsApp, and how to use it in your salon to take, confirm and remind appointments, with messages to copy.

Compare chatting to set a time with sharing open times online. Combine a personal touch with one schedule that records every confirmed appointment.