If you are in the market for a new booking software system it is vital to know the pros and cons of all the options out there.

Or maybe you’re mostly happy where you are but are wondering if you’d benefit from moving to another system?

Simple Salon has been around for over a decade and we’ve seen a lot of change—and new competitors—in the market. With tens of thousands of satisfied users around the world we are quietly confident our experience and history of development focussed in the hair, health and beauty industry gives us an edge over most competing software.

Many of our competitors promise BIG but don’t always deliver.

Still, competition is healthy and it keeps us all on our toes.

But we get it. Simple Salon is not for everyone. And maybe there is a good reason another software is more suited to your business?

So to help you decide if Simple Salon is right for you or not, may we present… ‘Why Simple Salon Is NOT Right For You – And 10 Reasons That Prove It (No. 7 Is A Doozey!!)‘

1. You prefer to pay for your customers.
Believe it or not some booking software charge YOU every time you get a new customer. Then they also take a percentage of every service or transaction. Simple Salon doesn’t do this. Never will.

2. You prefer to manually SMS and Email confirmations and messages to your clients rather than automate marketing.
Simple Salon is one of the few industry leaders offering extensive automated marketing features. INSIDE TIP: Often we get ex-customers returning to Simple Salon because they miss this feature so much.

3. You don’t ever want to email or call your customers.
When adding new customers it’s easy for staff to forget to add vital information like an email or mobile phone contact. With Simple Salon you don’t have the option of forgetting if you enable ‘Email required’ or ‘Mobile required’ when adding a client.

4. You prefer a complicated calendar displaying useless information.
Simple Salon lets you display only rostered on operators, a feature which makes the daily calendar much clearer and easier to read than other booking programs.

5. You don’t ever want to use a scanner.
If you prefer manually adding in products and services—and can’t imagine a time in the future when you might get so busy you’ll bite the bullet and buy a scanner—you won’t need this Simple Salon feature (but many do, and they love it!)

6. You don’t want to automate emailing a receipt.
Maybe you love it when, after having their service, paid and gone home, a customer calls you up to ask if you could email them a receipt? If you’re the type who loves having your workflow interrupted like this then Simple Salon is probably not for you; we build features to help your workflow.

7. You don’t want to easily manage your clients.
Bringing up a client’s loyalty points, finding gift vouchers, searching client categories or client activities is all easy to do with Simple Salon. It’s surprising to us how many of our competitors DON’T make this easy. Maybe easy is hard for them?

8. You don’t want to motivate your staff.
Enabling quick logins, setting KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and limiting access for your staff to what they need to know are all ways to motivate your staff to stay focussed on the job at hand. Some business owners don’t bother paying attention to motivating their staff though, preferring to simply hope they’ll get by somehow, someway. Someday.

9. You want to do everything yourself.
If you have employees you’ll likely want to take advantage of Simple Salon’s Advance Rostering which allows you to easily email rosters to each operator. But if you don’t have any employees then you won’t find this feature as super useful as thousands of our customers do.

10. You prefer to spend your weekends and holidays writing reports rather than take Spot for a walk on the beach.
Reporting and analytics are a BIG feature of Simple Salon. All aspects of your business can be analysed quickly and thoroughly with reports that include wages reports, client management, client products, clients who booked online, clients who haven’t been in, end-of-day, operator report, operator KPI, pending bookings and…well, the list does go on—but if you never want to do a report to help manage and grow your business you won’t be interested.

Now, if you’ve read all these reasons Simple Salon might not be right for you and yet you STILL think maybe it IS right for you, why not try Simple Salon out for FREE for 30-days by signing up for the free trial HERE.

Unless you don’t like getting something for nothing, that is 😉