A Fresha Alternative on Shopify: Salon and Spa Appointment Booking in Your Own Store
Most salons and spas take bookings through a marketplace app. It works, but the marketplace owns the client relationship, shows your clients other salons nearby, and takes a cut. Meanwhile, your products, gift cards and brand live on your own Shopify store.
Ajaxy Spa & Salon Booking brings appointment booking into that store. Clients choose a service, a time and the professional they love, then pay in your normal Shopify checkout. No marketplace, no commission, no separate system to manage.
How booking works for your clients
Your booking page lives on your domain, for example yoursalon.com/pages/book. Clients browse your services by category:
- Hair: cuts, colour and styling
- Nails: manicure, pedicure and gel
- Treatments: facials, massage, lashes and brows
They pick a time slot, say a Blow-Dry at 11:30 on Tuesday with Maya, and pay in the Shopify checkout they already trust. They get a confirmation, and you get a new order with the service, time and professional on it.
Every service is a product in your store. Every professional has their own page. Every booking is an order. That means your reports, payouts and customer list all stay in one place.
Opening the diary, by asking
At the front desk, you can drag working hours onto the calendar. Or you can ask Shopify Sidekick, Claude or ChatGPT in plain words:
“Open Nermin’s hours Monday to Saturday, 10:00 to 19:00, for the next 12 weeks.”
72 days appear on Nermin’s calendar. Services, professionals and categories are stored as Shopify metaobjects, so your data never leaves your store.
Why salons choose Shopify booking over a marketplace
Keep your clients and your margin
No commission and no per-booking fee. Clients book on your site, under your brand, and never see a competitor’s listing next to yours.
Sell more than appointments
Because bookings happen in your store, clients can add retail products, gift cards or a treatment package to the same order.
Real pages that rank on Google
Service and professional pages are real pages on your domain. “Balayage in JLT” or “gel manicure near me” can bring clients to your own site, not to a marketplace.
Built into your theme
Native theme blocks for any Online Store 2.0 theme: a booking page with every service, a page per category, a page per service and a page per professional. All in your fonts and colours, with no iframe.
Booking keeps working, even if our server doesn’t
The storefront reads services, professionals and open times directly from your store. Our server is only used for your admin, never for a client’s booking.
Who it’s for
- Hair salons and barbershops
- Nail and beauty bars
- Day spas, massage and wellness centres
- Lash, brow and skin clinics
- Independent stylists and therapists with their own Shopify store
Try it free for 15 days
Ajaxy Spa & Salon Booking works with any Online Store 2.0 theme and comes with a 15-day free trial. Install it, add your services and professionals, open your hours, and start taking bookings on your own store.
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