For salon and barbershop owners
Your regulars want in. Now they can get in.
Someone on your waitlist has been trying to get in with you for weeks. When a chair opens, Slotly offers the opening to the clients already on your waitlist and books them right in Square. You stay with the client in your chair.
You add a payment method at the end of setup. You only pay when we fill.
Your chair. Your regulars.
Example: booked in Square
Tue 2:30 PM, haircut and color
A client from your waitlist
What happens today
Tuesday, 10:04 a.m. Your 2:30 color cancels.
You see it between clients. Maybe you text a couple of regulars. Maybe someone answers in time. Meanwhile one of your regulars has been trying to get in for two weeks. Most days the chair sits empty and the $95 is gone for good.
Your booking platform can tell clients a slot opened. They still have to race to claim it, and most miss it.
With Slotly, the same cancellation goes to the next client on your waitlist who wants that service, that stylist and that time. It lands in Square as a normal booking. You see it in your Square calendar like any other appointment.
How it works
Set it up once. Cancellations get filled.
Step 01
Connect once, it keeps watching
Connect your Square account, choose which services and staff to watch, and share your waitlist link with clients. No code, no setup fee. Slotly checks your calendar around the clock.
Step 02
The right client is matched
Slotly matches the open slot against your waitlist by service, stylist and time window. The first client on your list whose preferences fit gets it. No guessing who texted back first.
Step 03
The booking lands in Square
Slotly books the opening straight into Square and the client gets a confirmation email. Each client sets a minimum notice, 2 hours by default, so nobody gets booked into a slot they can't make. Clients you add yourself get a link instead of a booking when the opening is under 2 hours out.
On Square
Cancellations are filled automatically, respecting each client's minimum notice.
On Acuity
Slotly connects and emails the waiting client within minutes of a cancellation so they can book it. It doesn't book on Acuity yet.
Run your own numbers
Move the sliders.
Your estimated monthly recovery
Revenue recovered (estimate)
You only owe on filled slots. No fixed cost.
Assumes about 67% of cancelled slots get filled from your waitlist. Your results depend on your volume and waitlist.
One worked example
A salon running 200 appointments a month. Average service $80. Cancellation rate 15%.
Revenue recovered (estimate)
$1,600
20 fills at $80 each (example)
Example numbers. Your results depend on your volume and waitlist.
Pricing
We only get paid when you get filled.
Slotly runs in the background and turns a cancellation into a booked chair, so you never have to think about it.
One model. 8% of the appointment value on each cancellation Slotly fills. No monthly fee, no setup cost, no minimum. If it sits empty, so does our account.
- Payment method on file, charged only when we fill
- Commission is calculated on the service value at the time Slotly completes the booking
- Cancel anytime with 30 days notice. No long-term contract
8%
per filled cancellation. Nothing else.
Quick math (example): 2 filled cancellations a day at $80, over 26 working days
Owner questions
The things owners ask us first.
Who's in control of my calendar?
You are. Square is still your calendar, your payment processor and your client database. Slotly reads your availability and creates bookings into open slots. On your calendar, that's all it does.
Slotly bookings look like any other appointment in Square. Move it, reassign it or cancel it in Square the same way you always do.
What if Slotly goes down?
Slotly sits on top of your Square account. It doesn't sit between you and Square. If Slotly has an outage, Square keeps working: your calendar, your payments, your team's bookings.
The only effect is that new cancellations aren't filled during that window. Those slots sit empty, the same as they do today. In an outage you're no worse off than you are today.
How do I know which bookings Slotly made?
Every Slotly booking carries a Square booking ID you can look up in your Square dashboard. Your Slotly dashboard shows a fill log with each booking's ID, date, service, stylist and ticket amount.
Your bill is built from that log, line by line. If anything looks wrong, you have 14 days from the invoice date to raise it in writing, and we'll trace it in the Square record together.
What counts as a filled cancellation?
Slotly detects an opening from a cancellation and books a waiting client into it. If we don't fill it, you don't pay.
Do my clients need a Slotly account?
No. They join your waitlist from your own Slotly waitlist link with a name and email, and pick whether they want to be booked automatically or sent a link.
What booking software do you support?
Square Appointments, with automatic booking as the default for clients; clients who choose notify-only get a link to confirm. Openings that start sooner than a client's minimum notice (2 hours by default) aren't offered to that client. Acuity Scheduling connects too; your waitlisted clients get an alert within minutes of a cancellation. More platforms are in development. If you use something else, tell us when you sign up and we'll be in touch within 2 business days.
Is there a monthly fee? Can I cancel?
No monthly fee. 8% per filled cancellation is the only thing you pay. Cancel anytime with 30 days notice by email. No penalties, no lock-in.
Every empty slot is money you can't get back.
Start with your waitlist
Connect your calendar. Let it run.
Setup takes under 10 minutes. Create your account, connect your booking platform, pick the services to watch, add a card, and share your waitlist link with clients.
You provide payment details at signup for commission billing. Cancel with 30 days notice.
You only pay when we fill.
You add a payment method at the end of setup, and it's charged 8% only on cancellations Slotly fills.
Create your partner account
Join as a partner. Slotly fills your empty slots automatically. You only pay when we do.
Step 1 of 4: Create your account