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Someone emails at 10pm asking the price of a root tint and whether you've got Saturday. By the morning a reply is in your Gmail drafts. It has your price, your skin-test rule and real gaps from your diary. You read it and press send.
Most salon websites say some version of the same thing. Book by phone. If there's no answer, leave a message and I'll get back to you. The "Book now" button opens a contact form, and a person has to reply to every one.
That's a sign of a full column, not a problem with you. But each of those emails is the same three questions. How much is it? When are you free? Do I need anything first? You already know the answers. They're in your price list and your diary.
So the first draft can be written from those, while you work.
Hiya, how much is roots and a blow dry? Could I come in Saturday morning? Not been to you before.
Hi Megan, Thanks for getting in touch. A root tint is £55 and takes about an hour and a half. A blow dry is £28 and takes 45 minutes. That's £83 altogether, so allow about two hours and 15 minutes. Just so you know — the root tint needs a quick skin test at least 48 hours beforehand if you haven't had one with us in the last 6 months. Just pop in any time we're open and it takes two minutes. Saturday's a bit too soon for that, we're afraid, but here are a few that are free: • Tuesday 13th at 10am • Wednesday 14th at 2pm • Thursday 15th at 5.30pm What's the best number to reach you on? Just let me know which suits — nothing's held until you say yes.
What it did. It matched "roots" to your root tint, added the two prices and times together, and applied your 48-hour skin-test rule. That ruled Saturday out, so it offered the next real gaps. It asked for a phone number because the email didn't have one.
An example, with an invented client and invented prices. Yours would use your own list, your own rules and your own diary.
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It reads one Google Calendar, nothing else. If your booking system can copy your appointments into a Google Calendar, pick that calendar during setup and it will work around them. If it can't, the assistant will offer times you're already booked, so check that first.
Yes, if you tell it. You add the words your clients actually use, like baliage, roots or gel mani, next to each treatment. Every one you add is matched straight to your price list.
No. It writes drafts and never sends them. There's no send instruction in the code, and a test stops the build if one is ever added. You read each reply and press send yourself.
It offers times from one Google Calendar. If all your bookings go into one shared calendar, it works from that. If each stylist has their own, it can only offer times from the one you pick.
It hands it to you. You get a short holding reply in your drafts and a note saying what it wasn't sure about. It never guesses a price or a time to fill a gap.
Your business email in Gmail or Google Workspace, and your diary in Google Calendar. If you sign in to your email at outlook.com or through your website host, it can't help you yet.
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