Front desk to payroll, online booking to the walk-in queue — one system that actually runs the floor. Built by a real nail salon, hardened on a live front desk.
demo / kalodeskStop stitching together a booking app, a card reader, a spreadsheet, and a group text. KaloDesk does it all — and the parts actually talk to each other.
Drag to reschedule, tap an empty slot to book, one to seven days at a time with a live now line. Client alert flags turn red on the block before you pick up the phone.
Your own booking page — clients pick first-available or a favorite tech, and it installs on their phone like an app. Per-tech hours, vacations and buffers are respected automatically.
Real rotation logic that keeps things fair — half-turns on quick tickets, break handling, and next-up at a tap. Turn credit is figured at checkout, not argued about after.
Giant phone keypad, no keyboard. It greets clients by name out loud, sings happy birthday, shows the live wait estimate, and drops them straight into the queue.
Cash-discount pricing, split tenders, tip splits across techs, and a combined ticket when four people settle on one card. A ticket cannot close underpaid.
Clients pick cash or card and see the savings, choose their own tip, read the itemized total, and sign with a finger. The signature prints on the receipt.
Clock-in hours flow into payroll with no re-entry. Commission, tips and revenue per hour per tech, printed as daily or weekly pay slips on the thermal printer.
Two-way, so a client replies YES to confirm or NO to cancel and the calendar updates itself. Confirmations, reminders, a morning-of nudge, and review requests.
Points and gift balances that redeem at checkout, bonus tiers like spend $100 get $110, and a liability ledger so you know what you still owe in gift cards.
Every Google review synced in, worst-and-newest first, answered from inside KaloDesk. When Google removes a review, KaloDesk kept the text, rating and date as your evidence.
Graduated, not punishing: free for everyone, then a card on file after repeat no-shows, then blocked from booking online. Card on file is KaloDesk Local today.
Techs sign in on their own phone with their name and PIN. Their schedule, their take-home pay, edit their own ticket on the floor, then Ready for checkout.
A failed text is retried on a second carrier automatically. Eight health checks watch the parts that fail quietly, and database backups are AES-256 encrypted.
Most software pretends every client books ahead. Yours doesn't. KaloDesk runs a real turn rotation — so walk-ins get seated in order, techs keep their spot on a quick service, and nobody argues about who's next.
Tap in on the tablet, and KaloDesk welcomes them by name, tells them who they're seeing, and — if it's their birthday week — sings. Small touches that make a salon feel like yours.
You're all set with Amy. Have a seat — we'll call you shortly.
Software rarely dies with a bang. Reminders stop going out and you find out from an empty chair. KaloDesk watches itself. If a text fails at one carrier it is sent again through the second one. Eight health checks run in the background — is the scheduler alive, did inbound replies go silent, is last night's backup actually there. On KaloDesk Local, the register keeps ringing up sales straight through an internet outage.
The same salon software, two ways to run it. Nobody else really gives you both.
Real prices, right here — no sales call required. One flat rate, unlimited techs, everything included.
Hosted, updated, backed up. One flat price for the whole salon — unlimited techs. Drops to $49/mo with KaloDesk Payments · now available, see the fee schedule.
Get startedOwn it, hardware package included. First year of updates & support, then optional plan. Drops to $999 with KaloDesk Payments · now available, see the fee schedule.
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KaloDesk wasn't dreamed up in a boardroom. It was built to run a real nail salon — the calendar, the walk-ins, the payroll, the birthday songs at the kiosk — and refined every day on a live front desk. When something didn't work at the counter, we fixed it that night. That's software that knows what a Saturday rush actually feels like.
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