SalonSites / Beauty salons
Websites & booking for beauty salons · Colchester & Essex
We checked 490 beauty salons around Colchester. 83% can't take a booking online.
Over half have no real website, and every treatment becomes a DM conversation. A full treatment menu, bookable online with your rules built in, is fixable this week — one price, £0 a month to run. Our live example IS a beauty salon.
WhatsApp answered the same day — usually within the hour, salon hours.
Our own analysis, August 2026 — every operating business of this type with a Google listing within 16 miles of Colchester, each website checked individually.
Sound familiar?
Things beauty salons owners tell us
Every treatment is a DM conversation.
Brows, lashes, wax, facials — each one on your site with its price and duration, bookable in two taps. The conversation only happens when you confirm.
Patch tests need 48 hours and clients don't know.
Your notice rules are built into the booking itself — treatments that need a patch test simply can't be booked too soon. We run exactly this for a live salon today.
My price list is a photo from 2023.
Your list lives on the site and you edit it from your phone. Google reads the real prices too.
I pay commission on clients I already had.
Keep the marketplace for discovery if you want — your own site gives regulars a direct, commission-free way to book you.
What your site includes
Built for how beauty salons actually work
The full treatment menu
Brows, lashes, waxing, facials, massage — every treatment with true prices and durations, organised by category like your wall list.
Booking with your rules
Minimum notice, patch-test requirements, request-to-confirm — the rules are built in, not typed into every DM. Proven live at shieldsbeauty.com.
Two ways to book
Web and WhatsApp, both against your real availability, both arriving as requests you confirm.
Occasions that sell
Bridal, Eid, prom — occasion pages that catch seasonal searches. (Comes with Own It All.)
Found on Google
Google Business Profile claimed, every treatment in structured data Google reads.
£0 a month
No subscription, no commission. Your only recurring cost is your ~£10/yr domain.
Straight prices, like the list on your wall
Asked every time
Questions beauty salons owners ask
Is there a live example I can try?
Yes — shieldsbeauty.com is a real beauty salon running this exact system: 54 treatments, web + WhatsApp booking, 48-hour patch-test rules. Book a slot on your phone and see.
Can it handle my cancellation and notice policies?
Yes — minimum notice per treatment, request-to-confirm on everything, and your policies shown before booking. Your rules, enforced automatically.
Do I have to leave Treatwell or Fresha?
No. Keep them for discovery if they earn their fees — your own site runs alongside so regulars book direct, commission-free.
Send us your price list. See your beauty salon online this week.
Or see the live example first: shieldsbeauty.com