About
Independent stylists. Booth renters. Solo operators. The people whose business is the chair.
Not chains. Not salon owners managing twelve stations. Not anyone who needs a roster, a commission split, or an enterprise dashboard. ChairCal is for the stylist who runs the books on their phone between blowouts.
Cancellations are silent revenue death. Existing tools treat stylists like dental offices.
The average cancellation costs $120. Most stylists eat it because filling the slot means sending awkward "hey, anything Friday?" texts to a dozen regulars and praying. Vagaro, StyleSeat, and Square will sell you a calendar with a thousand toggles, but none of them will fill the slot.
ChairCal does one thing those tools don't: when a slot opens, it texts your top regulars in priority order, gives the first to tap a 60-second hold, and books them in. Most fills happen before you've finished sweeping the floor.
"It moves like an iPhone app, and someone who gets stylists made it."
That's the brief on every screen. ChairCal isn't trying to be a salon ERP. We don't sell inventory modules or commission reports. We sell back the income an empty chair was about to take from you, in a tool that respects how you actually work — fast, on the phone, between clients, while a rinse runs.
A note from the founder
I started paying attention to my own stylist. Between my appointments I watched her chase cancellations on Friday afternoons with a group text and a screenshot of her availability. The fills, when they happened, were an act of social grace — calling in favors from friends. The misses became a number she stopped saying out loud. ChairCal is the thing I wished she'd had: a tool that does the chasing for her, in the background, in seconds, while she's washing color out of someone's hair. If you're a stylist, this was built for you. If it isn't, tell us — we'll fix it.
Peter LewisFounder, ChairCal