XB Software developers responded to this challenge with a user-friendly online scheduling and booking software system that allows customers to manage their appointment times easily, and staff to include notes, change appointment times and durations, add comments, re-assign tasks to each other, and more. The booking system calendar shows available appointment slots and available specialists across different salon locations, allowing the user free reign to choose where and when they’re seen and by whom, and they; can even choose to see several specialists at once if they want. Users enter their desired services and preferred appointment time and the system lets them know if it’s available, offering alternatives when it’s not. For all bookings, cancellations or reschedulings the system automatically sends out reminders to staff and clients and synchronizes all notifications between, customers and service employees (hairdressers/artists/specialists).

XB Software team used the dhtmlxScheduler web calendar control to improve UI, customize the appearance, and display recurring events with the salon scheduling app. It allows managers to schedule workdays and holidays, as well as manage the list of available services and their duration. dhtmlxScheduler is a cross-browser UI component, so it works smoothly on all modern web browsers. The calendar map view displays employees’ positions on Google Maps added to the scheduler.

The system uses reminders and automatic notifications to help clients to show up on time, and it gives them the freedom to alter appointments.

Managers can also generate reports and view the working hours of their employees.

Offering this much flexibility required highly structured databases, so our developers used MySQL. This allowed our team to migrate to other databases and manage the existing databases easier and faster.

While developing the salon booking system, the developers used Node.js and JavaScript programming languages, and the fast and feature-rich React.js and React Native. Node.js was used as a framework for the backend.