Backbar
For stylists and salons

Booking built on the client record.

Every other platform is a calendar with features bolted on. Backbar was built the other way around — structured history, formulas, photos, risk flags, plans, and outcomes.

We set your salon up with you — no self-serve signup yet.

Their AI can book you an appointment. Backbar's knows your client.

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Illustrative — not a screenshot

What a record holds

Every visit leaves something behind that the next visit can use — searchable across years, not scrolled in a calendar.

Returning · 11 visits

Client — last seen 7 weeks ago

Color correction

Service — full history intake required

Box dye in the last 6 months

Flag — routed to stylist

3 sessions, itemized

Plan — approved and deposit paid

Front / back / roots

Outcome — photos filed to the record

Booking

Availability that
knows the service

Processing time, buffers, per-stylist hours, time off, lead time, and how far out you'll take work. Holds stop two people taking the same slot, and per-service deposits and access rules protect the chair.
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Adaptive intake

A blowout asks four
questions

A color correction asks the full history. Backbar picks the form depth from the service and what it already knows about the client, and critical answers raise flags that route to the stylist — links are login-free, autosaved, and resumable.
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Your brand

Your site, your
client portal

A branded booking site on your name — services, portfolio, policies, about, contact — plus a client portal for visits, forms, photos, and consents. Clients never see Backbar.
Next up

Where it's going

Not shipped yet, so we label it. No dates we can't keep.

Quotes and plans

Itemize multi-session work, send it, get it approved and booked

Soon

Confirmations, reminders, and rebooking nudges

Written once, sent on your timing

Soon

A pre-appointment brief read off the record

Last formula, what they hated, what to watch

Soon

Checkout, card on file, and payouts

Tips, retail, and packages, paid out to your bank

Soon

Priced per chair, not per feature

Solo, studio, or a full salon floor. Card processing is billed separately by Stripe.