The bookings. The client care. The getting paid. Comb brings the business bits together, so working for yourself feels a little less like doing everything yourself.
From the first booking to the last receipt. With a little room to breathe.
Booking & calendar
Less “Does Tuesday work?”
Let clients book while you focus on the appointment in front of you.
Your week. Your next booking.
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The whole week. The next little detail.
Start appointments with service suggestions from the client’s previous visits.
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A calendar that knows your working day.
Bring appointments, working hours, and personal time together, with service durations, processing gaps, and cleanup time.
Your booking rules. Up front.
Set your service menu, booking policies, and deposit requests. Enable inspiration and current-look photo uploads before the visit.
Keep the next visit in sight.
Manage your waitlist and rebook clients before they leave.
YOU RUN THE BUSINESS. YOU SET THE PACE.
Your calendar. Your call.
Choose a weekly booking method, then refine the openings clients see.
01Regular availability
Open the hours. Let them choose.
Clients choose openings within your weekly hours, service durations, and booking rules.
Your working day
Weekly hours
Available openings
Service durations
02Block scheduling · Exact starts
A little more “these times work.”
Handpick starts for any service, selected services, or VIPs only. Days without exact starts keep regular availability.
For example, offer starts at
9:00 AM
11:30 AM
2:00 PM
03Services by day
Color days. Cut days. Your days.
Assign services to weekdays. Unassigned services stay available on days without a service menu.
A week with a rhythm
Tuesday · Color
Thursday · Cuts
Exact starts and Services by day are alternative weekly methods.
VIP schedules
A little extra room for your regulars.
Set hours for clients marked VIP. When enabled, VIP hours replace that day’s regular hours. Optionally let VIPs bypass Swarm for broader availability.
✓Dedicated VIP hours
✓Optional Swarm bypass
Meet Swarm
Bring the bookings a little closer.
Filter online openings around existing appointments: Lax for more choice, Snug for tighter grouping. On empty days, start with morning, evening, both ends, or any time.
✓Lax or Snug
✓Choose how the day starts
Daily booking limits work with every method. Swarm filters online openings; it never moves existing appointments.
Keep expenses, income, and stock in view alongside your appointments.
Give every expense a home
A place for the details
Salon supplies
Studio Supply Co.
·$128.50
Color supplies & gloves · fictional demo expense
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Receipt and expense, together.
The merchant, date, amount, and category stay with the receipt.
Expense illustration · Fictional demo details
Give those receipts a home.
Record expenses and recurring costs, scan receipts for review, and log business mileage.
Know what’s on the shelf.
Keep track of retail products, backbar stock, and supply usage, with stock history to help you follow the details.
See how the day adds up.
Review activity and recorded costs in daily recaps and financial reports.
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Care for your clients.
The little details are a big part of why they come back. Keep them close.
Client care & records
Remember the little things. Even on the big days.
Pick up where you left off, with visit history and preferences close at hand.
The client overview, with Sage
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More than a name on the calendar.
Sage surfaces a return signal right alongside the client’s story.
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Their story, in one profile.
Mark clients as VIP, add your own tags, and keep visit history and photos close. Categorize notes for style preferences, allergies, formulas, and products; pin a detail to the appointment or set a reminder.
Paperwork with a place to live.
Collect forms, waivers, and signatures; keep documents and treatment notes in the client profile.
A little help noticing.
Sage surfaces client context and return signals to help you notice who may need attention.
Lash, brow, extension & treatment mapping
Your signature work. Down to the last detail.
Keep a visual record of lash lengths, brow shapes, and extension placement for the next visit.
The detail is the difference
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Your craft has a memory.
Lash mapping on the tablet; face mapping on the phone.
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Hair extensions, mapped properly.
Plan curved rows and individual pieces across back, side, top, and front views. Keep the hair used with its placement, then record installation, move-ups, replacements, and the next maintenance visit.
Five ways to map your craft.
Dedicated lash, brow, extension, head, and face maps. Reuse designs, build templates, and compare visits, with photos and product details close to the work.
A starting point with Sage.
For lashes and brows, use a client photo, inspiration image, or labeled map to prepare a draft. Review the suggestions and refine the details yourself.
Formula management · Beta
Great color shouldn’t depend on a good memory.
Keep every bowl, shade, and adjustment with the client, ready for the next appointment.
Soft warmth, with a little depth at the root. Keep the face frame subtle next time.
Illustrative formula record · Fictional client, products, and amounts · Not an application recipe
Every bowl. Every little adjustment.
Record products, shades, amounts, developer, processing time, application steps, and result notes. Save variations and duplicate a formula when the next visit needs a different approach.
Keep the whole color story.
Bring together the starting canvas, target tone, inspiration, current-look photos, and finished results. Link products to your supplies and use saved formulas in the appointment.
See the direction with Sage.
Get help drafting or reviewing a formula. Once the key details are filled in, upload a clear client photo for a Sage hair-color try-on preview, then compare it with the original.
Structure observations, treatment details, and aftercare around the way you practice.
Your structure. Their story.
01 / Make the template yours
02 / Put it to work at the visit
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Set it up once. Make every visit count.
Build a template, then record notes, maps, and next steps at the visit.
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Build the note around your work.
Create templates with observations, treatment details, product lists, scales, and next-visit plans. Connect templates to services so the right note is suggested for the appointment.
Sometimes a picture says it better.
Add face and body maps. Mark and label areas to reassess alongside written visit notes.
Capture it now. Pick it up later.
Save a partial draft, dictate details for review, or copy a previous visit as a starting point. Complete the note after checking it; earlier completed versions are preserved when you unlock a record to update it.
Recurring memberships
Make being a regular an actual thing.
A cut club or regular self-care: offer recurring services with clear benefits and billing.
Your offer. Your schedule.
Set the price, billing interval, service visits, product credits, rollover rules, and terms. One-time packages remain a separate option.
Keep the membership in view.
Manage pauses, cancellations, and renewal terms. Review payment attempts, invoices, earned benefits, and payments needing attention.
Recurring payments through Bee Paid.
Requires Bee Paid; processing fees apply. Successful payments grant benefits. Pausing or canceling stops future billing and preserves earned benefits.
Messaging & marketing
Keep in touch. Keep your evening.
Client conversations, campaigns, and visit reminders, each with a place in your day.
After the visit. Still looking after them.
01 / The right moment
02 / A little care, delivered
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Care that carries on after the chair.
An aftercare text, timed for the day after a color appointment.
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For the one-to-one moments.
Keep client conversations in Chirp, alongside your other business tools.
For something worth telling everyone.
Build email and text campaigns, choose client segments, and get help from Sage with the first draft.
For the details they need on time.
Set up appointment reminders and pre- and aftercare messages around the visit.
Loyalty, packages & gifts
Give your regulars the regular treatment.
Recognize regular visits with rewards, prepaid packages, and gifts clients can share.
Make your regulars feel like regulars
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A little thank-you. Very you.
Clients see collected stamps and their next reward in their account.
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Loyalty with your personality.
Create points or punch-card rewards, with options for tiers, birthday bonuses, and referrals. Give clients a way to see their progress.
A little more to look forward to.
Bundle visits into packages and track each client’s remaining services.
Good taste. Great gift.
Design gift certificates with your own imagery or help creating new artwork.
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Look the part.
You bring the taste. Comb helps you put it out into the world.
Your website & creative tools
Big-brand energy. Your name on it.
Put your work, services, and booking link in one place that feels like your business.
Your name. Your own corner of the internet.
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Look the part before they book.
A portfolio on desktop; service images, durations, and prices on mobile.
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A booking website that feels like you.
Customize your colors, service menu, and portfolio so clients can explore and book.
A little creative backup.
Let Sage create service images, gift certificate artwork, and booking website backgrounds. Review what you create and choose what fits your style.
Find the words, too.
Draft service descriptions and marketing copy, then edit them in your voice.
SMALL BUSINESS. A WHOLE HIVE IN YOUR CORNER.
You do your thing. Your hive handles the follow-through.
Meet your Worker Bees: specialized helpers for the little jobs that keep a business moving. Following up. Finding the next booking. Leaving room for you.
Unfinished booking follow-up
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Bring them back to the booking.
Drone
When a client starts booking and leaves before finishing, Drone can follow up with a link back to their in-progress appointment.
Waitlist outreach
02
Give an opening a next step.
Drift
Drift checks the waitlist for clients who fit an opening and can send alerts automatically. Choose small waves of outreach and optional VIP priority.
Break protection
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Your break belongs in the calendar.
Breathe
Breathe helps protect break time as your day fills up, using your settings for break length and frequency. You can adjust the protected time when plans change.
Rebooking reminders
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Keep the next visit in mind.
Tend
Tend uses rebooking timing to remind clients when they may be due again, with a booking link to make the next step easy. Set timing and service-matching preferences around your work.
Your messaging voice
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Automated can still sound like you.
Echo
Give Echo a writing sample to guide the tone of supported Worker Bee messages. It helps the follow-up feel more like your business, with less rewriting from you.
Compact booking windows
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A little less space between clients.
Swarm
Swarm shapes the online openings clients see around existing appointments. Choose a looser or tighter fit, and how bookings begin on an empty day.
Choose which Worker Bees to switch on and set their preferences. Enabled automations can run in the background; messages respect client preferences and your account’s messaging allowances.
MEET YOUR EXTRA PAIR OF EYES
Enough on your plate. A little less on your mind.
Notice who’s due back. Talk through tomorrow. Get a first draft or explore a business what-if. Sage brings your Comb context into the conversation, with the next step yours to review.
