Why Your Salon Needs One App, Not Five

Let's count the apps you're using right now:

1. Booking/scheduling — Vagaro, Booksy, or Square Appointments ($25-85/month)
2. Client messaging — Your personal phone's iMessage or WhatsApp
3. Team communication — A WhatsApp group or text chain
4. Client management — Maybe a CRM, probably a spreadsheet
5. Payment processing — Square, Stripe, or whatever your booking app includes

That's 4-5 different tools, 3-4 different logins, and $100-200/month in subscriptions. Plus the mental overhead of switching between them all day.

The Hidden Cost

It's not just the subscription fees. It's the friction:

• Client texts you on your personal phone → you have to manually check your booking app for availability
• Stylist wants to swap a shift → group chat message that gets buried
• New client books online → their info doesn't connect to your text history with them
• You want to see a client's history → check the CRM, then the booking app, then scroll through texts

Every context switch costs you 10-30 seconds. Do that 50 times a day and you've lost an hour.

What Consolidation Looks Like

Imagine one app where:

• Booking and scheduling live in the same place as client messaging
• When a client texts "Can I come in Tuesday?", the AI sees your schedule and drafts a reply with available times
• Your team chat is organized by teams (Color Specialists, Front Desk) instead of one chaotic group
• Every client has a profile with their visit history, preferences, notes, and message thread — all in one view
• The service catalog connects to the staff schedule connects to the booking flow — no imports, no syncing

That's Relay.

What You Save

| Current Setup | Cost | |---|---| | Vagaro Team | $85/month | | Square for payments | $0 + 2.6% per transaction | | Google Calendar (shared) | Free but painful | | WhatsApp group | Free but chaotic | | Spreadsheet CRM | Free but useless | | Total | $85/month + your sanity |

| Relay | Cost | |---|---| | Everything above, unified | $29/month (team plan) |

"We dropped Vagaro, Square Appointments, AND our group chat. Relay does all of it." — Sarah M., salon owner

Try the one app →