Hair salons
A three-hour colour cancelled this morning?It goes back out as a story, in your name.
You keep your booking software, your team, your routines. Carden connects to your diary and posts what frees up as a story: this morning’s cancelled colour, Tuesday’s free slots, the offer you launch.
- Carden Story, €9.90 a month. Live in France: we’ll tell you when it opens in your country.
Your diary
10 am colour cancelled
Your Instagram
Story posted
- +100K
- users every month
- 5/5
- on the App Store
They run their salons with Carden. Their stories →
We know your day
Three things that cost you, every day.
- Cancellations on long services
- A colour or balayage cancelled at 9 am means two dead hours in the chair that afternoon — and €100 to €180 that won’t come back.
- Quiet Tuesdays, turned-away Saturdays
- Your diary fills too early at the end of the week and stays empty at the start. Last-minute clients — the ones who would decide today — have no way of seeing your gaps.
- You don’t know what it costs you
- Cancellations, no-shows, lost slots: nobody adds it up. It’s a leak with no meter — you put up with it because you can’t see it.
What Carden changes
You keep your booking software. Carden posts the slots that free up.
- No migration, no double entry
- Carden reads your current diary, with your consent. Your team changes nothing in how it works — most won’t even notice the difference.
- Profitable from the first slot won back
- Story costs €9.90 a month. One colour won back more than pays for it; the rest goes into your till.
What you get out of it
Slots won back, without spending a minute on it.
- The cancelled colour goes back out as a story
- “Flash slot — 2 pm today, balayage”: posted from your account, seen by the neighbourhood. A rare slot announced in time — not a promotion.
- New clients, not your regulars at a discount
- The last-minute client is one you would never have had. No discount needed, and nothing taken from your regulars.
What goes out on your account
You don’t write a single story.
A freed slot, today’s free times, an offer you launch: Carden posts in your name, with your logo and a photo of the service.
Institut Éclat
Maison Fade
Atelier Vernis- Atelier Lumière
Beauty Minute
Maison Fade
Beauty Minute
La Station Beauté
Beauty Minute
Maison Fade
Atelier Vernis
Stories generated by Carden.
How it works
Nothing to install. You set it up once, then there’s nothing left to do.
We connect your diary
Fresha, Treatwell or another. No double entry, with your consent.
You set it up once
Your colours, your hours, the number of stories per day.
The rest goes out on its own
The next freed slot is announced without you.
Whatever your set-up
Four ways of working, the same gap in the day.
- Neighbourhood salon
- Two to five stylists, loyal clients: quiet weekdays fill up locally.
- Colour-led salon
- Colours and balayages: the most expensive cancellations, so the most worth winning back.
- Independent stylist
- On your own behind the chair: one cancellation is the whole morning. Carden wins it back without you picking up the phone.
- Several salons
- Figures per salon and combined, the same rules everywhere, one login.
The maths
Your cancellations have a price. Story costs €9.90.
Each month, around 13 empty slots:
€455
that never reach your till.
One filled slot pays for Story.€9.90 a month. Live in France for now.
Join the waitlistYou might be thinking
“I already have software, I’m not changing everything.”
You don’t change a thing. Carden isn’t one more diary: it connects to yours and posts the slots that free up.
Before you take our word for it
Judge on the slots you actually win back, not on our promises. No commitment: you stop whenever you like.
What people ask us before starting.
Your best slots go days in advance?Carden Last Minute
Do you also take walk-ins?Carden Salon
I already use booking software — do I need to change anything?+
Nothing at all. Carden reads your diary with your consent and works on what it doesn’t handle: cancellations, gaps in the day and last-minute demand. Your team keeps its routines; there’s no migration and no double entry.
Isn’t a flash slot just a discount in disguise?+
No, and that matters for a colour-led salon. The price doesn’t move: what’s announced is a rare slot that has just opened up today. Scarcity replaces the discount.
Not all my regulars are on Instagram.+
The slot isn’t aimed at them. People looking for a slot today are, by definition, looking — often new clients you would never have had.
Which booking software do you connect to?+
Tell us which one you use — Fresha, Treatwell, Booksy or another. We’ll work out with you how to connect it, and you pay nothing until it’s done.
How much does it really cost, all in?+
€9.90 a month for Carden Story, €29.90 for Carden Last Minute, which adds held-back slots and last-minute pricing. No paid add-ons, no set-up fees and no commission on your services. One colour won back in the month covers several months of subscription.
What happens to my data if I stop?+
It stays yours: hosted in Europe, GDPR-compliant, exportable in one click at any time — including the day you decide to leave, no questions asked.
Not in the right place?
Every trade loses its slots in its own way.
City-by-city figures for France: Carden Index.
Your next free slotwill go out on its own.
Carden Story, €9.90 a month. Live in France: we’ll tell you when it opens in your country.