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The most perishable stock in retail.Nobody was managing it.
An unsold hotel room tonight is lost; the hotel industry built yield management on that. An empty chair at 3 pm is worse: it can’t even be carried over to tomorrow.
Where Carden stands
- +100K
- users every month, on the salons’ client side.
- 230,000
- beauty businesses tracked by Carden Index, our observatory.
- €9.90
- the entry point: a subscription, up to €109 per salon per month.
The thesis
The market has been selling scheduling since the paper diary.
Planity, Fresha, Booksy, Treatwell: the category digitised the diary without changing the logic. Nobody deals with same-day unsold stock, or with last-minute demand, which no tool even counts. Carden plugs into the booking systems already in place and works exactly there.
Why Carden
A head start that can’t be made up.
- Measured durations
- Every visit served is timestamped, by service and by professional. The market’s suites work on declared durations.
- A queue engine in production
- Born in walk-in salons, where the queue is the product. It runs in real waiting rooms.
- Extension, not migration
- Carden plugs into the booking systems in place. No switching cost for the salon, no head-on fight.
- A subscription, not a commission
- Nothing on the salon’s base price; only 10% of any premium. The number-one complaint about platforms becomes our commitment.
The category was built on the booking diary.The next one will be built on the same day.
Market, product, model: let’s talk directly.