Our mission
Your salon should work for you.Not the other way round.
An empty slot is money walking out the door. Carden goes after it, without asking a minute more of your time.
You run everything. Carden takes you up a level.
The team, the clients, the suppliers, the till: that’s already your day. Carden takes care of what slips through — the slots that stay empty. We find them, fill them, and show you what they bring in.
On Instagram, on your page, in your window — without you having to think about it.
Profitable
An empty slot is money walking out. We go and get it back.
A filled slot is a service paid for. Anything else, we don’t do.
Last minute
Your clients decide at noon for 6 pm. You’re ready.
A 3 pm slot won’t keep until tomorrow. We work on the day.
Visible
A slot nobody sees is a slot lost.
You have a slot, a client is looking for one: we make sure they find each other.
Present
Instagram, your page, your window. Everywhere, under your name.
Where your clients already look — never under Carden’s name.
Smooth
Nobody asks “will it be long?” any more.
The day rearranges itself, and your team never has to look up.
Measured
What you lose, in euros. Not a hunch.
Who leaves without being seen, how long a service really takes, when people are looking for you.
Why Carden exists
Booking three weeks ahead and finding a slot tonight are not the same need.
Your booking system is built for the first. Nobody was taking care of the second: the slot that opens up at 2 pm for 3:30 pm, the client who makes up her mind that morning. That’s all we do.
Our discipline
One thing, and nothing else.
- What we do
- Make a free slot visible the moment it exists, keep slots back for same-day clients, and let you set the rules once and for all.
- What we won’t do
- Yet another booking system, a till, a loyalty scheme, a marketplace that takes a commission, a suite that asks you to migrate everything.
Who builds Carden
A product team that spends its Saturdays in salons.
- Built on the shop floor
- Every feature comes from a day behind a front desk, not from a meeting.
- Simple on the surface, serious underneath
- Recalculating a queue, announcing a free slot: that’s engineering. All you see is the result.
- Corrected by professionals
- Nail salon managers, barbers, hairdressers: they test, they push back, and we remove whatever doesn’t hold up.
Following the market, or investing?
Read the thesisStart with your empty slots.Join the waitlist.
Carden Story, €9.90 a month. You keep your booking system, no commitment. Live in France — leave your details and we’ll tell you when it opens in your country.