Our mission
Your clients decide later and later.Carden equips the day itself.
Online booking calendars handle planned appointments very well. Carden takes care of what happens on the day: the slot that opens up, the client who decides that morning, the one walking past the window.
Risvan Asif
founder of Carden
What we see in salons
The day itself, the least equipped moment in a salon.
- Last-minute is gaining ground
- More and more clients book on the day. A slot that opens at 2 pm can be filled by 3:30 pm, if the right clients hear about it in time.
- Your calendar does its job
- It handles planned appointments very well. Carden adds to it for the day itself, without replacing anything or making you enter anything twice.
- An opportunity, not a gap
- Announced well, a slot freed at the last minute can become the most profitable one of the day.
What sets us apart
Carden speaks to your audience. Not to a marketplace.
Your followers already follow you. When a slot opens up, Carden tells them: on your account, under your name, at the price you set.
- Your account
- Stories go out on your Instagram. Your clients stay your clients.
- Your name
- Your logo, a photo of your service: they see a slot at your place, not one offer among many.
- Your price
- No commission on your usual services. On slots at the last-minute rate, Carden takes 10% of the extra — and you set that rate, never below your usual price.
Our method
Designed on the shop floor, with salon owners and their teams.
- At the front desk, not in a meeting
- Every feature comes from a day spent in a salon, next to the people who welcome, cut and take payment.
- Corrected by the people who use it
- Owners, barbers, hairdressers, practitioners: they test, they push back, and we remove whatever doesn’t hold up.
- Simple on the surface, serious underneath
- Recalculating a queue, announcing a free slot: that’s engineering. All you see is the result.
Risvan Asif, founder of Carden. A service designer, he built Carden on the shop floor, alongside salon owners and their teams.
Our discipline
One thing, and nothing else.
So you can make a comfortable living from your craft. Not in survival mode.
What we do
Make a free slot visible the moment it exists, spot the slots to keep for the day itself and open them to your last-minute 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.
Start with today’s slots.Join the waitlist.
Carden Story, €9.90 a month. Live in France: leave your details and we’ll tell you when it opens in your country.
