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.
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.
MCB by Beauté Sélection · 10–12 October, Paris
Come and see us at MCB, and join our talk.
Our talk · Monday 12 October, 3 pm, 360 Stage (in French)
“Last-minute cancellations: the lost slot that pays”
The last minute is the blind spot of salon profitability. Late cancellations, no-shows: no salon escapes them. Yet a slot freed at the last moment can become the most profitable one of the day, as long as the right clients hear about it in time.
Live on stage: a cancellation filled again within minutes, without changing the way you work. Then the habits of salons that fill their same-day slots, at the right price.
Salon, barbershop and beauty salon owners: leave knowing what the last minute costs you, and what it can bring in.
The talk is in French.
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.