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Chair Turn Tracker.
An app idea for salons and barbershops.

Track how long each client actually sat in the chair, per stylist and per service, so owners can price and schedule honestly.

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Gap foundResearched 23 September 2026 for salons and barbershops

What the search found

Who pays
Salon owner with 3 to 10 staff
The problem
Owners set service times from guesswork. When a stylist runs late, the whole day slides and the owner has no data on which service or which stylist is the cause.
The gap
Booking and analytics tools track appointments and rebooking rates, not actual chair time versus booked time. No result shows a product measuring real service duration per stylist.
Already out there
  • Zenoti zenoti.com

    Manages the appointment calendar and stylist availability, but does not report actual time in the chair versus booked time.

  • Schedly schedly.io

    Analytics on client behaviour and rebooking, not on service duration or lateness.

People asking for it
The big assumption
Owners care enough about chair time data to change how they price and schedule, rather than just telling the slow stylist to speed up.
Test it this week
Ask 10 owners to log start and end times for every service for one week on paper, then see if they act on the numbers.

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