To create your nail salon website you do not need a designer: in trimly you type the name, tick gel manicure, gel infill, extensions or pedicure with their durations, set your hours, and the website goes live with online booking. Ten minutes. Free if you work on your own; with a team, €19.99 a month and no commission per booking.
About ten minutes in total. None of the steps asks you to know anything about websites.
An email and a password get you into the dashboard. No card, no trial that runs out after fourteen days, and nobody ringing you to walk you through a demo.
The salon's name generates the address: “Nails Ana” becomes nails-ana.trimly.es. It works from the first minute, and later you can point a domain you bought yourself at it without paying anything to connect it.
Gel manicure, gel infill, classic manicure, nail extensions, gel pedicure and soak-off arrive already written with their times. You adjust them to how long you actually take, write your prices and add nail art or Russian manicure if you do them.
You mark the days and the hours you are open. Since some services here run two hours and others twenty minutes, it is worth leaving a few minutes after each appointment to disinfect the table and the tools: you state it once, and two clients are never stacked without that breather.
The page is online from the moment you create it. Paste the link in your Instagram and TikTok bios and on your Google listing, and whoever sees a set they like books there and then instead of messaging you and waiting for a reply.
Afterwards, if you want to: connect your own domain, add more languages, switch on deposits or card payment, and upload your logo and your photos. None of that is needed to get started.
Here the slot is the product. With one or two tables, a badly measured booking cannot be fixed by hurrying: it is paid for by the next client standing around waiting, or by two dead hours mid-afternoon.
A full set of extensions can take two hours of table, and that stretch has to be genuinely closed. The website only shows the times where the chosen service fits in full, so nobody slides a twenty-minute soak-off into the middle of an infill. It works the other way round too: if you have forty free minutes at eleven before the next one, that is where the short manicure and the soak-off will show up, and not the extensions.
Between one client and the next there is filing dust to clear, tools to disinfect and a table to make presentable again. That time is declared once, for the whole salon or service by service, and it is counted when the slots on offer are worked out. It does not appear as an appointment in the calendar and nobody is billed for it: the possibility of being booked over simply stops existing.
In nails a no-show is not a rare surprise, it is the month's fixed cost. You can ask for a deposit from the first booking and on every one of them, with a bigger amount on the long services than on the short ones, or ask nobody and let it kick in on its own once someone has missed a number of appointments you set yourself. It is charged by card at booking, the client sees it clearly before confirming, and the amount comes off the price on the day she arrives.
If the soak-off is hidden inside the gel manicure, the client books an hour and you need an hour and twenty. Keeping them as separate services, each with its own duration and its own price, means the booking comes out with the right amount of time: someone arriving with gel put on somewhere else ticks the soak-off as well as the new service, and the two times add up inside the same appointment.
What a new nail salon finds already written, with a reference time for each service. It is a starting point, not a closed list.
The duration decides which slots are offered when someone books; adjust it if yours is different.
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€19.99 a month
Founder price; the list price is €39.99
Zero if you work on your own: one professional, the website, online booking, card payment and the address on trimly.es are all in the free plan, which neither expires nor asks for a card to open. If there are several of you there is a flat monthly fee, with unlimited technicians and no commission per booking. The only thing paid separately is the message packs, and only if you use them.
Yes. The deposit is a general rule for the salon: once it is on, every booking made online goes through it. What you decide service by service is how much it asks for, so a full set can carry a bigger deposit than an infill. The amount is charged by card at the moment of booking and comes off the price when the client sits down at the table.
With the gap between appointments. You state how many minutes you need at the end of each service — ten, fifteen, whatever it is — and slots that would eat into that margin stop being offered. You can set one value for the whole salon and then fine-tune the messier services, like extensions or filing acrylic.
Yes, as long as you have them as two services on your menu. The client ticks both, the total time comes from adding them up, and the booking only takes times where everything fits. One single appointment shows in your diary with both items and the amount already worked out, so there are no surprises when it is time to charge either.
You mark the appointment as a no-show from your phone and the slot goes back to being free for whoever calls. If you had asked for a deposit, the deposit stays with you. If you ask nobody for a deposit up front, you can instead have one required of that person automatically on her next bookings: you decide after how many misses, and you do not have to remember who is who each time.
Yes. You create a package with as many sessions as you like — five gel manicures, three pedicures — and sell it from the dashboard. It sits under the client's name and each visit takes one session off, so you know what she has left without writing it on a cardboard card. You can sell gift cards too, for anyone who wants to give a manicure as a present.
It is built for the phone first, which is where nearly everyone books from. The gallery, the menu and the book-a-slot button fill the screen without zooming in, and getting an appointment is four taps. You run the diary from your phone as well, and you can add the dashboard to your home screen to open it like any other app.