A salon rota is a small team, availability that changes every week, and a Saturday where every chair has to be covered by somebody who can actually do the work.
Weeksolved drafts a week for stylists, assistants, front desk and treatment-room staff from the rules you set, checks it against your state's meal and rest break rules as you draft, and flags the rule that stopped each person when a shift cannot be filled. It costs one flat price for the location, and your staff never need an account.
Set the chairs and rooms as posts and Weeksolved rotates people through them fairly across the week rather than putting the same person on the shampoo bowls every Saturday. Give a role a licence requirement — a colourist, a therapist with a specific certificate — and anyone without it is never drafted onto that work.
Small teams run on it. Each person's days and hours are set once and honoured by the draft, requests for a day or an afternoon are read against the week and either met or explained, and when a request cannot be met you are told which rule stopped it rather than left with an empty square.
Per-user pricing barely registers at six people — until it is nine, and the second location, and the person on reception who also needs to see the rota. Weeksolved is one flat price for the salon, whatever the headcount and however many people manage it.
Stylists have a phone and a group chat, not a workforce app. The rota goes out as a text, an email, a printed sheet for the back room, or a calendar file that drops the days into their own phone. One account — yours.
Ask everyone for their holiday picks with a one-page form they fill in on a phone, and Weeksolved works out who gets what by the rule you chose — seniority, fairness across previous years, or first in — and shows you the days where too many people asked for the same week before you promise anything.
Setting up the stations, the towels, the till float, the sweep at the end. Write the list once and it rides on every day sheet, against whoever actually opens and closes.
Weeksolved schedules your staff; it is not a booking system and does not hold client appointments. It sits beside whatever takes your bookings. Weeksolved is scheduling software, not legal advice. It applies the rules you select; you stay in charge of your own compliance, and you should review every schedule before you post it.
One flat price per location — $49 a month, or $470 a year — whatever the headcount, at one location or ten. No per-user fees, no paid admin seats, no charge for the manager who covers weekends. Break rules are included, not an upgrade. During testing it is free with an access code.