Stop losing after-hours and mid-cut bookings to voicemail. Lucy answers, books the services you actually offer, and texts you the transcript — 24/7, in 7 languages — English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Mandarin, and Portuguese.
Your hands are in someone's hair. The phone rings. You can't pick up — and the client on the other end doesn't leave a message. They call the next salon on Google.
Salons live in the worst possible window for traditional phone coverage. Calls peak during the workday, when every stylist is mid-cut, mid-color, or mid-blowout and physically cannot answer. They peak again Saturday evening, when clients are booking Sunday morning from their couch, and Sunday night, when they're planning the week. Your front desk — if you have one — is one person, and that person is also handling checkout, retail, and the texts already on their phone.
Voicemail doesn't save these calls. Most callers won't leave a message. The few who do are calling around while they wait. And the mid-day window matters as much as the after-hours one: a stylist with shears in one hand and color in a bowl in the other is not picking up the phone, no matter how loyal the caller is or how high-value the booking would have been.
That's the call BookedSmarter is built to answer. Lucy — your AI receptionist for the salon — picks up on the first ring, every time, around the clock, in English or Spanish. She doesn't take messages. She books, confirms, and writes the appointment into your calendar before the client hangs up.
Three examples of the kinds of calls Lucy handles today.
Lucy recognizes the caller's number from your client list, greets her by first name, offers the next available slot for a root touch-up at the duration you configured, and books it. The client gets a text confirmation before she hangs up. You get a transcript on your phone so you know who booked what without stepping away from the chair.
Lucy answers from the FAQ you configured ("balayage starts at the price you set, takes about three hours, here's what to expect at your first visit"), then offers to book a consultation or a full appointment. If the caller wants to book, she does it on the spot. If she wants to think about it, Lucy thanks her and you get the transcript and a callback opportunity in your dashboard.
A regular calls at 9:47pm on Saturday wanting a blowout for 10am Sunday. Lucy checks your calendar, confirms the slot, books it, and sends the confirmation text. Total call time: under a minute.
Hear it for yourself. Below is a demo of Lucy taking a real booking call. The script reads as either a salon or a med-spa call — both are administrative scheduling — so this is the same Lucy you'd put on your line.
You configure your service list in the onboarding wizard. Lucy reads from that list — not a generic salon script. Each service can carry its own duration, intake questions, and pricing rules.
Services Lucy books today:
Different service, different intake. The questions Lucy asks before booking a root touch-up are not the questions she asks before booking balayage. That's the wizard's job — pre-fill once, and Lucy follows your form on every call. Setup is one onboarding session, not a 90-minute config call. Most salons are live in about 10 minutes.
An honest note on multi-stylist routing. Today Lucy books into one calendar stream. If a client asks for a specific stylist — "I always book with Maria" — Lucy takes the request and texts you the transcript so you can route it to the right person. Native per-stylist routing, where Lucy checks Maria's specific calendar and books directly against it, is not part of the product today. We'd rather tell you the truth than promise something we don't ship.
Lucy detects the caller's language in the first sentence and answers natively — English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Mandarin, or Portuguese. It's not a Google Translate hack: each language is handled natively, with the same intake form, the same FAQ, and the same booking flow.
This matters in the salon markets where a meaningful share of clients prefer Spanish. A receptionist that hangs up or stumbles the moment it hears Spanish is losing real bookings every week. Lucy doesn't.
Need a language you don't see? Tell us — we add languages where they matter most for your market.
Transparent pricing on the same page as the product. Five plans, monthly billing, no per-call fees, no hidden setup minimums.
Every plan includes the same Lucy: 24/7 answering, all 7 languages natively (English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Mandarin, Portuguese), your full service list and intake questions, your FAQ, Google Calendar sync, your own native scheduler, SMS confirmations to the client, and instant transcripts to you.
Lucy books. She writes appointments into your Google Calendar or our native scheduler and the caller hears the confirmation before they hang up. You get a text with the transcript so you know who booked what without breaking from your client.
Yes. She detects the caller's language in the first sentence and answers natively in English or Spanish — not a Google Translate hack. Same intake, same FAQ, same booking flow.
Today Lucy books into one calendar stream and texts you any stylist-specific requests so you can route them. Native multi-stylist routing — where Lucy checks Maria's specific calendar and books directly against it — is not part of the product today. We'd rather tell you the truth than overpromise.
Whatever you configure in the wizard — cuts, color, root touch-ups, highlights, balayage, blowouts, treatments, men's cuts, kids' cuts, styling. Each service uses the duration and intake questions you set.
Most salons are live in about 10 minutes. You fill out a wizard with your services, hours, and pricing — we configure Lucy from that.
She tells the caller someone from your team will follow up, captures their preferred contact method, and texts you the transcript immediately. You decide whether to call back yourself or have a staff member do it.
Yes. Every call is transcribed and saved in your dashboard. You can also forward transcripts to your front desk or a manager by email.
See current plans and pricing on our pricing page. No per-call fees, no hidden setup minimums.
You can read about Lucy or you can hear her work. The audio demo above is the same flow your callers will hear. If it sounds like the receptionist your salon would have hired if you could clone her, the next step is 90 seconds:
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