01 · a sale in fifteen seconds
Tap the stylist, take the cash.
The salon ran on a clipboard, a WhatsApp thread, and the owner’s memory. Harmonia is one Arabic-first sale: every line attributed to who performed it, the commission rate snapshotted at that moment, a branded receipt that greets the guest by name.
- 01Tap the stylistEvery line attributed to who performed it.
- 02Tap the serviceA categorized, searchable service grid.
- 03Take the cashThe stylist’s commission rate snapshotted at the moment of sale.
- 04DoneA black-and-gold receipt greets the guest by name; the owner gets a silent Telegram ping.
02 · three doors, one queue
Walk-in, phone, online: one line.
Appointments lived in WhatsApp; walk-ins lived on a clipboard. Two stylists, one chair, one unhappy guest. Every channel now flows into a single queue with live wait estimates, auto-balanced to the least-busy stylist.
03 · the membership at the till
A retention engine, wired into the cash.
Yearly tiers (Silver, Gold, Diamond) with entitlements the POS recognises and redeems automatically at checkout: a haircut credit covers a haircut or a beard trim, priced and managed by the owner. The membership is not a loyalty card stapled on; it settles inside the sale.
04 · the owner’s home screen
Net profit, the biggest number on the page.
Commission used to be a Sunday-morning argument, litigated from memory. Now the owner opens to net profit first, with a full P&L, commission settlement, and a daily cash-close with tolerance bands one tap away.
net profitleads the home screen, not revenue
05 · fourteen days, then compounded
A running system first, the platform after.
The first version that took real money shipped in 14 days, then compounded across 19 waves into the full salon platform: HR and QR attendance, home-service visits, payroll that drafts itself. Built single-tenant on purpose, so his takings and client list never sit in a pool with strangers.
14 daysto a system taking money
How those first 14 days fit, day by day, is in the 14-day ship log.
06 · built so the owner can walk away
The guarantees under the cash.
With no system, the owner’s presence was the audit log. Now he can leave at two in the afternoon and the cash still adds up at close, because every state-changing action is on the record and the money paths are locked to the server.