What Hora does better
46 differences you feel in the daily running of a salon, from profit and scheduling to what your client sees.
No-shows
Hora remembers no-shows and cancellations
Most tools: no-shows are never recorded
A blocked client never finds out, and the slot stays open for everyone else
Most tools: you tell a blocked client they are blocked, so they return with a new number
Loyal clients are protected from auto-flagging
Most tools: automation punishes your regulars too
Hora blocks automatically, by rules you set
Most tools: you block by hand, if you can block at all
VIP status
Most tools: good and bad clients look the same
Analytics
Net profit, with material and labour cost
Most tools: they show turnover, not what you keep
Cost and earnings for every service
Most tools: margin per service is nowhere to be seen
Earnings per staff member
Most tools: just the salon total
Staff monthly cost feeds the profit figure
Most tools: wages live outside the app
Filling the calendar
Hora offers the freed slot to the first person waiting
Most tools: when someone cancels, you phone the waitlist yourself
If the first does not reply in time, it passes to the next
Most tools: you call one client and wait to see if they answer
In the Hora directory, clients of other salons find you too
Most tools: only people who already have your link can see you
Reviews arrive on their own after a visit
Most tools: you beg for reviews on Google
An average rating per staff member
Most tools: one rating for the whole salon
Download and print the QR code for your link
Most tools: nothing to put in the window
Services sorted into groups, for you and for clients
Most tools: every service in one long list
For your clients
Clients can open their own free Hora account
Most tools: clients get nothing of their own, just a link
An account is optional, booking works without one
Most tools: no account, no booking
Every appointment, at every salon on Hora, in one place
Most tools: every salon’s bookings in a different place
Clients cancel themselves and the slot frees instantly
Most tools: they have to phone you to cancel
It opens in a browser, nothing to install
Most tools: clients have to install an app
Clients see where they are on the waitlist
Most tools: the waitlist exists only on your side
One click saves it to their calendar from the email
Most tools: they copy the appointment into their calendar by hand
Their details are remembered and prefilled
Most tools: they retype their details every time
Nothing can break
Double booking is impossible
Most tools: double bookings slip through now and then
Each staff member has their own duration
Most tools: one duration per service, for everyone
Clients only pick staff who do that service
Most tools: a client can pick the wrong staff member
Turnaround time is added automatically
Most tools: appointments stack back to back
Availability changes in real time
Most tools: clients see slots that are already taken
Control
You choose whether to auto-confirm, and for which clients
Most tools: auto-confirm is all or nothing
Confirmed appointments write themselves into your Google Calendar
Most tools: your private calendar and the salon are separate worlds
Staff get their own calendar with limited access, only you see the money
Most tools: staff see everything, your numbers included
Hora makes you reassign or cancel their appointments first
Most tools: delete a staff member and their appointments hang
You write the confirmations and reminders in your own words
Most tools: clients get their email, in their words
Missed requests clear themselves off the list
Most tools: old requests sit in the list forever
Switch each kind of notification on by itself
Most tools: notifications are all on or all off
Replies land in your own inbox
Most tools: a client reply goes nowhere
A post-visit note carries the name of whoever wrote it
Most tools: no idea who wrote a note
A schedule salons actually have
Shifts that rotate across several weeks
Most tools: fixed opening hours per weekday only
Every staff member has their own schedule
Most tools: one set of hours for the whole salon
Time off closes booking by itself
Most tools: you forget to block out your holiday
Fair play
Free up to 100 appointments a month, no card
Most tools: "Free" means a 14-day trial
The app and the support are both in Croatian
Most tools: a translated interface, support in English
Export your data and close your account yourself
Most tools: you ask support for your data
Your logo, your colours, your brand
Most tools: their brand on your page
A downgrade pauses, it does not delete
Most tools: downgrade and your data disappears
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