Openslot: Appointment & Shifts

Nextlayer Technologies

About this app

Openslot is an appointment booking app and shift scheduler for people who work by the chair and by the hour: barbers, hair salons, nail techs, massage therapists, tattoo artists and small studios. Open a book in two minutes, take bookings from a link, roster your staff, and keep your clients yours.

APPOINTMENT BOOKING
• Today's schedule at a glance, in a clean day view
• Collision-proof slots — a time can never be double-booked
• Walk-ins and phone bookings added in two taps
• Client records with visit counts and last-visit dates

YOUR OWN BOOKING PAGE
Turn on online booking and you get a private booking link for your Instagram bio, your Google profile or a text to a regular. Clients pick a service and a time and they are in your book. No marketplace, no commission, no other shops shown next to yours.

SHIFT SCHEDULING BUILT IN
Roster your team and the shifts decide what clients can book. When nobody is on, the book falls back to your business hours. Open shifts are flagged for cover so a gap never goes unnoticed.

SWITCHING FROM BOOKSY, SQUARE OR VAGARO?
Import your client list from a CSV, TSV or spreadsheet export, keeping visit history so regulars do not reset to zero. Then text every imported client your new booking link from one worklist.

WORKS IN A BROWSER TOO
Pair a computer with an 8-character code and run the whole book from a browser at the front desk, in sync with your phone.

BUILT FOR SMALL SHOPS
• No sign-up to start, flat pricing, no commission on bookings
• Works offline; syncs when you turn online booking on
• Your clients are yours: exportable, never sold, never shown to other shops
• No ads

MADE FOR
• Barbers and barbershops that want a booking app without the marketplace
• Hair, nail and lash salons scheduling a small team
• Massage therapists, estheticians and tattoo studios taking appointments from social media
• Coffee shops and small teams that just need simple shift scheduling

Openslot is made by Next Layer Technologies, an independent studio in Ontario, Canada. Learn more at nextlayertechnology.net/openslot or write to [e-mail].

What’s new

First release.

Take bookings and run your shift schedule from your phone. Set the hours you work, let clients pick an open slot, and see the day ahead at a glance.

Bring an existing client list over from another booking app, and open the same schedule in a browser on your computer by pairing it from the phone.