Booking Software for Makeup Artists

A haircut customer is looking for any open slot this week. A bride already has a date, set months before she ever found your page, chosen around a venue and a guest list that have nothing to do with your calendar. Put your availability on your own website through an embed script, or on a standalone kiwilaunch booking page with your own domain, so she can check the one thing she actually wants to know: is that date still open. The trial, by contrast, gets booked far more like any other appointment, on a day that suits you both.

The trial happens on a normal day, during hours like any other appointment. The wedding morning doesn't: it can start earlier than the rest of your week, and it happens at a venue, not your studio, so it isn't a normal shift either. Add the artists on your team as staff members with shifts set to when the work actually starts, not just your usual hours. Each artist keeps their own calendar, so the team's trials and wedding mornings sit on one schedule instead of a group chat, and if a start time moves, the booking can be rescheduled to another time instead of canceled and rebuilt.

Two appointments, months apart, but one payment covers both: sell the trial and the wedding day together as a package, paid once through Stripe, in the booking flow or from your dashboard. Each one is redeemed through booking as its date arrives. If the wedding day ends up needing more than the package covered, add the extra charge from your dashboard. Coupon codes are there for a referral.

A trial is easy: it's an appointment in your usual space, on a day that suits you both. The wedding day isn't in your space at all. It can be anywhere the couple picked their venue, sometimes well outside the area you'd normally travel for a regular appointment. Give the wedding-day service its own coverage area, by ZIP, post code, or area name, wider than the one you'd set for a trial, and give it its own length too, since getting there and back is part of the morning, not separate from it.

A wedding morning happens at a venue you don't run, which is exactly when a laptop isn't an option. The kiwilaunch iOS app carries your calendar, your customers, your bookings, and your payments, so you can check the morning's schedule and who's on it from wherever the venue turns out to be. When it's time to collect what's owed, take the card there with Tap to Pay on iPhone, no reader to buy or carry along.