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How it works

From your link to your bank, in one flow.

No front desk, no countertop terminal, no CRM to wrangle. Five quiet acts, from the booking link in your bio to a payout in your account.


01Set up in an evening

Add a service. Connect Stripe. Share the link.

Three short moves and your booking page is live on your goldenhour link. Your own domain can come later on the paid plan, and most artists finish before the kettle's cold.

  • 1Add a service. Name it, price it, set the hours you actually work.
  • 2Connect Stripe. Deposits, payouts, and at-the-door payments switch on together.
  • 3Share your booking link. Drop it in your bio and the calendar starts filling.
book.yourbrand.com
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Mara Ellison
Sunless & spray tan · mobile
Full-body spray tan
45 min · at your door
$95
Your booking
Full-body spray tan$95.00
Deposit today$25.00
Travel fee · zone 2$15.00
Due at the door$85.00
Reserve with deposit

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Priya N.booking with you · Sat, Jun 14
Held at booking
Full-body spray tan$95.00
Deposit charged now$25.00
Travel fee · zone 2 (auto)$15.00
Balance due at the door$85.00
Booking confirmed
02Clients book themselves

They pick a time. The deposit's already in.

Your link does the front-desk work. Clients choose a slot, drop their address, and a deposit holds it — the travel fee for their zone is added automatically, so the price they see is the price you meant.

  • Deposit held the moment they book — no-shows stop costing you the drive.
  • Travel fee priced in at checkout — no “where are you based?” texts.

03The day runs itself

Open the app. Your day's already sorted.

Who's next, where they are, what they booked — the Today screen lines up your stops and keeps the day moving leave. Navigate, message, and get paid without ever leaving the visit.

  • Next-up routing: your stops in order, address one tap away.
  • Navigate or message in a tap — the address is already there.
9:41Today
Good morning, Mara
Tuesday, June 9
NEXT UPDeposit held
10:30 AM
Priya N. · Full-body spray tan
1452 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn
NavigateMessage
Later today
1:00
Jordan T.Express tan
$75
4:30
Aisha + 2Bridal trial
$260
3 stops today$430 booked

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Mara Ellison
via book.yourbrand.com
Today 8:02 PM
Prep tonight — exfoliate and skip lotion so tomorrow's tan grips evenly.
Tomorrow 4:00 PM
Time to rinse — lukewarm water only, then pat dry. You'll keep deepening overnight.
04Care on a timer

The right message, the right hour.

Prep tonight, rinse at four, rebook later. Each text goes out on its own, on the timer you set. Clients tap to confirm, so you know they're ready before you pull up.

  • Templates tuned to your craft — and your wording, if you'd rather.
  • Tap-to-confirm prep; reply STOP anytime — consent handled for you.

05Get paid at the door

Tap their card. The receipt sends itself.

Balance and tip clear at the door with Tap to Pay on iPhone, a pocket-size reader or a scan-to-pay QR code. The receipt goes out on its own, and the payment heads to your bank on Stripe's regular payout schedule. 0% commission; card processing fees only.

  • Balance and tip captured at the door: Tap to Pay on iPhone, pocket reader or QR, their choice.
  • Payouts land straight in your bank about two days after each sale, nothing skimmed on top.
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Priya N.Full-body spray tan
PAID
Service$95.00
Travel · zone 2$15.00
Tip · 20%$22.00
Captured$132.00
Receipt sent to Priya
Paid out
$1,840
to ···· 4291 · this week

Every studio & mobile superpower

Explore all eight workflows hands-on.

Test the phone IVR with studio voice greeting, two-way in-app SMS, bilingual prep waivers, live rinse countdown timers, custom booking subdomain book.sobetan.com, multi-location booths, multi-employee calendars, and direct dashboard feature tickets.

01 · IVR WHEN PEOPLE CALL

A real studio phone menu that routes calls and texts back automatically.

When a client calls while you are mid-session, your studio number plays a greeting you can customize using your own voice, then lets callers press a key for an instant booking text, membership pricing, voicemail transcription, or call forwarding to your cell with salon caller ID.

  • Customize the greeting using your own voice (record or upload audio)
  • Press 1 texts your booking link in seconds
  • Press 2 rings your cell with salon caller ID, and voicemail picks up if you can't
INTERACTIVE CALL ROUTER · (305) 555-0148Tap a keypad button

Hear SoBe Tan’s live greeting below. You can customize it using your own voice so callers hear you, not a robot.

Caller presses 1 while you are in the booth0 min interrupted

SMS sent to (786) 555-0192 in 3 seconds

Auto-text delivered with your booking link

Hi from SoBe Tan! Tap here to pick your tan and time on our live calendar: https://book.sobetan.com

BEST OF ALL · TALK TO THE PEOPLE WHO BUILD IT

Want a feature that doesn't exist yet? Submit a ticket right in the dashboard.

Open Support → Ask the goldenhour team something inside your dashboard, pick Feature, and describe any workflow, timer, report, or automation your studio wants. Because we build goldenhour ourselves and run SoBe Tan on it every day, your request goes straight to the people who write the code. We can't promise to build every request or give a date, but we read every one and reply in that thread, usually within a business day.

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Submit a ticket in DashboardSupport → Feature in 30 seconds
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We read itA reply in the same thread, usually within a business day
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Follow the boardWatch the Suggestions board and changelog for what ships

The short version

What you don't have to do.

No front deskYour link is the desk.
No commission0%, card fees only.
No countertop terminalTap to Pay on iPhone, a pocket reader or scan-to-pay QR.
No CRMClients kept, care on a timer.

Open your booking link tonight

The golden hour starts here.

One person, one car, one craft. Live in about two minutes with the starter menu we set up for you, finished in about ten. No card to start.