Yatoon Salon Booking — Appointment Calendar for Salons & Spas

Start taking salon appointments from your WordPress site

Yatoon gives beauty businesses a polished booking flow without sending clients away to another app. Clients choose a service, pick staff or «Any staff», select an available time, enter their details, and receive a confirmation with manage and calendar links.

The free version is built for salons that want a complete local booking system on WordPress: services, staff, business hours, booking pages, confirmation emails, client self-service, service photos, and a staff portal. Pro adds live Square/Vagaro sync, SMS, deposits, no-show workflows, packages, memberships, and advanced automation.

Try the client experience here: https://yatoon.com/bookingdemo/

Official source, copyright, and support

Yatoon Salon Booking is an official Yatoon plugin. Official downloads, updates, licensing, and support are provided through https://yatoon.com.

Live demo: https://yatoon.com/bookingdemo/

The plugin code is distributed under the GPLv2 or later, as required for WordPress-compatible distribution. Copyright notices, author attribution, and the Yatoon brand identity must be preserved. Modified or forked versions must not claim to be the official Yatoon release, use Yatoon branding in a misleading way, or imply official support unless authorized by Yatoon.

For the safest installation, download Yatoon only from the official source and avoid unsupported redistributed copies.

Built for salons, not generic appointments

After trying plugin after plugin designed for dentists or yoga studios, we gave up and built our own. Yatoon is the booking system we wish existed when we opened our salon — and now we’re sharing it with every beauty business owner who’s been through the same frustration.

No complicated setup. No $50/month SaaS fees. No features you’ll never use. Just a beautiful, fast booking experience your clients will love.

What is included in the free version

• Mobile-first customer booking form with [yatoon_booking]
• Local availability calendar with staff, services, closed dates, and business hours
• «Any staff» booking, or staff selection when clients have a favorite technician
• Multi-service appointments with live total price and duration
• Group appointment flow for clients booking with a guest
• Service menu, catalog, and gallery shortcodes for visual beauty service pages
• Customer confirmation emails and self-service manage links
• Staff portal for technicians to view their schedule
• Client records, appointment notes, custom fields, and service photos
• Setup wizard with optional demo services and automatic booking page creation

Yatoon works normally without AI, without Square, and without an outside booking subscription.

Why salon owners choose Yatoon

Most booking plugins were built for generic businesses. Yatoon was built for beauty. That means:

• Clients can book multiple services in one visit — nails + pedicure + eyebrows, all in one checkout
• Group appointments let one client book for herself and a guest, with separate services and staff
• Service cards can show photos, duration, pricing, and a Book action directly on the page
• Staff profiles and customer ratings help clients choose who they trust
• The booking form is designed for phones first, where most salon clients actually book
• Setup can create the booking page for you, so you are not guessing which shortcode goes where

This is the stuff that actually matters in a salon. Everything else is just noise.

Booking experience clients understand

• Clear steps for service, options, staff, time, and customer information
• Live appointment summary with price and duration before checkout
• «Just me» and «Group appointment» modes so guest booking does not confuse single clients
• Waitlist capture and «Text Us» fallback when clients cannot find a good time
• Add to Calendar links for Google, Apple, and Outlook after booking
• Self-service appointment links so clients can reschedule or cancel without calling

Free vs Pro

The free version is best for salons that want WordPress-hosted booking with local availability.

Upgrade to Pro when you need:

• Square Appointments or Vagaro live sync
• SMS reminders through Twilio
• Google Calendar sync
• Deposits, prepay, coupons, gift cards, memberships, and packages
• Waitlist auto-notify and no-show tracking
• AI reply drafts for Text Us messages
• Priority support from the Yatoon team

Everything you need to launch

For your clients: * Beautiful booking form that matches your website * Instant confirmation email with full appointment details * Automated reminder email before their appointment * One-tap star rating after their visit — no login required * Secure link to reschedule or cancel anytime

For your team: * Staff portal — technicians view their own schedule on their phone, no logins needed * Staff profiles with photos, bios, and real star ratings * Each staff member linked to only their services

For you: * Dashboard with today’s bookings and launch readiness checks * Client list with visit history, notes, and allergy information * Closed dates manager — block holidays for everyone with one click * Custom booking form fields — add questions like nail shape preference, allergy notes, or reference photos * Fully customizable confirmation email template

Service display shortcodes

• [yatoon_booking] — the full booking form. Put it on any page.
• [yatoon_service_menu] — restaurant-style menu with photos, prices, and Book buttons. Clients browse and book without leaving the page.
• [yatoon_catalog] — image card grid with category filters.
• [yatoon_gallery] — auto-scrolling photo carousel of your work. Supports mobile swipe, lightbox, and infinite loop.
• [yatoon_customer_portal] — client self-service: view upcoming bookings, reschedule, cancel.
• [yatoon_staff_portal] — technician schedule viewer. Installable as a home screen app on iPhone and Android.

Get started in 5 minutes

1. Install and activate the plugin
2. Open the Setup Wizard from Yatoon > Setup Wizard
3. Choose «Add demo services» if you want a quick test salon to explore
4. Let Yatoon create your booking page, or add [yatoon_booking] to an existing page
5. Add your real services, staff, prices, and hours
6. Open the booking page on your phone and place one test appointment

That’s it. Your clients can start booking.

WordPress AI-ready, but optional

Yatoon can use the WordPress AI Client when an AI provider is connected in WordPress Settings > Connectors. AI is optional: if no provider is connected, the normal booking system keeps working.

• AI service helper can suggest matching services from your real service menu
• AI service description helper can improve admin-written service descriptions
• Yatoon does not store AI provider API keys and does not charge for AI usage
• AI prompts are instructed not to invent prices, appointment times, medical advice, refunds, or policies

External Services and Privacy

AI features use the WordPress 7.0 AI Client when a site administrator connects an AI provider in WordPress Settings > Connectors. Yatoon does not store AI provider API keys and does not charge for AI usage. Any AI usage cost depends on the site owner’s selected AI provider. On WordPress 6.9 and older, AI features stay hidden and the booking system continues to work normally.

Pro integrations connect only after the site administrator enables them and enters credentials. Depending on enabled features, booking, customer, payment, calendar, or message data may be exchanged with Square, Vagaro, Stripe, Twilio, Google Calendar, or Freemius to provide the requested service.

When a site administrator opts in to Freemius software analytics, Yatoon also sends one-time setup funnel event names together with the plugin version, Free/Pro tier, booking mode, and event time. These events do not include customer names, contact details, appointment content, payment information, or an explicit site-domain property. Sites that do not allow tracking keep these milestones only in their own WordPress database.

• Square: https://squareup.com/us/en/legal/general/privacy
• Vagaro: https://www.vagaro.com/PrivacyPolicy.aspx
• Stripe: https://stripe.com/privacy
• Twilio: https://www.twilio.com/en-us/legal/privacy
• Google Calendar / Google APIs: https://policies.google.com/privacy
• Freemius: https://freemius.com — Terms: https://freemius.com/terms/ — Privacy: https://freemius.com/privacy/