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Setting up your first salon

Reviewed 2026-08-30

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Think of setup as a short operations checklist. Until you have a salon, at least one service, a professional, and business hours, the salon calendar and your public booking page cannot offer real time slots. Open the setup checklist in the sidebar and work through the required rows.

Why setup order matters

A booking needs something to sell, someone who can deliver it, and open hours. If you jump straight to the calendar without a service or professional, there is nothing to place on the schedule. Hours come next because they decide when clients may reserve time.

Required vs optional

Required milestones unlock day-to-day booking. Optional ones—like publishing your booking page or connecting payments—help you go live with clients, but you can create your first appointment without them.

Get Started checklist

Owners and managers open the setup checklist from the main sidebar while required setup is still incomplete. Confirm progress for the location you are working in, then work through milestones from top to bottom.

Open Get Started and use row buttons

  1. In the main sidebar, open Get Started while required setup is still incomplete.
  2. Confirm the progress shown for the Active salon.
  3. On the highlighted incomplete row, choose Continue.
  4. On other incomplete rows, choose Open.
  5. On completed rows, choose Review to revisit that milestone.

Learn the layout

From the checklist, start the navigation tour for a short walkthrough of the main sidebar and where Settings lives in the account menu.

Who can finish setup

Team members without owner or manager setup access see a message on the checklist with a link back to the dashboard. Ask an owner or manager to finish the required rows.

Create your salon

  1. On the checklist, open the milestone that creates your salon.
  2. Enter the public name, contact details, and profile for the location.
  3. Save so later screens can use that salon under your organization.

Organization vs salon

Your organization is the account. Each salon is a bookable location. Day-to-day work follows the active location you pick in the account menu.

Services and professionals

  1. On the checklist, open the milestone that adds your first service and create what clients book.
  2. Open the milestone that adds a professional and include who can perform it (including you).
  3. Finish both before you rely on the salon calendar.

Service assignments

Assigning services to your team is optional during setup. Connecting services to people later keeps the menu accurate when several staff share the same offerings.

Business hours and first booking

Set business hours for the location you are working in so client booking windows and calendar shading match when you accept appointments.

After a service, professional, and hours exist, create your first appointment on the salon calendar to confirm booking works end to end.

Complete required milestones

  1. On Get Started, open Set business hours and define when the Active salon can accept appointments.
  2. Confirm and save those hours.
  3. Open Create your first appointment.
  4. Book a client on Calendar and confirm the appointment saves.
  5. Make sure you have already finished Create your salon, Add your first service, and Add a professional.

Optional milestones after you can book

  1. When required items are done, open the milestone that publishes your booking page for public discovery.
  2. Open the payments milestone when you are ready to take cards.
  3. Open the milestone that assigns services to your team when more than one person shares services.

You can book without them

Internal calendar appointments work without a published page or payment connection. Finish optional milestones when client-facing booking and checkout matter.

Where to edit setup later

After onboarding, reopen catalogs from Settings. Under Studio, manage services, staff, and salons for your active location; business hours live under the configuration group.

Open catalogs in Settings

  1. Open the account menu and choose Settings.
  2. Under Studio, open Services, Staff, or Salons for the Active salon.
  3. Under Configuration, open Business Hours when you need to change open times.
  4. Choose Back to Dashboard when you want the main sidebar again.

Review anytime

Return to the checklist and choose Review on a completed row to revisit a milestone without losing your place.

Contents

  • Setting up your first salon
  • Finding your way around Orya
  • Inviting staff members
  • Organization, salons, and your active location
  • Roles, permissions, and bookable staff

On this page

  • Why setup order matters
  • Get Started checklist
  • Create your salon
  • Services and professionals
  • Business hours and first booking
  • Optional milestones after you can book
  • Where to edit setup later

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