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A salon booking shouldn't take 15 WhatsApp messages and a phone call to confirm.
Meet CORAL Beauty Emporium, 100% lovable project with a multi-branch hair, beauty and laser skin clinic in Bahria Town. Its quirks are very real: most enquiries arrive as "price? available tomorrow?" DMs on WhatsApp and Instagram, Facebook ad leads go cold before anyone calls back, laser clients need to rebook a session every 4-6 weeks, evenings and weekends are slammed, and one founder is juggling multiple branches.
The problem I solved: turning "can I book with you?" into "you're booked" without the front desk chasing every message by hand.
FIX THE FRONT DOOR (coralbeautyemporium.com/book)
• One-page booking: choose branch, tap services from the live price list (duration + price shown), pick a date and open slot, confirm
• Running booking summary with estimated total, so no "how much?" back-and-forth
• Phone-verified customer accounts, loyalty points and voucher codes applied at checkout
• Opt-in for WhatsApp/SMS/email reminders and follow-ups at the moment of booking
• Installable PWA, with branch hours, FAQs and SEO pages that all route to /book
FIX THE FOLLOW-THROUGH(the owner's admin & Staff backend ):
• Reception Hub "Today at a Glance": pending vs confirmed counts, today's schedule, new online bookings and inventory alerts on one screen
• Callbacks / Follow-ups / Rebook queues with overdue flags, so laser courses and lapsed clients get nudged instead of forgotten
• Bookings board: filter by date, status, service and staff; confirm, assign a therapist and export in a click
• POS and invoicing: a completed booking becomes a sale and invoice without re-typing
• Google-style HOME: type a client's name or number, then Book or Sell in one click; managers land on their own branch automatically.
• Lead pipeline (New, Contacted, Consultation booked, Converted, Lost) pulling in Facebook Lead Ads and website-WhatsApp enquiries, with lead scoring, campaign tags and response-overdue timers
• Client CRM shared across all branches, with loyalty points redeemable at any branch, plus feedback and reviews after each visit
• Service catalogue with live prices and durations that feed the public /book page directly
• Inventory: stock levels, purchase orders, suppliers and consumables, with low-stock alerts on the Reception Hub
• People: staff rota, attendance check-in/out, timesheets, leave and payroll
• Multi-branch control: each branch runs its own diary, staff, commission and cash; only head office sees sales across branches
Before: enquiries scattered across WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook; prices and slots confirmed by hand; follow-ups living in a manager's memory.
After: customers self-book a real slot in under a minute, and the owner opens one screen that shows who to confirm, who to call back and who is due to rebook.
Built end-to-end in Lovable (React + TypeScript + Supabase) and running live for a real salon group. @Lovable. a video recording below
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For the #lovablechallenge
Introducing EVERMORE a bridal boutique on King Street, Charleston 💍
A little bit backstory
I don't normally do this and if this challenge I hadn't seen yesterday, I don't think I would never have tried the new #Lovable to be honest. I normally use other cli tools in my day to day work, but this is the first time I was having this much fun while building a project.
What you're looking at is everything I managed to do in one night before the tokens ran out ( got down to ~5 credits from 200 something).
Let's come down to point. The submission is based on an actual client .(The name and location etc is fictional , but her problems are not )
So Juliette runs EVERMORE, with Tess styling on weekends only.
Two fitting rooms: the Grand Salon (bride + 5) and the Boudoir (bride + 2). Visits are 45, 60 or 90 minutes, and every room needs a 15-minute reset.
Saturdays fill first. She's with a bride all day, so every "Can I book?" DM waited until 11pm.
With our help , what is happening now is
- Brides are booking based on the availability themselves , without waiting for reply in dm.
- Getting Instant confirmation with a private link to confirm. They have the options for later cancel their appointment as well if they change their mind or due to any emergency. No questions asked and without disturbing any one else as well.
- To remember they can put it in calendar as well
- While booking their preference like how they want to look, styles, budget, comfort notes etc, also can be added directly so that boutique owner can prepare for her visit and make everything in her capacity to make the bride to be comfortable
- Based on the preferences of bride , A Salon Screen was ready for her and her only to showcase the type of dress she want in detail and talk about it in person while trying them out, the screen can be managed by the studio owner and could be put on any display like tv or laptop or monitor .
- It first greets the bride with personal message and also let her capture the screen and share it in here social, giving a viral factor in social media with tags
- The same screen also lets studio owner to note down the preference of the bride more clearly after having met in person
→ Once the meeting is done, both the client and studio owner will have different place to go back and do things like note down the next steps, result of the meeting , the feedback from the client , basically the whole formality whatever happens
Juliette's new evening plan, literally anything except answering DMs.
Live site: https://evermore-bridal-dreams.lovable.app
To try and book as a bride to be , no need of any auth.
but to be signed in as studio owner or stylist,
you can use the below credential
email (owner)- juliette.owner@evermore-test.invalid
password - JKK9CpXh5GkpVLPU6HFABVzW!a041824d
email(staff)- tess.staff@evermore-test.invalid
pasword- YlwjCUq3CegCQV5wxhoec8uJ!c355d56d
thank you
Wow.. I worked hard on my submission.. but this is amazing... Nice work. I can tell you worked super hard on this.
🚀 I built a booking experience for a solo hair studio as part of the Lovable Challenge.
#lovablechallenge
Hi! did you get the promo code from Contra?
I built MobiFix Nairobi : A Mobile auto care company.
I rebuilt the moment an inbound “Can I book with you?” becomes “You’re booked.”
MobiFix Nairobi is a fictional mobile automotive service business built around one simple problem: booking vehicle services often means back-and-forth messages, checking availability, coordinating technicians, confirming locations, and handling payments manually.
I designed the experience so the customer can:
→ Choose a service
→ Select their vehicle
→ Enter their location
→ Pick an available date and time
→ Add their details
→ Review the booking
→ Complete payment
→ Receive a booking confirmation and code
Behind the scenes, the business gets a real dashboard with bookings, calendar, customers, services, technicians, availability, analytics, and website management — all backed by real data.
The goal was to make the entire journey feel less like “requesting an appointment” and more like simply getting booked.
Built with Lovable and Lovable Cloud.
MobiFix: https://carmobifix.lovable.app
(I haven't submitted the actual project link because of the environment variables, I'm using Lovable Cloud.)
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