A client asked for a booking form. I built them a calendar instead. The original ask was simple: ...

A client asked for a booking form. I built them a calendar instead. The original ask was simple: ...A client asked for a booking form. I built them a calendar instead. The original ask was simple: ...

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Marija Peršić

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• 6h

A client asked for a booking form.

I built them a calendar instead.

The original ask was simple: a contact form on the landing page so clients could "request an appointment."

But before I touched anything, I looked at how the salon actually runs — services split across stylists, different durations per treatment, staff juggling messages all day just to confirm who's free when.

A form would've just moved the back-and-forth online. It wouldn't have solved anything.

So instead I built a real booking calendar — live availability per stylist, per service, right on the landing page.

No more "let me check and get back to you."

Clients see an open slot, they book it, done.

That one shift saves the salon close to an hour a day that used to go into manually confirming appointments.

This is the part of the job that matters most to me — not just shipping what's asked, but understanding the business well enough to know what's actually going to help it.

Here's the before vs. after.

Which one would make you want to book?