Chairs that can't be double-booked
Each chair is treated as a real resource with a capacity of one. The database itself blocks overlapping bookings — not the app, the database. Double-booking is impossible by design.
What we hear from salons
The scheduling problems that compound.
- Two stylists discovering they both booked the same chair at the same time.
- Junior vs senior stylist routing rules that creep into chaos as the team grows.
- Walk-ins eating into pre-booked appointments because nobody was tracking real chair load.
- High-tipping clients ending up with junior stylists — and you can't explain why.
Where the deterministic engine pays off
Built for how salons actually run.
Senior-priority routing, made fair
Set Schediq to lean toward senior stylists for premium services, while basic services rotate evenly across the team. Visible to everyone, defendable, never random.
Walk-ins counted properly
Walk-in bookings flow through the same engine with the same chair-availability checks. No shadow bookings, no 'I didn't see that one'.
Service-aware buffer time
Cleanup time, prep time, colour-processing time — buffer minutes per service prevent the next client from claiming the chair too early.
The flow
From customer intent to audit-grade decision in seconds.
- 1
Client books online or walks in
Public booking link or staff-initiated. Service + preferred stylist optional.
- 2
Schediq picks the stylist
Senior-bias for premium services, fair rotation for basics — your rules, applied consistently.
- 3
Chair allocated automatically
Schediq picks the right chair. The database locks it. Visible in real-time on the dashboard.
- 4
Confirmation sent
Customer gets a booking confirmation. Sent exactly once, no duplicates ever.
- 5
End-of-day audit
Every chair allocation queryable. Look back at any booking, see exactly why it went to the chair and stylist it did.