Fewer empty chairs. Better stylist utilization. One platform.
Mach 1 forecasts each salon's customer traffic from its own history — holidays, promotions, weather, seasonality — recommends the hours to staff each day, and fills coverage gaps from your stylist pool before they become empty chairs.
What makes cosmetology hard to staff.
Variable Demand
Walk-in traffic swings by day, season, and holiday — but schedules get built on gut feel. The result is overstaffed Tuesdays and slammed Saturdays.
Scattered Coordination
There is no clean way to see who is available across locations, so coordination runs through texts, calls, and spreadsheets.
Salon-by-Salon Rules
Every salon has its own hours, station count, and service mix, with nothing to manage them from one place.
Built to keep every chair working.
Demand forecasting, per salon
Projections built from each salon's own customer history, with holiday surges, promotions, and local events flagged automatically — down to "Friday absorbs the July 4th rush."
One-click scheduling
Turn the forecast into a full week of right-sized shifts instantly, then drag-and-drop to fine-tune.
Coverage from your whole pool
When a salon runs short, open shifts go out to your available, licensed stylists across locations. Someone doesn't show? Call in coverage with one tap.
Per-salon operating rules
Hours, station capacity, service mix, and throughput per location — the schedule respects the physical salon, and it's all managed from one place.
The scheduler you know, with a demand brain behind it.
Works the way your current scheduler does on day one — same grid, same week. Then it starts telling you what the schedule should be.
- Staffing levelsGut feel and last year's memoryHours recommended from your own demand history
- Building the weekAn evening of pencil and eraserOne click, then drag-and-drop to fine-tune
- Holidays & promosSomeone remembers, or nobody doesFlagged automatically, factored into the forecast
- Call-outsThe group textOne-tap call-in to ranked, available stylists
- Overbooking chairsFound out on the floorStation-capacity warnings before you publish
- How it's goingEnd-of-week surprisesCross-salon trends and stylist performance, every week
We connect your stack. We don't replace it.
Works like your current scheduler
Day one looks familiar: the same weekly grid your managers already know, with the forecast layered underneath. No retraining cliff.
Your payroll provider stays
Validated time exports clean to your payroll, no re-keying. Nothing gets torn out.
No rip and replace
Staffing agency? It runs on top of the ATS you already have. Salon operator? It runs on its own. Either way, we come to your terrain.
What changes.
Schedules match projected customer traffic, not gut feel.
Every chair staffed on peak days. No idle stylists on slow ones.
A week's schedule in one click, not an evening of spreadsheets.
One view of demand, coverage, and performance across every salon.
Other operations we're built for.
Seen enough?
Book a demo scoped to your salons — we'll build next week's schedule from your traffic, live, not a generic feature tour.