Start here: the Salon Booking OS documentation
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This package contains Salon Booking OS by OsDot™ 1.0.0 (Single Site / Multi Site). To get a running site:
Product videos #
Salon Booking OS by OsDot™ — Salon Booking Software for Hair & Beauty Salons
Salon Booking OS by OsDot™ Full Feature Tour — Web + Flutter App Source
All 14 step-by-step tutorials, in order: Salon Booking OS — Product Tutorials.
- Check your hosting against the System requirements: PHP 8.3 or later, MySQL or MariaDB, HTTPS, URL rewriting and scheduled tasks (cron). Shared hosting, cloud hosting and a VPS all work; the installer checks your server before it installs anything.
- Create an empty database and a database user with the privileges listed in Installation.
- Upload the contents of the
Web/folder to your hosting and point your domain atWeb/webroot/— Installation shows both ways to do it. - Open
https://your-domain.example/installand follow the installer. It asks you to open a setup file on your server first, so only you can install. - Have your software license key ready (from your purchase e-mail): the installer’s Install step activates your installation with it — see Software license.
- Add the scheduled tasks the installer shows to your hosting’s cron settings — see Scheduled tasks (cron).
- Work through Get started in the administration area: your salon’s location and hours, staff, services, e-mail and the legal pages, then your first online booking — see First sign-in and configuration.
- Back up your site — see Backups.
What is in this package #
| Folder or file | What it is |
|---|---|
Web/ | The web application with its browser installer: upload its contents to your hosting. |
Documentation/ | The documentation: open Documentation/index.html. |
LICENSE.html | Your license: what the Single Site and Multi Site editions allow. |
SUPPORT-POLICY.html | Your support options. |
SYSTEM-REQUIREMENTS.html, SECURITY.html | What your hosting needs, and how to keep the site safe. |
CHANGELOG.html, THIRD-PARTY-LICENSES.html, VERSION | What changed, the open-source components and their licenses, and this package’s version. |
manifest.json, checksums.txt | Every file of this package with its SHA-256 checksum. |
The customer app’s source (Android and iOS) comes in the same download, in its own folder with its own README-BUILD.html.
Getting help #
Read Troubleshooting and the FAQ first. OsDot Solutions provides support as described in SUPPORT-POLICY.html, on osdots.com.
Watch the Video Tutorials #
Salon Booking OS Video Tutorials: Start Here: 14 step-by-step tutorials in order, plus links to every video. Watch the playlist on YouTube.
