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title: The app for your stylists in Salon Booking OS
description: "Your stylists sign in to the same app and see only their own work: today’s appointments, their schedule and their account."
url: "https://osdots.com/docs/salon-booking-os-the-app-for-your-stylists/"
updated: "2026-11-01"
category: Product Documentation / Salon Booking OS by OsDot™
---

# The app for your stylists in Salon Booking OS

Your stylists use the same app as your clients. After signing in, a stylist whose account you linked chooses **Continue as a stylist** and sees only their own work: today's appointments, their schedule, their alerts and their account. Nothing else changes for your clients.

## Giving a stylist the app

1. Give the stylist their own sign-in: invite them under **People** (see **Your team's sign-ins**). One account each; never a client's account.
2. Link the account to the stylist: on **Salon → Stylists**, open the stylist and choose their account under **Sign-in account**. Choose **No sign-in account** to unlink it.
3. The stylist installs your salon's app and signs in with their e-mail address: with **Send me a code**, or with **Sign in with a password** where your app shows it.

An account that is not linked to a stylist only ever sees the clients' side of the app.

## Choosing a side

The first time a linked stylist signs in, the app asks how to continue: **Stylist** ("Your appointments, your schedule and alerts.") or **Client** ("Book, see your bookings and shop."), then **Continue as a stylist** or **Continue as a client**. The app remembers the choice for that account until it signs out: to switch later, sign out and choose again.

## The four tabs

- **Today** — a greeting, how many appointments the stylist has today, **Your appointment now** or **Your next appointment**, **Later today** and **Coming up**. Only their own appointments are shown.
- **Schedule** — **My schedule**: their working hours and time off for this week and next, as the salon set them under **Salon → Stylists**. Time off is asked for at the salon, not in the app.
- **Alerts** — the salon's notices to the stylist. A stylist is alerted in the app and by e-mail when an appointment is booked with them, moved, given to another stylist or cancelled. The number of unread alerts shows on the tab. An alert never shows a client's address or phone: the stylist opens the appointment for them.
- **Account** — the stylist's own photo, "Stylist at" with your salon's name, **My work** with **My ratings**, **Appearance** (**Light**, **Dark** or **System**), signing out and **Delete my account**.

## An appointment's page

Tapping an appointment opens its page: the service, the day and time, the client, and where it stands.

- **Marks.** On the appointment's own day the stylist can mark **Arrived**, **Start the appointment**, **Mark completed** and **Mark no-show**, as the front desk can. Before the appointment's day no mark is offered.
- **At the salon or at home.** An appointment at the salon shows your salon's name. For a home visit, the client's address and phone show with **Call** and **Directions** from the start of the day before the appointment until a few hours after it is completed; before and after, the page says the address is hidden.
- **On my way.** For a home visit the stylist can tell the client they are on the way, or running late, with an arrival estimate. The app reads where the stylist is once, at their tap, and never keeps it; the stylist can pick a time instead. **On my way** is off until you turn on **Booking: "On my way" alerts with an arrival estimate for appointments at the client's address** under **System → Website settings**.
- **No longer theirs.** When an appointment is given to someone else or cancelled, its page says it is not theirs any more and shows nothing more of the client.

**Payments.** The app takes no payments. In this version a stylist does not record payments in the app: payments taken at the salon are recorded in the administration area (see **Deposits and paying at the salon**).

## Ratings

**My ratings** shows the ratings clients gave the stylist in published reviews (see **Reviews**).

## What the app keeps and shows

- **Nothing of the day is kept on the phone.** With no connection, Today shows the day as it was loaded, with **No connection** and **Try again**; marks need a connection.
- **The stylist's photo** in the app is the picture they uploaded themselves under **My profile** on the website; no one else's upload shows there.
- **Deleting the account.** **Account → Delete my account** deletes the stylist's sign-in account, its devices and its alerts, and their photo and rating stop showing on the website. The salon keeps its own records of their appointments under the stylist's record.