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Case study · Wellness & local services

Wellness & local services
Wellness studio chain

A wellness chain could only take bookings during opening hours and had no way to secure them. SDEN deployed Beauty across its locations in three months, lifting after-hours bookings by 48%.

Client
A multi-location wellness studio chain
Sector
Wellness studio chain
Duration
Approximately three months end-to-end

The premise

Half the demand for a wellness studio shows up when the studio is closed: evenings, weekends, the moment someone decides to book. A chain that only takes bookings by phone during opening hours simply loses that demand, and without deposits it absorbs the cost of every no-show on top.

Beauty takes bookings around the clock, synced across every practitioner, and secures them with deposits through Stripe. This case covers the rollout across a multi-location chain.

Challenge

Booking only during opening hours, nothing securing it

Each location took bookings by phone during opening hours only, so demand that arrived in the evening or on a weekend went unbooked or to a competitor. Schedules across practitioners were not synced, which made even phone booking error-prone.

With no deposits, the chain carried the full cost of no-shows, and had no consistent payment or client record across its locations.

Approach

Round-the-clock booking, synced, with deposits

Beauty deployed 24/7 online booking synced across every practitioner's schedule at every location, with Stripe-backed deposits and payments and the client record attached to each booking.

  1. Phase 1: Multi-location calendar

    Three weeks. Brought every location and practitioner onto Beauty's synced calendar, so real-time availability was accurate across the chain and double-booking was impossible.

  2. Phase 2: 24/7 online booking

    Four weeks. Online booking went live around the clock, synced to every practitioner's schedule, capturing the evening and weekend demand the phone line had been losing.

  3. Phase 3: Stripe deposits and payments

    Three weeks. Deposits and payments deployed through Stripe, with service history and the client record attached, so bookings were secured and the chain stopped absorbing no-show cost.

Outcome

Forty-eight percent more bookings outside opening hours

Bookings made outside opening hours rose by 48%, captured by round-the-clock online booking synced across every location. Stripe-backed deposits secured those bookings, so the chain stopped carrying the full cost of no-shows.

Every location now runs on one synced calendar with a consistent payment flow and client record.

48%

more bookings outside opening hours

24/7

online booking synced across locations

Deposits

secured via Stripe at booking

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