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Sable runs the business side of your chair: booking, clients, payments, messaging, and the paperwork that usually eats your evenings. This page gives you the lay of the land so nothing else in these guides feels unfamiliar.

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Pick your setup path

I work for myself

Booth renters, suite renters, and independent stylists. One person, one schedule. You can finish setup in a sitting.

I run a salon with a team

Owners and managers with stylists or front desk team members. Everything from the solo path, plus roles, commissions, and team schedules.

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How the app is organized

On the web, the left sidebar is home base. On iPhone and iPad, the bottom bar highlights Home, Calendar, or Inbox when that destination is active. Other pages, such as Clients or Services, highlight Menu. Going back updates the highlight to match the page you return to. Here’s what lives where: On the web, Search sits just below the Sable logo. Press ⌘K (Ctrl+K on Windows) from anywhere to open it. One search finds clients, appointments, form responses, settings, messages, invoices, services, products, and pages.
  • Top hit. The best match sits first, ready to open with Enter. A client whose name starts with what you typed comes first, with their next visit beside it.
  • Groups. Results are grouped by type, three to a group. Click show all to see the rest of a group, or press Tab to move between the chips above the results (All, Clients, Appointments, Forms, and so on).
  • Form responses. Type a person’s name to see one row for each form they submitted, with its date and status. Choose one to open that response.
  • Settings. Type what a setting does, such as “deposit”, “no-show”, or “tips”, and Search takes you straight to that setting on its page and highlights it for a moment.
  • Keyboard. Use the arrow keys to move, Enter to open, ⌘Enter (Ctrl+Enter on Windows) to open in a new tab, and Escape to close.
With nothing typed, Search shows the last eight things you opened from it and quick actions for a new appointment, a new client, a payment, or a new form. Recent items stay on this device for your account and clear when you log out or lock Salon Mode; click clear to remove them sooner. When nothing matches a name, you can add that person as a new client right from Search. On a phone, Search opens full screen with the field at the top; tap Cancel to close it. Search only shows what your role can access. Collapse the sidebar with the control beside the logo. Hover over an icon to see its name and any pages underneath it; click a page to open it. Click the Sable icon to expand the sidebar again. Settings opens its own panel, with a Search settings field that finds individual settings as well as settings pages, and a Back button to return to your previous page. At the bottom, click your business name to open your profile, switch between businesses you belong to, or log out. The bell beside it opens Alerts. On a phone or narrow browser window, tap the sidebar button at the bottom left. The page slides aside to reveal the menu, with Settings, Alerts, and your profile at the top and Search below. Choose a destination to return to your work, or tap the dimmed page to close the menu. Escape closes it from a keyboard. On the iPhone app, the Search tab can search clients, appointments, invoices, products, services, and messages, with chips to narrow the results. Transactions, Services, Inventory, and Clients have a compact title and icon at the top left, with their actions at the top right. Filters and lists fill the workspace. Use each page’s actions to add or manage its records. Open Ask Jules from the floating button at the bottom to ask questions and manage your day. Trial notices and Lock Salon Mode, when available, live in the sidebar.

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Your web dashboard

The dashboard leads with one card that always shows what matters right now, with the next step on the green button beneath it. It follows your day on its own: Tap the card to open the appointment in the calendar. check in marks your client arrived. checkout opens checkout right on the dashboard, and mark no-show opens the appointment and runs the same steps as the calendar, including any no-show fee. Under the card:
  • up next shows the client after the one on the card, or tomorrow’s first. While you’re busy, it reads running late or arrived for a next client who is late or already waiting.
  • The time clock shows your shift so far, with clock in and clock out, when you track time. The sidebar clock works too.
  • The week tile swipes through earned this week, appointments, retail and new clients.
  • Cards for unread messages, new forms and unpaid invoices appear when there’s something to look at, with the names of who’s waiting.
  • A visit still in progress three hours after its booked end moves from the main card to a not checked out card, first among these. Tap it to open the visit and check it out, or, for several, the calendar on the earliest day.
  • Swipe a card left to put it away (on a computer, hover it and select the ×). It comes back on its own when something new arrives, like another message or a new form.
On a wide screen the dashboard has two columns, with today on the right: your appointments in order, with arrived and start buttons for the next client. Owners and managers who take appointments can tap the settings button beside the greeting and choose show stats for my clients or whole salon. The choice follows you to every device. With whole salon, today · salon lists every visit in progress, everyone who has arrived, and the rest of the day. Front desk sees who is arriving in the next 30 minutes across the salon, with check in for the first. Assistants see the visits of the stylists they support, and their own first. Booth renters see their own book and what was paid to them this week. getting started takes the card’s place for owners and managers while setup tasks remain. Swipe between tasks, use the green button to do one, or tap X to dismiss it. Dismissing does not mark a task complete, and it applies on every device. Payment setup leaves after your enrollment details are submitted. enroll for messaging, when available for your business, opens business texting enrollment and leaves after you submit enrollment, while carrier review continues. The first service and product tasks leave once a record exists. Opening booking customization counts as reviewing it, so you can keep its defaults. The automated-message task leaves after you customize a template or dismiss it. When every task is done or dismissed, the card returns to your day.

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Your first week

  1. Set up your business: name, address, hours, and your service menu.
  2. Bring your client list with you so nobody gets left behind in your old system.
  3. Connect payments so you can take cards and get paid out.
  4. Publish your booking page and put the link in your Instagram bio.
Still stuck? Visit the Help Center to submit a support ticket.