How salon businesses use cthe.link
A salon lives on Instagram: the reels bring people in, and then every booking turns into a DM conversation — what services, what price, which day, which stylist. The busier the salon, the more of the day goes into answering the same questions.
cthe.link puts the answers on one page linked from your bio: your services with prices, your work, your location and hours, and a way to book. A customer who has already decided books without a conversation; one who has a question taps WhatsApp and starts the chat with the service already named.
Booking a real time, not a "can you do Saturday?" thread
An appointment type is a service with a length and a fee. Once you set weekly hours for it, its booking link shows only the times that are genuinely open — times already booked, and times inside the notice period you choose, are simply not offered.
Set each service up with its own length — a haircut, a colour, a bridal trial — so a long service blocks out enough of the day. Customers can move or cancel their own booking from the confirmation page, and get an email reminder the day before.
For services you would rather confirm by hand, a simpler booking button asks for a date and a morning, afternoon or evening preference, then opens WhatsApp with the request written out for you to confirm.
Show prices and packages up front
List services and packages — bridal, party, groom — with their prices. A customer who sees the price before messaging is a customer who is ready to book, and you stop spending time on enquiries that were never going to convert.
Sell a package as a product and it can be paid in full on the page by UPI or through your own Razorpay account. Money goes straight to your account; cthe.link takes no cut.
Your work, where people decide
Add a photo gallery of your work and a button to your Instagram profile. On cthe.link Max, the reel storefront turns your best work into a swipeable full-screen feed on your own page, and you can see which links people actually tap and where they came from.
Paste your booking link into your Google Business Profile so the Book button on Google Maps opens your calendar too — many salon customers search "salon near me" before they ever see your Instagram.
Set it up in 5 steps
- Create your free page. Sign up and pick your type of business.
- Add your services and prices. Add each service or package with its price, and a length for the ones customers can book online.
- Set your booking hours. Enter the days and times bookable services are available, and the notice you need before a booking.
- Add your work. Upload photos to the gallery and add a button to your Instagram profile.
- Share the link. Put it in your Instagram bio and your Google Business Profile Bookings field, and pin it in WhatsApp.