Premier Software

Over the last few weeks, we’ve been talking a lot about how we’re listening to our clients, and why this is important to us.  As part of this ongoing plan, we sent out a questionnaire to our clients asking what they wanted to see in the next version of Premier Spa and Premier Style.

We’re pleased to announce that Premier Spa and Premier Style 7.6 has now been released, including a new look and some new features, all of which have come from your ideas.  Take a look below at the main features, or view the PDFs below to see the new features we’ve added!

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Premier Software, leading supplier of software to the salon and spa industry, have officially launched their free, cloud-based scheduling system for salons and spa this weekend.

Salonlite has been developed with smaller businesses in mind, who might not need the full functionality of the established desktop-based products such as Premier Spa and Premier Style, and need a fast solution to help establish and grow their business.

Taking the current trend for mobile and tablet portability as it’s lead, Salonlite creates a truly revolutionary scheduling experience by allowing access almost anywhere an internet connection is available.

Our ever-popular web booking system has been receiving some very positive praise from salons and spas who are currently enjoying it’s benefits – but as always, we’re always listening to your feedback.

After getting some requests for new features, we’ve set our web team hard to work and got them to include some brilliant new features – check them out below!

Why struggle with tatty paper client cards and barely legible scrawled history notes?  Spa and Salon software is swiftly taking over as the best way of helping

While we’re obviously (and deservedly!) biased, here’s some tips on what to look for when selecting the software for your salon.

In these times of increasing competition, it’s always worth testing new and interesting ways to provide an incentive for your client to return back to your spa or salon.  If you fancy taking advantage of peoples natural tendencies to turn things into games as part of your retention strategy, then geolocation services might just be the answer.

If you’ve ever seen Facebooks ‘places’, or used the foursquare app on your phone, then you’ve probably already used geolocation.  Essentially, when your client is at your spa or salon, they can ‘check-in’ to their location, which (at least in foursquare) gives them points.

So How Can that Help Me?

With foursquare, there’s a naturally competitive element built in (sometimes called ‘gamification‘).  Each time you check in, you score points, which you can then check against your friends.

Whenever somebody checks into your spa or salon, they’ll gain points against their friends – but, more importantly, it’ll usually appear on their Facebook wall or their twitter feed.  Why is this useful? In these instances, it means that your clients friends know about your business, and it also acts as a kind of automatic recommendation: my friend is at The Beauty Spa?  Well, if they go there, it must be good!

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With foursquare, there’s a couple of other interesting elements as well.

If the client checks in a number of times, they can become the foursquare Mayor of the business.  In realistic terms, it’s just another way to keep people playing the game – you want to keep hold of your position against your friends – but if you claim your foursquare venue page, you can set up special deals to reward people who consistently return.

If you have a number of sites, you might want to go a step further and create a foursquare business page, which allows you to control a number of venues - check out Mashables guide here.

Thanks to Guy Christian for the original idea for this blog post.