Your first week with Buiiild
The recommended path, in order: contact details and hours, services, team, photos, online booking, first sale, first messages. A checklist, a guide for each step.
In this article
Seven steps, in the most useful order. Each one links to its guide; the Your mastery level block on the dashboard tracks your progress and leads to the same screens.
Day 1 — The salon exists
- Check your contact details: address, phone, social networks. They feed your site, the map, the directory listing and the call button. → The salon's contact details
- Set your hours and your closures: the site says "open" or "closed", the calendar and booking follow. → The salon's hours
- Go through your services: understandable names, real durations, prices, categories. → Services and prices
Day 2 — The team and the site
- Create a page for each person on the team, with their services and their schedule. → Adding a team member, The team's schedule
- Add your photos: the homepage slideshow, the gallery, the About section. → The homepage slideshow, Gallery, portfolio and before/after
Day 3 — Clients start arriving
The rest of the week
- Make a first sale at the till, and close the day. → Taking a sale
- Check your automatic SMS and emails: they're already going out, with your salon's name. → Automatic SMS
- Turn on review collection after every visit. → Client reviews
- When everything's ready, clear the demonstration data from the dashboard.
Frequently asked questions
Where do I start if I'm just beginning?
With day 1: contact details, hours, then services. They're what feed the site, the map and the calendar as soon as your first clients arrive.
Do I need to set everything up before turning on online booking?
At the very least the contact details, the hours and the services: they're what a client booking online will see from day 3 onward.
When should I clear the demonstration data?
Once everything's ready, from the Clear the demonstration data button at the top of the dashboard.
When should I get to the shop, stock or loyalty?
Leave these advanced modules for the second week, once the first seven steps are in place.
Go further
The dashboard, the menu, the bell, the "View my site" button: five minutes to find your way around your salon's software.
Salon settingsThe salon's contact detailsAddress, phone, email, social networks: everything that lets a client find and reach you. Used on the contact page, the footer, the map and the directory listing.
Online bookingTurning on online bookingWhat happens when a client taps "Book an appointment" on your site: your calendar, your phone, another service, or nothing. You can change it whenever you like.
Need a hand?
Write to us from your studio, under “Help & support”: we answer quickly, with real people.