“We moved off Excel + WhatsApp in a weekend. The Telegram reminder cut no-shows almost in half — my barbers actually noticed before I told them.”
Free to start·Trial on any plan
Bookings without the busywork.
Built for —
Stop juggling paper notebooks, group chats, and missed calls. Your clients book in seconds, your barbers get a clean daybook.
- No card to start
- 15-minute setup
- Cancel any time
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● Open today
Book at your shop.
Mon–Sat · 09–19 · Two specialists
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Made for any service business that runs on appointments
- Barbershop
- Hair salon
- Nails
- Lashes & brows
- Dental clinic
- Massage & spa
- Personal trainer
- Yoga studio
- Tutor
- Tattoo studio
- Photo studio
- Music school
Features
The whole stack a service business actually needs.
Not a generic Calendly clone. Designed for shops with multiple staff, real working hours, and clients who message before they tap.
Calendar that respects reality
Working hours, lunch breaks, time-off, and holidays — the slot engine honours every rule so no client ever sees a slot you can't actually serve.
Telegram-native
Owners get pings + a daily summary. Clients get reminders they can reply to. No app to install, with SMS as the automatic fallback.
No-overlap, ever
Two clients can never grab the same slot — enforced at the database engine level with a purpose-built no-overlap rule, not flimsy application checks that race under load.
Pending approval flow
New clients without a Telegram link land as PENDING. Approve or decline in one tap from the calendar; the client gets the answer immediately.
Multilingual out of the box
Pick your default language and the reminder copy, dates, and number formats follow. New locales drop in as you expand to new markets.
Owner analytics
Total bookings, no-show rate, top services, top performers, revenue. Honest numbers, no vanity dashboards.
See it in action
Take the 60-second tour — no signup required.
Four annotated screens walk you through the full loop: customer books, you see it, both sides get reminded. The same flow your clients will use — without creating real bookings in a live system.
- Step through screens
- No data created
- 60 seconds
bookings/your-shop
● Open today
Book at your shop.
Mon–Sat · 09–19
09:45
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14:00
17:00
How it works
From zero to first booking in under 15 minutes.
- Step 01
Sign up + add your shop
Phone OTP or Telegram to log in. Set your name, address, and which languages you speak. 60 seconds.
- Step 02
Add services, staff, and hours
Tell Zela what you do, who does it, and when. The slot engine takes care of buffers, overlaps, and time-off automatically.
- Step 03
Share your booking link
Drop your booking URL in your Instagram bio, sticker it on your shop window, paste it in a chat. New bookings land in your daybook.
What owners say
Built for the way you already run your shop.
Three owners running on Zela today. Direct quotes, light copy edits.
“Customers book in two taps from Telegram. We stopped answering "do you have a slot at 5" messages — the bot does it for us.”
“Setup was an afternoon. Adding my three barbers, their hours, and our service list — done. The free tier covered the first month, then we paid because it was already worth it.”
Quotes from real shops on the platform. Photos + a public reviews program land with the next consumer-facing pass.
Pricing
Honest pricing. Cancel any time.
No per-booking fees, no SMS surprises until you opt into the SMS plan. Pay for the size of your team, not the volume of your day.
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All plans include the public booking page, database-level no-overlap protection, and the Telegram mini-app reschedule flow.
FAQ
Questions, answered honestly.
Do my clients need a Telegram account?
No. Bookings work with a phone number alone. Telegram is a bonus: if the client has it, reminders + reschedule flows land natively. If not, SMS is the fallback.
Does this work in my country?
Yes. The UI is multilingual, timezones are first-class (pick yours in Settings → Shop), and Telegram + SMS reach clients anywhere in the world. Local-currency pricing and country-specific payment rails land with the billing-provider integration.
How do bookings get prevented from double-booking?
A no-overlap rule is enforced inside the database engine itself, so the system cannot accept two bookings that collide for the same staff member — even if they arrive at exactly the same millisecond. Two clients tapping the same slot at the same instant: one wins, the other gets an immediate "that just went" message.
Can I approve new clients manually?
Yes. Set "auto-confirm" off in Settings → Shop. New bookings land as Pending with a one-tap Approve/Decline on the calendar; the client is notified in real time when you act.
What if I have a lunch break or split shift?
Staff working hours support multiple ranges per day — set 09:00–13:00 and 14:00–18:00 and the slot engine respects both. Add holidays for tenant-wide closures (no slots show up anywhere in the range).
How much does the SMS fallback cost?
Free while we're in early access. SMS will become a usage-based add-on once it's generally available — you'll pay the underlying carrier cost plus a small handling fee, with no markup games.
Who built Zela?
A small team that operates a barbershop, a dental clinic, and a yoga studio between them. We're scratching our own itch — and shipping what we wish we'd had when we started.
Didn't answer your question? hello@zela.am — we read everything.
Ready when you are
Stop juggling notebooks. Start filling your calendar.
15-minute setup. Free to start. Cancel any time. Take the 60-second tour first, or talk to us about your specific shop.