Introducing Buffer Time Between Appointments

Bucharest, 2026:

The TimeTailor team is excited to announce that our salon booking software allows beauty professionals to set buffer time between appointments!

Helping teams incorporate breathing room for cleaning, preparation, or equipment setup into the schedule, owners, managers, and beauty professionals can add customized buffer periods to any service:

“It’s not enough to just fill every appointment slot available”, said Oliver Auerbach, the CEO of TimeTailor. “There’s so much happening between clients as well: someone needs to clean the room, sanitize the equipment, prepare formulas, products, or even take a break to reset before the next client walks in.”

If workarounds such as manually blocking time off between appointments used to make calendars hard to manage, reducing visibility into what team members are actually available at certain times, with our salon scheduling software, the process becomes seamless.

Once a service is added to the service menu, the new option can be activated inside Settings:

With buffer time automation, salons, barbershops, spas, and beauty clinics can use a calendar that’s customized for their needs. Different services or team members can be assigned different buffer times, ensuring nobody’s schedule becomes overcrowded:

“For many business owners, especially those in the beauty services industry, the difference between a manageable day and a hectic one usually comes down to how the schedule is structured”, Oliver added.

With this salon management software function, you can use customized buffers to:

1. Add prep time before certain treatments

2. Provide cleaning time afterwards

3. Account for equipment setup

4. Add transition periods between different services

5. Give breaks to professionals with consecutive bookings

6. Customize scheduling rules according to the team’s working hours

Because not every appointment requires the same amount of preparation or follow-up, the option is completely customizable. A quick haircut may require little transition time, while a hair coloring session, a facial, a massage, or a complex beauty treatment needs more attention:

“We want TimeTailor to help beauty businesses around the world create schedules that reflect the particularities of everyday life”, Oliver added. “Buffer time is an important piece of the puzzle, ensuring the calendar’s even more organized, predictable, and up to date.”

Useful for employees and clients alike, the option of adding personalized appointments with buffer time keeps the schedule accurate. If appointments are too close together, the staff has less time to prepare for the next service, so customers may experience delays, disrupting the entire day.

Adding buffer time to a service inside your salon booking system makes the transition between clients more realistic, helping managers understand how much time their teams actually need at no extra cost.

No extra costs? Exactly! Our salon booking app is free for manual appointments, so specialists can manage their schedule and clients in one place. This includes unlimited staff & experts. For online bookings only, clients pay a 3.9% booking fee at checkout, keeping the platform free for beauty professionals. No risks, just results!