Calso for hair salons
Answers the phone while your hands are in someone's hair.
Calso is an AI phone answerer for Australian hair salons. When nobody can get to the phone, the call goes to Calso instead of voicemail. It answers questions about your services, prices and hours from your own website and Google listing, takes the appointment request, and texts it to you straight away. You keep your own number.
From $99 a month · 30-day money back from your first payment · You keep your number
The calls hair salons miss
- The phone rings mid-cut, mid-colour or mid-blow-dry, and nobody at the basin can grab it.
- Clients ring after close to sort out their week, and most people won't leave a voicemail.
- Half the calls are the same three questions: how much, how long, and can you fit me in.
- A new client who can't get through can book the salon down the road in two taps.
A missed call to your salon
Calso answeredThe text you get
Appointment request: Jess, 0491 570 156. Balayage, Thursday after 3pm, with Mia if she's available.
Written example of a typical call, not a recording
What Calso does on those calls
- Answers questions about your services, prices and hours from your website, Google listing and setup interview.
- Takes appointment requests: name, number, the service, the day and time they'd like, and the stylist if they have one.
- Takes cancellations and change requests as a message, so you can move them in your own book.
- Texts you each request straight away, so you can confirm it between clients.
- Says it's an AI assistant if anyone asks. It never pretends to be a person.
What it won't do
- It doesn't book into Fresha, Timely, Kitomba or any other appointment system. It takes the request and texts you, and you put it in the book.
- It can't see your appointment book, so a request stays a request until you confirm it.
- It only quotes prices you've published or given it. A colour correction that needs a consult becomes a message.
- It doesn't record calls, and it never guesses: what it doesn't know becomes a message for you.
How your salon gets set up
- 01
Calso reads what you've published
Sign up with your business name. Calso reads your website and Google listing for your hours, services, prices and policies.
- 02
A short setup interview
Typed, or by voice if you'd rather. It covers what your website doesn't say, and how you want messages and requests taken.
- 03
Forward the calls you miss
You get your Calso number and choose a plan. Then set your phone to forward the calls you don't answer. Customers keep ringing your usual number.
Setup usually takes under 15 minutes, because Calso reads your website and Google listing first. Nothing is charged until you choose a plan. To undo it, turn call forwarding off.
From the Calso Directory
Hair salons in the Calso Directory
13,718
hair salons listed, in 126 cities and towns
125 hrs
a week the typical one is closed, against about 44 open (92% list their hours)
64%
of 310 Google visits to hair salons' pages came while the business was closed
Most hair salons in the directory are closed on Sundays, and that is exactly when plenty of people sit down to book their week.
The visit figure counts Google visits to business pages in the Calso Directory from Saturday 24 to Monday 26 October 2026, set against each business's listed hours in its own state's time. It was a weekend-heavy sample, so read it as a sign of when people look businesses up, not a rule for every week. Each of those visits was someone who might have called.
Where they're listed most: Melbourne (2,961), Sydney (2,915), Brisbane (1,305), Perth (1,065), Adelaide (854), Gold Coast (526). Listings and hours as published in the directory, October 2026.
Your directory listing needs no account. Calso, the phone answerer, is a separate paid service.
Which plan suits your salon
Starter is sized for about 100 answered calls a month, roughly three a day. Start there if the phone only rings out when everyone is busy with a client. Go over and calls are still answered, with nothing cut off or charged extra, and you can move to Pro, sized for about 500, any time.
Starter
Suggested for hair salons$99 a month
Sized for about 100 answered calls a month.
Pro
$199 a month
or $1,980 a year ($165 a month)
Sized for about 500 answered calls a month.
Both plans are the same Calso. Go over and calls are still answered, with nothing cut off and nothing charged extra, and you can move to Pro any time. 30-day money back from your first payment. No lock-in, cancel any time.
Questions hair salons ask
No. Calso doesn't connect to any salon booking system. It takes the request (name, number, service and preferred time) and texts it to you, and you book it in yourself. That way nothing lands in your book that you haven't checked.
Yes, if they're on your website, your Google listing or you give them to Calso in the setup interview. For anything that depends on a consult, like a colour correction, it takes the details so you can call back.
Calso takes the message (who it is, which appointment, and whether they want to rebook) and texts it to you straight away, so you can fill the chair.
If anyone asks, Calso says it's an AI assistant. It never pretends to be you or one of your stylists. It only picks up the calls you would have missed anyway, so your regulars still get you whenever you can answer.
More answers on the FAQ page.
Calso for other businesses
Stop sending your salon's callers to voicemail.
Set it up on your own number, usually in under 15 minutes. Start with only the calls you already miss.
From $99 a month · 30-day money back from your first payment · Cancel any time