Sydney salons plan around NSW public holidays, including extra weekday holidays when a date falls on a weekend, and owe staff two months' long service leave after ten years. More than four in ten people in Greater Sydney use a language other than English at home, and 3.8 million international visitors came in a year. Salongram keeps the diary on one phone.
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Salongram is a free salon booking app for Sydney salons and barbershops: appointments, clients, staff hours and WhatsApp reminders in one Android app.
The NSW calendar, long-serving staff and a city of many languages and visitors. NSW sets its own public holidays and its own long service leave, more than four in ten Sydneysiders use another language at home, and the city draws millions of visitors who stay for weeks rather than days.
In the 2021 Census, 57.3% of Greater Sydney's 5,231,147 people used only English at home, so about 42.7% used another language. The most common were Mandarin at 5.0%, Arabic at 4.2%, Cantonese at 2.8% and Vietnamese at 2.2%.
The NSW Government lists additional public holidays when a date falls on a weekend. In 2027, Anzac Day on Sunday 25 April brings a holiday on Monday 26 April, and Christmas and Boxing Day add Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 December. The Bank Holiday on Monday 2 August is not a declared public holiday; only banks must close.
Service NSW says an employee who has been with the same employer for 10 years is entitled to 2 months, or 8.67 weeks, of paid long service leave at their ordinary gross weekly wage. Most full-time, part-time and casual employees in NSW qualify.
Destination NSW counted 3.8 million international visitors to Sydney in the year ended June 2026, staying 89.0 million nights and spending $13.7 billion, alongside 64.6 million domestic visitors who spent $21.4 billion in the state.
Arabic is spoken at home by 4.2% of Greater Sydney's people. Salongram runs fully in Arabic, right to left, on any phone that needs it while others keep English. There are no Mandarin, Cantonese or Vietnamese screens yet.
NSW adds a weekday holiday when a date falls on a weekend, such as Monday 26 April 2027 for Anzac Day. Add time off for staff who take those days, and clients are offered only the people working.
Two months of long service leave after ten years is a long gap in a small team. Enter it as time off once dates are agreed, and the diary stops offering that stylist for the whole period.
International visitors to Sydney stayed about 23 nights on average in the year to June 2026. A booking link sent by message lets them book a cut, and a rebooking reminder brings them back before they fly home.
The first Monday in August closes banks, not salons. Keep that Monday open as usual in Salongram; for everyone outside the banks it is an ordinary working day.
We found no official data on how Sydney clients book salon visits, so this guide does not guess. Salongram holds calls, walk-ins, messages and online requests in one diary per stylist, on the salon's phone or tablet.
Each stylist gets a column with their own hours and services, so a walk-in is booked with whoever is free and does that service.
How the schedule worksVisitors and locals can pick a real free time from your booking link or QR code, and the request waits for you to accept or change it.
The booking linkServices can suggest a rebooking time, so a regular, or a visitor staying for weeks, is reminded when they are due back.
Rebooking remindersAn illustrative Saturday, not research: a four-chair hair salon in Burwood with an owner who works in English and a colourist who prefers Arabic, open Tuesday to Sunday, with a steady flow of students and visitors.
The owner opens the Saturday diary in English, while the colourist sees the same day on her own phone in Arabic.
An exchange student staying for the semester books a cut from the link, and a six-week rebooking reminder is set.
A balayage cancels, and a waiting-list client who wanted a Saturday afternoon takes the slot.
The owner enters next April's Anzac Day Monday as time off for the two stylists who will not work it.
Type in your own numbers. A no-show is a slot nobody else could take; reminders and a waiting list are how most salons win part of it back.
An estimate from the numbers you enter (a month counted as 4.33 weeks). Nothing is sent or stored. Salongram is free to download.
Set English or Arabic on each phone in the salon, with prices in Australian dollars and the 12 or 24 hour clock you prefer.
Add each stylist's days, hours and breaks, then the NSW holidays they take and any agreed long service leave as time off.
Create the free optional account to get your link and QR code for Instagram, your Google listing or the salon window.
No. The NSW Government says the Bank Holiday, Monday 2 August in 2027, is not a declared public holiday: retail bank branches and certain financial institutions must close unless exempt. A salon can trade as normal. The standard NSW public holidays apply to all businesses.
After 10 years with the same employer, most full-time, part-time and casual employees in NSW are entitled to 2 months, or 8.67 weeks, of paid long service leave at their ordinary gross weekly wage. Salongram can hold the dates as time off but does not calculate the entitlement.
Yes. Salongram runs fully in Arabic, right to left, as well as English and Spanish, and it is free on Android. Each phone in the salon can use its own language. It has no Mandarin, Cantonese or Vietnamese screens yet, and its WhatsApp messages are in English.
Salongram is one option: share your booking link or QR code and a visitor picks a real free time on any phone, then you accept it in the app. It is free on Android, takes no deposits or card payments.
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