In Amman a salon renews its vocational licence every January or February, Friday is the legal weekly day off unless the work requires otherwise, and clients increasingly pay by CliQ transfer or contactless card. Salongram, a free Android app in Arabic or English, keeps the diary, staff rota and payment records, but it takes no payments itself.
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A working copy of the app's screens with a sample salon in عمّان: local staff, services and prices in JOD, in Arabic (right to left).
Salongram is a free salon booking app for Jordanian salons and barbershops: appointments, clients, staff hours and WhatsApp reminders in one Android app.
An annual licence deadline, a Friday rest day written into the law, overtime premiums for working it, and a payment system that has moved fast towards instant transfers and contactless cards. Add a large pool of qualified women looking for work, and the owner's planning is as much about the rota as about the diary.
The Greater Amman Municipality renews about 95,000 vocational licences a year and sends reminders during the renewal period, January and February, so owners avoid warning notices and penalty fees. Owners can check whether their licence is valid by calling 06 5008083 or texting 94444.
Article 60 of the Labour Law makes Friday the weekly holiday unless the nature of the work requires otherwise. With the employer's approval, an employee can accumulate weekly days off and take them within a month. A salon open on Friday afternoons needs a rota that still gives everyone their day.
Working hours may not exceed eight a day or 48 a week, not counting meals and rest, and with rest the working day may stretch to eleven hours. Agreed overtime is paid at no less than 125% of the normal wage, and work on the weekly holiday, religious feasts or public holidays at no less than 150%.
Employees are entitled to 14 days of paid annual leave a year, rising to 21 days after five years with the same employer. Public holidays, religious feasts and weekly holidays do not count against annual leave unless they fall inside it, so Eid closures and staff leave need planning together.
The Central Bank of Jordan reports that CliQ, the instant payment system JoPACC launched in June 2020, handled 56.7 million payment orders worth JD 8.2 billion in 2023, with 2.17 million e-wallet users and 1.2 million linked bank accounts. Merchants can be paid instantly by QR code through CliQ.
Jordan had 89,736 point-of-sale terminals at the end of 2023, 30% more than in 2022. Of these, 99.7% accepted contactless cards and 39% could take QR-code payments, so a tap or a scan is now normal at the till of a salon that has a terminal.
The Department of Statistics put the unemployment rate of Jordanian women at 33.9% in the third quarter of 2025, with a revised economic participation rate of 14.4%. Among Jordanian women in the labour force, 74.3% hold a bachelor's degree or higher, which is the market a salon recruits from.
Friday is the legal weekly holiday unless the work needs otherwise. Give each stylist a different day off in their working hours, and a salon that opens on Friday still has someone at every chair.
Working hours stop at eight a day and 48 a week, and overtime costs at least 125%. Each person's hours and breaks sit in the app, and the diary warns before you book past them.
Employees get 14 days of paid leave, rising to 21 after five years. Entered as time off, leave shows on the schedule, and feast days are added the same way.
With unemployment among Jordanian women at 33.9%, salons can hire, and new starters need a diary they pick up fast. Salongram runs in Arabic and a booking takes two steps.
Almost every terminal in Jordan takes contactless, and about four in ten take QR payments. Those payments and CliQ transfers go through your bank; in the app you mark the visit as paid, so balances and the takings for the day stay right.
We found no official survey of how clients in Jordan book salon visits, so we will not quote one. Salongram works with whatever reaches the salon: one diary in Arabic or English, client history and notes, messages prepared for your own WhatsApp, and a booking link for requests outside opening hours.
Each staff member has her own working days, hours and breaks, so a Friday-afternoon opening can run with a different team. A booking with someone on her day off shows a warning before you confirm it.
Staff hours and time offThe app runs in Arabic with screens that read right to left and prices in Jordanian dinars, or in English for staff who prefer it.
Languages and currenciesConfirmations and reminders are prepared with the client's name, service and time, and opened in WhatsApp for you to send. The templates are in English today and can be edited first.
WhatsApp messagesWhen the diary is full, clients go on the waiting list with the times they can come, and the app shows who fits when a slot frees up.
The waiting listAn illustrative day, not research: a women's salon in Abdoun with four staff, open Saturday to Thursday, on the Thursday before a wedding weekend. The demo on this page uses a similar salon, in Arabic.
The owner opens the staff columns: the make-up artist is fully booked from four, so new make-up requests go on the waiting list.
A bride's sister books a blow-dry and manicure together; the booking finds a time when both staff are free.
A client pays by CliQ; the owner checks the transfer in her banking app and marks the booking paid.
Tomorrow's reminders are opened in WhatsApp one by one and sent from the salon's own number.
The sales report splits card and cash for the day, ready to check against the terminal before closing.
Clients pay by contactless card at a terminal, by CliQ transfer or QR, or in cash. Salongram records each payment as card or cash, plus advances and refunds, so the day's totals can be checked against the terminal and the bank. It never takes or holds the money.
99.7% of terminals accepted contactless at the end of 2023. Mark the booking as paid by card after the terminal approves it.
CliQ moves money instantly between bank accounts and e-wallets. Salongram has no transfer type, so record it as card or note it on the booking.
A cash payment from a walk-in can be saved in seconds on the Quick Payment screen.
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.
Download Salongram free from Google Play, choose Arabic and Jordanian dinars, and add your services and prices, from blow-dry and colour to make-up and nails.
Add each staff member with her working days, hours and breaks, mark Fridays and the feasts you close on, and record annual leave as time off.
Create the optional account to back up the diary and get your booking link and QR code for your Instagram profile or the salon window.
Yes. Salongram is available in Arabic with right-to-left screens, as well as English and Spanish, and shows prices in Jordanian dinars. The prepared WhatsApp message templates are in English for now and can be edited before you send them.
No. Clients send CliQ transfers or pay by card to your own accounts and terminal, and you mark the booking as paid. Salongram never handles money; it records card and cash so the day's totals can be checked against the terminal and the bank.
Yes. Working days belong to each staff member, so one team can work Friday afternoons while others take that day. The Labour Law makes Friday the weekly holiday unless the work requires otherwise, so agree the day off with each employee.
No. Licence renewal is handled by the municipality, which in Amman sends its own reminders in January and February. Salongram keeps the diary, clients, staff hours and payment records only.
Yes. It works the same for barbershops, ladies' salons and beauty centres. You add your own services, prices and staff, and the diary, client history, waiting list and reports work for any appointment-based salon.
Yes. Salongram is free on Android and runs fully in Arabic, right to left, with prices in Jordanian dinars. It keeps the diary, clients, staff hours and payment records. It does not take CliQ or card payments, and its prepared WhatsApp messages are still in English.
Salongram is one option: it is free, works offline and suits barbershops as well as ladies' salons. Add your barbers, their days off and your services, then share a booking link. It does not renew vocational licences or calculate overtime.
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