Mexico added almost 72,000 beauty salons and hairdressers between 2018 and 2023. A constitutional reform published in March 2026 cuts the 48-hour week by two hours a year from 2027 to 40 in 2030, and working a legal rest day pays triple. Salongram, a free Android app that runs in Spanish, keeps the agenda, staff hours and payment records, but it takes no payments.
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A working copy of the app's screens with a sample salon in Ciudad de México: local staff, services and prices in MXN, in Spanish.
Salongram is a free salon booking app for Mexican salons and barbershops: appointments, clients, staff hours and WhatsApp reminders in one Android app.
The trade is growing fast: the latest economic census counts tens of thousands of new beauty salons and hairdressers in five years. The working week shrinks every year from 2027, legal rest days are expensive to work, and clients pay more and more by card and bank transfer. A salon that plans staff hours carefully keeps its costs and its clients under control.
INEGI's 2024 economic census found that salones y clínicas de belleza y peluquerías added 71,883 businesses between 2018 and 2023, an average growth of 6.2% a year. Only small grocery shops added more. Over the same period the trade added 104,780 workers, growing 6.0% a year.
The same census report lists beauty salons among the eight activities that together employ more than 15% of the people counted, with about 416,000 people working in them in 2023, around 1.5% of the total.
A decree published in the Diario Oficial on 3 March 2026 rewrites Article 123 of the Constitution: the working week will be 40 hours, reached from 1 January of each year as 48 hours in 2026, 46 in 2027, 44 in 2028, 42 in 2029 and 40 in 2030. Every six days of work still earn at least one paid rest day, and the cut may not reduce wages or benefits.
The same decree pays overtime at 100% more than ordinary hours and caps it at twelve hours a week, spread over at most four days of up to four hours. Overtime beyond that costs 200% more, and people under 18 may not work overtime. Congress had 90 days to amend the Ley Federal del Trabajo, so check its current text for the details.
PROFEDET lists the días de descanso obligatorio: 1 January, the first Monday of February, the third Monday of March, 1 May, 16 September, the third Monday of November and 25 December, plus the presidential handover year and election days. Working one by prior agreement is paid at triple the daily wage, and workers have a year to claim it.
The Banco de México reports that debit and credit card payments reached 12,118.9 million operations worth 6.9 trillion pesos in 2025, up 22.6% in volume and 14.6% in value in real terms, with credit cards growing fastest at 27.4% in volume.
The same report counts 7,302.4 million SPEI transfers made by end users in 2025, worth 232 trillion pesos, helped by more non-bank financial institutions joining the system. For a salon, that means some payments arrive in the bank account rather than the till.
The legal week falls by two hours each January, from 48 in 2026 to 40 in 2030. Update each stylist's weekly hours every January, and the diary offers only the times they still work.
Overtime is capped at twelve hours a week, over at most four days. The timeline shows who is booked past their hours; Salongram does not calculate overtime pay.
Days such as 16 September and 25 December are legal rest days. Add time off for staff who are not working them, so clients are offered only those who are in.
Mexico gained 71,883 beauty salons and hairdressers between 2018 and 2023. A booking link and QR code let clients request a free time at any hour, without calling.
Card payments grew 22.6% in 2025 and SPEI transfers are everyday. A transfer lands in your bank account, not in the app, so mark the amount as paid on the appointment and the outstanding balance clears.
We found no official survey of how clients in Mexico book salon visits, so we will not quote one. Salongram keeps the agenda in Spanish, each stylist's working days and hours, and every client's history in one place, prepares messages you send from your own WhatsApp, and takes requests outside opening hours through a booking link.
Salongram runs in Spanish, with prices in pesos and the 12 or 24-hour clock you prefer. Staff who prefer English can switch on their own phone.
Languages and currenciesEach stylist has her own working days, hours and breaks, so trimming the week later means editing hours, not rebuilding the agenda. A booking outside someone's hours shows a warning before you confirm it.
Staff hours and time offConfirmations 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, so edit them into Spanish before sending.
WhatsApp messagesMark the legal rest days you close as closed days, or give staff time off, so a booking on those days shows a warning before anyone confirms it.
The scheduleAn illustrative day, not research: an estética in Roma Norte with three stylists and a nail technician, open Monday to Saturday, on the Saturday before a long weekend. The demo on this page uses a similar salon, in Spanish.
The owner opens the staff columns: the colourist is booked solid with balayages, so colour enquiries go to the waiting list for Tuesday.
A client pays a keratina by SPEI; the owner sees the transfer in her bank app and marks the booking paid.
A walk-in wants a corte de caballero and pays cash; it goes on the Quick Payment screen without creating a client.
A cancellation frees a slot; the waiting list shows a client who asked for any Saturday afternoon, and she is booked in.
The sales report splits card and cash for the day, ready to check against the terminal and the bank.
Clients pay by card at your terminal, by SPEI transfer to your account, 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 does not take the payment itself.
Card payments grew 22.6% in volume in 2025. Mark the booking as paid by card after your terminal approves it.
Salongram has no separate transfer type, so record a transfer as card or note it on the booking once it shows in your bank app.
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 Spanish and Mexican pesos, and add your services and prices, from corte de dama to keratina and uñas.
Add each person with their working days, hours, breaks and weekly day off, and mark the legal rest days you close as closed days or time off.
Create the optional account to back up the agenda, get your booking link and QR code, and add the link to your Instagram or Facebook profile.
No. Salongram records services, prices and payments, and can share a receipt image, but it does not issue CFDI electronic invoices or connect to tax systems. Keep invoicing in your accounting or billing software.
It keeps each stylist's working days, hours and breaks, so you can shorten them each January as the limit falls and the agenda will warn about bookings outside them. It does not count weekly hours or overtime for payroll.
No. Clients send a SPEI transfer to your account, pay by card at your terminal or pay cash, and you mark the booking as paid. Salongram never handles money; it records card and cash so the day's totals can be checked.
The app screens are in Spanish, with prices in pesos, and staff can switch to English or Arabic on their own phone. The prepared WhatsApp messages are still in English, so edit them before sending.
Yes. You add your own services, prices and staff, so barberías, estéticas, nail studios and spas all use the same agenda, client history, waiting list and reports.
Yes. Salongram is free on Android and runs in Spanish, with prices in pesos. It keeps the diary, clients, staff hours and payment records. It does not issue CFDI invoices or receive SPEI transfers, and its WhatsApp messages are still in English.
Not always, but it helps when the signal drops. Salongram keeps everything on the phone first and works without internet, then syncs across the salon's phones when an optional account is created.
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