Mexico City's own mercantile law lists beauty salons and peluquerías among low-impact businesses, which open with an Aviso filed through the city's electronic system and declared under oath, not with a permit. The 2024 economic census counted 456,102 establishments in the city. Salongram keeps a small estética's diary, staff hours and WhatsApp reminders in one free Android app.
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Salongram is a free salon booking app for Mexico City salons and barbershops: appointments, clients, staff hours and WhatsApp reminders in one Android app.
The paperwork and the scale. Mexico City has its own mercantile law, under which hair salons open with an Aviso instead of a permit, and the 2024 economic census shows how many businesses share the city. The sources below do not break out beauty salons for the city, so this guide does not guess how many there are.
Article 35, fraction XIV of the Ley de Establecimientos Mercantiles de la Ciudad de México lists los salones de belleza y peluquerías among the low-impact businesses. The text consulted shows a last reform of 23 July 2026, so an owner should check the current wording before relying on it.
Article 2 defines an Aviso as a procedure in which the owner or legal representative declares through the electronic system, under oath, that the legal requirements are met. Opening a low-impact business is the first Aviso on the law's list. The system is the Sistema Electrónico de Avisos y Permisos de Establecimientos Mercantiles.
The same article lists further Avisos for a change of business type, closing the business, transferring it to a new owner and other modifications to the establishment. Article 10 adds that the Aviso generated by the system must be kept at the premises, printed and signed on its last page by the owner.
INEGI's definitive 2024 economic census results count 456,102 establishments in Mexico City, 11,698 of which began operating in 2024, and 4,043,213 people working in them. The bulletin does not isolate beauty salons, so the number of salons in the city is not known from this source.
Each reason starts from the Aviso rules or the size of the city, and says plainly what the app does not do. Salongram is free, works offline on an Android phone and does not file or track any Aviso for you.
An Aviso is filed for a line of business, not a price list. List the services you really sell, with prices and durations, so the diary shows what the shop offers. If the offer changes, edit the list the same day; Salongram files nothing.
Article 10 asks for the printed, signed Aviso at the premises. The phone holds everything else: the day's schedule, clients and payments are stored on the device first and keep working without internet.
When an owner files an Aviso to modify the establishment or close it, the diary has to match. Enter the dates as time off for each team member and move waiting clients to other days. The app does not track the Aviso itself.
INEGI counts 11,698 establishments that began operating in Mexico City in 2024 alone, across all sectors. A QR code on the shop window lets a passer-by ask for a real free slot, and you decide when to accept it.
If the offer changes, check with the city whether it needs a further Aviso; the law lists changes of business type and other modifications. In the app you add the new services and a new person's hours in minutes, and existing bookings stay where they are.
We found no official source on how Mexico City clients book hair and beauty appointments, so this guide does not guess. Salongram keeps every request, from a call, a WhatsApp message, a walk-in or the booking link, in one diary per stylist, and warns when a booking overlaps another.
A walk-in is booked in two steps. The app warns about an overlap or a stylist who is not trained for the service, but it never blocks the booking, so the owner makes the final call.
The schedulePrint the QR code for the shop window or put the link in your Instagram profile. Clients pick a real free slot, and the request waits in the app until you accept, change or decline it.
The QR codeThe app prepares confirmation and reminder texts and opens them in WhatsApp, where you send them yourself. The texts are in English today, so edit them into Spanish first.
WhatsApp remindersAn illustrative day, not research: a small shop in Coyoacán with two barbers, a stylist and a nail technician, open Monday to Saturday, on an ordinary Tuesday when the internet at the shop goes down for the morning.
The owner opens the diary on her phone. The shop's internet is down, but the app works offline and shows the day's seven bookings in the staff columns.
A client who scanned the QR code on the window asks for a haircut on Thursday. The request waits in the app until the owner accepts it.
A walk-in asks for a beard trim. One barber is free, so the booking takes two steps and the cash payment is recorded straight away.
A cancellation frees an hour. The waiting list shows a client who wanted Tuesday after four, and the owner opens a prepared WhatsApp message to confirm it.
At closing the owner reads the day's report of cash and card payments and the rebooking reminders for the clients who are due back.
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.
Install the app from Google Play and pick Spanish on each phone. The setup wizard asks for the business name, currency, hours, team and services, and every step except the name can be skipped.
Add each service with its price and duration, in the categories you use, and link it to the stylists who do it, so the diary only offers the right person.
Create the free optional account to get your booking link and QR code, then put them on the shop window, Instagram or your Google listing.
Salongram stores everything on the phone first, so the diary, clients and payments keep working offline. With an optional free account the data is also backed up and synced across the salon's devices. It is free on Android and iPhone.
The city's mercantile law lists beauty salons and peluquerías among low-impact businesses, which open by filing an Aviso. Whether and when to file is for the owner and the city to settle. Salongram does not file, check or remind you about it; it only runs the diary.
It helps with the diary side only. The law lists a change of business type and other modifications as Avisos, and whether your change needs one is a question for the city. In the app you add or remove services, prices and staff hours the same day, and existing bookings stay in place.
INEGI's definitive 2024 economic census results count 456,102 establishments in Mexico City and 4,043,213 people working in them. The bulletin does not break out beauty salons, so the number of salons in the city is not known from it.
Yes. Add manicure and gel services with their durations, link them to the nail technicians, and the diary books them next to hair and barbering. Whether a nail studio needs a different Aviso is a question for the city, and the app does not decide it.
Yes. Salongram is free on Google Play, with no fee per chair or stylist, and it keeps the diary, clients, staff hours and payment records. It does not take card payments, issue CFDI invoices or send WhatsApp messages by itself.
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