Spanish salons work under a national collective agreement: 1,750 hours a year, at most nine ordinary hours a day, Sunday plus half a day off each week and 30 days of holiday. Hairdressing carries 21% IVA, and cash is still the main way most people pay in shops. 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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Salongram is a free salon booking app for Spanish salons and barbershops: appointments, clients, staff hours and WhatsApp reminders in one Android app.
A national collective agreement covers hairdressers and beauty salons and sets the working year in detail: annual hours, daily limits, the weekly rest, the summer holiday and personal days. On top of that, hairdressing pays the full 21% IVA, and more people still name cash than card as their main way to pay in shops, while Bizum grows between individuals.
The Convenio colectivo de peluquerías, institutos de belleza y gimnasios was published in the BOE on 22 October 2024. It applies from 1 January 2024 to 31 December 2026 and can be extended. Regional and lower-level agreements may set a different distribution of the working year or a different timetable for their own area.
The working year is 1,750 effective hours, not counting personal days, and up to 28% of it can be distributed irregularly through the year. Ordinary hours may not exceed nine a day outside that irregular distribution, with at least twelve hours of rest between the end of one working day and the start of the next.
As a general rule, weekly rest is a day and a half in a row: the whole of Sunday plus Saturday afternoon or Monday morning. Anyone who works on a Sunday rests on the next working day. With a split timetable, the lunch break is at most an hour and a half, between 13:00 and 16:00.
Staff stay to finish clients who came in before their leaving time, for up to thirty minutes. That extra time is given back as shorter days later or a day off the next month, or paid at the agreed wage, and the salon keeps a monthly record of it. A late booking has a cost the rota should see.
Paid holiday is 30 calendar days a year. Without an agreement, at least 15 of those days fall between 15 June and 15 September. The salon draws up the holiday calendar and posts it, and each employee is entitled to know their dates two months in advance.
Each employee has four personal days a year, with 24 hours' notice and no reason needed. They cannot be taken in a row, on a Friday, next to a local, regional or national holiday, at the start or end of the holidays, in December, or on the same day as a colleague's day off.
The Agencia Tributaria's 2026 table of IVA rates lists servicios de peluquería at the general 21% rate, even though they appear in the article of the law that lists reduced-rate items. Price lists and receipts need to reflect that rate.
The Banco de España's 2025 study found cash is the main way to pay in physical shops for 57% of people, down from 59%, with card at 27% and mobile at 15%. Card is accepted in 94% and mobile in 88% of small shops and hospitality businesses, and Bizum is the usual way to pay between individuals for 37%.
The national convenio sets 1,750 effective hours a year and no more than nine a day. Enter each stylist's daily hours and breaks, and the diary only offers times they are working. It does not total the annual hours.
Weekly rest is Sunday plus Saturday afternoon or Monday morning. Put each person's half day in their hours, and Saturday afternoon bookings go only to whoever is in.
Staff finish clients who arrived before leaving time, for up to thirty minutes. Realistic service durations keep the last booking inside the day, and the timeline shows who will run over.
Holidays are 30 calendar days, at least 15 between mid June and mid September unless agreed otherwise. Add each person's dates as time off, and the waiting list fills the gaps they leave.
Hairdressing pays the general 21% IVA. Enter prices as clients see them, with IVA included; Salongram records them as entered and does not add or file tax.
For 57% of people cash is still the main way to pay in shops. The Quick Payment keypad records a cash walk-in in seconds, and the report splits cash from card.
We found no official survey of how clients in Spain book salon visits, so we will not quote one. Salongram keeps the agenda in Spanish, each staff member'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 euros and a 24-hour clock. Staff who prefer English can switch on their own phone.
Languages and currenciesGive each person their own working days, hours and breaks, including the Monday morning or Saturday afternoon off. 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 messagesWhen the agenda fills up, add clients to 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 four-chair salon in Valencia, open Tuesday to Saturday, with two stylists, a colourist and a barber, on a Saturday in June. The demo on this page uses a similar salon, in Spanish.
The owner opens the staff columns: the colourist starts her summer holiday on Monday, so her bookings for next week go to the waiting list.
A regular calls for mechas; typing 16 shows every time from four o'clock with her usual colourist's free slots.
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 till and the terminal.
Many clients still pay cash at the counter, others by card or phone at the terminal, and some send a Bizum. Salongram records each payment as card or cash, plus advances and refunds, so the day's totals match the till and the terminal. It does not take the payment or add IVA.
The main way to pay in shops for 57% of people in 2025. A cash payment from a walk-in can be saved in seconds on the Quick Payment screen.
Card is the main method for 27% and mobile for 15%. Mark the booking as paid by card after the terminal approves it.
Salongram has no separate transfer type, so record a Bizum as card or note it on the booking.
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, euros and the 24-hour clock, and add your services with their prices, from corte y peinado to mechas and manicura.
Add each person with their working days, hours and breaks, then add summer holidays and personal days as time off, so a booking on those days shows a warning first.
Create the optional account to back up the agenda, get your booking link and QR code, and add the link to your Instagram profile or website.
The app screens are in Spanish, with prices in euros and a 24-hour clock, and staff can switch to English or Arabic on their own phone. The prepared WhatsApp messages are still written in English, so edit them into Spanish before you send them.
No. Salongram records the prices you set and the payments you take, but it does not calculate IVA or issue tax invoices. Hairdressing is taxed at 21%, so set your prices with that in mind and keep invoicing in your accounting software.
No. It keeps each person's working days, hours, breaks and time off so the agenda only offers real availability, but it does not count annual hours, holiday entitlement or personal days. Keep those in your payroll or HR records.
No. Clients send a Bizum, 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.
Yes. You add your own services, prices and staff, so barberías, peluquerías, nail bars and beauty centres all use the same agenda, client history, waiting list and reports.
Yes. Salongram is free on Android and runs fully in Spanish, with prices in euros. It keeps the diary, staff hours, clients and payment records. Its prepared WhatsApp messages are still in English, it does not take Bizum or cards, and receipts are images, not tax invoices.
Salongram is one free option for barberías as well as peluquerías. Add your barbers, their convenio hours and your services, then share a booking link or QR code. It does not track annual hours or personal days.
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