A Thai salon that opens seven days a week still owes every employee a weekly rest day, at least 13 traditional holidays and overtime at one and a half times pay. Clients increasingly pay by PromptPay QR. Salongram, a free Android app in English, keeps the diary, staff rota and payment records in baht, but it takes no payments itself.
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Salongram is a free salon booking app for Thai salons and barbershops: appointments, clients, staff hours and WhatsApp reminders in one Android app.
Many Thai salons open every day, while the Labour Protection rules give each employee a weekly holiday, traditional holidays and overtime premiums. That makes the staff rota the hard part of the week. Add the Songkran break in April and clients who pay by scanning a QR code, and the front desk has its own Thai rhythm.
Under the Ministry of Labour's labour protection rules, general work may not exceed 8 hours a day, or as agreed, and 48 hours a week. Employees must have a rest of at least one hour a day, taken after no more than five consecutive hours of work. A full day of colour appointments needs a break planned into it.
Each employee is entitled to at least one weekly holiday, with no more than six days between rest days. A salon that opens seven days a week therefore runs on a rota, with each stylist taking a different day off.
Employees are entitled to at least 13 traditional holidays a year, including National Labour Day. After a full year of continuous work they also get at least six working days of annual leave, so the salon calendar has to cover both.
Overtime on a working day is paid at no less than one and a half times the hourly wage, and overtime on a holiday at three times. Overtime, holiday work and holiday overtime together may not exceed 36 hours a week. Late appointments during busy weeks have a real cost.
The Governor of the Bank of Thailand said in September 2026 that PromptPay, the instant transfer system, serves over 83 million registered accounts and handled 2.51 billion transactions in July 2026 alone, free of charge to customers. A QR code at the till is a normal way for a client to pay.
The Tourism Authority of Thailand set the Songkran 2026 festival period at 11 to 15 April, and expected about 5.96 million domestic trips and around 500,000 international visitors. For a salon, that is a week to plan both staff leave and the days before it.
Every employee is entitled to a weekly holiday, with no more than six days between rest days. Give each stylist a different day off and a salon open seven days a week stays covered.
Thai labour rules ask for at least an hour of rest after no more than five hours of work. Set it as a daily break in each stylist's hours, and the diary keeps that hour free of bookings.
Staff get at least 13 traditional holidays and, after a year, six days of annual leave. Add them as time off so clients are booked only with the people who are in.
Songkran ran from 11 to 15 April 2026, with about 5.96 million domestic trips expected. Plan who is away that week and use the waiting list when a client cancels before the holiday.
Overtime costs at least one and a half times the hourly wage, and three times on a holiday. The timeline shows who is booked after their hours before you agree to a late appointment.
With more than 83 million PromptPay accounts, many clients pay by transfer. Salongram does not take PromptPay; record the payment against the visit and the money arrives in your own account.
We found no official survey of how clients in Thailand book salon visits, so we will not quote shares for phone, walk-in or chat apps. Salongram keeps whatever reaches the salon in one diary, prepares messages you send yourself, and takes after-hours requests through a booking link.
Each stylist has her own working days, hours and breaks, so a salon open every day can give everyone a different day off. A booking with someone on her day off shows a warning before you confirm it.
Staff hours and time offSet Thai baht as the currency and switch the clock to 24 hours if your team prefers it. The app itself is in English, Arabic or Spanish; it has no Thai interface yet.
Languages and currenciesConfirmations and reminders are prepared with the client's name, service and time. Salongram opens them in WhatsApp; for clients who use another chat app, copy the text and paste it there.
Prepared messagesWhen the days before a holiday fill 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 hair and nail salon in Chiang Mai open every day, with five staff on a rotating day off, on a Saturday a week before Songkran. The demo on this page uses a similar salon, with prices in baht.
The owner opens the staff columns: the colourist is on her weekly day off, so colour requests go to the waiting list for Monday.
A walk-in wants a men's cut; the barber is free, and the booking takes ten seconds.
A client pays by PromptPay QR; the stylist checks the bank notification and marks the booking paid.
Two clients ask for the day before Songkran; one fits, the other goes on the waiting list.
The sales report splits card and cash for the day, ready to check against the bank app and the till.
Clients pay by PromptPay QR, by card where the salon has a terminal, 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 bank app and the till. It never takes or holds the money.
PromptPay serves over 83 million registered accounts. Salongram has no separate transfer type, so record a QR payment 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.
Mark the booking as paid by card after your terminal approves 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.
Download Salongram free from Google Play, choose Thai baht and the 24-hour clock if you prefer it, and add your services, from cut and blow-dry to gel nails.
Add each staff member with her working days, hours, breaks and weekly day off, then mark the traditional holidays and Songkran days you close.
Create the optional account to back up the diary and get your booking link and QR code for your social media profile or the salon window.
Not yet. Salongram runs in English, Arabic and Spanish, and it shows prices in Thai baht with a 12 or 24-hour clock. The prepared confirmation and reminder messages are in English, so edit them before sending if your clients prefer Thai.
No. Clients scan your own PromptPay QR or pay by card or 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 against your bank app and till.
Yes. Working days belong to each staff member, so every stylist can have a different day off while the salon stays open. The labour protection rules require a weekly holiday with no more than six days between them.
Not directly. Salongram prepares the reminder text and opens it in WhatsApp; for clients on another chat app you can copy the message and paste it there. The app never sends messages on its own.
Mark the days you close as closed days or staff time off, and use the waiting list for the busy days before the holiday. In 2026 the Songkran festival period ran from 11 to 15 April.
Yes. Salongram is free on Android for barbers and salons, with prices in baht. It keeps the diary, staff rota, clients and payment records. It has no Thai interface yet, it does not take PromptPay, and it sends reminders through WhatsApp rather than LINE.
Salongram prepares confirmations and reminders and opens them in WhatsApp for you to send. It does not send through LINE or SMS. If most of your Thai clients use LINE, copy the prepared text from the app and paste it into a LINE chat.
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