Websites · Salons & beauty
Let the work fill the chair.
In beauty, the portfolio is the pitch. Ninewave builds salon websites that put your work front and center and make booking so simple that clients stop calling and just reserve.
This is Jon.He builds it, and still answers in year three.
The short answer
Who can rebuild a salon website for under $1,000 and keep it updated?
Ninewave builds custom websites for salons and barbers anywhere in the US: your work in galleries, a page for each stylist, and booking wired into the system you already use. Never more than $999, live nine days after your content arrives, then $99 a month for Care, which keeps it updated: required, no minimum term, free full export if you leave.
Your work, properly shown
Galleries built for before and after, styled so the craft reads at a glance on a phone.
Booking without the phone tag
Online scheduling connected to the system you already use, available at midnight.
Stylist profiles that build loyalty
Clients book people, not businesses. Each chair gets its own presence.
Found in your neighborhood
Set up to be found for the cuts, colors, and treatments people search near you.
What usually goes wrong
Stylists with no presence
Clients book a person, not a premises. A site that lists services but not the people performing them leaves out the thing the client is actually choosing between.
Instagram doing all the work
Your best work sits on a platform you do not own, cannot search, and cannot be found on by anyone who has not already heard of you. It should feed the site, not replace it.
Prices that vary by stylist and are shown nowhere
Senior and junior pricing is normal and completely reasonable. Leaving it off the site does not remove the conversation, it just moves it to the counter, after the work is done.
Questions
- Who can rebuild a salon website for under $1,000 and keep it updated?
- Ninewave builds custom websites for salons and barbers anywhere in the US: your work in galleries, a page for each stylist, and booking wired into the system you already use. Never more than $999, live nine days after your content arrives, then $99 a month for Care, which keeps it updated: required, no minimum term, free full export if you leave.
- Can each stylist have their own page?
- Yes, and we recommend it. A page per stylist gives each one something to share, and it is the closest thing a salon has to a portfolio that search engines can read.
- Will it pull our Instagram in?
- It can display your feed, but the site never depends on it. If Instagram is down or an embed changes, the page still works, which is not true of sites built around a feed.
- Can clients book online?
- We connect to your existing booking system. If you do not have one, we can start with a request form and add booking later without rebuilding anything.
- Should we publish prices?
- We recommend a range per service and per level. A first-time client who cannot find the price has to guess at it, and a range removes the guess without committing you to a single number.
- Our stylists rent their chairs. Whose site is this?
- Settle that before we build anything, because it changes who the site is for. A booth renter is running their own business out of your room, so a stylist page that travels with them is worth real money to them, and worth less to you, because you would be paying to build a brand that can walk out on thirty days' notice. On commission it is the other way round: the salon is the brand, the chair belongs to the salon, and every stylist page points back at the booking system you control. A mixed floor usually means the salon page is the anchor and renters get a profile rather than a portfolio. Tell us which you run and we build for that.
- Can the site take a deposit on colour?
- Yes, and on a colour floor it is worth deciding first, because it is the setting attached to your longest and highest-ticket appointments. A balayage is four hours of one chair. A no-show on it does not cost you an appointment, it costs you the afternoon, and there is nothing that fills four hours at two hours' notice. We wire the deposit into whichever booking system you run, either a card held or a fixed amount taken at booking and applied to the service. It is also the one place we will push back if you would rather not, because a client a deposit turns away is often the one who was not going to come.
What I found in South Florida
What I found on 549 salon, barber, med spa and tattoo websites.
On 19 October 2026 I read the homepages of 1,994 South Florida small businesses, mostly in Miami-Dade and Broward. 549 were salons, barbers, med spas and tattoo studios. I counted them as one group, so these numbers are for all four together. Most link to online booking. But of the 429 that show a phone number, about one in five don't let you tap it.
Link to book online
367 of 549 (66.8%)
Phone shown but not tappable (of the 429 that show one)
94 of 429 (21.9%)
No phone number anywhere on the homepage
99 of 549 (18.0%)
No form, no booking link, no number to tap
56 of 549 (10.2%)
Homepages checked 19 October 2026. Homepage only, the page as the server sent it, and businesses found through Google’s listings, not a random sample.
Ready to keep every chair booked?
Based in Miami, working with local businesses everywhere. Tell us about yours and we'll come back with a plan and a fair price.
Website Care is $99 a month for as long as the site is live with Ninewave. It is what keeps the site hosted, secure and updated, so it is not optional. No minimum term: end it with 30 days' notice, the site comes off our hosting and you get a full export, free.
This is Jon.He builds it, and still answers in year three.