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Whittier Salons, Nail Bars, and Brow Studios: Your App, Run By Us

Independent salons, nail bars, and aesthetics studios across Uptown Whittier and the Whittier Boulevard corridor. Vagaro and Booksy charge per technician, take a cut, and stamp their brand on every customer touchpoint. We build a fully branded app and run the booking, retention, and client-record work on a flat monthly fee.

Launch targetConfirmed in the written scope
Engagement modelFlat monthly fee, no per-seat
Plan the workflowConfirm booking, deposits, and reminders before choosing a setup
Requirements to reviewPCI DSS

The beauty & personal care problem in Whittier

Where salons, spas, and beauty brands in Whittier quietly lose time and margin.

The pattern we see

Your Whittier salon or nail bar runs full in the chair and forgettable online. Vagaro or Booksy bills you per technician, skims a fee, and puts its own logo on the booking flow your clients use, so the customer installs the platform's app, not yours. Each of your techs has built a personal following, but the booking routes through staff because the system cannot cleanly send the right client to the right chair. And when a stylist left last spring, half her book left with her, because the relationship lived in her phone and on Vagaro, not in your studio's database. In a market this walkable, a lost regular usually becomes a competitor's regular two blocks away.

How we build for Whittier

One system, designed for your beauty & personal care workflow and run on your behalf.

We build your studio a branded booking app where each provider has their own profile, calendar, and client base, while the studio owns the master customer record. Service-aware notifications, deposit-on-booking, cancellation-fee capture, package management, and pre-care and post-care messaging live in one branded surface. The proposal confirms supported Stripe or Square connections, processing costs, and any other vendor fees. Per-technician platform fees disappear into one flat monthly fee, and when a provider moves on, the client relationships stay in your database.

Whittier's beauty market is dense, walkable, and relationship-driven, the kind of place where Rehost already runs a neighborhood nail bar's platform. The studios that hold both their providers and their clients are the ones that own the booking layer instead of renting it from Vagaro. We build that layer under your name and operate it for you, so your front desk runs the floor while the software runs itself.

What we build for Whittier salons, spas, and beauty brands

One ongoing fee covers these tools. Here are the parts businesses in Whittier use most.

Branded Mobile App, Operated By Us

A mobile app your Whittier beauty & personal care customers keep on their phone: bookings, loyalty, and push, all under your brand. Version submissions, account responsibilities, licenses, exports, and handoff are documented before launch.

  • iOS and Android publishing with developer-account responsibility documented in the signed agreement
  • release management, version submissions, and rejections handled on our side
  • push notifications and in-app messaging configured by us, on your timing
Launch target: Confirmed in the written scope

Customer-Facing Web Platform

A responsive website tuned to how your Whittier operation actually works, not a template. Hosting, SSL, and CDN delivery are managed end to end on our infrastructure, with a role-aware dashboard for your team.

  • branded responsive web platform tuned to your operation, not a template
  • hosting, SSL, and CDN delivery managed end to end on our infrastructure
  • role-aware access and logging requirements confirmed for the project
Launch target: Confirmed in the written scope

Internal Operations Tool

The back-office system that lives in a spreadsheet today, rebuilt as real software. We scope it to your beauty & personal care workflow in Whittier, wire in role-based permissions, and log every sensitive change.

  • back-office operations screen designed around how your team actually works
  • approval flows, scheduling rules, and exceptions wired into a single system
  • scheduled exports for your accountant, plus on-demand audit pulls when needed
Launch target: Confirmed in the written scope

Tools we connect

Bring the tools your Los Angeles County team uses. We check the proposed connections before agreeing the work.

StripeSquareVagaroBooksy

Rules the software needs to follow

The project needs its own data and security review. The signed scope confirms applicable requirements, supported controls, vendors, and responsibilities.

PCI DSS

Common questions from Whittier operators

Specific to salons, spas, and beauty brands in Whittier.

Can you work with salons, spas, and beauty brands in Los Angeles County?

We can discuss your Whittier project and the work your team needs handled. Our office is in Long Beach. The written scope confirms included work, support expectations, and meeting arrangements.

What would this run a beauty & personal care operation in Whittier?

Most land on the Business tier, which starts at $950 per month and is billed by how many customers actually use the platform each month rather than by headcount. The fee covers the build, the hosting, and the ongoing operating work, so there's no separate maintenance retainer or per-seat line item on top.

What does operated by Rehost include?

The agreement names the hosting, monitoring, updates, release work, and changes Rehost handles. It also sets response expectations, urgent support, review arrangements, and work that stays with your team.

Are we locked in if we sign up?

Your signed agreement states the commitment, notice, effective end date, exportable data, transferable accounts, any code license or handoff, and when Rehost-managed hosting and operations stop. Review those terms before launch so the exit path is explicit.

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