For nail salons
The best AI receptionist
for nail salons.
Manicure in progress, the phone rings. By the time you finish, the caller has booked elsewhere.
A Saturday morning, told straight
Saturday morning your phone rings every six minutes. You can pick up zero of them.
It's 10am on Saturday. Every chair in your nail salon is full. Your hands are wet with acetone and gel. The phone hasn't stopped ringing in 90 minutes. Each one is someone wanting to book in for next week or for this afternoon's last slot.
You can answer none of them. Each missed call is a customer who books with the salon two doors down because they answered. Your weekly recurring (a £45 fill every three weeks for the next two years) walks past you every six minutes.
Foan picks up in two seconds. Sounds warm and friendly. Asks for the service (gel, BIAB, acrylic, removal, pedicure, mani-pedi combo), preferred technician if they have one, and when they want to come in. Checks your booking system for slots and offers two or three options. Books them in. Texts you a one-liner so you know who's coming.
Nail salons live and die on Saturday morning bookings. Capturing them is the difference between a fully-booked Tuesday and an empty one. At an average £40 ticket and even 4 extra bookings a week from picking up these calls, that's £640/month — a thousand percent return on Foan.
Same pattern works for booking gel/BIAB/acrylic, pedicures, removals, and last-minute walk-in availability checks.
The maths for a nail salon
Capture three missed calls a month at £58 and you've recovered £2k a year.
Average ticket for nail salons: £25 to £90. Foan costs less than one missed call a year.
Avg ticket
£58
Per month
£174
Per year
£2k
When the phone rings, you can't answer.
Saturday mornings phone rings every 6 minutes. You can pick up zero of them.
Foan answers every line at once.
Unlimited simultaneous calls. Ten callers at the same time, ten conversations. Your number is never busy.
What Foan does on a typical nail salon call
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Picks up on the first ring, even when you're with another customer.
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Captures their name, phone number, and exactly what they're calling about, read back to confirm.
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Texts you a summary the second the call ends — or emails it, your pick. Call back while they're still warm.
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Books appointments straight into your calendar (Calendly or Google Calendar).
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Sounds like a real receptionist, not a robot. Trained on your website, your services, your prices.
Works with the software nail salons already run on
Speaks nail salons' language. Plugs into your stack.
Foan reads your live diary, books straight in, and writes the outcome back. No spreadsheets in the middle, no tabs left open at the end of the day.
Connect the rest of your stack
Foan plugs into the systems you already run on. The agent reads your live data, books, and writes the result back. No spreadsheets in the middle.
Nail salon + Booksy
45M-user appointment platform for hair, barbers, beauty, nails. Agent reads live availability, books, takes the deposit if the policy requires one.
Nail salon + Fresha
110k+ salons + spas worldwide on Fresha. Agent matches the right stylist, finds a slot, books the service, takes the card.
Nail salon + Treatwell
UK + EU's biggest beauty marketplace. Agent books straight into Treatwell so callers see the same offer they'd find in the app.
Nail salon + Phorest
UK + IE salon platform with marketing + loyalty built in. Agent matches callers to the right loyalty tier and books accordingly.
Nail salon + Timely
Hair + beauty platform popular in AU / UK. Agent books with stylist + service, captures preferences from the caller.
Nail salon + Stripe
Take payments on the call. Send a Stripe link, check invoice status, handle billing questions.
Run the numbers
Curious what missed calls actually cost you?
Plug your average ticket and missed-call rate into the calculator. Most nail salons pay for Foan with the first three captured calls of the month.
Open the missed-call calculatorTry Foan on your own business in 60 seconds.
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Tier 3: high-frequency, high-margin