Why we’re doing this for salon owners

Our team has been working with stylists and therapists for more than 250 collective years between us. We’re salon owners, salon software specialists and salon industry experts, just living and breathing salons, and doing our bit to help this amazing industry thrive…

Check out this video to see what our salon-experienced people say about the SalonIQ software. As you can tell, we’re a chatty bunch – and we’re always here to offer advice, help you get more clients, and to support you on your SalonIQ journey. Just get in touch!

About SalonIQ

With over 2,000+ UK Salons, 100+ Award Winning Salons, 180+ Salon Groups, we are fast becoming the number 1 choice for Salons in the UK.

Technology for salons has had to change just as snappily as the trendiest styles, and our founders have been there every snip of the way.

Serial salon owners Andy and David built one of the very first pieces of salon software back in 1993, when dinosaurs were just escaping Jurassic Park and Mrs Doubtfire was putting face masks on the map.

Together, these two lovely techies built Computill, the simple on-site system that allowed salon owners to schedule bookings and keep on top of stock.

It was a glint of something more exciting on the horizon, and as times changed and technology moved forward, the salon software adapted and morphed into iSalon, which still exists today.

Not long after, Andy and David took a step back from writing software and concentrated on the salons themselves instead. That’s when things got really interesting… Perhaps their story will sound a little like yours.

Decades in the making

By the time they sold iSalon in 2006, Andy and David had six salons of their own to manage. That’s when they really discovered that making a salon a success takes more than scheduling bookings, keeping on top of stock and taking payments

There are the appointment reminders, the client nurture, the retention and the referrals.

Then there’s the marketing to new salon customers, reducing the no-shows, and trying to make money selling products at the same time.

And that’s before you even spare a thought for your staff – how on earth could you keep on top of all those tasks and motivate your team to perform at their very best at the same time?!

Just like you, Andy and David needed something that wouldn’t just keep the salon running, it had to really make it glow. First-hand, these gents realised they’d missed a trick with the old systems they’d built. Back to the drawing board.

Never stand still

Andy and David never stood still.

They knew times were changing and the world wanted to do more online, and they quickly realised their old systems weren’t keeping up with the increasing needs of their own salons, as well as everyone else’s.

Now, salons needed software that could create revenue streams in a world where competition was increasing and costs were going up. It had to be intuitive, simple to use and easy to manipulate. It needed to do all the things time-shy salon owners ought to be doing, before they even thought of doing it.

And that’s why they’ve spent the last two decades building a dedicated team to step away from the old legacy salon software and create the cloud-based, all singing, all dancing SalonIQ.

These days, the software doesn’t just allow you to get the fundamental basics of running your salon done. It does all those hundreds of intricate extras in between too, leading to higher revenues and a fantastic return on your investment, time after time.

250 collective years of salon experience in your corner

So it’s not just Andy and David anymore. There are 27 of us here at SalonIQ now, supporting more than 2000 salons and 180+ salon groups across the UK, including some of the industry’s biggest names.

Now that our founders have taken a well-earned step back, our senior team continue to drive our progress. MD Sam Kendall is at the heart of each decision we make and every step forward. She’s the engine beneath this beautiful bonnet, keeping on top of what our salon owners need, and making sure they get it.

Meanwhile our CEO Yogi Parmar brings more than 30 years of industry knowledge and a heck of a lot of energy to the party. He listens to our clients and uses that feedback to enhance our technology and our offering every day.

The rest of the team are spread across the country and all come from hairdressing and software backgrounds too. In other words, with SalonIQ, you’ve got the UK’s biggest bunch of salon specialists in your corner, with 250 collective years of salon experience between us.

And we’re still just as busy creating innovative services to help salon owners achieve success as Andy and David were back in ’93. Being salon people, we like to bring all the fun of the salon floor to our work too!

At SalonIQ we embrace change, we LOVE delivering more and more opportunities for growth to our clients, and we’re always looking for new ways to help you run your salon at its very best, on autopilot.

We know making a salon successful isn’t easy. But with SalonIQ, you’ve got all the tools, advice and support you need to make it so.

Our Story

1993 Founded Computill Ltd

1999 Computill launched i-Salon

2005 Merged Computill With Precision Business Software

2006 Computill acquired by Integrity Software Systems

2006 Acquired 6 Salons in the South East to form GREAT Hairdressing Group

2008 Founded salonemailmarketing com

2012 Founded Intelligent Salon Software Ltd

2013 SalonIQ Launched

2020 Yogi Parmar joins Salon iQ as CEO

Like you, we are Salon Owners, and our mission is to make life easier for salon owners, to help create more freedom and more money.

We understand the challenges and reality of running salons and what it takes to be successful in this industry.

Many of our team are themselves from a hairdressing or salon industry background. We are a supportive, friendly team who are dedicated to helping our clients achieve more.

Being an independantly owned software provider for salons, means we have your interests at heart, we are not accountable to investors and therefore everything we do is to provide you, the salon owner, the best system for your business with the greatest ROI. Providing you with an all in one system for Salon Management and Marketing, from helping with stock, taking online bookings, looking at reports or looking to grow your business through smart marketing SalonIQ is designed to be the best software for any salon owner.

Delivering More For You

We’re a technologically forward thinking and innovative company, we embrace change, and always look for the opportunity to deliver more and give our salons the best return on investment possible.

Delighting You

We’re not happy with OK. We always aim to do the best for our customers, whether that be intuitive software, or great customer service.

Our Secret Sauce

Part of Your Team, working together to achieve more. Respecting each other and our clients. Experience matters and with over 250 years of Salon Experience we are in a unique position to help you manage your salon business.

Happy People

We are all one big family, to be happy, we all need to be happy. We try not to take ourselves too seriously, have fun at work, play hard, work hard and spread the love.

'Kaisen' - Always Getting Better

‘Continual Learning’ Progress is important, continual learning and improving to keep moving forward. Don’t be afraid to fail – fail fast and learn quick.