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The empty chair at 2 pm costs you €90.

A no-show cannot be made up – the hour is simply gone. HeroChat sends appointment reminders, takes bookings while you are working on a client, follows up after treatments and answers pricing questions around the clock. GDPR-compliant, hosted in Germany.

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EU GDPR compliant

100 % GDPR-compliant

Data processing agreement included — for data that deserves more care than most.

Servers in Germany

Hosted in Germany

Client data never leaves the EU. AI processing runs in the Azure data centre in Frankfurt.

Made in Germany

A real contact in Berlin

Personal onboarding and a phone number to call, instead of a ticket queue.

Where it starts

You cannot treat someone and take calls.

While you are working on a client the phone rings out – and tomorrow’s appointment does not confirm itself.

The phone rings while you are working

You cannot pick up mid-treatment. So it rings out – and the client books somewhere else.

No-shows cannot be made up

A missed hour is lost revenue. Not moved, not recovered: gone.

Contact ends when the treatment does

Without a follow-up booked on the way out, chance decides whether she returns in eight weeks.

Use cases

What HeroChat takes on.

None of this replaces your team. All of it removes the groundwork before it – structured, documented and at any hour.

Send appointment reminders

A message the day before with confirm or cancel – so a free slot can still be filled.

Take bookings while you work

The AI captures the preferred slot and treatment and books it without you putting the handpiece down.

Explain treatments and prices

Duration, preparation, price, aftercare – answered from your own information, at night too.

Prompt follow-up bookings

A short reminder six weeks after the treatment – at the point the need is actually there.

Follow up on aftercare

A "how is the skin doing?" two days later costs nothing and builds more loyalty than any discount.

Hand over to you

Skin problems, intolerances, complaints: no AI answers those – you do.

You draw the line: which topics the AI closes on its own and which it only prepares is something we set together during onboarding.

What it is worth

Let us actually do the maths.

Rather than advertise a percentage, we show the assumptions. Swap in your own numbers – the structure stays the same.

Worked example: a salon with around 400 appointments a month

  • per monthper year
  • client contacts (all channels)approx. 450approx. 5,400
  • of those, routine matters needing no advice70 % → 3153,780
  • of those, fully handled by the AI70 % → 2202,640
  • average handling time per matter4 minutes4 minutes
  • working time savedapprox. 15 hrsapprox. 180 hrs
  • fully loaded staff cost assumed28 €28/hour28 €28/hour
  • less HeroChat Pro− €129− €1,548
  • calculated effectapprox. €290approx. €3,500
Saved working time is only the first lever. What is left lying beside it can be quantified too – across a year that comes to three lines:

No-shows

€4,320/month

The hour is blocked, the materials prepared, the client does not arrive. That hour cannot be recovered.

Worked example: 400 appointments/month × 12 % no-show rate = 48 missed × €90 average treatment value = €4,320/month

Follow-up bookings that never happen

€43,200/year

Anyone who leaves without booking again often does not come back at all. A reminder at the right moment recovers part of that.

Worked example: 400 appointments × 12 = 4,800/year × 25 % with no follow-up booked = 1,200 × 40 % who return after a reminder = 480 × €90 = €43,200

Phone time spent on routine

€1,260/month

Prices, duration, parking, opening hours. Every call interrupts a treatment – or goes unanswered.

Worked example: 450 calls and messages/month × 6 min handling = 45 hrs × €28/hour = €1,260/month
€110,000/year

Calculated annual loss for a salon with 400 appointments a month – from no-shows, follow-ups that never happen and phone time that simply is not available mid-treatment.

A simplified worked example for illustration, not a promise of results. Every percentage and amount is a deliberately disclosed assumption, not a measured or externally sourced value. Actual figures depend on your size, your enquiry volume and your staff costs. We are happy to run the model with your own numbers on a first call.

Channels

One inbox for everything that arrives.

Your clients decide where they write. All you decide is who answers.

FAQ

Common questions.

Is this overkill for a small salon?
No. If you work alone or as a pair you cannot treat someone and answer the phone at the same time. The free tier with 100 messages a month is enough for many single-room salons to try it properly.
Can we receive skin photos over WhatsApp?
Technically yes, legally with care: health information falls under Art. 9 GDPR and requires explicit consent. We configure those topics so they land directly with you rather than being answered automatically, and supply the data processing agreement.
Can the AI really allocate appointments?
Yes – it asks for the preferred slot and treatment and books it. What it does not do is decide whether a treatment is suitable. That stays with you.
Can we remind clients about follow-ups?
A reminder about an existing appointment is straightforward. Pointing out a new treatment is marketing and needs documented consent – HeroChat collects and logs it.
How quickly does it run?
Website chat runs the same day. The WhatsApp Business API verifies your existing phone number with Meta, so it is ready to use straight away too. We set up your treatments and prices together during onboarding. See all pricing

No more empty chair at 2 pm.

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