YONA Help Center
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Questions and answers
Short answers about how YONA works. The list grows with the product.
Getting started6
What is YONA?
Software for a beauty salon: the day's diary, customer cards, money, master pay and stock in one place. Clients book themselves — from your page or from Telegram.
What do I need to start?
An e-mail and a password. The setup wizard then asks for the salon's name, its services and its hours — about fifteen minutes.
What if I work alone?
That is enough: you are your own master and your own administrator. Bookings, clients and money are counted the same way.
Do I have to retype my old clients?
No. The list loads from a file — numbers, names, notes. Numbers are brought to one shape, and matches are shown before anything is saved.
Which languages does YONA speak?
Russian, Uzbek and English. Each member of staff picks their own; a client sees the one they opened the page in.
Do I have to install anything?
No. The cabinet opens in a browser, and Telegram is enough for a client and for a master.
Setting the salon up6
How do I set up services?
Name, length, price — and which masters do it. Services sit in sections, and that is how a client sees them.
How do I set opening hours?
By day of the week, with breaks. A single different day is set by date and leaves the ordinary week alone.
Can I close the salon for a day?
Yes, the same way. Nobody can book you on a closed day.
What are resources?
Rooms, chairs, machines. A service that needs one will not be booked while it is taken or under repair.
Can I require a consent form?
Yes. A document is attached to a service, the client signs it on their phone or on your tablet, and the signed PDF stays with the visit.
How do reminders work?
You say how many hours before a visit to write. Two are possible: one in advance and one on the day.
Bookings and the diary10
How does a client book themselves?
The salon has its own page with services, masters and free times. Three taps, and the confirmation arrives at once.
What if a client has no Telegram?
They book from the site and get a letter: the confirmation, the reminder and the link to the visit. Telegram is required for nothing.
Can I write a booking down over the phone?
Yes, the administrator does it in the diary in seconds — a name and a number, the rest fills itself in.
What if a client asks to move their visit?
The booking moves to another day and hour without being cancelled. The prepayment, the signed consent and the history stay with it.
Can I change the service of a booking already made?
Yes, along with its length. The price follows the new service, and the client is told.
Can I hand a client to another master?
Yes, in one action. The previous master and the client are told themselves.
What stops two people being booked at the same time?
Nothing stops it — it is forbidden in the database. One master cannot be in two places, and neither can a room.
Is there a waiting list?
There is. When there is no time left, the client joins the queue for that day, and an offer goes out when a place frees up.
Can I leave a note on a booking?
Yes: «asks for Malika», «arriving later», «paying by transfer». Only the salon's staff ever see it.
How is it marked that the client arrived?
One tap — in the cabinet or in the master's Telegram. The visit is closed with its payment afterwards.
Clients8
Do clients get reminders?
They do — in Telegram or by letter, as many hours before the visit as you set.
What is on a client's card?
Visits, money, reviews, consents and two notes: what to remember always, and what matters today.
What about people who do not turn up?
A no-show is marked on the booking and shows on the card. A salon may ask such clients for a prepayment.
Can I write to one client directly?
Yes, from their card. A mailing goes to a chosen group — but only to those who agreed and have not unsubscribed.
How does a client unsubscribe?
By the link in the letter itself. After that they get no mailings, but they still get word about their own visits.
Two clients with one number — what happens?
YONA shows the match and offers to merge the cards. It never merges on its own: a number proves nothing about who typed it.
Can I erase a client's data if they ask?
Yes. The card is anonymised: the name and contacts go, the visits stay as figures — otherwise last month's money would no longer add up.
Can I see where a client came from?
Yes, if they arrived by your tagged link. The analytics then say which advertising paid off.
The salon's money6
How do clients pay?
Cash, card at the desk, transfer, or online through Payme — the salon's choice. The method is written on the visit.
Can I take a prepayment?
Yes, a share of the price or a fixed sum. The rest is taken at the salon.
What happens to a prepayment on a cancellation?
Cancelled before your cut-off — returned; later, or a no-show — kept by the salon. One rule, told to the client in advance.
How do I give a discount?
By a sum or by a percentage, right on the visit. An administrator has a ceiling the owner sets, and a discount over a fifth needs a reason.
Where does a refund go?
On the same visit, as a sum and a day. The month the money went back and the month it came in do not get mixed up.
Can I keep expenses?
Yes: rent, purchases, wages. Profit is counted with them, not from takings alone.
Paying for YONA4
How much does it cost to try?
Fourteen days free, no card needed. Enough time to set up services, masters and take your first clients.
How much does YONA cost?
The price follows how many people work in the salon: you pay for people, not for addresses. Today's prices are on the pricing page.
Are there hidden charges?
No. YONA takes no commission on what your clients pay — the payment provider does, under your own contract with them.
Can I change plan?
Yes — in the cabinet, under subscription. What you paid is not lost: the remainder of the old plan is recounted into days of the new one by what it cost. So the same money buys more days on a cheaper plan and fewer on a dearer one.
Analytics5
Can I see what the salon earned?
Yes: takings by day and by month, by master, by service and by booking channel.
Can I see which master brings in more?
Yes: visits, takings, average bill and share of the salon's takings, for each of them.
Can I tell when the salon is busy?
Yes, by hour and by weekday. The idle time is there as well.
Are new and returning clients told apart?
Yes, and you can see how many come back and how often.
Can I export the figures?
Yes, as a table. Money and operations separately; the export is for whoever you grant the right to.
Masters and pay6
How is a master's pay counted?
A percentage of the service, a fixed sum per service, or a wage. They mix: a general percentage with special terms on two services.
Is the percentage counted after the discount?
However the salon decides. It is a setting, not a guess: by default a master gets a share of what the salon actually received.
What does a master see?
Their own day, their own clients and their own pay. Other people's bookings, other people's money and the salon's settings are not shown to them.
Can a master work from a phone?
Yes, in Telegram: their day, marking the client in, closing the visit. No cabinet sign-in needed for any of it.
How do I set a rota and holidays?
The rota by weekday, holidays and days off by date. Nobody can book that master on those days.
How do I add an administrator?
By an invitation to their e-mail or a link in Telegram. Rights are set one by one, not by a single switch.
Stock4
Does YONA count materials?
It does. A service has a recipe — what goes into it and how much — and the stock drops by itself when the visit is closed.
Will it warn me that the dye is running out?
Yes, when the stock falls below the level you set.
Can I check the stock against the shelf?
Yes, with a stock-take: count, type it in, and the difference shows at once.
Can I see what a visit cost me?
You can, where the service has a recipe with material prices.
Reviews4
How are reviews collected?
After the visit the client is asked to rate it — five stars in one tap, with words if they want.
Can I delete a bad review?
You can hide it; you cannot delete it. The salon replies, and the reply shows beside it.
Where are reviews shown?
On the salon's page and inside — with ratings, split by master and over time.
Do reviews affect a master's rating?
Yes, each master has their own rating and their own reviews.
A network of salons2
What if I have several salons?
They join into a network under one owner. Each keeps its own diary and its own money, and you switch between them without leaving the cabinet.
Do I pay for each salon separately?
No. The network pays, and it is counted by people, not by addresses.
Your account3
I forgot my password — what now?
Recover it by e-mail. The link is short-lived and works once.
Can I protect the sign-in with a second step?
Yes, with a code from an authenticator app.
Can I see who signed in?
A letter arrives about a sign-in from a new device. Every session can be ended at once.
Data and access5
Where is the data kept?
In a database with backups; telephone numbers, addresses and notes about people are stored encrypted.
Who inside the salon sees what?
The owner sees everything, the administrator the salon's work, a master only their own. Rights are set one by one.
Can I see who changed what?
Yes. A move, a handover, a cancellation and an edit of a booking go into the log with a name and a time.
Can one salon's data reach another?
No. Each salon reads only its own rows, and that is checked by code on every request, not by a person.
What if the internet drops?
The cabinet says so rather than pretending it saved. What was written before the break stays where it was.
Other systems3
Can I connect YONA to another program?
Yes, through the API and webhooks: events about bookings and visits go to your system.
Is there a loyalty programme?
Not yet. Today there are discounts on a visit and gift certificates; stamp cards are being built.
Can I take payment through Click or Uzum?
Payme only for now. The others are on the way.
Help2
Where do I write if something is wrong?
Straight from the cabinet, in the help section. The conversation stays there — for you and for us.
Is there any training?
The cabinet holds a guide and answers to common questions. We add to them as the product grows.