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.