Unlock Your Salon, Spa, or Clinic’s Potential with Phorest Ads Manager

Ready to transform interest into confirmed bookings and grow your salon, clinic or spa? Phorest Ads Manager is your revolutionary tool for social media advertising, designed to effortlessly connect your services with the right audience. More than just an ad platform, it’s your dedicated growth partner, streamlining ad creation and client targeting. What truly sets Phorest Ads Manager apart … Continued

Dot Phrasing – The Smarter Way to Document

Picture this: you’re in the middle of a client consultation, carefully assessing their needs, answering questions, and building a rapport. But in the background, there’s a constant distraction – the burden of documentation. Typing out detailed notes, making sure records are accurate, and ensuring compliance can feel like a never-ending task. It slows you down, … Continued

Hidden Gems: Phorest Tools to Transform Your Team

At the Phorest Salon Owners Summit 2025, Paddy Monaghan, the Chief Product Officer, and Rich Cullen, the Lead Product Designer at Phorest, unveiled hidden features that help salons, spas, and clinics maximise efficiency, empower their staff, and elevate business performance. This keynote highlighted Phorest’s deep connection with our clients, five powerful tools that salons, spas, … Continued

Optimising Medspa & Aesthetic Clinic Operations with Phorest

What if running a medspa aesthetic clinic could be smoother, smarter, and more efficient than ever? In this session, Aoife Hannigan, Director of Engineering, and Verna Wall, Head of Research at Phorest, showcased how Phorest is revolutionising medspa and aesthetic clinic operations through AI, automation, and workflow optimisation. They also highlighted the partnership aspect of … Continued

Tipping the Scales: Empowering Staff with PhorestTips

At this year’s Salon Owners Summit, Jacob Morris, a Product Designer at Phorest, took us on a journey through the salon industry’s evolving tipping landscape, weaving in humour, real-life stories, and some eyebrow-raising research findings along the way. The session wasn’t just about tipping – it was also about empowerment, specifically, how businesses can give … Continued

Using AI and Smart Features in Phorest to Boost Salon Operations

You’ve built a thriving business in the professional hair and beauty industry, managing a great team and maintaining a loyal clientele. But as your business grows, balancing appointments, staff performance, and client retention becomes increasingly complex. That’s where Phorest’s AI-powered features and smart technology come in. More than just automating tasks, Phorest gives you intelligent … Continued

Celebrating Beyond Pride Month; Making Your Salon A Safer Space for The LGBTQIA+ Community All Year Round

This Pride Month, Phorest is celebrating our industry’s diverse LGBTQIA+ community while taking time to reflect, support, and educate ourselves on why we celebrate Pride. With this in mind, we’ve compiled a list of resources and recommendations; for, about, and by the LGBTQIA+ community and suitable for everyone to include in their Pride Month celebrations.  … Continued

Between Alienation & Belonging, Never Just a Haircut or Beauty Service

“You’ll be on in roughly 10 minutes.” the Salon Owners Summit A/V team tells me quietly. Here I am, after a little over six months of brainstorming, ideation, research, and preparation culminating in a keynote on the power of cultivating inclusive spaces for clients and employees alike. As the adrenaline starts rushing through every cell … Continued

PhorestGo 2.0 – Your Feedback Put Into Action

In June this year, we launched PhorestGo 2.0 as part of the Phorest Summer Collection. The project to rebuild the beloved PhorestGo app began 18 months prior to that, and so it was a long-awaited release for everyone who worked on building it. One of the most asked questions that we received regarding PhorestGo 2.0 … Continued