Deptly

Med spas, aesthetics & premium beauty

Fill the book, recover cancellations, and keep clients coming back

Deptly helps med spas, clinics, salons, and studios keep the book full (carrying the waitlist, the confirmations, the consult follow-up, and the rebooking cycles) while treatment decisions stay with your providers.

  • Your customer: client
  • What you quote: treatment plan
  • The work: appointment
  • Your capacity: chair or treatment room
  • Repeat moment: rebooking
  • Who signs off: licensed provider

What does Deptly handle for med spas & beauty businesses?

Deptly is a managed service for med spas, aesthetic clinics, salons, and beauty studios. It answers booking requests in your voice, refills cancellations from a matched waitlist, follows up consultations and quoted treatment plans, sends prep and aftercare reminders, and reaches out when clients are due to rebook; using the booking system you already have. Clinical and treatment decisions stay with your licensed providers.

You know the artistry. We understand the work around the book.

The visible work is the craft: the natural-looking result, the color that lands exactly right, the client who walks out glowing. What clients never see is that your best injector is also answering DMs between patients, the front desk is checking out one client while two calls roll to voicemail, and last Tuesday's consultation still hasn't been followed up because nobody had a free hand.

This business runs on cycles. Tox wears off around week twelve, color grows out at six to eight, a lash fill has a two-to-three-week window before it becomes a full set again. When rebooking rides on whether the client remembers, predictable revenue turns into hope. And the day has its own texture: the 9 AM no-show you couldn't fill, the consult that ended with 'let me think about it,' the gift card question on Instagram at 10:40 PM, the November crush and the quiet of January.

Most of that work lives in whoever is standing at the desk, and in your phone after close. Boulevard or Vagaro holds the appointments, but the waitlist, the follow-ups, the confirmations, and the win-backs are all things somebody has to actually do. In most shops, that somebody is you.

What your customers are really asking

Before they choose you, they are answering these questions for themselves. Every workflow Deptly carries is shaped around them.

  • Who is actually doing my treatment, and how experienced are they with concerns like mine?

  • Will I look natural, or will people be able to tell?

  • What will this really cost, and am I going to get upsold once I'm in the chair?

  • Is this place clean, licensed, and prepared if something goes wrong?

  • How much downtime is there; can I do this before Friday's event?

  • Will they remember my history (my formula, my dose, my sensitivities) or do I start over every visit?

Where the work leaks

Three places good demand quietly disappears in this industry, not because anyone is careless, but because the loop depends on whoever is busiest.

The 90-minute hole in the book

Same-day cancellations on long appointments (laser sessions, color, full sets) rarely get refilled, because working the waitlist takes exactly the time the front desk doesn't have during service hours. The room and the provider sit idle while three clients who wanted that slot never hear that it opened.

The consult that never becomes a plan

A body contouring or injectables consult ends with a quoted treatment plan and 'let me think about it.' Without an owned follow-up rhythm, thinking about it quietly becomes booking somewhere else, and the quote itself often lives in a notebook or the provider's memory, so nobody even knows what's outstanding.

Rebooking left to memory

Tox at roughly twelve weeks, color at six to eight, lash fills at two to three: the revenue is cyclical, but when a client leaves without pre-booking, no one owns the reminder. The gap between due and booked is where a predictable book turns into open chair time.

What you have already been sold

Every trade gets pitched the same handful of things. Here is the one we hear most in yours, and why this is not that.

What your trade gets pitched

Instagram ad agencies promising fifty new leads a month.

Where we are different

If your injector is already booked three weeks out, fifty new leads is not a gift. It is a problem. The money is in the consult that never closed.

One job, start to finish

From the first message to the work actually done. This is the shape of everything Deptly carries.

Workflow Demonstration

A 90-minute cancellation, refilled from the waitlist

  1. Riley (client text)

    So sorry, I have to cancel my 1:30 laser session today. Work emergency. Can I get back in this week?

    11:02 AM

  2. Deptly → you

    Needs your OK

    Riley canceled inside your 24-hour window: her first late cancel. Waive the fee per your usual exception and offer her Thursday 2:00? Meanwhile the 1:30–3:00 room block with Dana is open; two waitlist matches have a patch test on file and are free midday.

    11:03 AM

  3. Deptly

    Approved. Fee waived and noted, Riley offered Thursday 2:00. Waitlist outreach started: same service, patch test cleared, available midday.

    11:09 AM

  4. Deptly → Priya (waitlist)

    Hi Priya, a 1:30 opening with Dana came up today for your next laser session. Want it? Reply YES and it's yours.

    11:10 AM

  5. Priya

    YES please! See you at 1:30.

    11:21 AM

  6. Deptly

    Priya is booked and confirmed, prep reminder sent. Riley rebooked for Thursday 2:00. Calendar updated in your booking system; Dana's afternoon runs unchanged.

    11:22 AM

  7. D

    Owner brief

    Friday 5:00 PM

    inbox

    Tuesday's 1:30 laser cancellation (90 min) was refilled from the waitlist within the hour. Riley rebooked for Thursday; her first-time fee waiver is on record. No unfilled room time this week.

A 90-minute hole became a matched waitlist offer, a refilled slot, a rebooked client, and a calendar that matched reality, while your front desk stayed with the clients in front of them.

More demonstrations: each labeled for exactly what it is, live on proof and examples.

Deptly thinking ahead

The demonstration above is Deptly handling something that arrived. This one is Deptly noticing something first; bringing the context together, recommending a move, waiting for your approval, and reporting back on what happened.

A late cancellation becomes a filled treatment room

Status: In development

What Deptly noticed

A 90-minute appointment cancels for tomorrow afternoon, leaving a treatment room and a provider with an empty block.

What it considered

  • Which clients are due for their next appointment in a plan already agreed
  • Which treatments fit a 90-minute block with this provider
  • Provider licensing and which services they can deliver
  • Required intervals since each client's last treatment
  • Who has previously taken a short-notice appointment
  • Anyone mid-consultation or awaiting a provider decision

What it recommended

Offer the block to clients already inside an agreed plan whose interval has elapsed, matched to what this specific provider is licensed to deliver, rather than broadcasting an open slot to the whole list.

Waits for your approval

You approve the shortlist and the wording before it goes out. Nothing that implies a clinical recommendation is sent, and no client outside their required interval is offered anything.

What ran after you approved

  • Built the shortlist from clients due inside an agreed plan
  • Filtered to treatments this provider is licensed to deliver in the time available
  • Excluded anyone whose required interval had not elapsed
  • Sent the approved offer and handled the replies
  • Booked the first suitable acceptance and closed the offer

What you got back

A short note on whether the block filled, who accepted, and who to offer first next time. Treatment suitability and every clinical decision remain with your licensed provider.

How Deptly notices, weighs, and recommends is explained on inside Deptly.

Which one is costing you more right now?

Most owners already know the answer. Same responsibilities either way: a different place to start.

Consultations that ended in “let me think about it” followed to a decision. Ninety-minute cancellations refilled from a matched waitlist. Packages finished and cycles rebooked on time.

In the order we go after it

  1. 1Money already in the buildingNo new customers required
  2. 2Money in the accounts you already haveNo new customers required
  3. 3Customers who already hired you onceNo new customers required
  4. 4And then, new demand

New demand is fourth on purpose. Pouring it into a business that leaks follow-up just makes the leak louder: the full argument is here.

What Deptly handles, asks about, and never decides

Every workflow on this page runs inside this boundary. You set the rules; anything outside them waits for you.

Deptly handles

Routine work done within the rules you approve.

  • Answering routine booking, reschedule, price-list, and hours questions in your voice, including after close
  • Working the waitlist when a cancellation opens a slot, matched by service, provider, duration, and prerequisites like patch tests or consult clearance
  • Confirmations, prep instructions, and aftercare reminders on the schedule your protocols define
  • Follow-up on consultations and quoted treatment plans at an approved cadence
  • Rebooking outreach when a client's cycle says they're due: tox, color, fills, facials
  • Membership, package, and no-show fee follow-up within the policy you set

Deptly asks first

Anything judgment-shaped waits for your okay.

  • Exceptions to your cancellation, deposit, or late-fee policy
  • Discounts, price adjustments, or comped services
  • Any message that reads as a complaint or a concern about results
  • Booking a new client into a treatment that requires a consultation or medical clearance first
  • Anything outside the approved messaging templates for regulated treatments

Always human

The decisions that stay yours, always.

  • Clinical judgment stays with your licensed providers: candidacy, dosing, contraindications, and anything that resembles medical advice
  • Assessing results, reactions, or complications: those route straight to the provider, flagged as urgent
  • Treatment plans and pricing are set by your team; Deptly communicates them, never invents them
  • Hiring, compensation, and the policies themselves

The full rulebook (approvals, escalation, and audit history) lives on trust and control.

The subindustries this covers

Each one gets the same execution engine, these notes call out what actually changes.

Med spas & injectables

The commercial object is a treatment plan, not a single appointment, and the client is often called a patient. Tox cycles run roughly ten to fourteen weeks, so rebooking outreach is timed to the wear-off window, membership billing rides alongside, and every message about a regulated treatment stays inside templates your medical director has approved.

Laser & body contouring

Series-based work: six-plus sessions sold as a package, long room blocks, patch tests and consult clearance before a first session, and seasonal texture, sun-exposure rules slow laser bookings in summer. The expensive leak is the mid-series client who drifts, so session-cadence reminders and package-completion follow-up are the workflow that matters most.

Cosmetic dermatology

A mixed medical and cosmetic book with patient vocabulary, referrals, and clinical documentation. Scheduling has to respect provider scope, and routine messaging must never cross into medical advice: anything clinical routes to the provider, flagged, with the conversation thread preserved.

Hair salons & barbershops

Color appointments are long, formula memory is loyalty, and return cycles run six to eight weeks for color and two to four for cuts. Many shops mix employees with booth renters, so per-stylist books, per-stylist policies, and who-gets-the-waitlist-offer rules all have to be respected.

Nail, lash & brow studios

The fill window is the business model: a lash fill at two to three weeks is one price, a lapsed fill is a full set at full price and double the chair time. Rebooking timing is revenue math, group and event bookings need multi-chair coordination, and no-shows on long full-set slots hurt the most.

Skin, massage, waxing & personal care

Estheticians, skincare studios, massage, waxing, and spray tanning; appointment books where the return event is a standing rhythm: monthly facials, four-to-six-week waxes, pre-event tans. Clients book with a person, not a business, so provider matching matters, and the leak is quiet lapse: nobody notices the client who stopped coming until the book softens.

Permanent makeup & event beauty

Consult-heavy, deposit-heavy, and date-driven. Permanent makeup runs on a consult, a procedure, and a required touch-up window; bridal beauty runs on trials, contracts, party headcounts, and a wedding date that cannot move. Deposits, signed agreements, and detail-chasing are the workflow: a missed detail here isn't a reschedule, it's a ruined morning.

Systems we commonly work in

  • Boulevard
  • Mindbody
  • Vagaro
  • GlossGenius
  • Fresha
  • Square Appointments
  • Zenoti
  • Aesthetic Record

These are examples of where the work usually lives in this industry, not guaranteed integrations. Deptly works within the tools you already have; setup starts from what you actually use, as described on how it works.

Questions owners ask

Deptly writes in your wording and your voice, books into your calendar, and quotes from your price book. Anything sensitive or public waits for your yes.

No. Deptly works inside ServiceTitan, Jobber, Boulevard, Clio, Tekmetric, Open Dental, Gingr, WellSky; whatever you already run.

Four control levels, set per workflow. Most owners start at approve-every-time and move things up only when they have watched them work.

Yes, Deptly works inside the tools you already have rather than replacing them. Platforms like Boulevard, Mindbody, Vagaro, GlossGenius, Fresha, Square Appointments, Zenoti, and Aesthetic Record are examples of systems we commonly work with. Exact capabilities depend on what your system exposes, which we confirm during setup; you'll know plainly what's possible before anything goes live.

Deptly never answers clinical questions. Candidacy, dosing, side effects, or anything that resembles medical advice routes straight to your providers, flagged so it isn't buried in a thread. Messaging about regulated treatments stays inside templates your team approves, and system access is set up on a least-privilege basis. Clinical judgment stays with your licensed providers, always.

Deptly does, that's much of the point. Pricing questions, booking requests, and 'do you have anything Saturday?' get answered in your voice after close, and anything sensitive or unusual is held for your team with a note about what came in. The 10 PM inquiry books with you instead of scrolling on to the next studio.

Messages go out in your business's voice, on your existing numbers and channels, using wording your team approves. Deptly doesn't pretend to be a specific person, and anything outside the approved patterns goes to a human. Most clients simply experience a front desk that finally has time to reply quickly.

No. When a slot opens, Deptly matches by service, provider, duration, and prerequisites like patch tests or consult clearance, then reaches out in the order and manner you set: one at a time, or a small batch where the first confirmation wins. The calendar updates the moment someone accepts, and everyone else gets a graceful follow-up so nobody feels strung along.

It applies the policy you set, consistently and politely; consistency is usually what makes a policy feel fair. Exceptions are never guessed: a first-time late cancel, a loyal client with a genuine emergency, anything borderline comes to you as a quick approval instead of a unilateral call. You stay the judge; you just stop being the messenger.

Yes, books, policies, and waitlist rules can differ per provider. A renter's book can stay fully theirs while the shop's shared channels are covered, and waitlist offers respect who the client actually sees. We map those rules during setup, because who gets the open slot is a fairness question in every salon.

The work flexes with the book. In the crush, refills, confirmations, and deposit follow-up matter most; in the quiet months, rebooking outreach and win-backs do. The weekly brief shows which loops ran and who's coming due, so seasonal swings get worked deliberately instead of just absorbed.

No. Deptly takes the work your front desk never has time for: the waitlist that doesn't get worked during service hours, the consult follow-up that slips, the rebooking outreach nobody owns. The people at your desk stay with the clients in front of them, which is the part of the job that actually needs a person.

On a cadence you approve, in your voice, with genuine content: the answer to the question she asked, the financing option she mentioned, an easy way to book when she's ready. No pressure scripts. If a prospect says stop, it stops, and the record notes it. Most consults that don't close were never lost on merit; they just never heard from you again.

The eight responsibilities underneath

Every loop on this page is carried by one of these, and each one is carried the whole way: someone starts it, Deptly finishes it, and you see that it is done.

See all eight, end to end

No pitch, just a straight read

Talk to someone who understands the work

Walk through how the work actually moves in your business and hear exactly what Deptly would carry first for a med spas & beauty business, including an honest no if the fit is not there.