The Family Behind Glamly

Hello! We're Chris and Sally, and that's our little one in the photo with us. We're a family from the West Midlands, and Glamly is our family business.

If you use Glamly, you've probably already spoken to one of us. We're the ones replying to your messages, setting up your accounts and building the features you ask for. We thought it was about time we properly introduced ourselves, and told you why Glamly exists and where it's going.

How Glamly was born

Glamly started with Sally talking to beauty professionals. Lash techs, nail techs, hairdressers, beauty therapists: all self-employed, all brilliant at what they do. And the more people she spoke to, the more she heard the same three things.

• It's expensive. They were paying more and more every month just to take bookings, with the features they actually needed locked behind pricier plans.
• The fees are hidden. Charges on top of charges that only showed up once they were already set up and relying on the system.
• It's a marketplace. Their clients could see every competitor nearby on the same page, often just a tap away from booking someone else.

That was the moment it clicked. These weren't people who needed a better marketplace. They needed a booking system that worked for them: their own booking page, deposits and reminders as standard, no surprise fees, and a client list that belongs to them, full stop. So we built one. We started in January, and by April Glamly was live, with some of those same beauty professionals as our first testers and our toughest critics.

Built with you, not just for you

Most of what's been added to Glamly since launch started as a message from someone using it. Pay now or later, booking questions, gap protection, loyalty, client special pricing, Tap to Pay on Android: all of them came from real businesses telling us what would make their day easier.

That's the part we're proudest of. Big platforms decide what you get. With Glamly, you help decide.

Where Glamly is today

What started as a lot of honest conversations now runs beauty businesses up and down the country, from lash studios and nail salons to barbers, hairdressers, aestheticians and head spas.

We're independent, which means the decisions about Glamly are made by us and by the people who use it, not by a marketplace looking for its next commission. Your clients stay yours. Your booking page is yours. That won't change.

In it for the long run

Glamly has grown up alongside our little one, and we're building it the same way we're raising her: carefully, with a lot of love, and for the long term. Every week there's something new, and there's plenty more on the way, including support for businesses with more than one team member.

So many of you rely on Glamly to run your business every single day. We don't take that lightly.

How you can help

We don't have a giant advertising budget. Glamly grows because people like you tell each other about it, and honestly, that's how we'd like it. If Glamly has made your working life a little easier, here are three things that make a huge difference:

• Leave us a review. A few words on Trustpilot helps other beauty professionals trust us enough to give us a try.
• Tell a friend. Share your referral link from Settings → Referrals. You earn free months for every friend who subscribes, and they get a month free too.
• Tell us what you need. Send us an idea from Settings → Feature requests. We read every single one, and the best ideas often come from you.

Thank you for trusting us with your business. It means more than you know.

Chris, Sally (and our little one) 💜