Hair by Chrissy

Chrissy fits hair extensions by hand in a private London studio. Bookings came through Instagram DMs — a thread per client, no calendar, and no way to stop two people asking for the same Saturday.

So the site is not a brochure, it is the booking system. Pick a service, see genuine live availability, take a slot, and pay by cash or card — card takes a deposit through Stripe Checkout to hold the slot, with the balance on the day. Behind it Chrissy has her own dashboard: she sets working days, hours, breaks and time off, and the client calendar updates the moment she saves. Her day comes back as a run sheet, gaps included.

One front end, unbuilt and unbundled, served two ways. The booking engine — live calendar, dashboard, payments — runs as a small Node API on Render with Supabase behind it. GitHub Pages cannot run any of that, so the published copy deliberately falls back to enquiry mode: the real price list and an enquiry, rather than a calendar that looks live and is not. A build step snapshots the database to static JSON so the public page still shows her real services and prices.