The queue app for barbershops in Nepal.
Saturday morning, every seat taken. LainMa lets the next customer join from his phone and walk off, so he comes back for his turn and doesn't end up in the shop next door.
The problem
They look in, count heads, and keep walking.
Saturday is the day everyone is free, so it's the day your bench is full by nine. A man stops at the door, counts five heads, and decides to come another day. Most of the time he gets his haircut somewhere else.
The ones who stay keep asking who's next. You answer with scissors in your hand. Somebody says he was here first. Nothing was written down, so nobody can be sure.
With LainMa the order is recorded the moment someone joins, and everyone can see it. The customer who would have walked away takes a spot from the door, goes for tea, and comes back when his phone says two people are left ahead of him.
How it works
How a customer joins your queue.
They scan the QR at the door
The code opens your shop's page: how many are waiting, and which barbers are in today.
They pick their barber
The one they always go to, or whoever is free first. A name, a phone number, done.
Their phone brings them back
An alert at two ahead, at one ahead, and when it's their turn. You tap Next and the right name comes up.
Made for busy hands
Run the shop without putting the scissors down.
One tap calls the next customer
Next shows the name at the front of your line. If there's a cut to finish first, the amount is already filled in from your price list.
Regulars wait for their barber
Each barber has a line. A customer who only trusts one pair of hands waits there, and the other lines keep moving.
A no-show doesn't block the line
Called and not there? Mark it and the queue moves on. He can scan the code again when he's back.
The notebook math is done for you
Every finished cut is counted. At closing you see the day's customers and takings for each barber, with the week beside it.
Questions
What barbers ask.
Add him yourself as a walk-in: pick the barber and type a name. It takes two taps, and he sits in the same queue as everyone who scanned.
No. One phone or tablet in the shop runs the whole queue, with a line for each barber working today.
Yes. Tap Break on his line. The customers waiting for him see that he's on a short break, and they keep their place.
3% of the sales you record in the app. There is no monthly fee and no setup fee, and a day with no sales costs nothing. Customers never pay.
Stop losing the ones who walk past.
Leave your details and we'll set your shop up by hand. It's checked and live the same day.
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