The salon website builder that keeps your chairs booked.

Zarla is an AI website builder for small businesses, purpose-built for salons. It generates your entire salon website in about 30 seconds — industry-specific content, local SEO, and built-in lead tracking (a CRM) included. Building and previewing is free; publishing it live starts on the Premium plan. We scored seven website builders for hair salons the same way, on nine tests worth 18 points: Wix 15, Zarla 15, GoDaddy 12, Squarespace 11, WordPress.com 11, GlossGenius 9, Vagaro 9. See every score, and each builder's catch.

Zarla's salon website builder is free to build and preview — no credit card required. Publishing your site live starts on the Premium plan, which includes hosting, SSL, unlimited lead tracking (a CRM), online bookings, and unlimited quotes and invoices.

With Zarla's salon website builder, just describe your business in plain English and your entire site is generated in about 30 seconds — content, images, layout, design, and SEO. You can then customize as much or as little as you want — most salons go from a blank page to a finished site in minutes.

Yes — that's what Zarla's salon website builder is designed for. Every site comes with SEO-optimized titles, meta descriptions, schema markup, fast page speeds, and mobile-responsive design. Zarla also builds in local SEO signals so you can rank in the Google Maps pack when people search "hair salon near me."

Not at all. Zarla's AI builds your salon website automatically — you just describe your business in plain English. Edit anything by typing what you want changed, like "make the headline bigger" or "add a testimonials section." If you can send a text message, you can build a website with Zarla.

On our scores for hair salons, Zarla shares first place with Wix. The difference is how you work: Zarla writes the whole salon website from a sentence about your business and you change it by typing, with a leads inbox, invoices and payments in the same place; Wix and Squarespace suit owners who like building and fine-tuning the site themselves.

That's the whole point of Zarla. It's built to get you found on Google Search, Google Maps, and AI assistants like ChatGPT — and then convert those visitors into actual leads. Every inquiry is captured in a built-in CRM pipeline, and you can send AI-generated quotes and invoices right from the platform.

Yes. Zarla's salon website builder adapts to your specialty and location — it generates content and design matched to the specific services you offer and the clients you serve.

You can, and for a complex custom build it is often the right call. In the US a freelancer typically charges $500–$2,000 for a small-business site and an agency $3,000–$10,000, and you usually wait two to six weeks; unless you are on a retainer, later changes are billed too. Zarla builds your salon website in about 30 seconds and you change it yourself by typing what you want. Build and preview it free first, then decide.

Most "free" builders mean a trial that expires, or a permanent plan that puts their branding on your site and parks it on a long subdomain. Zarla is free to build, preview and edit — no credit card — and publishing your salon website live on your own domain starts on the Premium plan. Nothing is charged while you're deciding.

General assistants like ChatGPT and Claude write good copy and will happily produce a page for you, but you are left to arrange hosting, a domain, images, forms and SEO before anyone can visit it. A purpose-built AI website builder does that part too: Zarla turns one description of your salon business into a finished, hosted site with all of it already in place, shaped the way salons actually need it.

No. Your salon website needs hosting to show up when someone searches "hair salon near me", but Zarla hosts it for you once you publish on a paid plan: Google Cloud, the security certificate and automatic backups included, and no hosting account or plugins for salons to look after. Read when separate hosting makes sense.

Salon management is a job for salon software: Vagaro, GlossGenius, Fresha, Boulevard and Square Appointments run the booking calendar, deposits, reminders, client notes and checkout. The website is where a new client finds you on Google and decides to book, so it needs your services, your prices, your work and one clear way to book. Zarla builds that website, with online booking synced to your Google Calendar, gift cards and every inquiry in one leads inbox; if you already book through salon software, your site can link to it.

One that shows your work before anything else: big, real photos of cuts and color, a service menu with starting prices, your stylists, and a booking button that stays in reach on a phone, where most clients look. Keep the colors to your salon's own look and the words short. Zarla's salon templates, from balayage and curly-hair studios to nail bars and blow-dry bars, are finished designs to start from, and every one becomes yours to edit in a click.

In the US, having a salon website built for you typically costs $500–$2,000 from a freelancer or $3,000–$10,000 from an agency, plus a domain (usually $10–$20 a year) and hosting, and salon software often includes a basic booking page with its monthly fee. A do-it-yourself website builder usually costs $15–$30 a month for the site alone, and you set up booking, the gallery and the service menu yourself. With Zarla, building and previewing your salon website is free, and publishing it on your own domain starts on the Premium plan, with online booking, gift cards and the leads inbox included.

Your services with starting prices, photos of your work, your stylists and their specialties, your hours, address and a map, your deposit and cancellation policy, real reviews, and a way to book. Zarla builds the pages, the map and an inquiry form for you, and you add your prices, stylists and photos as you go.