Customizing Email Templates

Customize the emails Salonnare sends to your clients -- subject, content, brand styling and merge tags, per language, with a visual editor and live preview.

Customizing Email Templates

Salonnare automatically sends emails to your clients: a confirmation after a booking, a reminder before the appointment, a review request afterwards, and more. Every template has a polished default, but you can fully tailor the subject and content to your own brand -- per language.

Screenshot of the email templates

Opening the overview

  1. Go to Settings in the sidebar.

  2. Open the Email templates section.

  3. You'll see all templates, grouped by category:

    • Reminders -- follow-up emails around the appointment (confirmation follow-up, pre-sell, 24 hours before, no-show recovery, rebook nudge).
    • Booking -- confirmation, change and cancellation of an appointment.
    • Payment -- deposit, payment confirmation, no-show fees, receipt and payment link.
    • Memberships -- payment and reminder for memberships.
    • Marketing -- birthday, review request, gift card, waitlist and intake invite.

Each template carries two labels:

  • Customized or Default -- whether you've customized this template (in at least one language).
  • Brand-styled or Free layout -- whether the template is wrapped in your brand template (logo, colors) or has its own free design.

Editing a template

  1. Click Edit on the template you want to change.
  2. The template opens in a full-screen editor.
  3. Pick the language at the top (NL, EN, DE, FR, ES). You edit each language separately.
  4. Adjust the Subject in the text field at the top.
  5. Edit the content in the visual editor: drag blocks, type text and set formatting -- no code knowledge required.
  6. Click Save.
Languages you don't customize automatically use the default template. So you don't need to edit all five languages -- only the ones you actually use.

Inserting merge tags

Merge tags are placeholders that are automatically filled in with the real details of the client and the appointment when the email is sent. Above the editor they appear as clickable chips -- click one to insert it at the cursor position.

Commonly used tags:

  • {{clientName}} -- the client's name
  • {{salonName}} -- your salon's name
  • {{date}}, {{startTime}}, {{endTime}} -- date and time of the appointment
  • {{serviceName}}, {{serviceDuration}}, {{servicePrice}} -- the booked service
  • {{staffName}} -- the staff member
  • {{behandelingen}} -- a multi-line list of all booked services
  • {{notes}} -- the note on the appointment
  • {{amount}}, {{paymentMethod}} -- amount and payment method (in payment emails)
  • {{reviewUrl}}, {{paymentUrl}}, {{bookingUrl}} -- links to review, payment or online booking

Which tags make sense depends on the template: use {{amount}} only in a payment email, {{reviewUrl}} only in the review request, and so on.

Brand styling: logo and colors

Templates labeled Brand-styled are wrapped in your brand template, so your logo and accent color come along automatically. You set those brand settings (logo, accent color, button color) centrally -- the templates pick them up, so you don't have to set them per email.

Previewing

  1. Click Preview at the top right.
  2. A panel slides open with the rendered email, filled with sample data so you can see merge tags actually working.
  3. Switch between views with the Desktop / Mobile buttons. The mobile view shows the email at phone width.

Reverting to the default

Want to undo your changes?

  • In the editor, Reset to default resets the language version you're currently editing.
  • In the overview, Reset to default on a template resets all language versions of that template at once.
Resetting cannot be undone. Your customized text is lost and the template falls back to the default.
  • Notifications -- decide which emails are sent at all.
  • Campaigns -- one-off newsletters and promotions to your clients.

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