Every Salon Website Needs a Book Now Button. Cantrip's Doesn't Book Anything by Itself.

Every Salon Website Needs a Book Now Button. Cantrip's Doesn't Book Anything by Itself.

A salon menu isn't complicated. A dozen services, a dozen prices, and a way to grab a slot. Every salon or spa site basically needs the same three things: a price list, some photos of the work, and a button that gets someone in the chair. Cantrip handles two of those out of the box. The third one is where you actually have to make a decision.

The section built for this is called Services. Add a card for each treatment: a title, a price (it's a plain text field, so "$85" and "Starting at $60" both work fine), a description, an optional photo, and a button. Set the layout to a two-column grid if you want the photos doing some work, or switch to a full-width list if you'd rather keep it tight and scannable. Every card gets its own button, and you can rename the label to whatever fits: Schedule, Reserve, Call to Book.

Here's the part worth knowing before you build the page. That button is just a link. Cantrip doesn't have a calendar or a scheduling engine sitting behind it, nothing checking your actual availability. You pick where it points. If you're already running appointments through something like Square, Vagaro, or Boulevard, send the button straight to your booking page there and you're done in five minutes. If you're a solo stylist running your calendar out of your own head and a group text, point it at your contact form and let people request a time instead of grabbing one automatically.

That's not a workaround. It's the real design. Cantrip's pitch is a cheap, simple website, not a full salon management platform with deposits and staff calendars built in. Wiring a scheduling engine into every theme would mean building and maintaining one, and most salons already pay for a booking tool that does that job better than a generic website builder ever could. The Services section's job is to make your menu look good and hand off cleanly to whatever you're already using to take appointments.

If your menu runs long (a full day spa with facials, massages, waxing, and add-ons can easily hit thirty or forty lines), the Services section's cards start to mean a lot of scrolling. That's when the plain Table section is the better call. Same idea, different shape: rows instead of cards, no photos, and you can turn on a search box and pagination so a visitor can type "facial" and skip straight to that part of the menu instead of scrolling past every haircut style first.

Neither one is the correct choice for everybody. A boutique salon with six services and good before-and-after photos should probably use Services and let the images carry it. A spa with a forty-item menu split across five categories is better off in a searchable table. Pick based on how long your list actually is, not on which one looks nicer in the editor.