For salons on The Parade at Norwood, Jetty Road at Glenelg or O'Connell Street in North Adelaide, inside Westfield Marion or Tea Tree Plaza, or in a home studio out in the suburbs: a site that sets out your prices, says who on the team is qualified for what, gives directions by free tram, bus or O-Bahn, and passes clients to the booking system you already use. Built by a web design team on Hutt St, and you pay only after approving the draft.
Before booking with a salon they haven't tried, most people want three answers: roughly what it will cost, who will be doing their hair, and how easy you are to get to. Each item below settles one of those for a South Australian salon.
South Australia still ties paid hairdressing to a qualification, so a team page that names each person's Certificate III, or says plainly that someone is an apprentice, matches what the state already expects. Add the days each stylist works and what they're known for, such as fine blondes, curly cuts, skin fades or bridal up-styles, plus a button that opens their own column in your booking system where it offers one.
One figure for a full head of foils rarely holds for every client. Show a starting price, then what moves it: length and thickness, the stylist's level, and whether toner or a treatment is part of it. Services that need a consultation first, like colour correction or extensions, go under their own heading with a sentence saying why, so nobody gets a surprise at the front desk.
If clients already book through Fresha or another salon system, we link to it from the header, beside each price and on each stylist's profile, so someone can book from wherever they happen to be reading. If you'd rather have booking and deposits built into the site itself, we quote that per job. Either way, your cancellation and late-arrival policy sits next to the button, not three clicks away.
A city salon can tell clients they can ride the free tram along King William Street or North Terrace, or a free City Connector bus, and name the stop to get off at. In Glenelg the tram is also free along Jetty Road, from Brighton Road to Moseley Square. Clients from the north-east may come in on the O-Bahn to Tea Tree Plaza. For a three-hour colour, point drivers to a car park rather than a time-limited street park.
To stay inside South Australia's home activity limits, a home business can't display goods in a window or around the house, so for a home studio the website carries what a street-front salon would put on display: the products you stock, photos of the room clients will sit in, where to park, and a line saying the street address comes with the booking confirmation.
Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve become public holidays here at 7pm, and the Supercars finale shuts streets around the East Parklands for more than a week each year. Whatever you decide about late appointments and event weeks, say it on the site and on your Google Business Profile in the same words. Changing those lines each year is a text edit covered by hosting.
Who can do the work. South Australia keeps its own law on this, and it isn't Victoria's. Under the Hairdressers Act 1988 (opens in a new tab), an unqualified person who carries on the practice of hairdressing for fee or reward is guilty of an offence, and so is employing one, though the Act doesn't stop a qualified person employing an apprentice. The SA Hair and Beauty Association (opens in a new tab) sums it up: no licence is needed to run a salon, but the qualification is. The state's licence listing on business.gov.au (opens in a new tab) names the Certificate III in Hairdressing and the Certificate III in Barbering as prescribed qualifications, and describes a recognition application for anyone who intends to work as a hairdresser without meeting them. Victoria dropped its hairdresser registration decades ago and now regulates only the premises, as our Melbourne salon page explains, so on an Adelaide team page a qualification line reflects what the law asks of each stylist, not only a selling point. Whether a particular stylist meets the rule is a question for the association, which the listing gives as the contact for recognition, not for your web designer.
Your council and its inspections. The premises side belongs to councils, whose environmental health officers administer the South Australian Public Health Act 2011 and apply SA Health's Guideline on the Public Health Standards of Practice for Hairdressing (opens in a new tab), and each one runs it a little differently. The City of Adelaide (opens in a new tab) asks a hairdressing, personal care or body art business to notify it through an online form when trading begins, sends environmental health officers to inspect salons across the city and North Adelaide, and lists waxing among the skin penetration procedures that bring SA Health's skin penetration guidelines in as well. West Torrens (opens in a new tab) asks hair, beauty and skin penetration businesses to register through an application form, then gives low-risk hairdressers a self-assessment that in most cases replaces the routine visit, while beauty and skin penetration businesses stay on routine inspections. Unley (opens in a new tab) inspects hair, beauty and skin penetration premises on a routine basis, says random inspections may also happen, and names the Public Health Act as the law its officers work under. A salon on O'Connell Street and one on Unley Road won't follow identical steps, so before waxing or brow work goes on your menu, check with the council your address falls in.
Working from home. If you cut hair from a room at home, the planning rules spell out when that needs no approval. The state defines a home activity, as West Torrens (opens in a new tab) and Burnside (opens in a new tab) both quote it, as a business run by someone living on the site that doesn't harm the amenity of the area and doesn't involve, among other limits, help from more than one non-resident, more than 30 square metres of floor area, or goods displayed in a window or about the house. Burnside says an activity inside those limits isn't development and needs no council approval, though it asks for a letter describing how the business will run; West Torrens says one outside them needs development approval. That is a separate matter from telling the council about the salon for public health purposes. For the website, it means a home studio's page has to do the work a shop window normally would.
Getting clients to the chair. Some of Adelaide's public transport is free, and a city salon's contact page should say so. The City of Adelaide's transport page (opens in a new tab) puts the free tram zone between the South Terrace, Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Festival Plaza and Botanic Gardens stops, and says the free City Connector buses 98A and 98C loop the CBD and North Adelaide every day, with the 99A and 99C looping the CBD on weekdays. At the beach end of the line, the Glenelg tram (opens in a new tab) is also free along Jetty Road (opens in a new tab), which runs about a kilometre from Brighton Road to Moseley Square. In the north-east, the O-Bahn ends at the Tea Tree Plaza Interchange beside Westfield Tea Tree Plaza in Modbury, and the interchange has its own multi-level car park. Westfield Marion, at Oaklands Park, is described as the largest shopping centre in Adelaide, with about 342 retailers over four levels, so a salon inside it should give its level and the nearest entrance.
The calendar, and working with us. Two things on the calendar are particular to South Australia. Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve are part-day public holidays from 7pm to midnight, as SafeWork SA (opens in a new tab) lists them, so if you take late bookings in Christmas week, the site should say which nights. And late each year the Supercars season finale takes over the streets around the East Parklands: the 2026 bp Adelaide Grand Final (opens in a new tab) runs from 26 to 29 November, and InDaily reports (opens in a new tab) that Hutt Street, Bartels Road and Dequetteville Terrace close for 11 days each year for it, and Wakefield Street and East Terrace for 13, with a MotoGP street race planned for November 2027 too. We're at Ste 3/110 Hutt St, one of the streets on that list. Most of our projects run by phone and email, which suits an owner who's behind the chair all day, but if you'd rather sit down with us before we start, call and we'll find a time.
We haven't built a hair salon site yet, and none of our South Australian clients is a salon. These three show the parts a salon site is made of: priced services that lead straight into a booking, gift vouchers beside a photo gallery, and a form that shows a price range before anyone commits.
A Sydney family dispute resolution practice. Each priced package opens online booking, alongside six service pages, FAQs and a five-step intake form. Replace the packages with a cut, a half head of foils and a blow-dry, and the layout becomes a salon menu where every price carries its own Book button.
Visit the Resolve Forward site (opens in a new tab) See it in our portfolio
Full-day fishing charters from Cape Jervis, south of Adelaide. One page holds a booking request form, gift voucher requests, a gallery of catches, customer reviews, an FAQ and a map. A salon would use the voucher request and the gallery in the same way, with finished colour work where the fish are.
Visit the Cape Fishing Charters site (opens in a new tab) See it in our portfolio
Adelaide structural engineers with four service pages and 16 articles. Their quote form shows fee ranges and takes file uploads. On a salon site the same idea lets a client choose a colour service, see the range for their hair length, and attach a photo of their current colour before a consultation.
Visit the Simple Engineers site (opens in a new tab) See it in our portfolio
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Prices, the Book now button, your hours with Christmas week spelled out, directions by tram, bus or car park, and a short line on each stylist, all on one scrolling page. Suits a chair renter, a mobile stylist or a home studio.
Our suggestion for most Adelaide salons
$899
A home page with booking and directions, a price page that explains what changes a colour quote, and a team page giving each stylist's qualification, specialties and days in.
$1,499
Space for bridal and formal styling, extensions, colour correction, retail products, policies and gift vouchers, or a page each for two salons, say one on The Parade and one in Glenelg.
For paid hairdressing, the state law says so. South Australia's Hairdressers Act 1988 makes it an offence for an unqualified person to carry on hairdressing for fee or reward, and doesn't stop a qualified person employing an apprentice. The business.gov.au listing (opens in a new tab) names the prescribed Certificate III qualifications and explains how someone without one applies for recognition. On the site, each profile shows the details you give us, qualified stylist, senior or apprentice, in your own wording.
On the website, a new heading with prices and aftercare; if it goes on a page you already have, that's a text change covered by the $30 monthly hosting, and if it needs a page of its own, we quote that first. Sort the council side first. The City of Adelaide counts waxing as a skin penetration procedure, which brings SA Health's skin penetration guidelines in, and West Torrens keeps beauty and skin penetration businesses on routine inspections even where hairdressers self-assess. Ask the council your salon sits in before the new menu goes live.
The suburb is usually enough on the public pages, with the street address sent in the booking confirmation. The page can still show the studio itself, the products you sell and where to park, which matters more when staying inside the home activity limits means no goods on show in a window. If more than one helper who doesn't live there works with you, or the salon takes up more than 30 square metres, ask your council whether you need approval, because that falls outside the home activity limits.
Put a notice near the top of your home and contact pages a couple of weeks ahead, with the dates, the streets affected and the car park or tram stop you'd suggest instead, and repeat it in your booking confirmations. The closures run well past the race weekend: InDaily reports 11 days a year for Hutt Street, Bartels Road and Dequetteville Terrace and 13 for Wakefield Street and East Terrace. Adding and removing that text on existing pages is covered by hosting, and from 2027 it may need to cover MotoGP as well, planned for about three weeks before the Supercars.
Yes. We're at Ste 3/110 Hutt St, Adelaide SA 5000; ring 0451 072 412 and we'll arrange a time. If your book is full, the whole job can run by email instead: send your price list, booking link, stylist details and photos of your work, a draft link comes back, and you ask for changes until it's right. You pay once you approve it, and we reply within 24 hours.
Email us your prices, the link clients book through, who's on the team and what each person holds, and photos of work you're proud of. Working from home? Tell us the suburb and where clients park. We'll come back with a quote, then a draft you can change as often as you like before you pay.
We reply within 24 hours. Prefer email? info@webcraftstudio.com.au