For salons on Chapel Street, Sydney Road or Glenferrie Road, upstairs in a CBD building or in a suburban shopping strip: a site that sets out your menu and prices, introduces each stylist, tells clients which tram and stop to take, and hands them to the booking system you already run. You pay nothing until you've approved the draft.
A client choosing a salon in a city this spread out wants to know quickly whether you're near home, near work or on a tram line they already ride. Four things settle it: the suburb, the menu, the people and the way in.
Many clients search by suburb, for a hairdresser in Brunswick, Prahran or Hawthorn, rather than across the whole city. Put the suburb and street in the page title, the first heading and the footer, spelled exactly as your Google Business Profile spells it. If you're near something locals already know, such as a market, a station or a well-known corner, use it in the directions.
Melbourne's tram stops have numbers as well as names, and Yarra Trams' route guides list both. A line naming the route, the direction of travel and the stop number is quicker to follow than a description of the block. Add the nearest train station, and for an upstairs or arcade salon, the entrance, the lift and the level. For a long colour appointment, name a car park instead of the nearest timed bay.
Cuts, colour and styling come first; brow and lash tinting next; then waxing, threading, nails or lash extensions if you offer them. In Victoria those beauty services can change how your salon is registered with its council, so a menu laid out this way shows clients what's available and lets you add a section once the registration side is settled. The section further down explains.
Spring brings the Melbourne Cup Carnival at Flemington, on top of weddings and formals. An event styling page can say how early you start, whether you'll style around a headpiece the client brings, how many people you can fit in before 9am and how deposits work. Its enquiry form asks for the date, the number in the group and the time they need to leave.
Melbourne Cup Day and the Friday before the AFL Grand Final are Victorian public holidays, and the Friday's date depends on when the AFL schedules the Grand Final. Whether you open, close or run a shorter day, say so on the site and on your Google Business Profile in the same words. Updating those lines each year is a text edit covered by hosting.
A Victorian council registration covers hygiene at the premises, not the skills of the people working there, and the official notice at your entrance says so. The team page is where clients find out who trained where: a Certificate III, years behind the chair, colour or cutting education, and who is an apprentice. Each profile can open that stylist's diary in your booking system if it offers a link per stylist.
Victoria handles hairdressing differently from NSW. The state stopped registering individual hairdressers when the Hairdressers Registration Act was repealed on 1 January 1986 (opens in a new tab), and what it regulates now is the premises. Under the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008 a salon registers with the council it trades in, and since March 2016 a business offering only hairdressing or temporary make-up can hold a one-off ongoing registration instead of renewing. The Department of Health's information sheet (opens in a new tab) lists the services that end that: facials and body treatments, eyelash extensions, manicures and pedicures, artificial nails and hair removal, among others, which move the business onto periodic registration. The department's notice about registration (opens in a new tab), displayed at the salon's entry, says registration doesn't apply to the quality of the work or the qualifications of the people doing it. For the NSW comparison, where the Hairdressers Act 2003 still requires a qualification to cut hair for a fee, see our Sydney salon page.
Each council runs its own forms and fees, so a salon in Fitzroy and one in Hawthorn won't follow identical steps. Stonnington (opens in a new tab), which covers Prahran and Toorak, charges hairdressing a one-off fee and puts brow and lash tinting and extensions in the same category, while waxing and threading carry an annual renewal; an environmental health officer visits before a new business starts trading. Banyule (opens in a new tab), in the north-east, says an ongoing registration stays in force until the business closes or changes hands, inspects the premises when a registration is transferred, and lists temporary make-up, henna, spray tans and brow and lash tinting as low-risk beauty. Notice that the state sheet and Stonnington treat lash extensions differently. Salons in and around the inner city deal with the City of Melbourne, Yarra (Fitzroy, Collingwood, Richmond), Port Phillip (St Kilda, South Melbourne), Stonnington, Boroondara (Hawthorn, Camberwell) or Merri-bek (Brunswick, Coburg). Before waxing or lashes go on the website, check with the council your address falls in.
Most directions here run on trams and trains. The central city and Docklands sit inside the Free Tram Zone (opens in a new tab), where a tram trip made entirely inside the zone is free; Yarra Trams says a trip that starts or finishes outside it needs a valid ticket, and trains and buses always do. Stops have numbers as well as names, and Yarra Trams' route guides (opens in a new tab) list both, so a contact page can give the route, the direction of travel and the stop number. Since 30 November 2025 the Metro Tunnel has served five new stations, Arden, Parkville, State Library, Town Hall and Anzac, with State Library connected underground to Melbourne Central and Town Hall to Flinders Street. A salon on Swanston Street or St Kilda Road can name the closest of them and the exit to use.
Spring has its own Melbourne calendar. The Victoria Racing Club runs the Melbourne Cup Carnival (opens in a new tab) at Flemington over four race days: Derby Day, Cup Day, Oaks Day and Champions Stakes Day. Its Fashions on the Field (opens in a new tab) competition starts in early October and holds its final on Oaks Day. The VRC's what-to-wear guide (opens in a new tab) calls black and white the signature style for Derby Day, so clients may ask for a style that suits a black or white headpiece. Under the Public Holidays Act 1993 (opens in a new tab), Cup Day, the first Tuesday in November, is a public holiday across Victoria, except where the Minister has substituted another day at a non-metropolitan council's request. If race-day styling is part of your work, a page stating your earliest start, group sizes and deposit terms answers the questions before they reach your phone.
We're an Adelaide team and work with Melbourne businesses by phone and email. Our Melbourne client, Dr Tabara Dione, is a specialist anaesthetist who coaches other doctors. Hers isn't a salon site, but its booking set-up, a button on every page, is the kind a salon would use, as the next section shows.
We haven't built a hair salon site yet. Our Melbourne client takes bookings through a button on every page, and our Sydney client's priced packages each open an online booking, which is how a salon menu works.
Confidential coaching for doctors, led by a Melbourne specialist anaesthetist. A discovery-call button on every page opens her booking page, alongside a services overview, an about page covering her credentials and a contact form. Swap the discovery call for a cut and colour and the structure carries straight over: one clear button, wherever the visitor happens to be reading.
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A family law dispute resolution practice in Sydney, with six service pages and FAQs, a five-step intake form, and priced packages that each lead into online booking. Set out as cuts, colour, treatments and race-day styling, the same layout becomes a salon menu with a booking link beside each price.
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$399
Menu and prices, the Book now button, hours including Victorian public holidays, tram and parking directions, and a line on each stylist, on one page. Suits a solo stylist, a chair renter or a home studio.
Our suggestion for most Melbourne salons
$899
A home page with booking and directions, a menu page with hair and any beauty services set out separately, and a team page with each stylist's training, specialties and days in.
$1,499
Room for race-day and bridal styling, extensions, colour correction, a beauty menu, policies and gift vouchers, or a page for each salon if you run two in different suburbs.
On the website, a new section with prices and aftercare, which is a text change covered by the $30 monthly hosting if it goes on an existing page. The registration side comes first and is separate: the Department of Health's information sheet lists hair removal among the services that take a salon off ongoing registration, and councils such as Stonnington put waxing in a category renewed every year. Check with your council before the new menu goes live.
That's a question for your council rather than us. The Department of Health's notice about registration is made for display at the entry to your premises, and it says registration doesn't cover the quality of procedures or anyone's qualifications. A website can cover what registration doesn't: who trained where, who is an apprentice and what each person is known for, in wording you supply and approve.
Yes. If your booking system takes deposits, the event page links straight to that service. If you'd rather have booking and payment built into your own site, we quote that per job. A simpler start is an enquiry form asking for the race day, the number of people, the time they need to leave and whether they're bringing a headpiece, so you can confirm before anyone pays.
Give the street number and building name, which door is open, whether there's a lift, and the level and suite. Then the tram route and stop number, the nearest Metro Tunnel or City Loop station with its exit, and a photo of the entrance you've taken. We put the directions beside the Book now button, and you can paste the same words into your booking system's confirmation message.
There are two things to sort. Council registration doesn't simply carry on: Banyule, for example, says an ongoing registration lasts until the business closes or changes hands, and it inspects the premises when a registration is transferred. For the website, ask the seller to hand over the domain name as part of the sale. We then build the new site and keep the domain registered in your name. We don't host sites someone else built, so the old one is replaced rather than taken over.
By phone and email, fitted around trading hours: a call before the first client or after close, and emails you can answer between appointments. We're a web design team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St, Adelaide, with current clients in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD, including Dr Tabara Dione in Melbourne. You approve the draft before you pay anything, and we reply within 24 hours.
Send us your menu and prices, your booking link, your team's names and training, the tram stop or car park you'd point a new client to, and a few photos of finished work. We'll quote, build the draft, and you pay only once you approve it.
We reply within 24 hours. Prefer email? info@webcraftstudio.com.au