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SaloonERP

About

We audited the market, then built the opposite

Most salon software is a generic CRM with a scissors icon. We started by writing down everything the existing tools got wrong, and treated that list as the specification.

The origin

It started with a bad Saturday

A three-chair salon in Kathmandu, a paper queue on the counter, a cash tin, and a notebook where memberships lived. On a busy Saturday the queue got out of order, two clients were promised the same stylist, and one walked out without paying because nobody was tracking the bill.

The close that night took forty minutes and still did not balance. Not because anyone stole anything — because there was no single place where money movements were recorded once and only once.

Every design decision in SaloonERP traces back to a version of that evening.

“A report that is roughly correct is worse than no report — it gets used.”

Our first written principle, and still the one we argue about most.

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Salons running daily

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Chairs

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Products audited first

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People building it

What we believe

Four things we will not trade away

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The number has to be right

A report that is roughly correct is worse than no report — it gets used. Every figure we show carries the window it covers and the definition behind it.

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Built for the busy hour

Design decisions get made for 5pm on a Saturday, not for a calm demo. Fewer taps, bigger targets, no dialogs that block the till.

03

Your data is yours

Full CSV export from day one, no export fee, no retention hostage-taking. If we stop being useful, leaving should be easy.

04

Local by default

Bikram Sambat and Gregorian dates, per-market currency and note denominations, PAN, GST and VAT on vendors, and the payment rails your customers actually use. Not a Western product with a translation file bolted on.

How we got here

The short version

2021

Lacspace starts building

The parent company opens in Asia and begins shipping software for other people’s businesses — education, lending, healthcare, retail. Twenty-six products and a hundred clients later, a pattern is obvious: the messiest books are always on a shop floor.

2024

A salon, three notebooks and a bad Saturday

Asha was running a three-chair salon in Kathmandu with a paper queue, a cash tin and a membership list in a notebook. The close took forty minutes and never quite balanced.

2025

We audited what was already out there

Twelve products, one of them line by line. We found a production API running in debug mode, tables with no sort order, and dashboards showing two different numbers for the same thing.

2025

Wrote down the rules before the code

Money as integers. Every figure carries its window. Every table sorts. Nothing keyboard users cannot reach. These became the specification.

2026

First salon closed its till on SaloonERP

Four minutes, variance zero, and a trail the owner could show her accountant without apologising for it.

Now

128 salons, 340 chairs

Across India, Nepal and the wider region, supported from Nagpur and Kathmandu, with a mobile app that updates over the air and a roadmap driven by what owners actually ask for.

The team

Four people, one product

Asha Rai

Co-founder, Product

Ran a three-chair salon for six years before writing a line of this.

Kartik Thakur

Co-founder, Engineering

Built payment and ledger systems before deciding salons deserved better ones.

Nisha Tamang

Design

Obsessed with contrast ratios and tap targets. Has opinions about tables.

Prakash Thapa

Customer success

Has personally reconciled more salon tills than anyone should have to.

How we work

Small team, visible decisions

We publish the changelog

Every release is written down with what changed and why. If we break something, that is in there too.

Owners set the roadmap

The next thing we build is almost always the thing three salons asked for in the same month.

No growth theatre

No fake urgency, no dark patterns, no cancellation maze. Leaving is one click in Settings.

Accessibility is not phase two

Contrast, keyboard access and tap targets are in the component library, not on a backlog.

We answer our own support

The people who built it read the emails. It keeps us honest about what is confusing.

The company

Built by Lacspace

Lacspace is an Asia-based technology company building AI-powered products and custom software. SaloonERP is one product in an ecosystem that spans education, fintech, healthcare and retail.

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Clients worldwide

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Products shipped

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Offices across Asia

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Building since

The rest of the ecosystem

SaloonERP shares its engineering standards — integer money, append-only ledgers, accessibility budgets — with every other product on this list. A fix in one tends to become a rule in all of them.

EdTech

Sikhaku

A creator course marketplace — pay once, keep forever, watch offline.

FinTech

Khepee

Digital lending infrastructure for NRB-licensed banks and financial institutions.

HealthTech

CareSewa

Care coordination built for South Asian clinics.

Accounting

Lekhio

Bookkeeping that speaks the local tax vocabulary.

EdTech

iSmartClass

Smart-classroom tooling for schools.

Computer vision

ScanSewa

Document and identity capture for onboarding flows.

Come and break it.

Fourteen days, full access, no card. Tell us what we got wrong — that is genuinely how this gets better.