Your business gets its own phone number. Your clients can actually text it.
Most booking platforms send appointment texts from a shared, no-reply number. Your client replies "can we do 3 instead?" — and nobody ever sees it.
A real number, a real conversation
Every Atelier business with text reminders gets its own dedicated texting number. Reminders and confirmations come from your number, not a random short code. When a client texts back, the message lands in your inbox — a real two-way conversation, attached to their appointment history.
Add the AI assistant and your number answers itself
With the AI Booking Assistant, that same number works around the clock: clients text to book, reschedule, or ask "do you have anything Saturday?" — the AI handles it, and your staff approve by text. One number. Your number.
The fine print other platforms hope you don't read
On one major scheduling platform, texts come from a shared pool — and a client who replies STOP to any business has opted out of texts from every business on the platform. The marketplace platforms send texts a client cannot reply to at all ("this message isn't meant to be replied to"). And the premium salon platforms do offer a real number — as a $70/month phone line on a $120+/month plan, or built into plans starting near $176/month.
Atelier includes number setup and 500 texts a month with text reminders — which come with every paid plan, or as a $15/mo add-on on the free Starter plan.
Four things every Atelier tenant gets, on day one
- A brand-fit URL. Pick a vertical-branded subdomain on day one (yourshop.atelier.salon, .tattoo, .spa, .dance, .fitness, .golf, .dog, .pet, .skin, or seated.studio). Connect a domain you own any time — no upgrade tier.
- Pick a plan, not a parts list. Forms, staff profiles, two-way calendar sync, no-show protection, waitlists, resource scheduling, multi-location support, reviews and in-person card payments — all in the plan, including the free one. Gift cards, packages and text reminders come with every paid plan. That leaves two clearly-priced extras (the Marketing Suite and the AI assistant), and Website Pro folds the first of those in too.
- Flat as your team grows. Unlimited staff, services, and customers — the same bill with five team members as with fifty, on every plan. Additional locations are a flat $25/month each, with your full plan at each.
- A free directory listing. Every paid plan (Booking Pro and up) is auto-listed in the public Atelier directory. New customers find you there and click straight through to your booking URL — no commission, no per-booking fee, no marketplace cut.
Start free. Take real bookings today.
Free to start, and your first month of any paid plan is free — paid plans from $29 a month after that. Cancel any time. Bring your domain, your brand, even your own Stripe, Square or Clover account. Atelier Booking handles the rest.