How RewireBox fits together
One booking becomes a bill, and the bill becomes everything else — the five-minute mental model that answers most "how does it know that?" questions.
3 min readUpdated August 16, 2026
There is one idea underneath every screen in RewireBox, and it takes about a minute to learn: an appointment is the seed, and money is the harvest.
A client, a stylist, a service and a time make an appointment. The appointment, once it has happened, becomes a sale. The sale, once it is paid, becomes commission, takings, tax and a line in that client's history. Every screen you will open is a view of some step along that line.
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- 2The red line is the current time
The whole loop, once
Priya books a colour with Mia for Thursday at 10
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It's booked. The appointment copies the price and the duration off your menu as they are today. A confirmation goes out carrying a link to her own page.
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She confirms. She taps the link — no app, no password — and the status changes. Nobody at the salon touches anything, and nothing is sent to you, because she didn't ask a question.
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She arrives. Front desk presses Check in, the stylist presses Start.
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She checks out. Press Check out and the cart is already holding the colour at the price she was quoted, attributed to Mia.
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She pays. The moment the payments cover the total, the sale closes — and closing freezes the commission, moves any retail stock, credits the cash drawer and marks the appointment complete.
That last step is why tidying up statuses at the end of the day is usually a sign that a sale is still open somewhere, rather than something anyone needs to do.
Nothing you change today rewrites yesterday
This is the part worth trusting, because the fear underneath it is an accountant's fear.
Every number that matters is copied at the moment it mattered. The appointment copies the price off your menu. The sale line copies the price off the appointment, plus the tax rate at that moment. The closing sale copies the stylist's commission rate.
So putting your haircut up from $40 to $45 tonight changes tomorrow's bookings and nothing else. Appointments already on the book stay at what the client was quoted. Last month's takings don't move, and last fortnight's payroll can't drift.
Where the money goes
Card payments run through Stripe into your own Stripe account. RewireBox never holds your takings and adds no percentage of its own to a card payment on any plan — Stripe's processing fee comes out of the charge, and that's all. Cash and gift cards never touch Stripe; they're recorded in the ledger, and cash is credited to the drawer.
Your subscription to RewireBox is a separate thing entirely, and has nothing to do with what your clients pay you.
Where everything lives
Five apps sit in the top bar because they're the ones you use all day — Calendar, Clients, Sales, Inbox and Reports. Apps beside them opens everything else, grouped by what you're trying to do.
The rule of thumb: if it's part of running today, it's an app. If it configures how the salon behaves — your menu, your hours, your booking rules, what gets sent automatically — it's under Settings.
Common questions
Do I have to enter things twice?
No. A booking carries its services and prices into the checkout, and the checkout carries them into reports and payroll. The screens are different views of the same rows, not copies of each other.
If I put my prices up, does last month change?
No. Prices, durations, tax and commission are copied at the moment they matter and kept. Tonight's price change applies to tomorrow's bookings and leaves everything already on the book alone.
Where do I find everything?
Five apps sit in the top bar — Calendar, Clients, Sales, Inbox and Reports — and Apps beside them opens the full grid. Anything that configures the salon rather than runs the day is under Settings.
Does anything happen without me?
Confirmations and reminders go out on your schedule, a paid sale closes itself and completes the appointment, and any flow you've switched on runs its own clock. Nothing charges a client without a policy you set.
Where is the AI, and can it message my clients?
It shows up as suggestions beside your real data — a client brief, a reply draft, a plain-English question over a report. It proposes and you commit. It never sends anything to a client on its own.
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- Getting around the calendarCalendar · Day, week and agenda views, what the colours and pills mean, and how to filter the grid down to the people you actually care about.
- Take a paymentSales · From the chair to the till — starting a checkout, building the cart, adding a tip, and taking the money by cash, card or gift card.
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