Your first hour

Signing up asks you five quick questions — what you offer, how big your team is, who's on it, what you use today, and what you'd like to improve — and then a review screen with Enter RewireBox on it. Only the first one does any real work: it decides which industry your sample salon is stocked from.

Press the button and you land in a salon that is already busy. That is deliberate, and it is the first thing to understand.

The salon you're looking at isn't yours yet

Your account arrives full of a plausible salon in your own trade — a booked week, clients with visit histories, sales that were checked out, stock on the shelf. A nail salon gets manicures and pedicures; a barbershop gets fades and hot towel shaves. If you typed your team's names into the signup questions, they're the ones on the calendar.

None of it is real, and none of it can reach anybody. Use it. Ring a sale up and refund it, move an appointment, send yourself a receipt. Ten minutes of poking at a working salon teaches you more than any tour.

The four things that matter

Everything else can wait. These four are what stand between you and taking a booking that pays you.

Your existing client list is the one thing not on that list, because you don't have to type it in. See Bring your clients across.

What you're on while you do this

A new account runs on a trial with nothing held back — every feature, no cap on how many people you add. That's on purpose: deciding on a plan is easier after you've seen the product than before.

When you do choose, the one distinction worth knowing early is that Solo is a single chair. It's one staff member and one location, and the team-shaped features — payroll, the time clock, tip pooling — aren't there at all, rather than being present with an upsell on them. If you have anyone else on the books, you want Starter or above.