A Turkish barbershop sharpened for the digital high street.
A dark, pole-striped site for a traditional Turkish barber — online booking with calendar invites, SMS notifications, and a service menu that turns walk-ins into appointments.
Scissor Cut needed a digital presence that matched the craft of a traditional Turkish barbershop — not a generic template. The booking flow had to be frictionless, generate calendar invites, and notify the shop by SMS, all without an expensive booking platform subscription.
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A dark, cinematic identity built from the logo's own palette — barber-pole red, chrome silver, and deep black — with a pole-stripe motif running through every section.
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A four-step booking wizard (service → date → details → confirm) that generates standard .ics calendar payloads for zero-friction Google and Apple Calendar integration.
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A Textlocal SMS webhook to notify the barbershop instantly on every booking — chosen over AWS SNS for lower cost and simpler UK routing.
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UK GDPR-compliant legal pages and structured data (HairSalon schema) for local SEO.
- Brand-led UI
- Booking system
- ICS calendar integration
- SMS webhook
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- Step booking wizard, zero friction
- .ics
- Calendar invites, instant
- 3.5p
- Per SMS notification
