One salon, three languages: English, Lithuanian and Russian throughout

Stand at the front desk of almost any salon in Vilnius, Klaipėda or Visaginas for an hour and you will hear at least two languages, often three. The booking systems those salons use mostly speak one. The owner picks a language, and everyone else copes.

SalonRadar is available in English, Lithuanian and Russian, and that applies to everyone who touches it: the salon's team, the clients who book, and the messages that go out. This note covers what that means in practice.

For your clients

Your public salon page and the whole booking flow are available in all three languages. A client picks theirs once and the rest follows: the booking steps, the confirmation email, their account where they can see, move or cancel a visit.

The part that matters most is your own content. Service names, descriptions and category names can each be written in more than one language. A client browsing in Russian sees "Окрашивание корней" and not "Šaknų dažymas", and does not have to guess. Where you have not written a translation, they see your primary language, so nothing is ever blank.

For your team

Each person chooses the language of their own dashboard. The owner can work in Lithuanian, the receptionist in Russian and the new stylist from abroad in English, all looking at the same calendar at the same moment. Specialists can also list the languages they speak on their public profile, which helps clients choose someone they can talk to.

Translating without the tedium

Writing sixty service names three times is nobody's idea of a good afternoon, so the editor helps:

• Language tabs on every text field. Write in your primary language first, then fill in the others.
• Suggested translations. The editor can propose a machine translation for you to accept or correct. It is marked as machine-translated until you review it, and you should: beauty vocabulary is where translation tools go to embarrass themselves.
• A warning when the original changes. If you edit the primary text later, translations written before the change are flagged as possibly out of date, so your Russian menu does not quietly keep last year's description.

For your marketing

Email campaigns can carry a version of the subject and body for each language. Each recipient receives the one that matches their preferred language, from the same campaign, and the results are reported by language too. You can also narrow an audience to speakers of one language when the message only makes sense for them.

Why these three, and what is next

They are the languages our first salons and their clients use every day. We started where we live. More languages will follow as we open in more countries, and the groundwork is already there: every piece of text in the product, from buttons to reminder messages, goes through the same translation system.

If your clients speak a language we do not cover yet, tell us. It is one of the things that decides where we go next.