How to plan Ramadan hours and pre-Eid salon bookings

Plan around the local announcement

In Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, plan Ramadan and Eid around the moon sighting announced locally. Prepare a provisional staffing and closure plan, then confirm it after the local announcement. Tell clients which hours are confirmed and which still depend on that announcement.

Before changing your schedule, agree who can work late evenings after iftar, when the team needs breaks and when the last service must finish. Keep a copy of your ordinary weekly hours so you can restore them after Eid.

Set late-evening hours that your team can deliver

Work backwards from closing time using the actual length of a haircut, beard service or beauty treatment. Allow time for cleaning and delays. A late opening does not mean every service can start just before closing. Arrange work after midnight directly with clients unless you have checked that the booking page offers the intended times on the correct day.

Zotview's booking settings include opening and closing times for each day of the week and a switch to mark that weekday closed. These hours repeat weekly: a weekday closed for Eid must be reopened when your normal schedule resumes. Check existing appointments before changing hours and contact affected clients yourself.

Open pre-Eid bookings before the rush

Choose when you want clients to start booking the days before Eid. Offer earlier visits to clients whose service does not need to be on the last evening. Leave enough room for longer treatments rather than promising more appointments than your team can complete.

Zotview's settings include how many days ahead clients can book. Review the advance-booking settings, save your changes and check the client-facing calendar before announcing that pre-Eid appointments are available. Do not promise a specific barber's calendar: Zotview bookings are for the business as a whole.

Keep longer queues manageable

Decide how you will fit walk-ins around booked appointments. Assign someone to explain the next available time and keep a manual waiting list if needed. Give a realistic wait estimate, update it when services run late and ask clients before moving an agreed appointment.

For the final evenings before Eid, consider offering long treatments at quieter times by agreement. Do not shorten the time allowed for a service just to fit more bookings. Check the day's appointments with your team before accepting extra clients at the door.

Publish one clear schedule on your site, Instagram and WhatsApp

Put the confirmed special hours, closed days and booking link on your website. Share the same information on Instagram and WhatsApp, including when normal hours resume. State opening and closing times clearly, and say when bookings are full rather than leaving clients to discover that at the door.

Instagram and WhatsApp screens and option names change. For current instructions, use their own help pages: Instagram Help Center at https://help.instagram.com/ and WhatsApp Help Center at https://faq.whatsapp.com/. Sharing your schedule and following up on messages are tasks you handle yourself.

A free Zotview site is published at zotview.com/w/your-name and is not shown by search engines. You can share that address directly. A subdomain or your own domain and Google visibility come with paid Pro; search rankings are not guaranteed.

Return to normal hours after Eid

On your agreed return day, restore the ordinary weekly opening hours, reopen weekdays you temporarily closed and review how far ahead clients can book. Check the booking page as a client, including the first day back.

Replace the seasonal notice on your website and update the information you shared on Instagram and WhatsApp. Review where queues grew and which services ran over so your next seasonal plan starts with your own observations.

Your Ramadan and pre-Eid booking checklist

1. 1

   Agree the provisional schedule

   Plan late evenings, breaks and closures with your team, then confirm them after the moon sighting announced locally.

2. 2

   Review booking hours and the booking window

   Set each weekday's hours and closed status, review how far ahead clients can book and check the public calendar.

3. 3

   Announce availability early

   Share confirmed special hours and the same booking link on your website, Instagram and WhatsApp.

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4. 4

   Prepare for longer queues

   Agree how to handle walk-ins, realistic waits and delays without displacing booked appointments.

5. 5

   Restore the normal schedule

   Reopen temporarily closed weekdays, restore ordinary hours and replace seasonal notices after Eid.

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