# Yatoon Market Positioning

Yatoon is strongest when presented as a salon-first booking system, not a generic scheduling plugin.

## Best-fit customers

- Nail salons, spas, beauty studios, brow/lash businesses, and small multi-staff service shops.
- Owners who want booking, staff workflow, customer self-service, reminders, reviews, and service photos inside WordPress.
- Salons already using Square Appointments, Square App, or Square POS and wanting a branded WordPress booking flow that still lands in Square.

## Differentiators

- Multi-service checkout for real salon visits such as manicure plus pedicure plus nail art.
- Square-first workflow: website booking, Square online payment, Square Appointments sync, and POS follow-up.
- Square payments at booking: Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Cash App Pay, and Square Gift Card support through Square Web Payments.
- Group appointments with separate services and staff for each guest.
- Staff Portal built for phones, with daily schedule, customer details, messaging shortcuts, and checkout actions.
- Restaurant-style service menu, catalog, gallery, and popular-service rail so customers can browse before booking.
- Customer self-service links for reschedule, cancel, rebook, and add-to-calendar.
- Waitlist, Text Us, WhatsApp, tip, deposit, no-show, review request, packages, memberships, gift cards, and coupons.
- WordPress 7.0 AI Client readiness for service suggestions, service description help, and staff-reviewed reply drafts.

## Competitor framing

- Amelia and Bookly are mature all-purpose booking products with large ecosystems.
- Simply Schedule Appointments is strong for simple setup and broad scheduling use cases.
- BookingPress and Booknetic compete heavily on add-ons, payment gateways, and agency-friendly breadth.
- Yatoon should compete on salon specificity, Square-powered operations, mobile staff workflow, real beauty-service checkout, and owner-operated credibility.

## Website copy angle

Lead with the problem:

"Generic booking plugins do not understand salon visits. Yatoon lets clients book multiple beauty services, pay a Square deposit, bring a guest, choose any available technician, browse your work, leave reviews, and manage appointments without calling the salon."

Square-focused headline:

"The WordPress booking system built for salons that already run on Square."

Square-focused subcopy:

"Clients book from your website, pay by Square, and appointments continue into your Square Appointments / POS workflow."

Then prove it with:

- A live nail salon demo.
- Staff Portal screenshots on mobile.
- A 60-second booking video.
- A comparison table against generic scheduling plugins.
- A launch checklist for new salon owners.

## Buyer confidence checklist

- Clear refund and support policy.
- Screenshots for booking, staff portal, customer portal, service menu, gallery, and admin dashboard.
- Setup guide for Local, Square Appointments sync, Square Payments, Vagaro, Stripe, Twilio, and Google Calendar.
- Caching guidance for booking pages.
- Security note explaining masked credentials and staff PINs.
- Case study from the Yatoon salon website running the plugin in production.
