Booking for someone else
Yes, but put their contact details in the booking so confirmations reach the right person.
You can book on behalf of a friend, partner, or family member. The safest way is to put their name and their email or phone number in the booking so the confirmation, reminder, and reschedule link go to them directly.
What happens if you use your own details instead
- Reminders and reschedule links come to you, not to the person sitting in the chair.
- The shop's customer record is filed under your name, not theirs. Notes about hair, allergies or preferences end up attached to the wrong person.
- If the shop needs to reach them at short notice — running late, a staff member off sick — they reach you.
- Changing or cancelling needs the contact on the booking, so only whoever is named can do it online.
None of that is fatal, and shops deal with it every day. It is simply tidier the other way round.
Paying for someone else
The card does not have to belong to the person attending. If the shop takes a deposit you can pay it with your own card while the booking sits in their name, and a refund goes back to the card that paid, not to the person named.
Standing bookings for a child
Using the child's name with a parent's email is a common pattern and shops accept it readily — the record is about the person in the chair, the contact is about who to reach. Be consistent about it so the shop's customer list does not end up with two half-records for one child.
Group bookings
Booked has no "book for four people" flow for ordinary appointments: each person needs their own slot, because each one occupies a staff member's time separately. Classes are the exception — a session with several seats takes several bookings at the same time, but each seat is still booked in its own name.