Protect your booking system, your Google listing, and your card payments.
Built for salon, spa, med-spa, and studio owners who can't afford a day offline. Plain-English protection for the three things that actually shut a small studio down — and a 30-minute free check-up before you commit to anything.
Why It Matters
You can't close for the day to deal with this.
When a tech business gets hit, they take the website down for a weekend and patch things up quietly. A salon, spa, or studio doesn't have that option. Your day book is your revenue. Cancel a Saturday because the booking system is locked and you're not just losing the bookings — you're losing the regulars who try the place down the street.
The realities behind the attacks on small studios are simple. Almost none of them are sophisticated. They start with a fake email, a reused password, or a Google listing nobody locked down. The cost of fixing them after the fact is enormous; the cost of preventing them is roughly the price of a stylist's day off.
We work with single-location and multi-location owners across hair, nails, lash, brow, esthetics, massage, med-spa, yoga, pilates, fitness, and dance studios. Everything below is in plain English. No jargon. No scare tactics. Just the six things that actually shut a small studio down, and how to prevent each one.
The Six Threats
The exact attacks hitting salons and studios this year.
Booking-system takeover.
Mindbody, Vagaro, GlossGenius, Booker, Square Appointments — one phished password and someone is inside your booking system. They cancel appointments, mess with the schedule, or lock you out for hours. Your day is ruined before lunch.
Google Business profile hijack.
Attackers take over your Google listing, swap the phone number, redirect bookings to themselves, or post fake one-star reviews. Foot traffic drops off the cliff and you don't notice for days. This has been the fastest-growing attack on local businesses this year.
Card-payment compromise.
Your Square, Stripe, or Clover account is usually behind one email password. Phish that email and the attacker can change the bank-deposit account, reroute every payment for a week, and clean you out. Most owners don't have two-step verification turned on.
Email-account compromise.
The owner's email is the master key to everything — the booking platform, the payment processor, the Google listing, the staff scheduling, the supplier accounts. One phishing click and all of it is exposed at once.
Client data exposure.
Massage therapists, med-spas, and aesthetic practices hold intake forms with medical history and consent forms. Even general salons hold phone numbers, addresses, and card-on-file details. A breach is a notification headache plus a community reputation hit a small business can't easily absorb.
Departing-staff access.
Receptionists, stylists, and contractors come and go fast. Most owners share one login across the team and forget to change it when someone leaves. Plenty of after-hours mischief gets traced back to former staff who still had the password.
The 8-Step Studio Checklist
Eight things that actually keep you running.
Two-step verification on the booking platform.
Mindbody, Vagaro, GlossGenius, Booker, Square Appointments, WellnessLiving — every one of them supports it. Most owners haven't turned it on. This single change blocks the vast majority of takeovers.
Two-step verification on the owner's email.
Your email is the master key. If only one thing on this list gets done, this is the one.
Lock down your Google Business profile.
Confirm who has admin access. Remove anyone who shouldn't be there (former agencies, ex-staff). Turn on two-step verification on the Google account that owns the listing.
Two-step verification on Square / Stripe / Clover.
Your payment processor account is the cash flow. Protect it like cash.
Real anti-malware on every front-desk and back-office computer.
Not the free trial that came with the laptop three years ago. Real, managed protection that updates itself and catches the things free antivirus misses.
Backups of your intake forms and client lists.
If your booking system goes down or gets locked, you still need to be able to operate. Keep a separate copy of the client list and (for med-spas) the consent forms somewhere safe.
A 30-minute staff conversation about phishing.
Most attacks start with a fake email. Twenty minutes of plain-English training, repeated every few months, drops your risk meaningfully.
A written list of what to do if it happens.
Who calls who? Which accounts get locked first? Where's the backup? One page, kept somewhere you can reach it from your phone.
We Know Your Booking Platform
Whatever you run on, we've helped owners protect it.
Every booking platform handles security differently. The steps for locking down Mindbody aren't the same as GlossGenius or Boulevard. We know each one — what to turn on, where to check, what the attacker tends to go after first.
Platforms We Work With
Not a complete list. If your platform isn't shown, ask us — we've almost certainly worked alongside it.
Pricing
From $375/month. No contract.
Single-location studios start at $375/mo (Essential). Multi-location, med-spa, and larger studio groups fit our $799/mo (Business Protection Plus) or $1,400/mo (Complete) plans. Cancel anytime, no minimum term, no setup fees.
See Full PricingHonest Answers
The questions we're asked first.
Aren't we too small for cybercriminals to bother with?+
It's the opposite. Attackers target small businesses precisely because they know you don't have IT staff, you can't tolerate a day of downtime, and you'll often pay quickly to make the problem go away. A small business with a busy day book is exactly the kind of target they want.
Doesn't our booking platform handle security?+
They handle the platform's own security — keeping the software running and patched. They don't handle your password, your email account, the device you log in from, your Google listing, or your card processor. Most owner accounts that get taken over are the owner's fault, not the platform's — and the platform doesn't help you recover.
Our IT guy / cousin / receptionist's husband handles this.+
If they're truly handling security, great — keep them. The free check-up isn't about replacing anyone. It's a 30-minute second opinion: we walk through your setup, give you a one-page report, and you decide what to do with it. Most owners find at least one gap that adds up to more than the cost of a month of protection.
We can't afford another monthly bill.+
Our Essential plan is $375 a month, no contract, you can cancel anytime. Compare that to one day of being unable to take bookings, or one Google-listing hijack that quietly costs you 30 walk-ins. Most owners I talk to who've been through an attack say they would have paid five times that to avoid it.
What if I'm a solo operator with no staff?+
Honest answer: if you're a true solo operator with a single laptop and a single payment account, you may be better served by a free checklist than by managed protection. Our pricing fits practices and studios with at least one or two employees, ideally a fixed location, and a real day book. We'll tell you straight which side of that line you're on during the assessment.
See where your studio stands.
Free 30-minute check-up. We walk through your booking platform, your Google listing, your card processor, and your email — then give you a one-page summary. No pitch on the call. No proposal after, unless you ask.
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