Never lose a cancelled slot again.
When an appointment opens up, the next person on your waitlist is offered it on WhatsApp — one at a time, with a deadline. No reply? The next person is one tap away.
Free for your first month. Set up in twenty minutes.
- 1 tap
- to offer a slot
- 10 min
- for them to say yes
- 0
- messages sent without you
Open slots
1Cut & blow dry
Today at 3:00 pm · AED 120.00
Offered to Nadia
Waiting for her to reply in WhatsApp.
Waitlist
4Longest-waiting match is offered the next opening, one at a time.
- 1offered
Nadia Rahman
+971 50 ··· 321 · Cut & blow dry · today
- 2
Aisha K
+971 50 ··· 233 · Hair colour · this week
- 3
Tom Okafor
+44 77 ··· 654 · Cut & blow dry · anytime
- 4
Elena Petrova
+44 77 ··· 777 · Gel manicure · today or tomorrow
Three steps. Two of them are one tap.
Your waitlist already exists — in your head, in a notebook, in a WhatsApp group. Up Nextd is that list, with the next step built in.
- 1
Share your link
Customers add themselves to your waitlist from a link you put in your WhatsApp status or Instagram bio. They say what they want and how soon they could come in.
- 2
A slot opens up
A cancellation comes in. You add the slot — the service and the time — and Up Nextd shows you who should get it: the longest-waiting person it fits.
- 3
They get asked
One tap opens WhatsApp with the message written. They have ten minutes to say yes. If they don’t, the next person is one tap away — and nobody is asked twice.
Hi Nadia, it’s Glow Salon.
A spot just opened up: cut & blow dry, today at 3:00 pm. You’re next on the waitlist — want it?
Reply YES in the next 10 minutes and it’s yours. After that it goes to the next person.
2:47 pm
YES 🙌
2:49 pm
Revenue recovered
ExampleAED 5,880
From 49 filled slots, usually filled within 20 minutes.
For anyone with a chair, a room or an hour to fill.
If your customers book appointments and sometimes cancel, this is for you.
Salons & barbers
A cut, a colour, a blow dry — every empty chair has a name waiting for it.
Clinics & dentists
Cleanings and consultations that would otherwise sit empty at short notice.
Med spas
High-value treatments where one filled slot pays for the month.
Fitness & PT
Personal training and small classes, filled from the people who asked.
Tutors & coaches
A missed lesson offered to the student who wanted an earlier one.
Built in Dubai, for Dubai first.
Your customers are on WhatsApp, so that is where the offer goes — from your own number, in your own words. Prices in AED, times in your timezone, and “today at 3pm” means today at 3pm.
No new booking system to learn: it runs alongside whatever you use now. A cancellation comes in, you add the slot, and the waitlist does the rest.
Pricing
Per locationFree for your first month.
Then AED 149 a month, or AED 1,490 a year. Ex-VAT. Cancel anytime.
Founding rate: businesses that join during the pilot pay AED 99 a month, locked for 12 months.
- Unlimited waitlist, slots, customers and offers
- No per-message fees, no commission on a filled slot
- One filled appointment usually covers the month
Why I built this
Every salon owner I talked to in Dubai told me the same story: a cancellation at two means an empty chair at three, a scramble through WhatsApp to find someone, and most days the money is just gone.
The waitlist already exists — it is in their head, or in a notebook. Up Nextd is that list, with the one thing it was missing: the next person gets asked, on WhatsApp, the moment a slot opens.
— Jack, founder of Up Nextd
Questions people ask.
Does it send messages by itself?
Not yet — and not without you. One tap opens WhatsApp with the message written; you press send. Nothing reaches a customer that you didn’t send. An assistant that handles the back and forth for you is coming.
Do I need a new WhatsApp number?
No. Offers go from the WhatsApp you already use, so customers see a number they know.
What if they don’t reply?
Each offer has a deadline — ten minutes by default, and never past the appointment itself. When it passes, Up Nextd tells you and puts the next person one tap away. Someone who missed their turn keeps their place; they just wait for the next opening.
Who gets offered a slot?
The person who has waited longest and actually fits it — the right service, and available that soon. One person at a time, so nobody gets a “sorry, it’s gone” for a slot they never had a chance at.
What does it cost?
Nothing for your first month. After that, AED 149 a month per location — or AED 99 locked for a year if you join during the pilot. Everything is included; there are no message fees and no cut of what you fill.
Does it replace my booking system?
No — it sits beside it. Keep booking the way you do now; when a cancellation comes in, add the slot here and let the waitlist fill it.
Is my customers’ data safe?
Their name and number are stored for one reason — so you can offer them openings — and never sold or used for anything else. Every waitlist has its own privacy page that says exactly what is kept.
The next cancellation doesn’t have to cost you anything.
Twenty minutes to set up. Free for your first month. Your waitlist link is ready before you finish your coffee.