In development, not available yet
Your regulars serve themselves, your counter stops queueing
Identify, pick a session, pay: a few taps and your regular is on their way to the bed, while your team stays with the customers who actually need them. Your 6pm rush flattens out, and every safety rule you run today keeps applying.
Three kiosks, one machine
The kiosk that helps at the counter and the kiosk that opens your evenings are the same device at two settings. You choose how far you go, and you can move up later.
1. Order terminal
The customer identifies, picks a service and a duration and pays with their prepaid balance or their session pack. A member of staff starts the bed with one tap. Your queue drops, your legal setup does not change.
2. Checkout terminal
Same thing, plus card payments on an unattended terminal. The counter stops being the bottleneck at 6pm, and staff still start the beds.
3. Autonomous kiosk
The kiosk starts the bed itself through the relay box. This is what extends your opening hours, and it is also what turns your salon into an automated tanning centre, with the obligations that follow.
Why our kiosk will refuse things others accept
The Belgian decree of 20 June 2002 anticipated the machine: it names a control system that starts the beds and identifies the user, and it transfers to that system the duties of the person at the desk. Adapting the dose to the skin type, halving the first session, holding 48 hours before the second exposure and 24 hours after that: when a human applies those rules, the proof is paperwork. When the machine applies them, the proof is its log.
So the kiosk will identify a real, known customer before anything else, by electronic ID card or by the card handed to them at reception. A name typed on a screen will never start a bed: anyone knowing a name and a birth date could take a session in someone else's place, and that is exactly how a minor would get in.
And a customer who is not in order will get one screen: come to reception, here are the hours when someone is there. Not a way around it. The decree forbids any manipulation of the control system that breaks its rules, which is why there will be no "start anyway" button, for anyone, including you.
What the kiosk will do
Identification That Actually Identifies
Belgian electronic ID card, or the salon card handed over in person at reception, with one active card per customer. Booked customers check in by scanning the code on their confirmation email.
Every Safety Rule Still Applies
Skin type, minimum age, minimum delay between sessions, first session halved, maximum duration per skin type and per bed: the kiosk calls the same rules as your register, and refuses in plain language when one of them says no.
The Proof An Inspector Will Ask For
Each session records what was actually applied at that moment: the skin type used, the duration cap that produced it, the delay measured since the previous session and its rank in the running series. Not what today's settings would produce, what the machine did that day.
Keeps Working Without Internet
Identification, safety checks, prepaid balance and bed control run on the salon network, so a provider outage does not close an unattended salon. If the link to the counter drops, the kiosk prints a ticket the customer hands to your staff.
Staff Overlay, Inside The Rules
Your team unlocks the kiosk with their badge to stop a session, mark a cabin cleaned, move a customer to another bed or reprint a ticket. What they cannot do is extend a duration or shorten a legal delay, because the decree does not allow it either.
Belgium First, By Design
Self-service is explicitly allowed in Belgium and forbidden in several other countries, so the kiosk is locked to the countries where it is lawful. Where it runs unattended, the information the law requires on display sits permanently on the idle screen and prints as a sign.
Frequently asked questions
It is in development and we are not announcing a date yet. Salons that join the pilot are the first to get it, and they help us decide which of the three modes ships first.
Not in Belgium, and this is not a technical limit. The law requires an oral information about the risks, a skin type determined together with the person in charge, and a document signed by both. A new customer will be sent to reception with the hours when someone is there.
No, and be careful with anyone who tells you otherwise. A Belgian salon whose beds are started by a machine becomes an automated tanning centre, which obliges you to have the person in charge present at least four days a week and one hour a day, and to display specific information. The kiosk extends your opening hours, it does not replace your staff.
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