LP Nail Lounge vs INSTRUCT_RERConAAC

The all-in-one salon management app built for nail salon owners and their teams. LP Nail Lounge puts your entire salon operation in the palm of your hand. From the moment a customer walks in to when they leave — manage every step with real-time visibility across your team. DASHBOARD See today's revenue, active staff, completed services, and workstation utilization at a glance. Track employee performance with a live leaderboard and view popular services and drinks charts. CUSTOMER TURNS Manage walk-ins and appointments seamlessly. Track wait times with color-coded urgency indicators, assign employees, and move customers through your service pipeline with swipe actions. QUEUE MANAGEMENT A dynamic employee grid shows who's available, serving, on break, or off duty. Drag to reorder service priority. Check employees in and out, start pre-service prep, and begin services — all from one screen. BAR ORDERS Take drink and snack orders for customers during their service. Track orders from pending to preparing to completed. Manage your bar menu with categories, pricing, and availability toggles. WORKSTATIONS Monitor every chair, room, and table in real time. See which stations are available, occupied, or being cleaned with color-coded status cards. TIMESHEETS & PAYROLL Track employee hours and earnings with detailed breakdowns by service and hourly pay. Create payroll periods, lock timesheets, and review earnings summaries. KEEP-BOOKING Built-in bookkeeping for partners, shareholders, and expense staff. Track business income, expenses, profit distributions, and personal wallet balances — all with role-based access. SERVICES Define your full service catalog — pedicure, manicure, gel pedicure, massage, and combo services with durations and pricing. EMPLOYEES Manage your team with role-based permissions. Support for commission and hourly employment types. Create accounts, assign roles, and control what each team member can access. BUILT FOR YOUR WHOLE TEAM Role-based access ensures everyone sees exactly what they need: - Owners & Admins: Full dashboard, analytics, and management - Managers & Assistants: Operations and customer flow - Employees: Their queue position and service assignments - Partners & Shareholders: Keep-Booking financials DESIGNED FOR iPhone AND iPad Optimized tab navigation on iPhone. Full sidebar split-view on iPad with detail panels. Real-time sync keeps every device in lockstep.

Create short trainings using research backed teaching methods quickly. The app leads the user through creating a checklist of the steps necessary to complete a task and adding video models for each of those steps. INSTRUCT was built to answer the problem that communication partners are often unfamiliar and untrained in AAC, so they preempt opportunities for communication and participation. Current training approaches for partner training are generally inefficient (e.g. one-on-one training) or ineffective due to not being personalized or limited in scope and reach. Our answer is this user-friendly app for creating partner trainings to teach partners AAC strategies. We do this by prompting the user to break a strategy down into step by step instructions creating a checklist and to add video demonstrations of each step. This app has bene evaluated for usability of the app and effectiveness of the trainings we are prompting users to make. We are still waiting on data for usability, but the trainings have bene shown to significantly increase the partners' strategy use and significantly increase successful interaction with someone who uses AAC. Many of the trainings will be made freely available via an online library currently in progress. URL will be added once the online library design has been finalized. This application was developed under a grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR grant number 90REGE0014) to the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Augmentative and Alternative Communication (RERC on AAC). NIDILRR is a Center within the Administration for Community Living (ACL), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This application does not necessarily represent the policy of NIDILRR, ACL, or HHS, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government.