A salon website that books chairs full without paying third-party booking marketplace fees

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The type is the field you set, so it is the specific one rather than the generic LocalBusiness. Zeso builds the entity from your business details — the type, the address, the coordinates, the hours, the price band, the area you cover, the services you sell, the licence you hold and the amenities of the place.

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "BeautySalon",
  "@id": "https://yourbusiness.com/#organization",
  "name": "Your Business Name",
  "url": "https://yourbusiness.com/",
  "telephone": "+1-555-0100",
  "address": {
    "@type": "PostalAddress",
    "streetAddress": "18 Example Street",
    "addressLocality": "Portland",
    "addressRegion": "OR",
    "postalCode": "97204",
    "addressCountry": "US"
  },
  "areaServed": [
    {
      "@type": "City",
      "name": "Portland"
    }
  ],
  "openingHoursSpecification": [
    {
      "@type": "OpeningHoursSpecification",
      "dayOfWeek": [
        "Monday",
        "Tuesday",
        "Wednesday",
        "Thursday",
        "Friday"
      ],
      "opens": "08:00",
      "closes": "18:00"
    }
  ],
  "priceRange": "$$",
  "hasOfferCatalog": {
    "@type": "OfferCatalog",
    "name": "Services",
    "itemListElement": [
      {
        "@type": "Offer",
        "itemOffered": {
          "@type": "Service",
          "name": "Hair cutting and colour"
        }
      },
      {
        "@type": "Offer",
        "itemOffered": {
          "@type": "Service",
          "name": "Blow-dries and styling"
        }
      },
      {
        "@type": "Offer",
        "itemOffered": {
          "@type": "Service",
          "name": "Nail and beauty treatments"
        }
      },
      {
        "@type": "Offer",
        "itemOffered": {
          "@type": "Service",
          "name": "Bridal and event packages"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "hasCredential": [
    {
      "@type": "EducationalOccupationalCredential",
      "credentialCategory": "license",
      "name": "Cosmetology licence"
    }
  ],
  "amenityFeature": [
    {
      "@type": "LocationFeatureSpecification",
      "name": "Parking",
      "value": true
    }
  ]
}

This is the block your own site should carry. On a site Zeso hosts, the platform emits it for you — fetch the page and check it. Anywhere else, replace every value with your own, including the opening hours, the four services and the credential's name, where a licence number belongs, and put it in a script tag of type application/ld+json. It is a declaration, not a request: it tells a machine what is true about the business, and it cannot make a ranking or a map result.

Commission-heavy marketplace directories and slow template builders

What usually goes wrong

• Paying a marketplace a commission on bookings of your own returning regular clients
• Client data locked inside marketplace platforms where rivals are promoted
• Slow mobile loading speeds that cause clients to abandon appointment booking

Two trades with the same service model, the same buyer, and the same publishing model.

Audited comparisons on renewal transparency, mobile layout stability, and code ownership.