Phorest is cloud software for hair salons, spas, barbershops and aesthetic clinics. It covers online booking, client records and consultation forms, payments, marketing and loyalty tools, staff management, stock and reporting. Staff and managers use a mobile app alongside the web application. It is delivered as cloud software accessible from web browsers and apps. It is aimed at salons with several staff and at multi-location businesses.
Phorest was founded in Ireland and is headquartered in Dublin, so it is an EU company. The contracting entity is Ndevor Systems Limited, trading as Phorest. The sources consulted name no parent company. Third-party databases list venture and private-equity investors, but no controlling owner is named in the sources, so no foreign parent is recorded. The website states that Phorest is GDPR-compliant, while the terms allow data to be transferred or stored outside the EEA, and the location of the data centres is not stated. The software is proprietary, not open source. For a European salon group, the Irish seat and the GDPR statements are the points to confirm in a data processing agreement.