Deploy and Host Openfront Salon with Railway

Openfront Salon is a self-hostable booking and salon-operations application. Clients can explore services and stylists, book appointments, and manage their visits. Salon teams use the dashboard for scheduling, client history, checkout, retail inventory, memberships, packages, and commissions.

About Hosting Openfront Salon

This template provisions the application from its GitHub repository, PostgreSQL, and a private native Railway Bucket named Storage. The database starts empty; no demo records or reusable credentials are included. Initialize the application using the repository's onboarding instructions after deployment.

DATABASE_URL references Postgres and the five S3_* variables reference the Storage bucket. Generated per deployment: SESSION_SECRET. Defaults: NODE_ENV=production, PUBLIC_SIGNUPS_ALLOWED=false, RAILPACK_NODE_VERSION=22.

Optional and blank until you configure the provider: SMTP_FROM, SMTP_HOST, SMTP_PORT.

The app gets a Railway-generated public domain. No custom domains are included.

Admin Dashboard

Manage commissions, clients, appointments, catalog, resources, store settings, schedules, checkout, engagement, integrations, inventory, benefits through dedicated dashboard workspaces and permission-controlled data screens.

Storefront

Clients can browse /services and /stylists, book at /book, and view appointments and accounts. Gift-card, gallery, team, and review pages round out the public site.

Appointments & Scheduling

Coordinate stylist schedules, resources, appointment segments, deposits, and waitlists. Appointment transitions and schedule revisions are handled by dedicated workflow commands.

Checkout & Client Retention

Complete appointment checkout, record retail sales, redeem packages, and manage memberships, points, referrals, and gift cards. Reversal, gratuity, and commission records preserve financial history.

Client Care

Maintain client notes, color formulas, and consultation submissions. Consultation review uses a separate care-record permission rather than assuming every salon manager can read it.

Common Use Cases

Appointments & Scheduling
Checkout & Client Retention
Client Care

Dependencies for Openfront Salon Hosting

The app needs a PostgreSQL database and S3-compatible object storage. Both are provisioned by this template.

Deployment Dependencies

Implementation Details

Next.js and Keystone 6 with a GraphQL API, Prisma, and PostgreSQL. Payments, email, and other external providers need their own operator configuration; this template does not activate them.

Why Deploy Openfront Salon on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying Openfront Salon on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.