For salons, barbers, nail bars and spas · Zambia
A client asks for a Saturday slot while you are mid-braid. By the time you dry your hands and check the phone, she has booked at the salon down the road.
EliteTeQ Inbox lets your front desk and stylists answer booking requests, prices and Instagram comments from one shared inbox. Every client has an owner, nobody double-books from two phones, and quiet clients get a follow-up. Staff in Lusaka and Kitwe or anywhere else answer from one +260 business number, with office hours on Lusaka time (CAT).
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Clients DM our Instagram, WhatsApp the owner, and comment on posts. We miss half of it.
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Instagram DMs, comments and WhatsApp arrive in one inbox your whole team can answer.
Two of us confirmed the same Saturday slot to two clients.
EliteTeQ Inbox
Each chat belongs to one person. Notes to each other stay in internal comments.
We don’t answer when we’re closed, so clients book elsewhere.
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An away message goes out when you are closed, and a greeting welcomes every new client.
Every enquiry is a customer deciding where to spend. Don’t let yours wait.
EliteTeQ Inbox is a customer conversation and CRM platform. WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Instagram DMs and comments land in one workspace your whole team answers from.
Customers in Zambia write in English, Bemba and Nyanja, and your team replies in the same chat. Every enquiry below gets an owner, a stage and a follow-up:
Less switching between phones. More enquiries turned into customers.
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A WhatsApp CRM for salons & spas is a shared inbox and lead pipeline for the messages salons, barbers, nail bars and spas in Zambia get every day. EliteTeQ Inbox connects your WhatsApp Business number, Facebook Page and Instagram account, lets several staff answer from their own logins, puts every customer on a pipeline (for example Asked for a slot, Price sent, Booked), and shows the owner who answered and how fast.
| Product | EliteTeQ Inbox, by EliteTeQ Softwares Limited (Nairobi, Kenya) |
|---|---|
| What it is | A WhatsApp team inbox and CRM |
| Channels | WhatsApp Business (official Cloud API, works alongside the WhatsApp Business app), Facebook Messenger, Instagram DMs, Facebook and Instagram comments |
| Works on | Any browser; installs on Android and iPhone |
| Price | From $29 a month; $59 Growth; $99 Business with unlimited people; a year costs 10 months |
| Free trial | 7 days, every feature open |
| WhatsApp numbers | 1 to 3 included by plan; up to 20 per business (Meta’s limit once the business is verified with Meta) |
| In Zambia | +260 WhatsApp Business numbers, office hours on Lusaka time (CAT) |
| Languages | Customers write in English, Bemba and Nyanja |
| Setup | About 40 minutes, or done with you on WhatsApp |
| Last reviewed | 2026-11-01 |
Real screens from our demo workspace, with example data.
Front desk and stylists answer from their own logins, on the salon computer or their phones.
Real screen · demo workspace with example data
Reply to Instagram and Facebook comments publicly or privately, with automatic answers to “price”.
Real screen · demo workspace with example data
Track clients from first question to visit, and keep a stage for clients to rebook later.
Real screen · demo workspace with example data
An example you can set up in Settings → Pipeline stages and rename any time.
No credit card required · Plans from $29/month
No installation and no long training.
Register with your email. The 7-day trial opens every feature, no card needed.
Link your Facebook Page and Instagram. We connect your +260 WhatsApp Business number with you on WhatsApp, on Lusaka time (CAT), in about 40 minutes.
Add staff with their own logins as Owner, Admin or Agent, whether they work in Lusaka and Kitwe or from home.
Name the stages after how you work, for example: Asked for a slot → Price sent → Booked → Visited.
Assign chats, follow up hot leads and watch the reports.
No credit card required · Plans from $29/month
A shared inbox helps your team see messages. EliteTeQ goes further, connecting every conversation to lead management, team coordination and sales visibility.
The same plans for every industry in Zambia, in US dollars: Starter $29, Growth $59, Business $99 a month. Paying yearly costs 10 months. 7-day free trial, no credit card. Meta’s WhatsApp charges, where they apply, are separate.
The difference is that every enquiry has an owner and nothing depends on one phone, whether your team is in Lusaka and Kitwe or at home.
| Phones and personal chats | EliteTeQ Inbox |
|---|---|
| Whoever holds the phone answers | Every staff member answers from their own login |
| Two people reply to the same customer | Each chat is assigned to one person |
| Quotes and follow-ups forgotten | Waiting chats and hot leads are flagged |
| Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp on different devices | Every channel in the same list |
| No idea how fast customers get an answer | Reply speed and leads per person in reports |
EliteTeQ Inbox works for salons, barbers, nail bars and spas in Zambia on your existing +260 WhatsApp Business number. Customers see your business name as they do today, and your team answers from Lusaka and Kitwe or anywhere else.
In Zambia, customers message to ask about prices and stock before travelling across town or from the Copperbelt. EliteTeQ Inbox keeps every one of those questions visible until someone has answered it.
Customers write in English, Bemba, Nyanja and other languages. Your team replies in the customer’s language; template messages are created in English.
Office hours are set day by day for each number. A common setup in Lusaka: weekdays open, Saturday mornings open, Sunday closed. Anyone who writes while you are closed gets your away message, at most once every 12 hours, and the chat waits at the top of the list for the morning.
The Copperbelt and Lusaka carry most formal trade, and mining pay dates concentrate demand into month-end far more sharply than in diversified economies. As a landlocked market, most goods arrive overland from the south, so shelf price follows freight cost.
North-Western Province · a rapidly grown centre for new copper mining
Rapid growth around new copper mining has produced a young wage-earning population and a retail sector still catching up, supplied over long routes from Lusaka. The binding constraint is reorder accuracy against those distances during month-end surges. Solwezi has expanded quickly around large-scale copper mining, which gives it a young wage-earning population, strong month-end demand peaks and a retail sector still catching up with the town's growth. Booking requests from Solwezi reach whoever is on shift, with an away message when you are closed.
Central Province · a central town on the main rail and road corridor
The town sits on the corridor between Lusaka and the Copperbelt, adding transit and distribution trade to a university and provincial retail base. The binding constraint is holding bulk and unit pricing for a genuinely mixed customer set. Kabwe grew as a lead and zinc mining town and remains a railway junction on Zambia's central line, so its commerce today mixes rail-linked freight handling, a university population and retail serving a province of farming districts. Booking requests from Kabwe reach whoever is on shift, with an away message when you are closed.
Copperbelt Province · a Copperbelt mining town
Large-scale copper mining sets the rhythm, with pronounced month-end spending and sensitivity to shifts in mine activity. Retail clusters around the town centre and mine townships. Chingola's trade follows the rhythm of large-scale copper mining, with pronounced month-end spending peaks and sensitivity to shifts in mining activity. Booking requests from Chingola reach whoever is on shift, with an away message when you are closed.
Copperbelt Province · a Copperbelt mining town near the DRC border
Mining employment combines with proximity to the Congolese border, adding cross-border shoppers and a second currency to a payday-driven pattern. The binding constraint is clean mixed-tender records when customers arrive from both sides. Mufulira combines mining employment with proximity to the Congolese border, which adds cross-border shoppers and multi-currency exposure to an otherwise mining-driven demand pattern. Booking requests from Mufulira reach whoever is on shift, with an away message when you are closed.
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Ask a humanYes. Salons & spas teams in Zambia use EliteTeQ Inbox with their own +260 WhatsApp Business number. Staff in Lusaka, Kitwe or anywhere else answer from their own logins, customers write in English, Bemba and Nyanja, and office hours run on Lusaka time (CAT). Plans start at $29 a month with a 7-day free trial.
No. EliteTeQ Inbox doesn’t manage appointments. Confirm the slot in your diary or booking app and track the client as “Booked” on the pipeline.
Yes. It installs on Android and iPhone, and each stylist signs in with their own login.
Yes, as approved WhatsApp templates sent one by one to clients who agreed to hear from you. There are no mass broadcasts.
Yes. Everyone signs in with their own login, on a computer or phone, and each chat is assigned to one person. The WhatsApp Business app on your phone can stay connected.
Starter is $29 a month for 1 WhatsApp number and 3 people, Growth $59 for 2 numbers and 6 people, and Business $99 for 3 numbers and unlimited people. Every plan starts with a 7-day free trial.
WhatsApp rules on this page, from Meta:WhatsApp Business Platform pricing (Meta)Messaging limits (Meta)Message templates (Meta)Business phone numbers and limits (Meta)About the WhatsApp Business Platform (Meta)
Bring your channels, your team and every customer conversation into one organised workspace.
No credit card required · Plans from $29/month
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