Your salon is already listed. Make it yours.

Why your salon is already here

Polish Perfect is a directory of nail salons for every city in the country. A directory with gaps is no help to the person searching it. So every salon gets a page, even if the owner has never heard of us. That page has the basics a client needs to find your door: the name, the street address, the phone number, and often the hours.

The catch is that the basics are all it has, and nobody is keeping them right. If your phone number changed last spring, the page still shows the old one. If you moved two doors down, the map pin didn't move with you. An unclaimed page can send clients to a dead number for years. You'd never know, because those calls never reach you.

Claiming is how you take that page over. It's free. The only thing we check is that you can answer your own salon's phone.

What claiming changes on your page

Three things change the moment your claim goes through. Your listing gets a Claimed badge that clients can see. Everything on it becomes yours to edit, and what you type stays put. And your salon moves up a group. On every city and service page, claimed salons are listed above unclaimed ones before anything else is counted.

That's why claiming matters more than anything else you can do to your listing. A salon with one photo and a Claimed badge sits above an unclaimed salon with everything filled in. Same city, same day. The rankings guide explains the whole order. The short version: claiming is the only step that moves you up a whole group.

How claiming works: a search and a phone call

It all rests on one thing only the owner can prove: you can pick up the salon's phone. There's nothing to upload and nothing to mail. Here are the steps, start to finish. Want every screen, step by step? Here's how to claim your business.

1. 01Sign in or create a free account. You search after you sign in, so every claim is tied to a real account. If you start from this page, the search brings you right back after you sign in.
2. 02Type your salon's name. Results show up as you type. If the name is a common one, pick your state to shorten the list. Salons that are already claimed say Claimed where the button would be, so you can see right away if yours is still open.
3. 03Pick your salon and check the preview. It shows the name, the address, and the last four digits of the phone number we have. That's the number we'll call. If it isn't your salon's line, stop here and read the next section.
4. 04Press Submit Claim. Within a few seconds, an automated call rings the salon's number and reads out a six-digit code. Nobody from our team is on the line.
5. 05Type in the code. It's good for 10 minutes and you get five tries. Missed the call? Wait 30 seconds and press Call again. You'll get a new code at the same number.
6. 06You're verified on the spot. The right code approves your claim right away. Your listing now says Claimed, your account becomes an owner account, and a Go to Dashboard button takes you to your listing.

The code always goes to the number on the listing, never to a number you type in. That's what makes it hard to claim someone else's salon. A stranger would have to answer your front desk phone. It also means the number we have needs to be right. The next section covers what to do when it isn't.

If the call can't go through

Some listings have no phone number at all. Some have a number that no longer rings, or one that can't take an automated call. Your claim doesn't fail when that happens. It stays open and goes to a person on our team.

• No number on the listing. Your claim goes straight to review. You'll see a note saying so, and a button to your dashboard.
• The number can't be reached. Same thing. We save your claim and a person on our team looks at it.
• The number is wrong. The call would go to whoever has that number, not to you. Don't submit the claim. Having our team review it is the better way. Email the right number to support@polishperfect.co with your salon's name and city.

A person does the review by hand, so it takes longer than the two minutes above. You can keep your account while you wait. If you come back to a claim you started, it picks up where you left off. You can only have one claim waiting at a time, so finish or settle that one before you claim a second location.

What you can edit once it's yours

Your dashboard opens on your listing's overview. From there you can change every part of your public page. The list is long because the page should answer every question a client has before they call.

• The basics: name, phone, website, address, and a description in your own words.
• Hours for each day of the week, with your time zone, so Open now really means open now.
• A full service menu. Each service can have a price, a starting price if it varies, how long it takes, and a short description.
• Specialties like Gel-X, dip, or nail art, your walk-in policy, your price range, and the year you opened.
• Photos. Upload your own, choose the one that leads the page, and decide which of the photos already there get to stay. Photos you don't approve are never shown.
• Your Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook, for clients who like to scroll before they book.

Each of those items also counts toward how complete your listing is. That's the biggest thing that decides your spot inside your group. Photos count the most, then hours, then services. The rankings guide has the full order. It also shows how a salon gets from its city page to the state page and the homepage. Have your own website? Add your verified badge to it.

What only a claimed salon can do

Editing is the part you'd expect. The rest of the dashboard is what most owners don't expect from a directory.

• See who's looking. Your overview shows your views this week and in total, and how many of them were nail techs. It shows where you rank in your city. And it shows how many people tapped your phone number, asked for directions, or opened your website.
• Answer reviews. Your replies show publicly under each review. A QR code for your front desk lets a client leave a review with one scan.
• Post a job. Your open chair goes on the city jobs page techs search, and every application comes with the tech's work attached. How hiring works here.
• Post a deal or a referral bonus. Both get their own pages by city, so a new-client special reaches people who don't follow you yet.
• Turn on Featured. Your salon sits at the top of your city page, above the list, from the day you turn it on. You pay per click and you set the most you'll pay. Every claimed salon starts with free credit that covers the first clicks.

If your salon isn't listed yet

New salons won't come up in the search. Neither will the odd salon we missed. Add yours instead. The search page has a link for that, or you can go straight to add your salon. The form asks for the same basics a claimed listing has. A few things work differently from a claim.

• We check for a match first. If a salon with the same phone and address is already listed, we'll send you to claim that one, so there aren't two of the same salon.
• The code comes by text to the number you enter, since we don't have a number for your salon yet.
• The listing is yours right away. It goes public after a quick check that the salon is real. You can keep editing while you wait, and it joins the claimed group the day it goes live.

The first 10 weeks

A newly claimed salon gets a lift in the order. It fades a little each week and is gone after about 10. It's there so you get seen while you fill in your listing. It isn't a reward for claiming alone. So use those weeks.

1. 01The day you claim: fix anything that's wrong. Phone, address, hours. These are the ones that lose you clients when they're off.
2. 02The first week: add three or more photos of your work and your full service list with prices. Those two count the most toward a complete listing.
3. 03The first month: write a real description, then add your specialties, walk-in policy, and socials. Then put the review QR code on your front desk.
4. 04Every month after: change something. A fresh listing makes everything else count for more. A complete listing nobody touches slowly loses ground to one that's kept up.

Do that and it won't matter when the lift fades. By week 10 your listing holds its place on its own. Find your salon and start.