A MOBILE app designed to revolutionise bookings in the hair and beauty sector is the winner of Aberystwyth University’s Inv­EnterPrize for 2018.

Developed by student team James Bryan, James Stone and Howun Lam, Clipr is designed to bring salons closer to customers and enable them to run their businesses from their smartphones.

Along with the title of InvEnterPrize winners, the team receives a £10,000 prize to invest in developing the concept. The finalists presented their business proposals to a panel of judges in a Dragon’s Den-style event.

“The app is Airbnb meets Uber for hair and beauty,” said James Bryan, who came up with the idea while looking for a hair salon open on a Sunday in Aberystwyth.

“Using the app is a very simple, intuitive process which will be familiar to anyone using social media.”

Since September 2017, the team has been working with businesses in Aberystwyth and now is now looking forward to finalising the concept before launching the app to students in the town.

“Winning InvEnterPrize is a huge boost and will enable us to develop an iOS version for Apple smartphones as it currently only exists in Android,” added James.

“We are also looking at making it possible for the businesses who are part of the project to take digital payments safely.”

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