Royal Glow Salon & Spa — Documentation
Welcome. This is the complete reference for the Royal Glow Salon & Spa platform — the software that runs the salon’s website, bookings, billing, customer relationships, memberships, loyalty, marketing, and day-to-day operations. It is written for everyone: a new engineer joining the project, an operator running the salon, or anyone in the organisation who simply wants to understand how things work. Each page opens with a plain-language summary before going into technical detail, so you can read as deep as you need.New here? Pick a path below, or jump straight to
Business Overview for the non-technical
picture or Getting Started to run the project locally.
Choose your path
1
Understand the business
Read Business Overview and the Customer Guide for what the platform does and who uses it — no technical background needed.2
Run it locally
Follow Getting Started to install the monorepo and boot all three apps. Everything builds with zero secrets configured.3
Go deeper
Explore Architecture, the Data Model, and the API Reference to understand how it is built.4
Ship & operate
Use Operations, Deployment, and the Project Status page when it is time to release.What is Royal Glow?
Royal Glow Salon & Spa is a premium beauty and wellness business in Bengaluru, India. This platform is its full digital operations system — a single, integrated product covering the customer-facing website and booking experience, the staff/admin portal, and all the automation behind the scenes.Find your way around
How this documentation is organised
At a glance
- Three apps — the customer site + admin portal (
apps/web), the marketing CMS (apps/cms), and this documentation site (docs). - Edge-first — served globally from Cloudflare’s edge with a Node.js origin for heavier work.
- India-first — INR pricing in paise, GST 18% inclusive, IST timezone, DPDP Act compliance, DD/MM/YYYY dates.
- ₹0/month at launch — every external service runs on a free tier.