Founder of Filaro
Azeem is the founder of Filaro. He writes about queue management and appointment booking for small walk-in shops: barbershops, salons, clinics and cafés. The aim is always the same, a calmer busy hour without enterprise software or a hardware quote.
GuidesA plain decision guide for small shops weighing appointments against walk-ins: the honest trade-offs, what fits barbershops, salons, clinics and cafés, and why running both in one queue beats picking a side.
TutorialsA step-by-step guide to turning on appointment booking in filaro for a barbershop, salon, or clinic, with services, staff photos, per-person hours, and time off. Bookings and walk-ins end up in one queue.
TutorialsA practical, step-by-step guide to surviving your busiest walk-in days, plus exactly how to set up filaro.app for your shop, with a screenshot of every step.
PlaybooksI run a walk-in barbershop and weekends were chaos. Switching to a barber shop QR queue meant customers join the line from their phone and I stopped losing people to the coffee shop next door.
GuidesA practical comparison of queue management options for small businesses: paper tickets, booking apps, deli dispensers, and QR virtual queues, with clear guidance on which fits a walk-in shop.
TutorialsA step-by-step guide to setting up a QR code queue system for a small business, from printing the code to calling your first customer, with no app download and no ticket machine.