For barbershops
The chair waits for nobody
A barbershop fills up twenty minutes at a time, with people who walk in unannounced. Both fit here: whoever books from a phone sees what is still free today, and whoever walks in gets added by you, against the clock, and lands in the day where he actually sat down.
Everything free for 30 days, no card. Then stay on the Free plan, or USD 25 a month for everything. Nothing renews on its own.
- Typical length
- 15–45 min
- Booking window
- 60 days
- Free trial
- 30 days
Six cuts in three hours. The whole afternoon is two lines, entered once.
The first thing we hear
“Nobody books here. You come in and you wait.”
And that stays true. What changes is that whoever waits knows how long, and whoever cannot wait takes 18:20 from the bus. The one who walks in gets added by name in two taps and lands in the day at the time he sat down. Nothing forces you to take a deposit or close the door: deposits ship switched off, and you turn them on only if you ever want to.
What gets lost between cuts
None of it is fixed by a notebook next to the till.
Four people, one chair
The ones on the bench have no idea whether the wait is twenty minutes or an hour. Whoever guesses wrong gets up and leaves, and that is the cut you did not do.
“Any room at six?”
Twenty messages a day asking the same thing. You answer them with clippers in your hand, or half an hour later, once the person has had his hair cut somewhere else.
The dead Tuesday
Tuesday afternoon is empty and Saturday cannot take another soul. Without seeing the whole week there is no way to move anyone from one day to the other.
What changes the afternoon
In the order you notice it, not the order of the brochure.
The one with no appointment
You add him by name and that is it: no account, no email, and he is filed at the time he sat down. The public list only offers hours that have not started yet, so while the clippers are running nobody takes that chair from a phone: what is bookable is the next one.
What is free right now
Whoever looks from a phone sees the hours still open today, not last week’s. And your own screen updates itself when someone books, so there is nothing to refresh between cuts.
A whole afternoon, twenty minutes at a time
Enter Tuesday 4pm to 8pm once and it repeats every week. Each window you publish is one appointment, so twenty minutes for a cut and forty for a cut with a beard sit on the same day.
The one who wants Saturday
Saturday is full and he joins the list anyway. If somebody cancels, the freed slot is emailed to the first few in the queue — up to five at once — and held for them for half an hour: nobody else sees it in that window, and the first of them to take it keeps it.
Two people do not both get 18:20
If two tap the same slot in the same second, the database refuses the second one. It is not a check you run afterwards: it is a unique index that will not let the duplicate row in.
How it works
Three steps, and the middle one is no longer yours.
- 1
Your dashboard
Publish your hours
Set your week once: which days you work and at what hours, how long an appointment lasts and the break you want between them, and your hours are split into times clients can book. Services can each have their own length. Then add the one-off dates and the days you are closed.
- 2
What your client sees
Your clients book themselves
At any hour, from their own account. They pick a slot that is open and the booking is taken then and there, with the day and the time in their own list. Two people never end up with the same slot: the second one can no longer book it, with nothing for you to check.
- 3
Your dashboard
You collect the deposit and the calendar fills
If you ask for a deposit, the client transfers the money and uploads the receipt, and the deposit is settled once you approve it from your dashboard. A reminder goes out the day before and, if someone cancels, the waitlist hears about it by email.
Free to start, one price to grow
Every account starts with 30 days of Premium, no card. When they end, stay on Free for as long as you like or subscribe: nothing is charged automatically.
Free
For getting started, for as long as you like.
Freeforever
- 1 service on your booking page
- Up to 50 online bookings a month
- Confirmation and reminder emails
- Your booking page and site widget
Premium
RecommendedFor professionals taking bookings every week.
USD25per month
- Unlimited services and bookings
- Deposits by bank transfer, with a receipt
- Waitlist that fills cancelled slots
- It never renews on its own: you pay for the month you want
Common questions
What people ask before they start.
Can the man on the bench see how long the wait is?
He sees which slots are still free today, every time he opens your page. There is no sign reading “about twenty minutes”: there is 18:20 taken and 18:40 free, which is the same information without anyone having to guess it. Whoever does not want to wait takes 18:40 from his phone and goes for a walk.
If someone walks in, can I put him down for any time I like?
You file him against the clock: a walk-in goes into the nearest free minute within the next hour, because it is a record that somebody arrived rather than a booking for later. For next Saturday he books it himself from his phone. And if the slot is already taken, the database refuses it.
Can I open slots for one day only?
Yes. On top of the weekly pattern — Tuesday 16:00 to 20:00, repeating on its own — you publish one-off windows for a date. And the other way round: if you close one Tuesday you block that day and those hours stop being offered, without deleting the pattern and entering it all again afterwards.
Do my clients need an account?
That is up to you. Switch guest booking on — it arrives switched off — and a name and an email are enough: no account, no password, the booking is confirmed by email, and that same link is how they cancel. Leave it off and the client creates an account with a confirmed email address, and in exchange sees all their bookings in one place and cancels the ones they cannot make. Either way, they get the reminder by email the day before.
How do deposits work?
You decide whether to ask for a deposit, how much, and in which currency, and you write the transfer instructions your clients see. They transfer the money and upload the receipt; you look at it and approve or reject it from your dashboard. Until you approve it, the receipt shows as pending.
What happens when someone cancels?
Your dashboard updates without a reload. If nobody is waiting on that day, the slot goes back on the public list immediately. If people are queued, the freed slot is emailed to the first few of them and held for half an hour: for that stretch it is offered to nobody else, and the first of them to take it keeps it. If none of them does, it goes back on the public list.
Can I plug it into my website or my calendar?
Yes. There is a widget to paste into your page, so clients book without leaving your site, and an ICS feed you subscribe to from Google Calendar, Outlook or your phone. The feed is read-only: appointments flow into your calendar, but what you put in Google does not block hours here.
Does it work if I also see people without a booking?
Yes. Whoever turns up unbooked you enter by hand, with a name and no account, and they are filed at the time they arrived. And if you want air between two appointments, set a break between appointments in your schedule, and those minutes never reach whoever is booking.
How much does it cost?
Every account starts with 30 days of Premium, everything included and no card. After that you choose. The Free plan costs nothing and has no end date: one service and up to 50 online bookings a month, with confirmations and reminders. Premium is a flat monthly price for everything: all your services, deposits and the waitlist, the same whether you take ten bookings or two hundred, with no commission per booking or per deposit. Nothing renews on its own, and if you do not subscribe your page simply carries on with Free.
Try it on a Tuesday
Ten minutes to set up the week, then watch what Saturday does. No card, nothing to install.
Everything free for 30 days, no card. Then stay on the Free plan, or USD 25 a month for everything. Nothing renews on its own.