Booksmith › For barbershops
Online booking for barbers
Your regulars book their next cut before they've left the chair, new faces book at midnight instead of ringing at nine, and the Saturday no-shows pay a deposit or lose the slot. All under your shop's name, with no commission on a single cut.
Nobody rings a barbershop twice. If the phone goes unanswered mid-fade, that customer books wherever a free slot shows first. Booksmith puts your empty slots in front of them the moment they look, whatever the hour.
A Saturday with Booksmith
The morning agenda email lists every booking by chair. No opening the shop to a mystery, no double-bookings scrawled in the appointment book.
The customer cancels from their reminder email, the slot reopens, and the first person on your waitlist gets an automatic message. The chair never sits empty.
"Same again in four weeks?" takes ten seconds in the admin, repeats weekly or monthly if you want it to, and sends them the confirmation before they're out the door.
Built for the shop floor
Each barber sets their own days, hours and services. Customers pick their barber, and the week view shows the whole shop at a glance.
Card deposit on skin fades and late Saturday slots; nothing on a dry cut. You choose per service, and no-shows on deposit slots all but vanish.
Block out walk-in hours, cap how far ahead people can book, and set a notice period so nobody books the chair out from under a queue.
A couple of hours after the cut, the customer gets your Google review link. Shops live and die on Maps ranking; this feeds it every day.
Email the day before and the hour before, SMS if you want it. The 3pm who "forgot" becomes a rarity, and attendance is tracked per customer.
Six chairs or two, £75 a month is the whole bill. No commission, no charge per team member, no fee creep as the shop grows.
Questions from shops
Yes. Booked slots hold their times and everything else stays walk-in. Many shops book out mornings and Saturdays and leave weekday afternoons open. You can also block walk-in-only hours in two clicks.
Yes. Every barber has their own hours, services and column in the week view. Customers choose who cuts their hair, and self-employed chairs can be shown or hidden individually.
Yes. Set a card deposit per service through Stripe. Most shops put deposits on skin fades, colour work and late Saturday slots only, and leave quick trims deposit-free. The money settles to your account, not ours.
No. Booksmith is £75 a month flat, whatever your volume, with no per-chair pricing and no marketplace commission. If you're currently paying per team member or per new client, it's worth doing the maths; our Fresha comparison lays it out.