Live within the week
Services, durations, prices and staff loaded in — usually an afternoon's work. You take bookings the same week.
Beauty · Barbershops
Walk-in queue,
Walk-in queue,
handled without
a clipboard.
Barbering is a volume game with a fifteen-minute clock. Most shops are half walk-in, half booked, and the awkward bit is running both at once without anyone feeling they’ve been jumped.
What it does
Fast chairs.
Fast chairs.
Fair queue.
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A day on the floor
Saturday,
Saturday,
fully booked.
A barbershop’s Saturday is most of its week. It either runs to time or it doesn’t.
01
Walk in — told a real wait
Added to the queue with an honest estimate. People will wait forty minutes if you tell them forty; they leave if you say ten and mean forty.
02
In the chair — history on file
Number two back and sides, skin fade, beard trim — whatever it was last time is on the record.
03
Next up — nobody jumped
The queue and the bookings share one board, so the order is defensible when someone questions it.
04
Paid — and back in four weeks
Contactless, tip, rebook prompt. The whole transaction takes less time than finding change used to.
Pricing
Priced per location,
Priced per location,
not per headache.
Square Appointments plans, plus a rate quoted for your business. No joining fee and no monthly minimum.
Square’s published UK pricing, correct at time of writing. Processing fees apply separately — a rate quoted for your business. Not sure which tier fits? That’s what the free review is for.
The kit
What we'd put
What we'd put
on your front desk.
Square Terminal
Take payment at the chair, the desk or the client's door. Receipt printed or texted.
Square Stand
A reception till with the day's diary on screen and payments built in.
Client feedback
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Questions
The ones we get asked.
Does it work for walk-in-only shops?
Yes. You can run purely as a queue with no online booking at all, or open up bookings for the slots you want to protect.
How does chair rent work?
Each barber gets their own calendar and takings, so rent or a commission split can be reconciled from real numbers rather than an honesty system.
Is it worth it for a two-chair shop?
Often yes on the Starter plan — no monthly fee, a rate quoted for you, and the booking site and client records for nothing. The paid tiers only make sense once no-shows or staff numbers justify them.
Can customers book online but I still take walk-ins?
Yes, and that's the usual setup. You decide how much of the day is bookable and keep the rest open for walk-in trade.
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Let's look at your
diary together.
A free, no-obligation review of how you book, take payment and chase no-shows. We’ll tell you what we’d change — even if that turns out to be nothing.
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Two minutes, no obligation, and a person calls you back.
- Itemised in writing before you commit
- A named person, not a call centre
- Nothing submitted to Square until you say so
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