Chair Manager
Every renter gets a weekly statement built from real bookings: takings, rent due, and the cuts behind both, so the number is the same on both sides of the counter.
An extra €10 a month, on the free plan as readily as the paid one, free for the first 14 days. Everything above is included in your plan already.
The argument that happens every Sunday
In a rental shop the owner tots up a renter’s week from memory and a diary, the renter has a different number, and the relationship absorbs the difference. It happens every week, in every shop that rents a chair, and it is nobody’s fault — two people counting the same seven days by hand will disagree. This makes the number mechanical: it comes from the bookings that already went through the till, so there is one figure and both of you are looking at it.
All three kinds of rent, because all three exist
A flat amount every week, a share of what they take, or a floor plus a share. You write it down once and it applies from the day you choose. Changing it never rewrites history — the old arrangement keeps its dates and a new one starts — so a statement from March still adds up when somebody queries it in November. A week that straddles a change is split day by day rather than argued about, and the maths is done to the cent: three days at the old rate and four at the new comes to exactly one week’s rent, not a penny either side of it.
A statement they can check, not a total to take on trust
Every cut is listed — when it was, what it was, what it came to — under the week’s takings and the rent due. That is the part that ends the conversation: a renter who thinks the number is wrong is not looking for the number again, they are looking for the appointment that is missing or the one that should not be there. It arrives by email on their own account, and it is on their screen whenever they want it.
Once it has gone out, it does not move
That is the whole point of it. If somebody marks a no-show three days after the week closed, you do not get a statement that quietly says something different from the one your renter is holding — you get an amendment beside it, labelled, with the original untouched. A number that changes after two people have looked at it is worth nothing to either of them.
It says what it does not know
Bookings taken through FreshTrim, and it says so on every statement. Cash taken at the chair for a beard trim that was never booked is invisible to us, and a statement that pretended to be a renter’s whole ledger is one they would stop trusting the first week it was wrong. What it is instead is a shared, checkable record of the part that did go through the system — which is the part you were both trying to remember.
We are the ledger, not the bank
Marking a week as paid is a note that the cash changed hands, not a transfer. The money moves in the shop the way it always has. That is deliberate for now: taking a cut of somebody’s rent is a different business with a different set of promises, and we would rather be the thing that makes the number honest.
And their own diary is free
Chair renters being unable to move or cancel their own bookings was a gap in the product rather than something to sell back. Switch it on in Settings and a renter can move and cancel on their own chair and take their own days off — at no charge, whether or not you take this addon. The customer gets the same cancellation email either way, and nobody can touch the chair beside them.
The rest of it
Booking Page
Your name, your colour, your hours, your address with directions, your Instagram. Send the link, put it in your bio, or drop two lines into the site you already have.
Daily Diary
A column per chair, hour by hour. Tap a booking to mark it done, take a walk-in, or drag it to a new time. Works on the phone in your pocket.
Reminders
A confirmation with a calendar invite the moment they book, and a reminder before the appointment. Cancel the booking and the reminder cancels itself.
Deposits & Payments
Take a deposit or the full price when they book. Cards handled by Stripe, paid straight into your account. We never hold your money.
Rotas & Holidays
Two-week rotas, one-off changes, and a chair renter’s own hours. Irish bank holidays are already in, and a closed sign goes up when you are away.
Reports
Seven numbers you would act on. Takings, who earned them, what sells, no-shows, your busiest hours, new against returning, and the hours a chair sat empty.
Waitlist
When a booking is cancelled, the slot is held for the first person in your queue and offered to them by text and email.
Loyalty Cards
Stamps are added automatically after every visit, and the reward applies itself at the next booking. Nothing to scan and nothing to hand out.
Shop
Sell your products on your booking page. Paid for online, collected in the shop, so there is no packing, no courier and no delivery date to promise.
Gift Cards
Sold from your booking page at any hour, paid straight into your account, and valid for the five years Irish law requires.
Shop Website
A full website on your own address: hero photo, your story, your reviews, opening hours, a map, and a Book now button on every screen. Included in every plan.
Photo Gallery
Your best cuts on your homepage and on a page of their own. Upload from a phone and we handle the cropping, sizing and loading.
Google Reviews
One polite ask after each visit, sent to everyone, the way Google’s rules require. Anyone unhappy reaches you privately first.
Winback
FreshTrim learns how often each customer comes in and tells you the day somebody is overdue. Bring them back in one tap.