Reminders that know when to stop
A confirmation with a calendar invite the moment they book, and a reminder before the appointment. Cancel the booking and the reminder cancels itself.
A confirmation, with a calendar invite
The moment a booking is made the customer gets a confirmation carrying the shop’s name, the barber, the service, the time and the price, with a calendar file attached, so the appointment lands in their phone instead of an inbox they will not read again.
A reminder before the appointment
Sent on your schedule. There is good independent evidence this works: across seven randomised trials covering 6,615 people, text reminders raised attendance from 67.8% to 78.6%. That research is from healthcare, not barbering, so treat it as the reason reminders help and not as a promise about your shop.
Cancel the booking and the reminder cancels itself
Enforced in the database, not by the app remembering to do it. A reminder for an appointment that is not happening is the most embarrassing message a booking product can send, and it should not depend on every code path getting it right.
You can always find out what was sent
Every message is a record before it is an email and stays one afterwards, with the address it went to, the subject, the body and the delivery result. When a customer says they never got it, you have an answer instead of a shrug.
The rest of it
A page you would be happy to be found on
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.
Your whole day, one screen
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.
Money up front, if you want it
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 and the week off
Two-week rotas, one-off changes, a chair renter’s own hours, Irish bank holidays already in, including the February one, and a closed sign when you are away.
What the empty chair cost you
Seven numbers you would actually act on. Including the one nobody else shows you: the hours a chair sat empty that could have been booked.