FOR BARBERSHOPS
Built for the chair.
The AI receptionist and business OS made for 1–6 chair barbershops. It answers the phone mid-fade, books cuts and beards at the right cadence, handles walk-ins with a live queue, and makes Sunday paperwork disappear.
Used by independent barbershops · 15-minute setup · No long-term contracts
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"Hi, I'd like to book a balayage for Saturday..."
Booking appointment...
10:00 AM - Color
1:00 PM - Cut
2:30 PM - Balayage (New)
$1,500
avg. missed-call revenue recovered per shop, per month
3-week
rebook cadence automated — the way real clients want it
Live
walk-in queue with wait-time estimates out of the box
The phone rings mid-fade. Clippers don't pause.
You're halfway through a skin fade, number-one guard on, blending. The phone rings. Voicemail. The caller — a regular who just moved across town — books at the spot down the street.
For most 2-chair shops, that's 8–12 missed bookings a week. At $30–$60 a cut plus beard work, that's a car payment every month.
And the walk-ins line up, the rebook reminders never go, the chair rent math gets done on a napkin, and every Sunday is receipt Sunday.
SalonSub AI picks up the slack. All of it.
Answers every call. Books every cut.
The AI picks up in one ring, in your shop's voice. It books cuts, fades, beards, line-ups, and kids' cuts against your live calendar, and routes regulars to their usual barber.
- Books cuts, beards, line-ups, kids, and combo services
- Recognizes regulars by phone number and routes them to their barber
- Sends you a transcript and summary of every call
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A live queue clients can watch.
Walk-ins scan a QR at the door, type their name, and see the live wait time. Your chairs stay full. They grab a coffee, come back when it's their turn. No more "how long's the wait?" fifteen times an hour.
- QR-code check-in at the door
- Live wait-time display per chair
- SMS when they're next up
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Rebooks at a real barbershop cadence.
Three weeks after every cut, he gets: "Hey Marcus, it's Shop Name — time for a touch-up. Tap to book with Mike." One tap. Booked. Regulars stay regular.
- Automatic 2/3/4-week rebook SMS per service type
- Waitlist auto-fills cancellations
- Birthday, holiday, and win-back campaigns preset for barbershops
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Chair rent, commission, or mix. All handled.
Whether you run booth rent, straight commission, tiered splits, or a mix — we calculate it automatically at close-out. Monthly chair-rent invoices auto-send. Commission statements generate themselves.
- Booth rent invoicing via Stripe, auto-charged monthly
- Commission and tiered splits per barber
- Auto-generated 1099-ready monthly statements
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30-second checkout. Tip routed to the right barber.
Tap-to-pay on a Stripe reader. Tip prompts built in. Tips route to whoever cut, even if the owner rings up the ticket. Retail (pomade, beard oil, blades) scans straight onto the sale.
- Stripe Terminal reader with tip prompts
- Tips routed per barber, not per register
- Retail scanning and inventory tracking
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From the chair.
"I used to miss a call every hour. The AI books them now and lets me finish the fade. Dead simple."
Marcus Bell
North Side Barbers, Chicago IL
"The walk-in queue is the cheat code. Chairs are full, line is quiet, clients aren't mad."
Derek Hayes
Fade Parlor, Atlanta GA
"Chair rent collects itself now. No more awkward 'hey where's my rent' texts on the 1st."
Tony Russo
Boulevard Cuts, Detroit MI
Pricing that pays for itself in a day.
Every plan includes the AI receptionist, online booking, payments, and live walk-in queue. One missed regular costs more than a month of software.
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Everything you need to run the studio.
Limited-time show pricing · Billed annually
+ $13/month per additional operator
- AI receptionist, online booking, and payments
- Unlimited appointments
- Service notes and treatment history
- Before/after photo galleries
- Commission tracking and tip-outs
- Daily social content generator
- Review request automation
- Gift cards, memberships, loyalty
- Email and SMS campaigns
Card processing: Stripe's standard rates — 2.9% + $0.30 online, 2.7% + $0.05 in-person. We don't mark it up. Ever.
Hardware: The Stripe Terminal reader is a one-time pass-through cost. $59 for the Bluetooth reader, $349 for the standalone.
Straight answers, no fluff.
Yes — and it sounds like your studio, not a generic robot. During setup, you pick a voice, a greeting, and how it should describe your services. Most clients can't tell it's AI. The ones who figure it out are usually impressed.
You decide. The AI can transfer to your cell, take a message, send you an SMS summary, or offer to text a booking link. You're in control of every escape hatch.
No. Keep your existing number. We forward calls from your number to the AI in seconds. You can turn forwarding on and off from your phone — answer calls yourself when you're free, let the AI handle them when you're not.
You are live in 15 minutes. You enter your services, connect Google Calendar, upload 10 photos, and forward your number.
Yes. It's a free service. If you're on Square, Vagaro, Fresha, or GlossGenius, our team will import them free for your clients, services, and appointment history.
Export everything — clients, appointments, financials — to CSV with one click. No lock-in, no fees, no guilt trip. We earn your business every month.
No. You pay Stripe's published rates directly. We make money on software, not on your sales.
Beauty services aren't covered by HIPAA, but we treat client data like it is. All data is encrypted at rest and in transit, hosted in US data centers, and scoped per studio — no one at another studio, or at SalonSub, can see your book. SOC 2 Type II is in progress.
We support Stripe Terminal (recommended) and Square Terminal. If you already have a Square reader, keep it — we integrate with Square's Connect API for in-person payments. Online payments always run on Stripe for reconciliation.
Yes. Each operator can be set to commission-split (configurable %, optionally tiered) or flat booth rent. Monthly commission statements are generated automatically as PDFs.
Not in v1. But we are happy to implement it for you. SalonSub AI is built and priced for single-location 1–4 chair studios. If you're multi-location, contact us.
Not yet, and it's deliberate. We generate three platform-tuned posts every morning with images and captions, and you copy-paste them yourself. It's a 90-second task that avoids Instagram API rule changes breaking your marketing overnight. Auto-posting is on the roadmap when Meta's API becomes dependable.
No. Trial is free. First month is the first month. Hardware is the only one-time cost, and only if you want in-person card-present payments.
Month-to-month. Cancel anytime in the app, no email required.
Your next regular is on the phone.
Start your free 30-day trial. We'll forward your number, import your clients, and have the AI answering by the end of the week.
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