Every barber gets his own column and his own list of cuts, so a booked appointment is genuinely that man’s slot and the bench can see when the next chair is actually free. Clients book from their phone, a confirmation goes out on its own, and a cancellation goes back on the page while there is still a Saturday left to sell. Reminders before the day sit on the paid plans.
Blu BarbersBook online
Skin fade45m · Blake$30.00
Cut and beard1h · Deniz$42.00
Beard tidy20mBook
Next free12:15 PM12:40 PM1:30 PM
Next chair free
12:15
Blake, then Deniz at 12:40
Deposit
$10.50
25% on the longer cuts
Chair and barber
Both free
Or the slot is not offered
Every one of these settles the same question without anybody at the door having to arbitrate it: whose turn is it, and in which chair.
Your cuts, your prices and the times that are really open, on a page a man can look at from the bus. The ones who would rather not stand about book ahead, which leaves the bench for the ones who do not mind waiting.
Every barber keeps his own hours, his own days off and his own list of cuts, in his own column. An eleven o’clock with Blake is Blake’s eleven o’clock, not a place in a queue that four other people joined ahead of it.
A confirmation when he books, carrying the time and the barber, and a reminder before the day by email or text on the paid plans. Each one has a link to move or cancel, so a Saturday slot comes back to you on Friday night rather than at eleven on Saturday.
On the paid plans a four-weekly cut books as a standing series rather than one appointment at a time. Every visit sits on the man’s record with the number, the guard and whoever cut it last on any plan. Regulars stop being something you have to chase.
A shop with three chairs is really three diaries that have to agree.
When somebody is off, his hours come out and the chair stops being offered rather than quietly taking bookings nobody can cut. If you want the work spread evenly instead of one man taking everything, bookings with no barber named can be shared across whoever is in.
The chair itself is bookable too, so a chair being out of use is a chair that disappears from the page.
Saturday is most of the takings and all of the friction.
One calendar shows all three columns side by side for the day, so whoever is on the door can see at a glance which chair frees up next and tell the bench a real number rather than a shrug. Drag a booking from one barber to another and it goes with the chair.
If you run a second shop, it keeps its own barbers and its own hours and still shows in the same view.
Quarter past ten on a Saturday. All three chairs are cutting, four men are on the bench, and the man who booked ten thirty two weeks ago has just come through the door and taken the last seat. Every person in that room believes he is next.
Whoever is on the door has to decide this out loud, in front of everyone, with no record of who arrived when and no way to say how long any of it will take. It is the one job in a barbershop that has nothing to do with cutting hair.
Picktime gives every barber his own column, so a booking is a real slot in a real chair rather than a place in a queue. The bench can see on the page which chair comes free next, and the men who would rather book do, which shortens the bench for the ones who would rather not.
40 minFrom walking in to the chair, for a man who had booked
3Cuts that left the building anyway
List what you actually do with the time and price on each: skin fade, cut and beard, kids, a hot towel shave. Set each barber’s hours and the cuts he does, and add the chairs so one being out of use takes it off the page.
You do not have to give the whole day away. Open the hours you want bookable and keep the rest for the bench, set how late somebody may cancel, and take a deposit on the long ones if you want to.
The booking page is a link, so it goes in the Instagram bio, on the Google Business profile, on your site behind a Book Now button and behind a QR code in the window. Men who walk past the shop can book it from the pavement.
At quarter past ten on a Saturday there are three barbers cutting and nobody on the door who can also pick up.
The free plan is a plan, not a trial. There is no date at which it stops, no card to add, and nothing that quietly turns off in a fortnight.
A booking lands in the calendar each barber already has open, and the paid plans sync it both ways, so it moves there when it moves here. Payments run through PayPal on the free plan and through Stripe or Square on the paid ones, and the booking page goes on the Facebook and Instagram profiles men already look at before they pick a shop.
Picktime runs in a phone browser as well as on the machine by the till, and the barbershop booking app is on iOS and Android, so a barber can see what is behind the cut he is in without crossing the floor.
It depends whether you want booking or a whole shop platform with a card reader and stock in it. Picktime is the booking half (a page men book from, a column per barber and client records), free for a one-chair shop. A shop running retail and payouts through the same tool will want a barbershop platform.
Picktime’s free plan covers your own booking page, men booking and moving their own appointments, and client records, with no card and no end date. The page itself needs nothing installed at either end: it is a link that opens in any browser.
Yes, and most shops do. You choose how much of the day is bookable and keep the rest for the bench. Booked slots sit in a named barber’s column so they are genuinely his, and the page shows what is left, so the men who would rather not wait take themselves out of the queue.
Yes. Every barber keeps his own hours, his own days off and his own list of cuts, in his own column. A client booking a skin fade with Blake sees only the times Blake is free for that cut, and a barber who does not do beard work is never offered for it.
Take his hours out and his column stops being offered, so nothing new lands on a chair nobody can cut. Bookings already in it can be dragged to whoever is in, and the man gets the change on the same link he booked from.
It sends a confirmation when he books, with the time and the barber on it, and on the paid plans a reminder before the day by email or text. Each one carries a link to move or cancel, which is how a Saturday slot comes back to you on Friday evening.
Yes. Each shop keeps its own barbers, its own hours and its own booking page, and they all show in one calendar. Somebody looking after two shops is looking at one screen rather than logging in twice.
Checked on 1 September 2026, Booksy publishes $29.99 a month plus tax for the owner with every feature included, and $20 a month for each additional barber, so a three-chair shop is $69.99 before tax. On top of that sits a one-time 30% fee on the total of a Boost client’s first visit, which Booksy says it does not charge when Boost is switched off or when the man found you through your own marketing. Prices move, so read their page before you budget from ours. We set the two marketplaces against each other on Fresha vs Booksy.
Whichever one lets a service carry its own length, because that is where salon work differs from a barbershop and where most tools fall over. A cut and a colour are not the same hour, and offering both at forty-five minutes wastes one and overruns the other. Picktime gives every service its own duration and every stylist their own list of what they do, which is the same machinery this page describes with different words on it. There is a page for it: hair salon scheduling software.
One chair A barber on his own, taking bookings from a link instead of from his DMs.
See barber scheduling
Columns Services that run from thirty minutes to three hours, each booked at its own length.
See hair salon scheduling
Long sittings Day-long sittings held by a deposit, booked with the artist whose work it is.
See tattoo studio schedulingFree forever for a one-chair shop. No card, no trial clock, and your page can be taking Saturday bookings tonight.
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