Free online booking for barbers
What you see. A sample dashboard, shown with a cleaning business's bookings.
What your clients see. The barbershop starter page, before you change anything.
Booksy and Square are built for shops with several chairs. 1MinuteBooking is built for one barber: your cuts, your prices, your open times.
Clients pick a cut, fade or shave, add a beard trim where it fits, and take an open time. Instant booking confirms them straight away. How instant booking works
A parent books their own cut and up to two kids' cuts back to back, each with its own service and add-ons. How it works
Every client gets a reminder email and can move or cancel online up to your cutoff. Want more? Take a deposit by card as they book. How deposits work
No add-ons to buy and no per-feature upgrades. Pro, at $10 a month, only adds your branding, Excel export and analytics.
When you mark a booking Completed, the client gets a Book again button with their last booking filled in. How it works
Book a regular weekly or every 2 to 4 weeks, up to 26 visits at once. Each visit can still be moved on its own. How it works
Every booking shows up in Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar, and moves and cancellations update by themselves. How it works
Percent or flat-amount codes for referrals, slow days or returning clients, with an optional expiry. How it works
A captcha, connection checks and your own filters send fake requests to a Spam folder, where they never hold a time. How it works
Every booking with its client, service, date, price and status in one Excel file, ready for your bookkeeper. How it works
Paste one line of code, and clients book and pay right on your site.
Square, Calendly and BookingKoala, side by side, for one person running their own business.
| 1MinuteBooking | Square Appointments | Calendly | BookingKoala | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost for one person | $0, with no time limit. Pro is an optional $10 a month | Free for one location. Plus is $49 a month per location (Oct 2026) | Free for one event type. $10 to $12 a month for more (Oct 2026) | From $27 a month, after a 14-day trial (Oct 2026) |
| Prices built from the job | Hours, quantities, sizes, add-ons and travel fees | Service variations | One event, one length | Pricing parameters for cleaning-style forms |
| Card deposits as they book | On the free plan, into your own Stripe account. 2% plus Stripe's fee | Through Square payments | On paid plans | Through its payment gateway |
| Quote requests with photos | Yes, with your own questions and up to 5 photos | Estimates in Square Invoices, not on the booking page | No | A lead form |
| Travel fees and drive time | A fee and drive time for each distance | Not a built-in setting | No | Pricing by location |
| Setup | Minutes. Your trade's services, prices and questions start filled in | Build your services in the Square dashboard | Build your event types | Pick an industry, then set up forms and providers |
Last updated . From each company's pricing page and help center. Plans change, so check theirs before you decide. Full comparisons: Square Appointments · Calendly · BookingKoala
Barbers searching for booking apps mostly end up comparing Booksy, Squire and Square. Those are built for shops: several chairs, point of sale, a marketplace that sends you new clients, and pricing that grows with your team.
Pick a shop system if you have several barbers or want to be found on a marketplace. If you already have your clients, 1MinuteBooking lets them book themselves instead of texting you for times. It's free, with no time limit.
Your booking page with stock photos, bookings and quote requests.
Your logo, your own photos and colors, Excel export and analytics, and no "Powered by" badge.
For a shop with several chairs and a front desk, Booksy, Squire or Square are built for that. For a solo barber who already has clients, a free booking page with your menu and add-ons is often all you need, which is what 1MinuteBooking is.
Yes. 1MinuteBooking's free plan has no time limit and no per-booking fee: your menu, add-ons, multi-person bookings and spam protection are included. Pro ($10 USD a month) removes the badge and adds your logo.
Yes. Turn on Stripe Payments to charge a deposit or the full price before the booking goes through, into your own Stripe account. Combined with a cancellation policy shown at booking, it's the usual fix for no-shows.
Yes - up to 3 people. After picking the first cut, the client taps "+ Add another person" and picks the next person's service and add-ons. The cuts run one after another, so the booking is as long as all of them together and the price is the sum; the date, time and contact details are asked once. Your bookings, receipts and emails list each person separately.
Yes - each add-on can be limited to certain services. The starter menu offers Beard Trim (+$10) with buzz cuts and fades, and Shampoo & Style (+$8) with haircuts and fades. A regular Haircut already finishes with a line-up and razor neckline.
Open a Completed booking and click Duplicate booking - the same client, services, add-ons and notes are filled in at your current prices, so you just pick the next date. For a fixed schedule, set Repeat on New booking (every 1-4 weeks, up to 26 visits) - see repeating bookings. Clients also get a Book again link in their thank-you email.
Yes - turn on buffer time in Settings and pick 5 to 60 minutes (it starts off). The gap is kept before and after every appointment, so with a 10-minute buffer a 10:00 Haircut that ends at 10:30 leaves the chair free until 10:40 - no client can be booked into that gap.
Sign up free with Barber already selected. You can change anything later.