For salons, barbers & independent pros
Your book. Your money. Yours.
Chairside is one app to run bookings, payments, clients, and your team — paired with a booking-first website that fills the chair. It's built for the independent pro first: your client list stays yours, and Chairside never takes a cut of your earnings.
The product
The Chairside app
Everything that touches your chair, in one place — booking, checkout, clients, and follow-up.
Booking & scheduling
- Your own public booking page — clients book you directly, no app install required
- Timezone-correct availability, generated straight from your working hours
- A requests inbox — new bookings land as requests you approve, then they're locked in
- Database-level protection against double-booking, even under load
- A Today view that runs your day, plus month/week/day calendar views
- Working-hours and time-off editor, so your booking page always reflects reality
- Recurring standing appointments for your regulars
Payments & checkout
- Checkout built for services and retail, in one ticket
- Tip presets at checkout, with tax applied to retail only
- Sequential invoices and emailed receipts, automatically
- Rebook-at-checkout, so the next visit gets on the books before they walk out
- Deposits and no-show fees to protect your time
- A shareable pay link that supports partial payments
- Bring your own card processor (coming soon) — v1 records the money; you charge through your existing POS
Client CRM
- Full client list and profiles, searchable and organized
- Private client photo galleries — before/after and inspo shots
- Per-client forms and files: waivers, color cards, consultation notes
- CSV import from whatever you're using today
- One-tap data export, any time — your book is yours
- A service menu editor and an expenses tracker, built in
Client portal — no install
- Magic-link sign-in — no password, no app download for your clients
- Clients see their upcoming and past visits at a glance
- Self-serve reschedule and cancel, handled as request-and-approve so you stay in control
- Two-way messaging with photo attachments — clients can send inspo before the appointment
Reminders & messaging
- Automated booking confirmations by email
- 48-hour reminders that cut down on no-shows
- Birthday greetings, sent automatically
- Every message logged to the client's history, so nothing gets lost
Reviews & marketing
- Save your Google and Facebook review links once
- Send a friendly, first-name "leave a review" message after a great visit
- Pair it with the Social Studio add-on for auto-posting your work
- A simple "your money" report — monthly take-home, calculated as paid invoices minus expenses
The org layer
Built for a studio or team
Running more than one chair? Invite pros by email and manage the studio without touching anyone's client list.
Booth-rent studios
The owner sees team totals and rent — nothing more. Each renter's book, clients, and history stay her own, fully private.
Commission studios
The organization owns the client data, with full visibility across the team for owners and managers.
Owner dashboard
Monthly booked, collected, and rent tiles at a glance — the studio's health in one screen.
Booth-rent ledger
A running record of who's paid rent and who hasn't, without digging through spreadsheets.
Team chat
Built-in messaging for the studio, so scheduling and day-to-day coordination don't scatter across texts.
Weddings & events
Run a big day as one event — deposits, subcontractor payouts, and the whole team's schedule in one place.
Privacy is enforced, not just promised: owners see aggregates, never a renter's client PII, in a booth-rent studio.
Who it's for
One app, every chair
Whatever you charge for — flat, hourly, or per-piece — Chairside adapts to how you actually price your work.
Flexible pricing models built in: flat, hourly, and per-piece (flash) — set it per service.
The other half
The website that fills it
A companion marketing site, built to funnel straight into your Chairside book.
- A branded home page with a clear Book CTA
- A services menu, priced and organized
- A Meet-the-Team grid, with individual stylist pages — each with their own booking link and gallery
- A locations page for multi-chair studios
- A booking page that feeds Chairside directly: service, preferred pro, day/time, inspiration-photo upload, and your cancellation policy
One app, not a stack of subscriptions
Cancel the apps that skim your chair
Most pros stitch together a booking app that takes a cut, a separate notes app, a reminder service, and a review tool. Chairside does all of it in one place — and it never takes a cut of what you earn. Your book, your money, your clients stay yours.
Replaces
One app, one bill — and no percentage skimmed off every ticket. Export your whole book anytime; nothing is locked in.
Bookings and requests come straight to you — no middleman marketplace in between.
Clients, photos, forms, appointments, and take-home money in one place.
Confirmations, reminders, and portal messages go out for you, automatically.
Keep the cut the marketplaces take, and drop the pile of monthly fees.
Add the Social Studio
Turn your best work into a steady stream of posts — booked into your calendar, not left to chance.