The Chair · A VC Suite Service
Stop renting your chair from Booksy and theCut. The Chair builds you a custom booking site, sets up your dedicated business number, gets you listed on Google, and plugs it all into a real CRM so the client list is yours forever. You cut. We run the back of house.
$99/mo · $200 one-time setup · Month-to-month · Launch in 7 days · Founding 10 chairs lock this rate for life.
Booksy keeps the customer. theCut keeps the customer. We hand the customer to you.
The Problem
You built the chair. You built the skill. You built the clientele. And somehow the app gets the brand, the cut of every booking, the right to text your customers, and the leverage to hike the price whenever they feel like it. That's a tenant, not a business owner. Time to flip it.
Renting From The Apps
You can't text them, email them, or move them. If they cancel the app, you lose them.
No branded URL. No control over how you show up. Just another tile in someone else's marketplace.
Bookings, reschedules, payment requests — all blowing up your real phone, mixed with your family group chat.
You're the marketing department, the receptionist, and the barber. Something always falls.
Plus per-booking cuts, plus payment-processing markups. You keep paying for a list that isn't yours.
With The Chair
Branded to you. Your photos, your prices, your services, your hours. Walk-ins, regulars, custom-time bookings — handled.
A separate number for clients. AI handles the reschedules and FAQs. Your real phone stays for your real life.
When someone searches "barber near me," you show up — with reviews, photos, hours, and a one-tap link to book.
Every contact, every cut, every text, every dollar in one dashboard. Birthday cuts, slow-day blasts, review requests — all automated.
No per-booking cut. No surprise pricing. Cancel anytime and the list, the site, and the number stay with you.
How It Works
You don't touch the tech. We set up the booking app, the line, the listing, and the CRM. You walk into a finished shop and start taking cuts.
01
Mobile-first booking site at your own domain. Services, prices, hours, walk-ins, custom times, multi-service combos, first-time pricing — all the levers that Booksy makes you upgrade for.
02
A real phone number for your shop. A2P-registered, deliverable, and routed through an AI assistant that handles reschedules and FAQs so you stay in the chair.
03
Profile claimed, verified, optimized — photos, services, hours, booking link. Auto-requested reviews from happy clients climb your star count week by week.
04
Your own GHL-powered back office. 24h + 1h reminders, birthday cuts, slow-day blasts, review requests — all running on autopilot. The full client list is yours.
You stay in the chair. We handle the rest of the shop.
The Math
Conservative numbers. A working barber doing $40 cuts.
300+
Clients In 90 Days
Existing book imported plus new walk-ins captured. Every cut adds a contact you actually own.
8
Extra Cuts From One Blast
Text "Open chairs Tuesday — first-cut $35" to your list. 8 confirmations is a typical response.
$320+
Revenue Per Blast
At $40 a cut on 8 chairs. One blast covers the plan. The rest is profit on top.
Live Example
Ricky Montoya — 20+ years cutting, 5-star Booksy reviews, was paying every month to host his book on someone else's app. We moved him to his own site, his own number, and his own CRM in under a week. Tap below to see exactly what we'd build for you.
Case Study
Branded booking page, day-of-week address routing (shop on weekdays, home studio on weekends), first-visit auto-pricing, custom-time bookings, walk-in check-in, photo review form — plus a private back-office dashboard for Ricky to manage everything from his phone.
7 days
From sign-off to live
0%
Per-booking fee
1 number
Dedicated business line
100%
Client list ownership
What He Got
4-step mobile booking flow, custom service menu, photo gallery, reviews, automatic confirmation text.
What He Got
Today's schedule, full client list, blast composer, custom-time appointments, edit/reschedule, all from his phone.
What He Got
A2P-registered business number, AI auto-reply on inbound texts, every booking + message logged automatically.
What's Included
Branded to you, mobile-first, hosted at your own domain. Services, prices, gallery, reviews, custom hours.
Check in a walk-in in 10 seconds. Book a regular at any off-schedule time — birthdays, late-night cuts, whatever.
Father & son cuts in one booking. Cut + beard + design combined into one slot, one text, one ticket.
New customer? System detects it and applies your first-cut price silently. No discount code to share publicly.
A2P-registered, deliverable SMS number. Every booking + reschedule text fires from this — not your personal cell.
Reschedules, FAQs, "what time are you open?" — your AI assistant handles it. You see only the real conversations.
Claimed, verified, optimized. Photos, services, hours, booking button. We hand-tune the listing for maximum local visibility.
Text fires 24 hours after a cut asking for a review. Watch your Google star count climb every week.
Today's schedule, upcoming, full client list, walk-in check-in, blast composer — all on your phone or laptop.
Automated text reminders before every appointment. No-shows drop. Reschedules happen earlier.
Type a message, hit send. Goes to your full list or a tagged segment. Fill a slow Tuesday before lunch.
Every contact in your CRM, exportable anytime. Cancel and the list goes with you. Always.
Pricing
Full build + ongoing management
$99
/ month
Plus a one-time $200 setup fee. Founding 10 chairs lock this rate for life.
Add-On
Custom .com domain + branded email: $15/mo.
Or bring your own — we'll wire it up.
Add-On
Each additional barber: $97/mo.
Separate calendar, separate clients, unified shop dashboard.
Add-On
Beyond 2,000 sends: $0.025 per text.
Pay only for what you use. No markups.
Claim Your Chair
We'll walk you through exactly what your booking site, business line, Google listing, and CRM would look like. If it fits, we start that week. If not, you leave with the playbook.
Intro call
We learn your shop, services, hours, and what app you're trying to get off of.
Build week
We spin up the site, the number, the Google listing, and the CRM. 7 days.
Go live
Your booking site goes live. Your line goes live. Your clients start booking direct.
Common Questions
No. Most barbers run both for a while — keep the app for new client discovery, send your regulars to your own site. After a couple months, most of the book moves over on its own and you cancel the app to stop paying twice.
Yes — because it's simpler than an app. No download, no account, no password. They scan a QR code from your station, tap a time, tap a service, type their name and number, done. Faster than Booksy.
A2P (application-to-person) is the registration carriers now require for any business sending SMS in the US. Without it, your texts get blocked or marked as spam. We handle the brand registration and campaign filing so your reminders and blasts actually land.
You do. Always. Every contact lives in your CRM sub-account and exports to CSV anytime. Cancel the plan and the list, the site, and the number stay with you. We're not building a moat with your customers.
7 days from signed agreement to live booking site. Google listing verification can take a couple extra weeks depending on Google's queue — but the booking, the line, and the CRM are running on day 7.
Yes. Each barber gets their own booking site, their own number, their own client list. If the shop owner wants to roll up multiple chairs under one brand, we can do that too — separate calendars, unified shop dashboard.
Month-to-month, no contract. Cancel anytime. You export your list and walk away with the site, the domain, and your business number. We turn off the automations and management — the assets are yours.
No. Flat monthly. Booksy and theCut take a slice of every appointment — we don't. Run 50 cuts a week or 500, the price doesn't change.
Ready To Own Your Chair?
Run Your Own Shop.
$99/mo + $200 setup. The first 10 chairs lock this rate forever — after that, the price goes up. Book your walkthrough now.