Booking app for braiders

Booking app for braiders: a hair braiding booking site with 0% commission

Show clients how long a full head really takes and what it costs before they message you, take requests only inside the hours you braid, and get listed where people in your city look. One flat monthly fee and no cut of any booking.

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Service list

What you charge, and how long it takes

Knotless braids, medium, mid-back 6h $220 to $320
Box braids, small, waist length 8h $300 to $450
Stitch braids, 8 to 10 rows 2h 30m $90 to $150
Starter locs, comb coils 3h $150 to $250
Takedown and wash 1h 30m $60 to $100

Availability on the booking page is generated from these durations. Sample list.

Short answer

Hairdressers.io is a booking app for braiders that puts your braiding menu on your own link, with every style showing its real length in hours and its price, and lets clients request a time only inside the hours you braid. Each request reaches your inbox with the client as the reply address, so you can confirm size, length and hair before you give away a whole day. A listing on your city directory page is included. It costs a flat $39 a month for a solo braider, with 0% commission on every booking.

Most booking software is built around a 45 minute haircut, and braiding breaks it in three places. One appointment can fill an entire working day, so a bad booking costs you the day and not an hour. The price moves with size, length and whether hair is included, so a client needs that detail before she commits. And plenty of braiders work from a suite or from home, where putting a street address on a public page is a real safety question. Get those three right and the rest of the software is easy.

What is the best booking app for braiders?

The best booking app for braiders is the one that matches where your clients come from and how you want to pay for new ones. If most of your book arrives through Instagram and TikTok, you need a clean link that shows styles, hours and prices, and you should pay nothing extra on those clients. If you need strangers to find you, you need a directory as well, and the thing to check is how it charges for the clients it sends.

Braiders in the US mostly land on one of three shapes. Marketplace apps such as StyleSeat and Booksy can put you in front of first-time clients, and a lot of braiders built their early book that way. The trade is the pricing model: StyleSeat charges a fee on new clients its marketplace brings you, and Booksy sells Boost, which charges on new clients it sends. Link-based schedulers such as Acuity, and the newer apps built only for braiders, take bookings well from your bio but leave finding clients to you. Rates change, so read the current figures on each company's own pricing page.

Marketplace apps: New clients from inside the app, paid for through a fee or a share attached to the clients the marketplace introduces.
Link-only schedulers: Tidy booking from your own link and your Instagram bio. Finding new heads stays entirely your job.
Hairdressers.io: Your own booking link plus a listing on your city directory page, on one flat monthly fee with 0% commission on both.

Long appointments, shown the way braiders price them

Every style on your menu carries its own length and its own price. A client scrolling your page at midnight sees that medium knotless to mid-back is a six hour sitting and roughly what it costs before she sends anything, which quietly filters out most of the messages that start with "how much for braids?"

Price styles the way you already do. Add separate entries for small, medium and large, for shoulder, mid-back and waist length, and for hair included or client brings hair. The menu is yours to edit from your private panel, so a new style or a price change is live the moment you save it, with nothing to install on your phone.

A length on every style: Stitch braids at 2h 30m, small box braids to the waist at 8h, shown in the menu clients read before they ask.
Size, length and hair as their own entries: List every combination you charge differently for, so the price a client sees is the price you meant.
Requests only inside your hours: Set the days and times you braid. A request outside them is refused on the page, so nobody asks for a 5am start you never offered.
Edit between clients: Change styles, prices and hours from the panel in your phone browser while a client is under the dryer.

How do braiders confirm bookings and take deposits?

Most braiders protect a long appointment in two steps: a deposit that holds the time, and a quick confirmation that the client understands the style, the length and what to bring. On Hairdressers.io every booking request lands in your inbox with the style, the day, the time and the client's details, and the client set as the reply address. One reply confirms the appointment and asks the questions, and a deposit at booking is available on every plan if you want one.

Write your policy once and put it on your page where clients read it before they request: the deposit, how much notice you need to reschedule, whether guests are allowed, and whether hair should arrive washed and stretched. If you have never written one down, our salon no show policy guide has wording you can adapt in ten minutes.

Every request by email: Style, day, time and client details in one message, with the client as reply-to.
Confirm before you give away the day: Settle size, length and hair with the client before an eight hour sitting goes in the book.
Your policy on your page: Deposit terms, lateness, guests and hair prep, in your own words, on the page clients book from.
Deposit at booking: Ask for a deposit when the appointment is booked, on every plan including the cheapest.

Can I use a booking site if I braid from home?

Yes. Your booking page and your directory listing show your city and, if you choose, a neighborhood. There is no street address field at all. Clients see roughly where you are, pick a style and a time, and get the exact address from you when you confirm, which is the order most home and suite braiders already work in.

The same setup suits a braider renting a salon suite or a chair in a shared shop. Put the building name in the about text on your page and send the unit number with the confirmation, so the detail only goes to people who have actually booked.

Getting new braiding clients without paying a share of them

Every plan includes a listing on the city directory page for your area, where people looking for a stylist see your styles, your price band and your hours, and send a request straight from the listing. The directory takes no fee on the clients it introduces, on the first visit or the tenth. City pages include Atlanta, New York, Brooklyn, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles and Austin.

To be straight about scale: a directory inside your booking software does not have the audience of a national consumer app with a decade of downloads behind it. What it has is a cost that stays put when it works. Under a per-new-client model, a good month with twenty new heads means paying on all twenty. Here the month costs the same $39.

Most braiders still get the bulk of new clients from Instagram and TikTok. Put your booking link in your bio and those clients land on the same menu, with the same 0% commission, as the ones the directory sends.

Pricing for a solo braider or a braid shop

A solo braider is on the Chair plan: $39 a month, or $390 billed yearly. That covers one stylist, your page on its own link with styles, prices and hours, a listing in one city, booking requests by email and a private panel to run it. A braid shop with a team is on the Salon plan at $89 a month for up to eight stylists, where every braider gets a personal booking link, personal hours and their own list of styles, and the shop gets priority placement on its city page. Both are paid by card and cancel any time. The full list is on the pricing page.

If you are on a platform that charges per new client today, do the sum before you decide. Count last month's new heads, take the rate from your current platform's own pricing page, and compare it with a flat fee. The commission calculator does the arithmetic for you. For the model laid out side by side, see the StyleSeat alternative and Booksy alternative pages.

Chair, $39 a month: One braider, one link, one city listing, booking requests by email and a private panel.
Salon, $89 a month: Up to eight braiders, each with a personal link and hours, plus priority placement in your city listing.

Pricing

Flat monthly, from $39. Never a cut of a booking.

Four plans by team size, from a single chair to a multi-location group. The 0% commission line is the same on all of them, including bookings that come from your city directory listing.

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Questions

About booking app for braiders

The rest are on the salon booking system FAQ.

What app do most braiders use for booking?

Braiders in the US mostly book through marketplace apps such as StyleSeat and Booksy, general schedulers such as Acuity or Square Appointments, or a link in their Instagram bio that points to one of those. The choice usually comes down to whether you need the app to find you new clients, and how you want to pay for the ones it finds.

Is StyleSeat good for braiders?

StyleSeat works for many braiders, especially new ones, because its marketplace can bring first-time clients. The trade is the model: it charges a fee on the new clients its marketplace introduces. If most of your book is regulars and Instagram, a flat monthly fee usually costs less. Check StyleSeat's own pricing page for current figures before you compare.

Is Booksy or StyleSeat better for braiders?

Booksy charges a monthly subscription and sells Boost, which charges on new clients its marketplace sends. StyleSeat charges a fee on new clients its marketplace introduces. Which costs less depends on how many new clients you take in a month, so count them and run both models against that number. Our StyleSeat vs Booksy article walks through the sum.

Can clients see how long a braiding appointment takes before booking?

Yes. Every style on your menu shows its own length and price, so a client knows a six hour sitting is six hours before she sends a request.

Do I have to show my home address on my booking page?

No. There is no street address field. Your page shows your city and, if you want, a neighborhood, and you send the exact address when you confirm the appointment.

Can a braid shop give each braider their own booking link?

Yes, on the Salon plan and up. Each braider gets a personal link, personal hours and the styles they actually do, and clients can book the shop or a specific braider.

Is there a commission on braiding bookings?

No. 0% on every booking, on every plan, including clients who find you through the city directory.

How much does a booking app for braiders cost?

Hairdressers.io costs $39 a month for a solo braider and $89 a month for a shop of up to eight braiders, with nothing charged per booking and no fee on new clients.

More salon software pages

Each one covers a different angle on the same product. The directory side lives on the salon directory.

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