Booking app for locticians

Booking app for locticians and loc stylists, built around installs, retwists and repairs

Put installs, retwists, interlocking and repairs on one menu with honest lengths and prices, take requests only inside the hours you work, and get found by people searching for a loctician in your city. One flat monthly fee, no cut of any booking.

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Service list

What you charge, and how long it takes

Loc consultation 30m $25 to $50
Starter locs, comb coils 3h $200 to $350
Retwist and simple style 2h 30m $90 to $160
Interlocking maintenance 3h $130 to $220
Loc repair, up to 10 locs 1h 30m $60 to $120

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

Short answer

Hairdressers.io is a booking app for locticians that lists every loc service as its own entry with a real length and price, so a starter loc install, a retwist and an interlocking visit never get booked into the same slot. Clients request a time from your link or your city listing, only inside the hours you work, and each request reaches your inbox with the client as the reply address. It costs a flat $39 a month for a solo loctician and $89 for a loc shop of up to eight, with 0% commission.

A loctician's book looks nothing like a barber's. A starter loc install can take the better part of a day, while the same client comes back every four to eight weeks for a retwist that fits in an afternoon. Interlocking is priced differently from palm rolling, microloc installs run across more than one sitting, and a new client usually needs a consultation before anyone agrees on a price. Booking software for locs has to hold all of that without turning your menu into a guessing game.

What is the best booking app for locticians?

The best booking app for locticians is one that separates installs from maintenance, shows clients what each service really takes, and does not charge you again for the regulars who keep your chair full. Loc work is repeat work. Once a client trusts your hands, they book every month or two for years, so a pricing model that takes a share of bookings costs far more for a loctician than for a stylist who sees a client twice a year.

In the US, locticians mostly land on one of four shapes. Apps built only for locticians and natural hair professionals, such as Ring My Loctician, run as a phone app with booking and deposits. Marketplace apps such as Booksy and StyleSeat can bring first-time clients, and charge in some form for the new clients their marketplace sends. General beauty schedulers such as Goldie and GlossGenius give you a polished booking link but leave finding clients to you. Rates and plans change, so read the current figures on each company's own pricing page before you compare.

Loctician-only apps: Built around loc services, delivered as a phone app, with finding new clients mostly left to your social profiles.
Marketplace apps: A consumer app that can send first-time clients, paid for through a fee or promotion charge attached to those clients.
General beauty schedulers: A clean booking link and client tools, with no directory of their own.
Hairdressers.io: Your own booking link plus a listing on your city directory page, on one flat monthly fee with 0% commission on every booking.

One loc menu, with installs and maintenance kept apart

Every service on your page carries its own length in minutes and its own price. That lets you list the work the way you actually charge for it: starter locs by method (comb coils, two strand twists, interlocking), retwists by length or loc count, interlocking maintenance as its own line, and repairs by the number of locs. A client choosing "Retwist and simple style" sees two and a half hours and a price range before they send anything, so the message that starts with "how much for a retwist?" mostly stops arriving.

Microloc installs that take more than one sitting work best as separate entries, for example "Microloc install, session 1" and "Microloc install, session 2", each with its own length. The client requests the first session, you confirm both dates in your reply, and your week never shows a single impossible fourteen hour block. Everything is edited from your private panel in a phone browser, so a price change is live the moment you save it.

Starter locs by method: Comb coils, two strand twists and interlocking listed separately, because they take different time and carry different prices.
Maintenance as its own line: Retwists and interlocking visits sized for regulars on a four to eight week rhythm.
Multi-session installs: List each sitting of a microloc install as its own entry with its own length.
Repairs and add-ons: Loc repair by count, detox or a style after the retwist, each with an honest price.

How do locticians handle consultations before starter locs?

Most locticians ask a new client for a short consultation before a starter loc install, because hair length, density and the size the client wants decide both the method and the price. The simplest way to run it is to list a 30 minute "Loc consultation" as the first item on your menu, and say on your page that new starter loc clients book that first. After the consultation you know the real length of the install, and the client books it knowing the price.

Every booking request lands in your inbox with the service, the day, the time and the client's details, with the client set as the reply address. One reply confirms the time and asks for a photo of their hair, their current length, or anything else you need before you give away a long block. Write your deposit and lateness terms in your page's about text so clients read them before they request. If you have never written them down, our salon no show policy guide has wording you can adapt.

Regulars every four to eight weeks, on the same link

Your maintenance clients are the backbone of the book, and they only need one thing from software: a link that works every time. Put it in your Instagram bio, pin it in your texts, and send it with every confirmation. Returning clients open the same menu, pick their retwist and request a time inside your hours without messaging you first.

Every client who has requested an appointment is in your account, and you can export the list to a spreadsheet whenever you want it. That is your list, not ours, and it goes with you if you ever leave. Export it once a month and you have the regulars to text when they are due for a retwist.

Can I use a booking site if I do locs from home or a suite?

Yes. Your booking page and your directory listing show your city and, if you choose, a neighborhood. There is no street address field. Clients see roughly where you are, choose a service and a time, and get the exact address from you when you confirm, which is how most home studio and suite locticians already work.

In a shared loc shop, each loctician can have their own booking link and their own hours on the Salon plan, and clients can book the shop or a specific loctician. A client who has sat with the same person for three years should never have to guess who is free.

Getting new loc clients without paying a share of them

People look for locticians constantly. Google's Keyword Planner shows about 40,500 US searches a month for "loctician near me" alone, plus thousands more for loc retwists near me. Every plan includes a listing on the city directory page for your area, where those clients see your services, your price band and your hours, and send a request straight from the listing. There is no fee on the clients it introduces, on the first visit or the twentieth.

To be straight about scale: a directory inside your booking software does not have the audience of a national consumer app with years of downloads behind it. What it has is a cost that stays put when it works. For a loctician that matters more than for most, because a new loc client who stays becomes eight or ten maintenance visits a year. Under a per-new-client model you pay on the start of that relationship. Here the month costs the same $39.

Pricing for a solo loctician or a loc shop

A solo loctician is on the Chair plan: $39 a month, or $390 billed yearly. That covers one stylist, your page on its own link with services, lengths, prices and hours, a listing in one city, booking requests by email and a private panel to run it. A loc shop is on the Salon plan at $89 a month for up to eight locticians, with a personal booking link and hours for each and priority placement on the city page. A brand with several locations is on Studio at $199 for up to 25 stylists. All three are paid by card and cancel any time. The full list is on the pricing page.

If you are on a platform that charges for new clients today, count last month's new clients, take the rate from that platform's own pricing page and compare it with a flat fee. The commission calculator does the sum. If braids are also a big part of your week, the booking app for braiders page covers eight hour styles, and the Booksy alternative and StyleSeat alternative pages lay the pricing models side by side.

Chair, $39 a month: One loctician, one link, one city listing, booking requests by email and a private panel.
Salon, $89 a month: Up to eight locticians, 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 locticians

The rest are on the salon booking system FAQ.

What app do locticians use for booking?

Locticians in the US mostly use loctician-only apps such as Ring My Loctician, marketplace apps such as Booksy and StyleSeat, or general beauty schedulers such as Goldie and GlossGenius, usually through a link in their Instagram bio. The choice comes down to whether you need the app to find new clients and how you want to pay for the ones it finds.

Is Booksy good for locticians?

Booksy works for many locticians because its consumer app lists loc and retwist services by city, which can bring first-time clients. It charges a monthly subscription and sells Boost, which charges on new clients who book through it. If most of your book is regulars, a flat fee with no charge on new clients usually costs less. Check Booksy's own pricing page for current figures.

Can I list a microloc install that takes more than one day?

Yes. List each sitting as its own service with its own length, for example session 1 and session 2. The client requests the first sitting and you confirm the second date in your reply.

How do I protect a long starter loc appointment?

List a short consultation first so the install is priced and sized before it is booked, confirm every request by replying to the client, and put your deposit and lateness terms on your page where clients read them before they 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.

Can clients choose a specific loctician in a loc shop?

Yes, on the Salon plan and up. Each loctician gets a personal link, personal hours and their own services, and clients can book the shop or the person they always sit with.

Is there a commission on loc bookings?

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

How much does a booking app for locticians cost?

Hairdressers.io costs $39 a month for a solo loctician and $89 a month for a loc shop of up to eight, 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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