Booking software UK barbershops actually run on
Your customers.
Your bookings.
Your website.
Your brand.
Take bookings on your own website, under your own name, with your own app on your barbers' phones. No marketplace. No commission. No rival shops on the page.
14 days free. Then £79 £49 a month, locked for life. No card to start.
The live demo
Not a screenshot.
The booking your customers get, step for step. Make one on the left and watch it land in the shop's diary on the right.
The flow is the real one, taken straight out of the product. The shop is invented: Ricky, Hugo and Jamie are not real barbers and the diary is made up, so book as freely as you like. This panel is a simplified illustration of one booking, not the full system. Here is what it leaves out.
The whole thing
That was the illustration. The product is bigger.
The panels above are a drawing of one booking, running in this page. The real system is a whole shop: six barbers, twelve services, every day in the diary, the console the counter runs on and the app a barber keeps on their phone. We do not put that behind a public link, because the staff side is somebody's whole diary. Leave your number instead and we will walk you through it.
Fifteen minutes, at a time you are not cutting. We go through the booking site, the counter and the barber's app on a real shop, with your services and prices in front of you, and you can ask the awkward questions while somebody is on the line.
- The booking site The flow you just used, only this time it is a server answering. Every step is its own page, so the back button works and refreshing never books twice.
- The counter Day and week diary, walk-ins booked at the desk, no-shows and cancellations with a name against them, time off, staff and their devices, and the Booksy import.
- The barber's phone Your shop's own app, with your name on it, in every barber's pocket. It buzzes the moment a booking lands, which is the part Booksy charges for.
Free, included in the price
Your shop's iOS & Android app
Every barber gets the app on their own phone, under your logo and your shop's name - not ours with your name in it. It buzzes the second a booking lands, even with the phone in a pocket and the shop shut. And it is included in the one price - not a tier, not an add-on, not per barber.
Your name on the home screen
Not "Trimsy". Your shop's logo and your shop's name, sat on the barber's phone next to their other apps. The marketplace apps put their own brand there instead.
It buzzes when a booking lands
A real notification, not an email nobody opens. Who booked, with which barber, and when. Tap it and you are looking at the day.
Run the day from anywhere
Every chair in its own column. Take a walk-in, move a booking, add a note to a customer, mark a no-show, block out a late start or a lunch - from the chair, the back room or the sofa at home.
The numbers, without a spreadsheet
What today should take before it starts. The week's takings, day by day and barber by barber. Who is flat out and who has gaps, as a percentage, so a quiet Tuesday is a fact and not a feeling.
The owner stays in charge
Each barber signs in with their own PIN and sees the book. A phone that goes missing is cut off in one tap from your own, and every other phone carries on as if nothing happened.
Easy to install, set up in five minutes
The whole shop is running on it the same day. We set it up with you the first time, then each barber is a couple of taps from having it on their own phone. Works the same on iPhone and Android.
Turn it on once per phone. A barber who wants to be left alone on their day off just turns it off on theirs, and the counter iPad carries on.
Why bother moving
The subscription is the cheap part.
Marketplace apps do not sell you software. They sell you access to your own customers, and sell your customers access to every other shop.
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Your booking page advertises the shop down the road
Somebody opens the app to book with you and lands in a directory. Nearby shops, cheaper prices, an offer this week. You pay a monthly fee to put your own regulars in front of that.
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The reviews are not yours
Years of five star reviews sit on somebody else's profile. They cannot be moved. The day you leave, they stay. Google reviews are yours for good.
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You are renting your own customer list
Names, numbers and booking history live on a platform you do not control, under terms that can change with an email.
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People learn to book on the app, not with you
Every booking teaches them the app is where haircuts come from. Trimsy teaches them your name instead.
What you get
Everything the shop runs on.
What a busy shop uses every day. Nothing else.
Your own domain
Booking runs at yourshop.co.uk. Your logo, your prices, your photographs. Nobody else's brand on the screen.
A diary you can read across the room
Day view for the chair, week view for the shop. Big enough to read from the counter, and it updates the second a booking lands.
Pairing codes, not passwords
Pair the shop iPad once. Barbers tap in with a four digit PIN. Nothing to forget, nothing written on a Post-it by the till.
Confirmations and reminders
An email when they book, a reminder the day before, a note if anything changes. Fewer empty chairs on a Saturday.
Your shop's own app, on their phone
Not ours with your name in it. Your logo on the home screen, your name under it, and it buzzes the moment a booking lands. Nothing to download.
Found on Google, booked on your page
Put your booking link on your Google listing and somebody searching "barber near me" is two taps from a slot. No app to install, no account to make.
Regulars are recognised, not registered
No account, no password, no sign up wall. Book once and the shop remembers you next time.
Your customers come with you
Export your client list from Booksy, Fresha, Treatwell, Nearcut, Setora or Squire and we bring it across. Nine years of regulars, not a blank book.
The website, free
Not got one? We build it and host it, free, as part of the monthly price. Quick on a phone, with the booking built in.
Moving over
You do almost none of this.
Switching is the reason most shops stay put. So we do the moving, and you keep taking bookings throughout.
Start your free 14-day trial
Sign up yourself in a few minutes, no call and no sales pitch. Poke around, take a test booking, and see whether this fits.
We set it all up
Send us the client list you export from Booksy and we load the lot: services, prices, barbers, rotas, hours and every customer. You see exactly what is going in before it lands. If you need a website, it gets built alongside in your colours, free.
You go live, gently
Keep the old system running until you are happy. Then point Google and your socials at your own booking page and cancel it.
One thing we will not pretend about
Reviews do not transfer. Nobody can move them. So we start you on Google reviews months before the switch, asking every customer and not just the happy ones. By the time the old page goes quiet, the reviews that count are on a profile you own.
Pricing
One price. Per shop, not per chair.
Take on a fourth barber and the bill does not move. Have your best month ever and it still does not move.
First 14 days free
a month after that, plus VAT, and locked in for life - the price you join at is the price you keep. No contract, cancel any month.
- Unlimited barbers, unlimited bookings
- 0% commission. Every booking is yours
- The app, free, for every barber - iPhone and Android, with the day, the week and the takings in it
- Your website built and hosted, free
- Booking pages on your own domain
- Diary, staff, services, rotas and reporting
- Email confirmations and reminders
- Card on file and no-show charging - coming soon
- Google Business Profile booking link
- Setup, data migration and support
No card to start the trial, and the fortnight is counted from the day your shop goes live rather than from the day you enquire, so setting it up does not eat it. When card on file lands, payments will run through Stripe at Stripe's published UK rate, and we will add nothing on top.
Not got a website? We build it. Free.
Built for your shop, quick on a phone, with your own photographs, services and prices. The booking is part of it, not bolted on.
No build fee and no hosting bill. The design is already built and tested, so yours is a reskin of it, not a project.
Already have a website?
Trimsy goes on it. Your booking page sits on your own domain and your site links straight into it. Nothing you have already paid for gets thrown away.
Next to a marketplace app
| Trimsy | Marketplace apps | |
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| Where people book | Your own website | Their app and directory |
| Rival shops on the page | None | Nearby shops shown alongside you |
| Commission on bookings | 0% | Often charged on new clients they send |
| Cost as you add barbers | Flat, the same whatever the size | Usually rises per staff member |
| A website of your own | Built and hosted, free | Not included. Their profile page is not your website |
| Who holds the customer list | You, and we bring it over from your old system | The platform |
| Where reviews live | Your Google profile, yours for good | Their profile, not portable |
| Contract | None, cancel any month | Varies |
Marketplace terms and prices change, so check their current figures yourself before you decide. Hosting is included for as long as you are a customer, and if you leave the site is yours to take with you.
Questions
Straight answers.
How does the free trial work?
Fourteen days, no card, no contract. You tell us about the shop and we do the setting up, so the trial is you running your actual shop on it, not you evaluating a blank account at eleven at night.
The clock starts the day you go live. Building your site and moving your data takes us a few days and it would be a strange trial that spent itself before you had seen the thing. If you stop at the end, you take your customers and your bookings with you as a spreadsheet and there is nothing to cancel.
Do my reviews come with me?
No, and be careful of anyone who says they do. Reviews left on a marketplace stay there. Instead we start you collecting Google reviews well before the switch, so you build up your own that nobody can take away.
One rule: ask every customer, not just the ones you expect to say something nice. Filtering who gets asked breaks Google's rules and can cost you the listing.
Do I need a website already?
No. If you already have a website, Trimsy goes on it. If you have not, we build you one and host it, free, as part of the monthly price. Plenty of shops come to us with nothing but a Facebook page.
"Free website" usually means a template with somebody else's badge on it. Ours is not. We have already built and tested one properly for a working barbershop, and yours is that design in your colours, your typeface and your photographs. The build is a couple of days, not a couple of months.
What happens to the bookings already in my diary?
We bring them across before you go live, with your services, prices, barbers, hours and customer list. You retype nothing, and the old system keeps running until you are confident.
Will my barbers be able to use it?
The shop iPad is paired once, then each barber taps in with a four digit PIN. Their day is one screen. Most are running it properly inside ten minutes. Each barber can also put the shop's app on their own phone, free, on iPhone or Android - it buzzes the moment a booking lands.
How does the no-show charge work?
This lands shortly, and here is how it will work. Card details are taken at booking and held securely by Stripe. Nothing is charged then. If they do not turn up, or cancel inside your window, the booking is flagged and you decide whether to charge the fee.
You set the window and the amount, and the customer agrees to it when they book. It stays your call, because a regular of nine years stuck in traffic is not a no-show.
Where is my data, and who is responsible for it?
Data is held on servers in the EU and protected under UK GDPR. You are the data controller and we are the processor, set out plainly in the agreement. Customer records can be exported or deleted on request, which is what UK GDPR requires of you.
What if I want to leave?
You export everything, customers, bookings and history, as a spreadsheet, and you cancel. No contract, no notice period, and no phone call trying to talk you out of it.
Start free
Fourteen days, on us.
No card and no contract. Signing up takes about five minutes: your email, a six digit code, and a few things about the shop. Then we build it, with your services, prices, barbers, hours and customer list brought across, and your website with it.
The fortnight starts the day you go live, not the day you sign up, so the setting up does not eat it. If it is not for you, say so and walk away with your data. If we do not think moving is worth it for your shop, we will tell you that too.
Rather talk to somebody first? Leave your number and we will ring you, or email hello@trimsy.io.