Booksy pricing explained: what barbers actually pay
The sticker price on a booking app is rarely the whole bill. Below is how the money adds up in plain English, a worked example for a three-chair shop, and what the same month looks like on a flat price. Booksy publishes its own current rates on its site — check them before you decide; the shape of the bill is what matters here.
The five things on the bill
Base subscription
A monthly fee for the first person on the account. This is the number most people quote when they say what Booksy costs.
Extra staff
Each additional barber or stylist on the calendar adds to the monthly bill, so a four-chair shop pays several times what a solo chair pays.
New-client fee from the marketplace
When someone finds you by browsing the app rather than through your own link, the platform takes a share of that first booking.
Card processing
A percentage plus a few cents on every card payment, the same as any processor — but worth counting when you compare totals.
Optional add-ons
Message blasts, boosted placement and similar extras are billed on top of the subscription.
A worked month
Say you run three chairs, you do about 260 cuts a month at an average ticket of $40, and roughly 20 of those clients found you by browsing the app instead of using your own link.
On a marketplace app
- Subscription for the first chair
- Plus a per-seat charge for chairs two and three
- Plus a cut of those 20 new-client tickets — at $40 each that is $800 of service revenue the platform shares in
- Plus card processing on everything
The busier the shop gets and the more chairs you add, the bigger the bill gets.
On Omni Shop Guardian
- $27 a month for the whole shop, every chair included
- $11 a month if you are a solo chair
- $0 taken from any booking, new client or regular
- Card processing only, at your own processor's rate
Same 260 cuts, same three chairs, same $27. Growth does not raise the price.
The question to ask before you switch
How many of your clients actually came from strangers browsing the app, and how many already knew your name? If nearly everyone is a regular or a referral, you are paying marketplace prices for a calendar. If the app genuinely feeds you new faces every week, that discovery has real value — plenty of shops keep it for a month or two while they run day-to-day booking, reminders, the phone and closeout somewhere flat, then compare where the bookings came from.
What a flat price includes here
Your own booking page and client list, text reminders, an AI receptionist that answers your phone and books live, deposits and no-show rules, and a daily closeout that tells you what you kept after rent, product, tax and chair splits. Import your clients, set your services, publish the page — most shops are booking the same day. 30 days free, $0.00 due today, cancel from Settings.