Haircut & beard trim at £28Your services, priced and timed
Beard trim, haircut & beard trim and the rest of the menu each carry a price, a length and a category, ready to book online.
Barber booking app and software: More cuts, less admin
Online booking, walk-ins in the same diary, card deposits and reminders in one app. Built for the chair and the whole shop.
Youzse runs a barbershop's bookings and walk-ins in one diary, with deposits, client records and reminders by email, SMS and WhatsApp. The AI assistant is inside the product. Quotes and invoices include the VAT figures. Youzse does not file the VAT return. The trial is 30 days and does not need a card. Youzse does not take a commission on new clients. Facts, pricing and limits
No commission on new clients. No per client charges.
One monthly subscription. 2.5% + 35p on standard UK cards, only when you take a card payment.
What barbers see in Youzse
Real screens from Sharp Cuts Barbershop, our demo barbershop, with the numbers it shows today.
Haircut & beard trim at £28
Waiting for your replyReviews that name the work
Every review names who it was with and what was booked, this one for beard trim. Reply from the same screen.
Hot towel shave, 30 minsEvery appointment in one place
Open any appointment to see the service, time, length, price and deposit, with the client and their history a scroll away.
Keep the chair full, all day
Regulars rebook online and walk-ins go straight into the diary beside them. Your barbers see their own column and clients get reminded so they turn up on time.
No commission on new clients. No per client charges.
One monthly subscription. 2.5% + 35p only when you take a card payment.
Turn the chair over, not the till
Barbering runs on volume and small tickets and the fixed part of a card fee bites hardest there. Take payment on your phone at the chair, keep the day moving and send a payment link when something is owed.
No commission on new clients, ever.
2.5% plus 35p on standard UK cards, with the platform fee inside it.
Every four weeks, like clockwork
A barber shop lives on the regular who comes back on the same rhythm. Set that rhythm on the service and Youzse nudges him when it passes, so the gap between visits stops drifting from four weeks to seven.
The client list is yours.
Unlimited customer records on every plan, yours to export at any time.
Running a barbershop
Barbering is a low ticket, high volume trade. That one fact changes almost every decision in the shop. Turning over what a salon turns over takes four times as many people through the door, so anything costing you per transaction costs you four times over.
Why the fixed pence matters more than the percentage
- Card processing is a percentage plus a fixed amount. The fixed amount does not care that the sale is fifteen pounds
- A shop doing four hundred cuts a month pays that fixed element four hundred times, which is the number to compare between providers
- Youzse charges 2.5% plus 35p on standard UK card payments with the platform fee inside that rate, so the fixed pence is visible rather than buried in a bundle
- Selling five cuts as one prepaid block turns five fixed charges into one and banks the money before the first cut
- Cash avoids the fee and removes the record, which is why a cash only shop never knows its own rebooking rate
Walk-ins and the booked column are in permanent conflict
Most shops run both and the friction is always identical. A walk-in taken at the wrong minute pushes a booked client back a quarter of an hour. The booked client is the one who complains, because he is the one who planned his day around you.
Deposits belong on the long appointments only. A skin fade with a beard sculpt holding a chair for an hour is worth protecting. Asking for a deposit on a fifteen minute dry cut costs more in friction at the door than it will ever save.
A barber week and where the money actually sits
| When | Who comes in | What it means for the chair |
|---|---|---|
| Monday and Tuesday | Retired regulars, shift workers and few others | The right days for training, stock and selling prepaid blocks |
| Wednesday and Thursday | Steady booked work with some walk-ins | Where a standing appointment can be moved without a fight |
| Friday | Men getting sorted before the weekend | Fills itself, so protect it for the higher ticket work |
| Saturday | Everybody, all at once, mostly on spec | The only day capacity genuinely runs out |
| The fortnight before Christmas | Every regular plus every lapsed one | The year is settled here. It is settled by queue management |
A shop that works deliberately at its Monday and Tuesday is a shop with five earning days rather than three.
The four week rhythm is the entire business
A barbershop lives on the man who comes back on a predictable cycle. The commercial risk is not that he defects to another shop, it is that four weeks quietly becomes six and then seven without him making any decision at all.
Prompt him at week three on his own interval. A number two all over and a scissor cut grown out are not the same cycle. A monthly message to the whole list treats them as though they are.
The lapsed list is the cheapest work in the trade. A man who has not been in for ten weeks has rarely found somebody better. He has been busy and one message brings a surprising number of them back.
What a well run shop does
- Compares card providers on fixed pence multiplied by transaction count
- Sells prepaid blocks of cuts to bank the cash and lock in the regular
- Holds explicit walk-in capacity rather than improvising on the day
- Takes deposits only on the appointments that hold a chair for an hour
- Prompts each regular on his own interval rather than sending one monthly blast
- Records guard numbers, neckline and beard preferences against the client
- Works the Monday and Tuesday deliberately instead of accepting them as dead
Built for barbers
Each of these sits in the same account, so a booking, its payment and the client record stay together.
Online booking and walk-ins
Booked cuts and walk-ins share one diary. Add a walk-in and he lands on the client list, matched to any record he already has.
Per barber columns and rotas
Every barber gets a column on the day view and their own hours, so the shop can see who is free for the next fade.
Card deposits and no show fees
Put a deposit on the long appointments only, like a skin fade with a beard sculpt. The quick dry cut stays free to book.
Rebooking reminders for regulars
Set a rebooking interval on each service and a regular gets a nudge when his usual gap is up, unless he has already booked.
Loyalty stamp cards
A digital stamp card per cut, with a free one at the number you choose and a birthday bonus if you want one.
WhatsApp and SMS reminders
Remind clients by WhatsApp or SMS on pay as you go or by email at no cost, so the chair is not left empty at ten past.
Clear answers before you switch
The details that usually slow down a move: setup, pricing, bookings, records and how Youzse fits into your day.
Weighing up booking platforms? Subscriptions, card rates and new client fees, side by side. See how Youzse compares
Youzse runs a barbershop's bookings and walk-ins in one diary, with deposits, client records and reminders by email, SMS and WhatsApp. The AI assistant is inside the product. Quotes and invoices include the VAT figures. Youzse does not file the VAT return. The trial is 30 days and does not need a card. Youzse does not take a commission on new clients.
The State of UK Salon and Barber Software Pricing, 2026
An independent, dated comparison of published UK pricing and new client commission across 18 salon and barber booking platforms. Free to cite, with sources.
Simple pricing, nothing hidden
Try every feature on your plan free for 30 days, with no card needed.
- new client fees
- 0%
- day free trial
- 30
- card rate, plus 35p
- 2.5%
- client records on every plan
- Unlimited