Your cut list with prices, your hours, a tap-to-call button, one-tap directions, your Instagram and your booking link — on one page you own. No subscription. No commission on a client who books with you. The last booking app with a free plan started charging in 2025; here is what that costs, and what the page does that the calendar does not.
All three also take card processing on every payment, and none of them removes it. The point of this page is the subscription and the new-client fee, because those are the lines a shop pays whether or not it had a busy month. The three-year math →
If you are searching for a Squire, Booksy or Fresha alternative, the honest split is this: those apps are the calendar and the marketplace, and the page is the part you can own outright. Booking apps are priced by the calendar, not by what a customer sees. A three-chair shop pays the figures in the second column every month, forever, and the only line that ever stops is the one you cancel. Compare that with a page that is paid for once.
| For a 3-chair shop | Monthly | 3 years | New client found on their marketplace |
|---|---|---|---|
| Squire Independent — one barber | $30 | $1,080 | No marketplace commission published |
| Squire Pro — one shop, any number of chairs | $50 | $1,800 | No marketplace commission published |
| Squire Executive | $150 | $5,400 | No marketplace commission published |
| Booksy $29.99 + $20 for two extra barbers | $69.99 | $2,520 | Boost: 30% of the first visit, max $100 |
| Fresha Team, $14.95 × 3 bookable people | $44.85 | $1,615 | 20% once, $6 minimum |
| ShopLaunch Local Pack — the page, the menu, the posters | $0$199 once | $199 | 0% — we take nothing from a client you booked |
Three years of the subscription only, at the vendor's own November 2026 price, before tax, before card processing and before any optional add-on. Executive is Squire's tier for busier shops and Titan's for multi-location brands, so a single shop rarely needs either — they are here so the top of Squire's range is not hidden.
That add-on is worth reading twice: the app whose calendar you need sells the page as an extra $25 a month, on top of the plan. It is the same page — hours, prices, photos, a call button — that we build and hand over for $49 once.
This is the line barbers notice after the fact. Say 20 people a month find you for the first time on the app's marketplace and their first cut is $35:
Fresha's fee is one-time per genuinely new client, and a client who books through your own link, Instagram or Facebook never triggers it. Booksy's Boost is optional and off by default. A shop that turns neither on pays neither — the point is that the toll exists on the channel the app owns, and the page you own is the way around it.
Squire, Booksy and Fresha are not the same product with three logos — one charges per shop, one per barber, one per bookable person, and each takes its cut in a different place. So each has its own page: that vendor’s 2026 prices, the three-year total for a three-chair shop, and an honest answer on what to keep.
Each page has a one-page A4 PDF of the same numbers, for the shop that wants it on paper before the meeting.
A booking app is very good at holding a calendar. It is not the thing a new client reads at 11pm when they are deciding between you and the shop two blocks over. That is a page, and it is the part you have been renting.
We are not asking you to change how you book, and there is nothing to migrate. The page is the front door; the app stays the lock.
Your Booksy profile, Squire booking link, Fresha page, Calendly, or simply “DM me on Instagram”. One line in the form.
The button says Book and lands on your calendar, in the app your clients already know. Nothing is re-entered, nothing is double-booked.
The client who wants to phone you, the one who wants the address, and the one who only wanted to know the price are all served without you picking up.
Not a mock-up. A sample barbershop, built the way we build yours — scroll it in the frame, then open it on your phone.
Live sample · Miller & Sons Barbershop.
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What Squire, Booksy and Fresha cost a three-chair shop over three years — with the new-client fees and the five questions to ask before you renew.
Prices in US dollars, before tax. Pay by card on Polar's checkout page. If you are not sure, start at $49 — it is a real deliverable, not a trial.
Two months of the cheapest booking app. Yours forever.
Page + menu + posters + posts.
Everything, plus 30 days of us on call.
Not sure which one? Write to chonnom61482@gmail.com and tell us your shop and how many chairs. We will say which package you actually need — even if it is the $49 one. By ordering you agree to our terms and refund policy.
No, and we would rather you did not. Keep the calendar you already run: the page's Book button opens the booking address you give us — your Booksy profile, your Squire link, your Fresha page, or your Instagram DMs. Nothing is migrated, and a client cannot be double-booked because the page never holds a slot.
No. There is no calendar, no payment, no deposit and no reminders. It is the page a client reads before they book: what you cut, what it costs, when you are open, how to get there, and one button into whatever you book with. If you need the calendar too, that is a different product and we will tell you so.
No. Fresha's own pricing page in November 2026 lists Independent at $19.95 a month for one bookable person and Team at $14.95 a month per bookable team member, plus a one-time 20% commission (minimum $6) on a client who is new to you and finds you through the Fresha marketplace. The free plan it was known for is gone — reviews of the change date it to 2025, with the last free accounts ending in 2026. If you joined years ago for “free software”, check your card statement.
Squire's own page lists $30 (Independent), $50 (Pro, one shop, any number of chairs), $150 (Executive) and $250 (Titan) a month — flat per shop, so adding a barber does not raise it. Booksy lists $29.99 a month plus $20 for every additional team member, so three chairs is $69.99, and its optional Boost takes 30% of a new client's first visit, capped at $100. Both add card processing on top.
That is the most common order. A solo barber needs one link for the Instagram bio, the Google listing and the text he sends a client: prices, hours, address, a call button and a booking button. The Starter is exactly that — and at $49 it costs less than two months of the cheapest booking app subscription in this table.
Yes. We lay out your before-and-after photos and link to your profile or a specific post, so the page sends people to your feed instead of competing with it. The Local Pack adds five ready-to-post images with captions; the Full Launch adds a before-and-after gallery layout and ten posts.
One business day from the moment your form is complete. The form asks for the shop name, phone, address, hours, your service list with prices, your booking or Instagram link, and a photo or two. If you would rather not type it all, paste your Google listing or Instagram and we pull what we can, then confirm the rest by email.
No. The page goes live on an address we give you, and that link goes in your Instagram bio, your Google Business Profile and your QR poster. If you already own a domain, we tell you how to point it at the page; the domain itself is paid to a registrar, not to us.
No. $49, $199 or $499 is the whole price, charged once. The page stays live, the files are yours, and you pay again only when you order new work. We take no percentage of a client you booked, and we collect no client data at all.
You see a preview before we call it finished, and every package includes at least one round of edits. If we have not started building, you get a full refund. If we delivered and something on the list is missing or wrong, tell us within 7 days and we fix it or refund that part. Details: refund policy.
Polar Software, Inc., our merchant of record, takes it on their checkout page. Your card details are entered there, never on this site, and they handle the receipt and the tax. We never see your card number.
Pick the $49 Starter if you just need the link. Pick the Local Pack if clients keep asking for prices and the address. Either way, one form, one payment, and no monthly bill to forget about.