Booksy is $29.99 a month for you, and $20 a month for each barber who works beside you. Three chairs is $69.99 a month — $2,520 over three years — and if Boost is on, 30% of a new client’s first visit goes to Booksy, up to $100. Here is the math at Booksy’s own November 2026 prices, next to a page that costs $49 once.
Booksy publishes one number and one multiplier. The monthly headline is per shop; every person who works in it adds $20 a month:
A shop that never hires pays the $29.99 and nothing more, so the headline is honest for a solo barber. The tax lands on the shop that grows: the fourth chair costs $20 before it has cut a single head, and a five-chair shop pays $109.99 a month for the same software a solo barber gets for $29.99. Nothing about the software costs more to run because a second barber uses it. Boost is the second line — it is off by default, and when it is on, the client Booksy sends you is not free: 30% of their first visit, up to $100, is the price of the introduction.
Boost is shown per month because a shop’s new-client flow is not a constant: at 20 genuinely new clients a month and a $35 first cut, it is $210 a month — $2,520 a year, which is the entire three-year subscription again, every twelve months. The $100 cap bites only on tickets above $333, so most barbershops never reach it. Turned off, it costs nothing; the point is that the channel Booksy owns carries a toll and the page you own does not.
Same job, two products: putting your cuts, your prices and your phone number where a client looks before they book.
| Booksy | ShopLaunch | |
|---|---|---|
| List price today | $29.99 a month + $20 per additional team member | $49 / $199 / $499, once |
| 3 chairs | $69.99 a month — $839.88 a year | $0 a month |
| 5 chairs | $109.99 a month — $1,319.88 a year | $0 a month |
| What you pay in year 2 | $839.88 at three chairs | $0 |
| Fee on a new client | Boost: 30% of the first visit, capped at $100 (optional) | 0% — we take nothing from a client you booked |
| Your page | A booking profile on booksy.com, inside their marketplace | A page on its own URL with your prices, linking to your booking |
| Fees on your sales | No Booksy order commission; card processing is its processor’s rate | None — we do not touch your sales |
| Calendar, deposits, reminders | Yes — this is what the plan is for | No. The Book button opens the calendar you have |
| Client list and marketing | Yes, including campaigns and rebooking prompts | No. We collect no client data at all |
| Term | Monthly on its pricing page; ask what term applies before you sign | No contract |
| Leaving early | Nothing to cancel on a monthly plan — ask about annual terms | Nothing to cancel |
| Where the page lives | On Booksy’s domain, tied to the subscription | A URL and files you keep |
| Time to live | Sign up, import services, publish the profile | 24 hours from a completed form |
Booksy figures are the monthly list prices on biz.booksy.com/pricing, read 11 November 2026, before tax and before card processing. Boost is optional and off by default; its 30% is capped at $100 per new client. A shop on an annual plan or a legacy price pays something else — read the invoice, not this table.
This page would be dishonest if it claimed to replace the product. It replaces one line on the invoice.
If Booksy’s marketplace is where your new clients come from, that is worth paying for and we will not argue with it — a shop with an empty chair should buy distribution. The narrower question is what happens to the client who already knows you: they read your prices on Booksy’s page, in Booksy’s layout, next to a search box that offers them three other barbers. That is the part a page you own changes, and it costs $199 once.
Your prices, your hours, your chair — on a URL that belongs to the shop rather than to a marketplace. Scroll it in the frame, then open it on your phone.
Live sample · Miller & Sons Barbershop.
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Nothing on that page holds a calendar. The Book button opens whatever booking address the shop already uses — for this sample, a plain call button. That is the whole point: the page is the part you own, the calendar stays wherever it already works.
Not a template you fill in. We take your hours, prices and photos, build each piece, and hand back files and a live link.
One form, five minutes. Live the next business day. No app for you or your clients, no monthly fee, and no cut of a booking.
The page and the price list are the Local Pack. Nothing here is a subscription, and nothing renews.
Less than two months of the cheapest booking app.
Page + menu + posters + posts.
Everything, plus 30 days of us on call.
Payment is taken by Polar Software, Inc., our merchant of record, on their checkout page — we never see your card. By ordering you agree to our terms and refund policy. The files are yours to keep and reprint.
For the customer-facing page, yes. For the calendar, no. We do not sell a booking system, card payments, deposits or reminders, so a shop that needs those keeps Booksy — or Squire, Fresha, a paper diary — and buys the page from us. The comparison here is between a $29.99-plus-$20-a-barber subscription and a one-time page.
Yes. Booksy’s pricing page lists $29.99 a month and $20 a month for each additional team member, so three chairs is $69.99, five is $109.99 and ten is $209.99. The $29.99 is not a shop price that covers your staff; it is the price of the first person.
Boost is Booksy’s optional new-client tool: it takes 30% of a new client’s first visit, capped at $100, and it is off by default. The fee applies to a client who is genuinely new to you and reached you through the channel Boost covers — a client who books through your own link, your Instagram or a walk-in does not trigger it. Ask Booksy in writing which channel each charge came from.
We are not asking you to leave, and we cannot answer for Booksy — reviews and profile history are theirs to keep or export, so ask them before you cancel anything. Our page does not replace the profile. It is the page the profile links to, and the one you put in your Instagram bio.
A solo barber pays Booksy $1,079.64 over three years and gets a calendar, reminders and payments for it — if that earns its keep, keep it. The $49 Starter is the page: cut list, hours, call button, directions and one Book button into Booksy. Two months of the subscription, paid once, and the page outlives the account.
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.
The per-chair ladder, the three-year totals and the five questions to ask Booksy, on one A4 page.
The same method, applied to the restaurant platforms — eleven of them, priced over three years.
Everything on one page: the 2026 cost comparison · the fee calculator · the barbershop landing.
Send your shop once. We build the page, the menu, the posters and the posts, and hand it back the next business day. The calendar stays where it is.