Tersavia for Barbershops

Barbershop software that keeps the line moving.

Most booking software assumes an appointment. A barbershop assumes a line — with appointments as the exception, not the rule. Queue, short slots, recurring rebooking, and payroll are all free forever when you process payments through Tersavia.

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The software assumes an appointment. Your shop assumes a line

A calendar built for salons treats every guest as a scheduled slot and a walk-in as an interruption. Run a walk-in-dominant shop on it and the front of house ends up keeping the real order of things on a clipboard while the screen shows a mostly empty day. Two systems, one of them invisible, and the one that matters is the paper.

The queue is the primary view here. Appointments drop into it rather than the other way round.

Fifteen-minute slots don’t survive a slow checkout

When a cut is twenty minutes and a checkout takes three, every friction in the payment flow eats a real percentage of the chair. Shops running short services feel software slowness in a way an hour-long-appointment business never does — a few extra taps per guest is a lost cut by mid-afternoon on a Saturday.

Checkout is built to close fast, and tips and payroll come off the same record without a second pass.

Your regulars run on a cadence, not a calendar

A barbershop regular comes in every two, three, or four weeks — a rhythm, not a date. He does not think of himself as having an appointment, which is precisely why he drifts to five weeks and then to somebody closer to work. The shops that hold their regulars are the ones that rebook at the chair and remind on the cycle.

Recurring rebooking and the waitlist are part of the free platform, so the cadence is the system’s job rather than the barber’s memory.

  1. 01

    Open the queue

    Add your barbers, your services, and real service times. Decide which chairs take walk-ins only and which hold appointments, then import your regulars.

  2. 02

    The line runs itself

    Walk-ins join the queue, appointments land in it, and everyone can see who is up next. Reminders for recurring guests go out from your own number automatically.

  3. 03

    Add growth when you want it

    Local search and reviews are how a shop gets found. $99 a month each, month to month, drop either whenever.

What a barbershop pays extra for everywhere else

The two things that hold a shop together — recurring rebooking and a waitlist — are commonly the features sitting one tier above the entry plan, and the entry plan is what a barbershop signs up for. Per-barber pricing does the rest: one platform charges roughly $20 a month for each additional team member, which is fairly typical, so a six-chair shop pays a premium for the privilege of being busy.

Recurring rebooking, the waitlist, and payroll are free here, and there is no per-barber or per-chair charge at all.

See the full feature-by-feature comparison

What a barbershop risks losing in a migration

Recurring appointment series. A regular booked every three weeks for the next six months is not one record — it is a repeating rule, and repeating rules are the thing most platforms export worst. Lose them and you do not get an error message; you get a quiet Tuesday in five weeks when nobody was reminded.

Recurring series are rebuilt with you during setup, with the barber pairing intact, before you go live. Only cards on file cannot follow you, and that is true of any move between processors.

How switching works — including your saved cards

Questions from barbershop owners

Does this work for a shop that is mostly walk-ins?

Yes — that is the default here. The queue is the primary view and appointments drop into it, rather than the queue being a workaround bolted onto an appointment calendar.

Can regulars book a standing appointment?

Yes. Recurring bookings on a two, three, or four week cadence are included free, with reminders going out ahead of each one from your own number.

Is the waitlist an upgrade?

No. Waitlists, recurring rebooking, payroll, commission tracking, and the staff time clock are all part of the free platform. There is no tier above you holding them.

Do you charge per barber?

No. There is no per-barber, per-chair, or per-location charge for the platform, so adding a chair does not change what you pay.

How fast is checkout?

Checkout closes from the same record as the booking, with tips attributed to the barber and payroll calculated from the services performed — no second system and no end-of-day reconciliation pass.

A busy shop pays the most under per-chair pricing.

Per-member fees, tier upgrades for the features a walk-in shop actually needs, and processing on top — the plan-page number is the smallest part of it. Here is what the major platforms charge in 2026, and how to find the number you are actually paying.

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Keep the line moving. It’s free.

Free forever when you process payments through Tersavia. No per-chair charge, no contract.

15 minutes · no card, no contract · free with Tersavia processing