How much does Piggles cost for a barbershop?

$99 a month, flat, with all sixteen apps included. That covers one business, one location, one main website and three people with their own sign-in, so you and two barbers are covered. A fourth barber is one extra seat, added in one tap with the price on the button. Bookings are unlimited. Try it free for 14 days, no card needed.

Will my clients need to download an app to book?

No. They book from your website or from a link you send them, on whatever phone they already have. They see your real open times, pick one, and get a confirmation and a reminder before the appointment.

Will it actually cut down on no-shows?

It attacks them from three sides. Reminders go out automatically before each appointment, with a link to move it rather than just not turning up. You can take a deposit up front with a cancellation rule applied the same way for everybody. And when somebody does cancel, the next person on the waiting list is offered the slot instead of it sitting empty.

Add them to the schedule as they come through the door. Open times are worked out from what is already booked, so a walk-in in the chair is a slot nobody can book online on top of them.

Can I sell products and gift cards too?

Yes. Pomade, beard oil and anything else on the shelf go in the same place as your services. Gift cards are tracked as a real balance, not a code somebody wrote on a card, and reminder and booking emails do not count toward your monthly email allowance.

I use another booking app now. Is switching painful?

Export your client list from it as a spreadsheet and bring it in here, with a preview of exactly what will be created before anything is written. Every new account also starts with practice data, so you can try the whole thing on pretend clients first and clear it out with one button.

Keep the chair full without picking up the phone mid-cut.

Piggles takes the booking, sends the reminder, holds the deposit and remembers how every regular likes it cut. It is $99 a month with every app included, so the schedule, your regulars and the follow-ups all live in the one place you check between clients.

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Piggles for barbers

BookingsA diary that knows who is in and how long a skin fade takes.
CustomersEvery regular, remembered by the whole shop.
MessagesStay in touch without handing out your own phone number.

If this sounds like your week

The phone rings in the middle of a fade

Half your bookings arrive while your hands are full. You either stop the cut to answer, or call back an hour later and find out they booked somewhere else.

A no-show costs you the slot twice

An empty 3:30 is gone for good, and the person who would have taken it never heard it came free. A reminder sent by hand, when you remember to send it, does not fix that.

Your regulars live in your head

Number two on the sides, scissors on top, asks about the kids. It is all in your memory or a notes app on your own phone, which is no help to the barber on the next chair.

Three tools and three monthly bills

One app for bookings, another for payments, and a spreadsheet for who has not been back in a while. None of them talk to each other, and each one wants its own fee.

The schedule is the business, so everything else should hang off it.

What most barbers are juggling, and what takes its place

~~a paper appointment book at the front desk~~Bookings
Clients book your real open times from their own phone, and a slot taken online cannot be written in again at the desk, so two people never turn up for the same 3:30.
~~texting reminders by hand the night before~~Bookings
Every confirmation and reminder goes out on its own, so your evening is not spent thumbing out "see you at 10" twenty times.
~~a notes app on your own phone for how everyone likes it cut~~Customers
The note lives on the client’s record, next to every visit and everything they bought, where the barber on the next chair can read it too.
~~a spreadsheet of who to send the next offer to~~Customers
A group built from a rule, such as everyone who bought beard oil in the last 90 days, keeps itself current, and a hand-picked list covers the regulars no rule describes. Both are ready to write to.
~~a photo of the rota going round a group chat~~My Team
Publish the week’s schedule once and every barber sees their own shifts under their own sign-in, with approved time off already blocked out.

A normal week for barbers, on Piggles

Monday, 11am
Your second barber asks for Friday off. You approve it in My Team and it blocks their schedule straight away, so nobody can book a fade with somebody who is at the beach.
My Team
Tuesday, 3:30
A regular moves his 3:30 using the link in his reminder. The next person on the waiting list is offered the slot, and the deposit rule you set once applies the same way it always does.
Bookings
Wednesday, 1pm
Before your one o’clock sits down, his record shows his last four visits, the note that says "number two, scissors on top, no product," and the beard oil he bought last month.
Customers
Thursday, 9pm
After close, the chat on your site shows your away message and your hours instead of leaving somebody typing into an empty room. Next morning a visitor asks whether you do kids’ cuts, and you answer with a quick reply you saved once.
Messages
Friday, 10am
Three weeks after a cut, a short note goes out inviting that client back, but only if they have not already booked. Automations waits, checks, and then sends, so nobody gets chased for something they already did.
Automations
Saturday, 2pm
Between cuts you answer an Instagram comment and a message on your Google Business listing from one inbox, right beside that person’s orders and emails.
Get Found
Sunday, 6pm
Money shows the week: cuts, product sales and gift cards, less what the products cost and the running costs. With approved hours from My Team feeding in as wages, the number you see is what the week actually left you.
Money

The apps barbers use most, up close

Bookings

A diary that knows who is in and how long a skin fade takes.

Open times are worked out from your hours, who is working, how long each service takes and what is already booked. You stop keeping a calendar in step by hand, and clients stop seeing times that were never really free.

Everything Bookings does

Every service has its own length, so a beard trim and a full cut with a hot towel take the time they really take instead of the same thirty-minute block.
The regular who comes every three weeks on a Friday can have a repeating appointment, booked once and held every time.
Holidays and one-off closures are entered once, so nobody books into the week you are shut for the new floor.
A regular who texts asking for next week gets a link that shows your real open times and puts the appointment straight on his record, with no back-and-forth.
If you open a second shop later, each address has its own chairs and its own barbers, so a client books the branch they actually walk into.

Customers

Every regular, remembered by the whole shop.

A barbershop runs on remembering people. Customers keeps that memory where everybody behind the chairs can reach it, so a client who sees a different barber on a Saturday still gets asked about the new job instead of being asked his name.

Everything Customers does

Every booking, every product bought, every email and every note is on one record, a tab each, with bookings first because that is the history you check before he sits down.
The same client entered twice under two spellings of his name is found and merged, and both histories join up rather than one being lost.
When somebody is unhappy with a cut, the complaint goes to one named person with a time it should be answered by, so it does not age into a bad review.
You can build a simple report as a sentence, such as new clients over the last 30 days, and put it on the board that opens first every morning.
Groups are set by a rule rather than a list, so "bought in the last 90 days" stays accurate as people come and go.

Messages

Stay in touch without handing out your own phone number.

Messages is email and website chat that already knows who it is talking to. The shop talks to clients from the shop’s own address, and your personal phone goes back to being your personal phone.

Everything Messages does

Emails go out as you@yourshop rather than as a platform with your name in brackets, and the setup checks the details that decide whether they land in the inbox or the spam folder.
A note to everybody when a new barber starts or your summer hours change goes to a group that keeps itself current, and you can see who received it and who opened it.
First-time clients can be added to a short welcome when they book: a thank-you after the first cut, then a nudge to come back. An automation can take them out the moment they book again.
When you answer website chat during the day, it opens beside the queue, and if the person has bought pomade or a gift card from you before, their orders are already on screen.
Anyone who unsubscribes stops getting your marketing emails everywhere, for good, without you keeping a list of exceptions.
The chat report shows how many conversations started and were resolved over the last 30 days and how fast the first reply went out, so you know whether evening questions are waiting too long.

Moving over

Bring your client list across

Export your clients from the app you use now, or from any spreadsheet, and drop the file into Move in. Piggles guesses what each column means, you correct anything it got wrong, and you see what will be created before a single record is saved.

Add upcoming appointments by hand

Future appointments do not come across from a file today. Enter the next few weeks yourself, or send your regulars the booking link and let them put themselves into your real open times. Any row from your client file that could not be read is listed with its row number, so you can fix it and drop it in again.

Let the old book run out

Keep the old book for the appointments already in it and take every new booking in Piggles. Once the last of those old appointments has passed, there is one diary, and everything in it is somewhere the whole shop can see.

Your first hour

Set your opening hours, including the late Thursday and the short Saturday, and add the services you offer with how long each one takes and what it costs.
Add each barber and each chair, so two clients can never be booked into the same seat at the same time, and leave a few minutes between appointments to sweep up.
Decide your deposit and cancellation rule once. It applies the same way to everybody, so it is never an argument at the counter.
Bring your client list in from a spreadsheet, with a preview before a single record is written.
Put booking on your site, or send your regulars a link that shows your real open times.

Three chairs, one price, every app.

$99 a month

$99 a month covers bookings, clients, email, your website and every other app, sixteen in all. There is no charge per appointment and no charge for the reminders that keep the chairs full.

Try it free for 14 days Work out what you pay now

One business, one location, one main website and three people with their own sign-in are included.
Bookings are unlimited, so a Saturday with forty cuts costs the same as a quiet Tuesday.
Booking confirmations and reminders do not count toward the 5,000 emails a month included for your own news and offers.
10,000 client records and 10 GB of storage are included. If you outgrow either, or need a fourth seat, add it in one tap with the price on the button and remove it the same way.
Deposits and card payments go through the payment provider you connect, straight into your own account.
If you reach a limit, the diary stays open and every booked appointment still happens. Only new additions of that one kind wait until you add room.

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