Chairwarden is a booking app for independent beauty professionals who rent a chair, a booth or a suite and run their own schedule: hairstylists, barbers, nail techs, estheticians, tattoo artists and massage therapists.
Its main feature is calendar protection. Most booking tools fill every open gap, so a 20-minute trim can land in the middle of a four-hour color appointment and cut it in half. In Chairwarden you set how long a quick service and a long service take, and short services can no longer be booked into the middle of a long block. Clients never see those slots. You can still override it yourself for a regular.
What else is included:
- A public booking page clients open from a link, with no app or account needed
- Text and email reminders the day before
- Optional deposits: part up front, the rest at the visit (through your own Stripe account)
- Client list import from a CSV or your previous tool
- Revenue, utilization and top-service reports
- Google Calendar sync
- iPhone app on the App Store, plus the web version
Chairwarden takes no percentage of your card payments and has no marketplace that sends your clients to other providers. You pay Stripe's standard processing fee, the same as anywhere else.
Free up to 15 bookings a month. Individual plan: $29 a month or $274.99 a year.
