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BOOTH vs Booksy
Booksy fills the calendar — a client finds you, books you, pays you, and their marketplace has real reach doing it. BOOTH raises what the room can hold. It works on the business model you already run on: who rents each chair, on what agreement, for how much, whether the rent landed, and how many hours of that seat are still going unsold. Booksy makes a busy chair busier. It has nothing to say about the chair nobody is renting, or the one rented to a barber who works two days a week. That's the side BOOTH is built for, and it's usually where the money already is.
Two different jobs
What Booksy is built for
Demand. It's a consumer marketplace with real reach, and for a barber trying to fill a slow Tuesday that's the whole point of it.
- Consumer marketplace where clients discover and book
- Calendar, reminders, no-show protection and client records
- Integrated payments and card readers
- Marketing tools and paid client-acquisition boosts
- Staff scheduling across a team
What BOOTH is built for
The economics of the room. Not how many clients came through the door — how the chairs are let, what they cost, what each one gave back, and how much of the room is sitting idle while you pay for it.
- Chairs listed publicly with rent, terms and availability
- Booth-rental agreements sent, signed on a phone, PDF to both sides
- Rent collected through the platform on a schedule
- Per-chair occupancy and earnings, read against declared hours
- A job board for shops hiring, and profiles built for getting hired
Running both
Booksy points clients at your chair. BOOTH decides who's sitting in it and makes sure the rent lands. Neither one needs the other to move out of the way.
- 01Keep Booksy for bookings and client acquisition.
- 02List your open chairs on BOOTH and let barbers come to you.
- 03Get the agreement signed on BOOTH before anyone starts.
- 04Collect rent on a schedule and read each chair's occupancy against its rent.
Side by side
| Capability | Booksy | BOOTH |
|---|---|---|
| Consumer booking marketplace | Yes — the core product | Not offered |
| Calendar, reminders, no-show protection | Yes | Free add-on for a barber's own chair, 5% (min $1) of the barber's earnings when a client pays through BOOTH |
| Integrated payments | Yes | Yes, for rent and for bookings on the add-on |
| Public marketplace of open chairs | Not offered | Yes — browsable, with rent and terms shown |
| Booth-rental agreements | Not offered | Sent, e-signed on a phone, PDF to both sides |
| Booth rent collection | Not offered | Collected on a schedule through the platform |
| Per-chair occupancy and earnings | Staff and business reporting | Per chair — hours used, days occupied, rent against use |
| Job board for hiring barbers | Not offered | Yes |
| Cost to the shop owner | $29.99/mo plus $20/mo per additional staff member | $0 |
What each one costs
Booksy, from their pricing page
- $29.99/mo plus tax for the first user.
- $20/mo for each additional staff member.
- Processing: 2.69% + $0.30 for mobile and keyed entry; 2.49% + $0.10 with their card reader; 2.49% + $0.20 for tap to pay.
- Fast payouts within 30 minutes carry a 1.5% fee; next-business-day payouts are free.
BOOTH
- Free for shop owners — no monthly fee, no listing fee, no per-barber fee.
- Barbers pay a flat 5% platform fee on booth rent, added on top of the rent and shown at checkout. The rent itself goes to the shop.
- BOOTH Bookings is free for any barber who wants online booking for their own chair. When a client pays through BOOTH, BOOTH takes 5% of the service price (minimum $1) out of the barber's earnings.
Booksy figures read from their own pricing page in August 2026. Prices change — check Booksy pricing for what they charge today.
When Booksy is the right call and BOOTH isn't
- You need new clients more than you need anything else. Their marketplace has reach we don't have and aren't claiming.
- You're a commission shop with staff on payroll — there's no booth rent for BOOTH to run.
- You want one bill covering booking, payments and marketing for the whole team.
- You're an independent barber with your own space and no landlord relationship to manage.
Questions
Does BOOTH bring me clients like Booksy does?
Not the way Booksy does, and we won't pretend otherwise. BOOTH's marketplace matches barbers to chairs and shops to barbers. A barber on the BOOTH Bookings add-on gets their own booking page, but that's a page you share, not a consumer marketplace sending you strangers.
Can I use both?
That's the normal case. Booksy runs the appointments; BOOTH runs the chair, the agreement and the rent. They don't touch each other.
What does BOOTH cost a shop owner?
Nothing. No monthly fee, no listing fee, no per-barber fee. The 5% platform fee is added on top of the barber's rent and doesn't come out of the owner's cut.
Why would a shop pay for two systems?
It usually isn't two bills. Booksy is per staff member; BOOTH is free to the owner. Adding BOOTH doesn't change what you pay Booksy and doesn't add a line for the shop.
Same business model. Run at full capacity.
Owners list the shop and get paid on time. Barbers find chairs. Free for shop owners, and you keep the booking app you already have.