Barbershop owners already use their phones to order supplies, manage bookings, and check their bank accounts. BOOTH brings that same convenience to the business of renting chairs: setting rental plans, signing agreements, collecting payments, and seeing how the shop is doing. We're building for barbershop, studio, and suite owners who want those parts of the business connected. Whether they've just signed their first lease or have been running a shop for thirty years, they should be able to check on it without being in the building. An owner can list available chairs, set a rental plan for each booth, and sign an agreement with a barber from their phone. Barbers can pay rent by card and earn rewards points, while recurring rentals can run on autopay. Owners can also collect payments manually when that suits their shop. Floor Plan brings the numbers together: which booths are occupied, what each one earns, and which payments have cleared. It gives owners a clearer view of the shop, whether they're behind the chair, at a show, or away for the week. The public listing connects those operations to finding barbers. Shops can be discovered by city and price, and owners can post openings when they're hiring. Once a barber finds the right shop, the agreement and rent can stay in the same platform. BOOTH is available in English and Spanish. Listing is permanently free for owners. A 5% fee applies to booth rent paid through the platform, with payments processed through Stripe. We've been in open beta since December 28, 2025. As of this week, BOOTH has 103 barbers, 94 shop owners, and 43 listed shops across eight countries. Eleven of those shops are in Chicagoland, our strongest local cluster. Our next priority is helping more owners turn an account into a live listing. That means making setup easier and bringing more barbers to the shops already available. A directory becomes more useful when owners can see people looking for chairs and barbers have real options to choose from. We're starting with owners who want to use these tools together. A small studio using listings, agreements, payments, and Floor Plan can teach us a lot about how the pieces should work—and where they still need improvement. The goal is to give owners more flexibility in how they run their shops, with less time spent piecing together information and more room to focus on their barbers and their business. Explore BOOTH at boothapp.co.
Eduardo RamosThursday, September 17, 2026