Haircut vs Squire and Booksy: zero booking fees

Shop owners often fixate on the monthly software line. Fair enough. The surprise is everything around it: per-booking fees, marketplace commissions, and platform charges on top of normal card processing. Squire and Booksy both show up in conversations about those extras. Haircut does not add a booking fee layer.

What Squire, Booksy, and The Cut actually cost

• Squire: subscription tiers plus per-booking or transaction costs as volume grows
• Booksy: marketplace model with client booking fees and paid visibility options
• The Cut: geared to solo barbers; multi-chair shops often layer on other tools or spend
• All three: upgrades to unlock payouts, reporting, or multi-location features

Say you run 400 online bookings a month and clients pay a $2 booking fee on a marketplace app like Booksy. That is $800 a month before you count Squire-style platform cuts on card volume. Haircut replaces the variable piece with one subscription number.

Haircut pricing at a glance

• Solo: $20/month for independent barbers
• Shop: $50/month per location (multi-barber, Commander, splits, inventory)
• Empire: $99/month per location (branded app, SMS campaigns, analytics, API)
• Zero booking fees on every plan (Squire and Booksy often charge clients at checkout)
• No contract; cancel when you want
• Standard Stripe card rates only; Haircut does not add a booking or platform transaction fee

Clients feel booking fees too. Nobody loves a surprise $2 at checkout for a haircut. Shops on Booksy hear about it. Keeping booking free keeps people on your link instead of a marketplace profile that could send them to the shop down the street.