Loved this insight. As a new barber I just went with what’s working for orders without really thinking about it. I’d like to know what booking site or whatever you use to book appointments
Another 🚩 for me is when certain booking apps charge YOUR customers fees when they want to pre pay for their appointment. Some apps force clients into pre paying just so they can collect a fee from them. And that’s after they collect their $100+ monthly payment from you.
Most booking apps are not really in the best interest of the barbers, It’s basically self destructive to ANY liability as a human being can have, they just force you to stay within their boundaries, the moment you are not around, for any reason, like your 4th reason is effecting me personally, but I have a solution.
You can actually design a site that your clients book within, Chris was going to launch pie booking and it didn’t take off but if it did I would think that it would not “pump out” the clients you built god forbid something happened to you for a few months and before you know it what you worked years on the booking app makes it worse by promoting other barbers not in your shop, wouldn’t you rather see your client at least stay in your shop? The bigger known the app the more barbers are using it, they find the next guy in your area.
