Websites for salons & barbers
If booking takes more than thirty seconds you have already lost them
Barbershops, hair salons, nail bars, spas and studios. Around four in ten clients leave if booking is hard.
She saw the cut at lunch on someone else’s feed. By 12:05 she either has a Saturday chair booked or is back to scrolling, and the difference was how many taps stood in the way.
Roughly 40% of salon clients will book with a competitor if online booking is missing or awkward. So cut steps: price and duration before the time slot, no account, and booking from Instagram and Google too.
30seconds
The booking budget. Go over it and they book elsewhere.
Show the price and the length before the time slot
Nobody wants to pick Tuesday at 2pm and then learn it is ninety minutes and $180. Price and duration beside each service removes the most common reason people abandon a booking.
Someone who books a forty-five minute skin fade at $60 turns up expecting to pay $60.
Why your Instagram profile is the real front door
Most people find a salon through pictures: they see a cut, tap the profile and want to book right there. If that breaks, they go back to scrolling.
So booking works from Instagram, Google and the site, and the site wears your feed's look.
Do walk-in shops need a website?
Yes, a different one. It should answer "can I come now": current wait, next free chair, closing time today.
That beats a gallery, and stops the phone ringing all afternoon with the same question.
What about the photos?
Your own work, on your own clients, in your own room. Stock imagery is obvious here, and a salon sells a specific person's taste.
Your Instagram photos are usually enough. Prices are on the pricing page.
Questions people ask before they hire
How much does a barbershop website cost in Vancouver?
$999 one time (up to five pages) plus $99 a month. Online booking is wired in at no extra cost.
Can you connect Square, Booksy or Fresha?
Yes. Any system with an embed or booking link works, so clients book on your page, not a third-party site.
Can clients book without making an account?
That depends on the booking tool. Where it allows guest booking, it gets switched on, because forced accounts are one of the biggest causes of abandoned bookings.
Do you build the Instagram link-in-bio page too?
Yes, included. It is usually a salon's most visited page, so it gets designed properly.
Time your own booking flow
The free audit times a new client booking with you on a phone, and shows where they drop out.
The free Field Test: your site tested the way a customer uses it, back within 24 hours with a fixed price. Five fields, no call.
Last updated 2026-08-31