£495 fixed ($625 in the US) buys a barbershop, hair salon or nail and beauty salon a custom website of up to five pages, typically live in about seven days. Your booking app keeps running the diary. The website’s job is to get the right person to that Book button, and to turn up when someone nearby searches for a barber or asks an AI assistant where to get a decent skin fade.
What is the best website builder for a barbershop?
For a single chair with no time to spare, the booking platforms’ own options are a fair shortcut. Fresha’s pricing page (checked October 2026) lists a “Smart Website” add-on at £12.95 a month. The trade-off with any site a platform makes for you is that it belongs to that platform. A website on your own domain stays put if you move from Booksy to Fresha next year, carries your shop’s look rather than a shared layout, and gives you room for the pages that win searches: each service, your prices, the team and the street you are on.
How can I create a website for my barber shop?
Gather five things and the hard part is done:
- Photos of real cuts, fades, beards, colour, nails, taken in good light with the client’s permission.
- A price list written the way customers ask for things, so “skin fade” rather than an internal code.
- Your booking link from Fresha, Booksy, Treatwell, Square or whatever you use.
- Opening hours and walk-in policy, because “do you take walk-ins?” is one of the first things people want answered.
- Your Google Business Profile, with the same name, hours and phone number as the website.
Send those to us and the Starter package turns them into a fast mobile site with the Book button on every page.
What do Fresha, Booksy, Treatwell and Square Appointments charge?
Figures from each provider’s UK pricing page, checked October 2026:
- Fresha: £14.95 a month for one-person businesses, or £9.95 per team member a month. New clients who find you through the Fresha marketplace carry a 20% one-time commission, minimum £4. Rates exclude 20% sales tax.
- Booksy: £40 a month plus £5 for each additional team member, with VAT added. Its optional Boost feature charges a one-time 30% fee, minimum £5, on a Boost client’s first visit.
- Treatwell: 35% commission on first bookings by new clients from its marketplace, 0% on repeat bookings, and a 2.5% processing fee on online prepayments, all subject to VAT.
- Square Appointments: free for a single location, £29 a month per location on Plus, £69 a month per location on Premium.
Notice where the big percentages sit. The marketplace commissions apply to new clients the platform finds for you; Fresha says no fee ever applies to returning clients, and Treatwell charges nothing on repeat bookings. A client who finds you through your own website and taps your booking link is arriving through your door, not the marketplace’s, so check each platform’s terms for how it treats direct links before you rely on that.
Can a barber or salon charge a no-show deposit?
Yes, and the main platforms are built for it. Square’s appointments page describes taking card details at booking and charging a fee for a no-show or late cancellation, Fresha lists no-show and cancellation fees among its payment features, and Booksy sells no-show protection. The limit comes from consumer law: Schedule 2 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015 (checked October 2026) lists as potentially unfair a term making a consumer who fails to keep their side pay “a disproportionately high sum” in compensation. Keep the fee in proportion to the appointment, and print the policy on your website and booking page where clients read it before they confirm.
Does a nail or beauty salon need a licence in London?
Yes, for many treatments. Section 4 of the London Local Authorities Act 1991 (checked October 2026) defines an establishment for special treatment as premises used for massage, manicure, acupuncture, tattooing, cosmetic piercing, chiropody, light, electric or similar treatments, or vapour, sauna and other baths. Barking and Dagenham Council’s special treatment licence page spells out pedicures, nail extensions, steam facials, laser treatments and sunbeds, and warns of a fine of up to £5,000 for trading without one. Haircutting is not in the section 4 list, so a straight barbershop is usually outside it, but add nails, massage or laser and you should ask your borough first.
What should a hair salon website include?
Service pages that name the treatment the way clients search for it, prices or clear “from” prices, a gallery of your own work, the team with their specialities, and the cancellation policy in plain sight. If you want to take deposits or sell gift vouchers directly through Stripe on your own site rather than through an app, that moves you to the Business package at £1,495 ($1,895). Not sure your current site is pulling its weight? Get a free website review or tell us about your shop.