Barbershop Software · Canada
Cuts, fades, beard trims — run your whole shop on NeonO.
Walk-ins, appointments, POS, booth rent, and a free booking site built for barbershops. Start your free trial and book your first real cuts this week.
- Free trial · 14 days
- 2-tap checkout
- Walk-in queue
- Booth rent or commission
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No booking commissions, no marketplace fees, no client-poaching.
Barbershop Software · Canada · 01
Kill the walk-in guesswork
A digital queue with live wait times. Clients join from their phone or the lobby and get a text when the chair is ready.
Barbershop Software · Canada · 02
Keep chairs full
Win-back and gap-filler campaigns aim at the regulars most likely to take a quiet weekday hour.
Barbershop Software · Canada · 03
Fast checkout
Tap to pay at the chair, tips split by your house rule, faster payouts optional.
Walk-in queue
Walk-ins shouldn't be a guessing game.
A live shop-floor view, a queue clients can join from their phone, and a utilisation report that shows you the dead hours before they turn into a habit.
A lobby full of people with no idea how long they're waiting. Barbers idle while others are backed up. Walk-ins leaving because nobody could tell them a time.
- No extra hardware — phone or tablet
- Works alongside appointments
- Included free
- Clients don't need an account
Shop floor · live
Illustrative- Chair 1 · Barber ASkin fade6 min left
- Chair 2 · Barber BCut + beard14 min left
- Chair 3 · Barber COpenopen
- Chair 4 · Barber DBuzz + lineup3 min left
Queue · estimated wait
- #1Walk-in · joined 6:02Any barber~6 min
- #2Walk-in · joined 6:05Barber B~14 min
- #3Walk-in · joined 6:09Any barber~21 min
- #4Walk-in · joined 6:12Barber A~28 min
Clients join from their phone or a lobby kiosk and get a text when their barber is ready. The top of the queue moves into the open chair on a loop.
Chair utilisation · by barber, by hour
Dead zones are where gap-filler campaigns pay for themselves. Illustrative pattern.
| Barber | 9a | 10a | 11a | 12p | 1p | 2p | 3p | 4p | 5p | 6p |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barber A | Barber A at 9a: 40% utilised | Barber A at 10a: 70% utilised | Barber A at 11a: 85% utilised | Barber A at 12p: 60% utilised | Barber A at 1p: 35% utilised | Barber A at 2p: 20% utilised, dead zone | Barber A at 3p: 55% utilised | Barber A at 4p: 80% utilised | Barber A at 5p: 95% utilised | Barber A at 6p: 90% utilised |
| Barber B | Barber B at 9a: 25% utilised, dead zone | Barber B at 10a: 55% utilised | Barber B at 11a: 75% utilised | Barber B at 12p: 70% utilised | Barber B at 1p: 30% utilised, dead zone | Barber B at 2p: 15% utilised, dead zone | Barber B at 3p: 45% utilised | Barber B at 4p: 75% utilised | Barber B at 5p: 90% utilised | Barber B at 6p: 85% utilised |
| Barber C | Barber C at 9a: 30% utilised, dead zone | Barber C at 10a: 45% utilised | Barber C at 11a: 60% utilised | Barber C at 12p: 50% utilised | Barber C at 1p: 25% utilised, dead zone | Barber C at 2p: 10% utilised, dead zone | Barber C at 3p: 40% utilised | Barber C at 4p: 65% utilised | Barber C at 5p: 85% utilised | Barber C at 6p: 80% utilised |
| Barber D | Barber D at 9a: 20% utilised, dead zone | Barber D at 10a: 50% utilised | Barber D at 11a: 70% utilised | Barber D at 12p: 55% utilised | Barber D at 1p: 20% utilised, dead zone | Barber D at 2p: 15% utilised, dead zone | Barber D at 3p: 50% utilised | Barber D at 4p: 70% utilised | Barber D at 5p: 88% utilised | Barber D at 6p: 92% utilised |
Pink cells are under 35% utilisation — the hours worth targeting first.
Today
Tuesday, 2pm. Two barbers idle for 40 minutes. Three walk-ins left because nobody could tell them how long the wait was. That's roughly $135 that walked out the door and never showed up in a report.
Worked example using a $45 average ticket — illustrative, not a NeonO result.
On NeonO
Live queue posted to your booking page and Google listing. Walk-ins join from their phone and get a text when the chair's ready. Idle time shows up in your utilisation report before it becomes a habit.
What changes on the shop floor.
Kill the walk-in guesswork
A digital queue with live wait times. Clients join from their phone or the lobby and get a text when the chair is ready.
Keep chairs full
Win-back and gap-filler campaigns aim at the regulars most likely to take a quiet weekday hour.
Fast checkout
Tap to pay at the chair, tips split by your house rule, faster payouts optional.
Booth rent handled
Rent is collected from the same transaction stream the barber already runs sales through — no Friday cash chase.
Free website
A booking page and link-in-bio for the shop and for every barber, live from day one.
Pay structures
Booth rent, commission, or both.
Every chair can be set up differently, and the money conversation ends with a statement instead of an argument.
Most platforms assume commission. Many shops run booth rent, and plenty run a hybrid where some chairs are rented and some are commission. NeonO handles all three without a spreadsheet on the side.
- Per-barber configuration: booth rent, commission percentage, hourly, or a hybrid of them.
- Rent collected automatically from the barber's own transaction stream, not chased in cash at the end of the week.
- Retail margin to the shop, service revenue to the barber, tips 100% to whoever earned them.
- A clear per-barber statement each period showing services, retail, tips, rent, and net — so the conversation about money is a document, not an argument.
How a barber is classified — renter, contractor, or employee — affects tax and employment obligations. NeonO will run whichever setup you choose; confirm the classification itself with your accountant.
Period statement
Barber B · booth rent · Aug 1–14
| Line | Amount (CAD) |
|---|---|
| Services | $3,180.00 |
| Retail commission | $96.00 |
| Tips | $512.00 |
| Booth rent | minus $700.00 |
| Processing | minus $88.00 |
| Net to barber | $3,000.00 |
Illustrative figures for a booth-rent chair. No real shop or barber is represented.
- Walk-in added to the queue
- Chair time tracked
- Rebook offered at checkout
Typical cut slot
30 minutes
Everything the shop needs, in one place.
Appointments & Walk-ins
Built for barber flow.
- Walk-ins, waitlist and two-tap rebooking, all on the same calendar.
- Chair views with drag-and-drop, so a reshuffle takes a second.
- Per-barber service menus with their own timing, because nobody cuts at the same speed.
POS & Payments
Two taps and they're out the door.
- Phone tap-to-pay is a first-class option — no hardware purchase to get started.
- Tap, chip or phone with tip splitting across barber and apprentice.
- Split bills by service, and turn on faster payouts if you want the money sooner.
Personal brand booking
Your barbers get their own front door.
- Every barber gets a personal booking link and link-in-bio page.
- Clients book their barber straight from Instagram or your Google listing.
- The shop keeps the client record, history and consent — it never leaves with a chair.
yourshop.neono.site/book/marcus
Marketing & Reviews
Keep the week packed.
- Gap-filler texts aimed at the hours your utilisation report flags.
- Automatic win-backs when a regular drifts past their usual three or four weeks.
- Review requests after checkout, routed to your Google listing.
The King Barbershop
SMS · today
Yo Marcus — it's been 5 weeks since your last fade. We have Tuesday 2:00 p.m. open with Dre. Reply YES to hold it.
YES — Tuesday 2pm works 🙌
Booked: Tue Aug 26, 2:00 p.m. · Skin fade with Dre. Reminder set for Monday.
After checkout
Fresh fade! Mind leaving the shop a quick review?
Team, Rent & Commissions
Every chair on its own deal.
- Booth rent, commission tiers and hourly staff running side by side.
- Rent drawn from the barber's own sales, with a per-period statement.
- Permissions so barbers see their own numbers, not the whole shop's.
Payout to your bank
$2,480.15
Direct deposit to your business account
Illustrative payout figures — not customer data.
Reports & AI
Know your shop by the hour.
- Chair utilisation, rebooking rate and revenue per barber, per hour.
- Plain-language weekly summaries with the one thing worth fixing.
- Staffing forecasts built from your own walk-in and booking history.
This week
Tap to pay
No terminal to buy
The shop, before and after.
| Today | Without NeonO | With NeonO |
|---|---|---|
| The lobby | A paper waitlist and a crowded lobby where nobody knows their turn. | A live digital queue with a real position and a text when the chair's ready. |
| Booth rent | Chasing rent in cash on Fridays, one awkward conversation at a time. | Rent collected automatically from each barber's own sales. |
| Close of day | End-of-day tally on paper, reconciled the next morning. | Instant reports and payouts, done before you lock the door. |
| Quiet hours | Quiet Tuesday afternoons nobody has time to fill. | Gap-filler promos sent to the right regulars for exactly those hours. |
Economics
What your dead hours are worth.
Set your chairs, average ticket and open hours to estimate the revenue sitting in the gaps the utilisation report finds.
Estimated monthly recovery
$4,419
Assumes 18% of chair hours land in identified dead zones and roughly a third of them get filled. An estimate, not a guarantee.
Run the full savings calculatorThe numbers behind the model.
Published industry ranges, not NeonO results. They're here so you can sanity-check the argument against your own shop.
Industry Benchmark
60–75%
typical chair utilisation in a busy shop
Industry Benchmark · barbershop and salon operations benchmarking reports
Industry Benchmark
10–20%
of appointments lost to no-shows without reminders
Industry Benchmark · appointment-based services no-show research
Industry Benchmark
Under 15 min
wait most walk-in customers will accept before leaving
Industry Benchmark · retail and service queue abandonment studies
Works with the rest of your counter.
Payments
Card terminals
Tap-to-pay terminals pair to the till, or take payment on the phone you already own.
Discovery
Google Business Profile
Your booking link and live wait time on your Google listing.
Finance
Accounting export
Sales, tax, tips and booth rent exported in a format your bookkeeper can import.
Moving over takes a week, not a quarter.
Client records, cut history and your service menu come across. Booth-rent and commission settings are configured with you during setup, so the first payout period is right the first time.
Commonly switching from
- Fresha
- Vagaro
- Booksy
- Square Appointments
- Squire
- Paper books and spreadsheets
- 1Export your clients, cut history and service menu from your current system.
- 2We import and reconcile them, then show you a preview before anything goes live.
- 3Set each chair's pay structure — rent, commission, hourly or hybrid.
- 4Switch the booking link and the queue over, and retire the old subscription.
One price list, in Canadian dollars.
Processing is billed separately from your subscription. 2.69% + $0.25 per card-present transaction (CAD); 2.99% + $0.30 per online transaction (CAD). These are all-in rates — there is no separate application fee on top.
NeonO
$24.99per seat, per month, CAD — seats 8 and up are free
- Online booking, scheduling & reminders
- Point of sale, payments & tap to pay
- SMS & email marketing
- Free booking website & link-in-bio
- Multi-chair scheduling, commission & tips
- Analytics, reports & timesheet export
Explore the platform
Every part of NeonO your trade touches — open any product for the detail.
Questions barbers ask.
How does the 14-day free trial work?
You get full access to the queue, calendar, POS, and booth-rent tracking for 14 days with no credit card required. Run real cuts, take real payments, and invite your barbers. If it's not the right fit, export your data and walk away.
What happens during onboarding?
We import your clients, service menu, and cut history, then configure each chair's pay structure — booth rent, commission, hourly, or a hybrid. Most shops are scheduling walk-ins and appointments within a few days, and taking payouts by the end of the first week.
How quickly can we start booking and taking payments with the POS?
The booking link and queue can be live the same day you sign up. Phone tap-to-pay and card terminals connect in minutes, so you can start checking out clients and splitting tips before your next Saturday rush.
We're on another system — how hard is it to migrate?
Export clients, cut history and your service menu, and we import and reconcile them with you. Most shops run both systems in parallel for a week, then switch the booking link over.
What hardware do we need?
None. Phone tap-to-pay works on a phone you already own, and the queue runs on any phone or tablet. Terminals, receipt printers and a lobby screen are optional if you want them.
Do you support booth rent as well as commission?
Both, and hybrids. Each chair is configured on its own: booth rent, a commission percentage, hourly, or a mix. Rent is drawn from that barber's own transaction stream and shown on a per-period statement.
Do barbers get their own booking links?
Yes. Every barber gets a personal booking link and link-in-bio page they can put on Instagram or anywhere else. The shop keeps the client record.
How do walk-ins and appointments live on one calendar?
Appointments hold their slot and walk-ins fill the space around them from the queue. The estimated wait uses each barber's real service timing, so it moves as the day moves.
How are tips split and who gets what?
Tips go 100% to whoever earned them, and you can set a house rule to split across a barber and an apprentice on the same ticket. Every split shows on the period statement.
Do SMS and the website cost extra?
The booking site, per-barber links and the queue are included in your plan. SMS is included in your plan's messaging allowance; heavy campaign senders can add capacity.
Does it handle multiple locations?
Yes. Each shop keeps its own queue, staff, menu and reporting, with a roll-up view for owners and shared client records across the group.
What happens to our client data if we leave?
It stays yours. Clients, cut history and sales data export in standard formats at any time, and we don't market to your clients.
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