For barbershop owners
Get your shop discovered and your bookings organised. Start free. Go Pro when you're ready for more.
Everything you need to get listed, start taking bookings, and run your shop.
£0/ month
Free forever. No trial to keep track of.
Get started free1% platform fee on deposit bookings
Based on the service price. Taken from the deposit.
Included from day one
More visibility, more returning customers, and more insight into your business.
£19/ month
Monthly subscription. Cancel anytime.
Get started, upgrade anytime0.3% platform fee on deposit bookings
Based on the service price. Taken from the deposit.
Everything in Free, plus
Customers paying fully in-shop? There’s no TressTime transaction fee.
| Free | Pro — £19/month | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | £0 | £19, cancel anytime |
| Listed & bookable on TressTime | Yes | Yes |
| Staff, services & schedule management | Yes | Yes |
| Deposit platform fee | 1% | 0.3% |
| Search placement | Standard | Priority |
| Analytics | Basic | Full |
| Discount codes for customers | — | Yes |
| Barber commission tracking | — | Yes |
| Customer win-back campaigns | — | Yes |
| SMS booking confirmations & reminders | — | Yes |
Clear from the first booking
The platform fee is calculated from the service price and collected from the online deposit. Here’s what that looks like for one booking.
Illustrative platform fees only, rounded to the nearest penny. Card processing fees from your payment provider are separate. Pro’s monthly subscription is not included. Discounts reduce the service price used for the calculation.
Onboarding & Pricing FAQ
"No monthly cost" means exactly that: the Free plan is £0 forever, with no trial, no invoice, nothing to cancel. The "1% deposit platform fee" is the only way TressTime ever earns anything from a Free-plan shop, and it only applies in one specific situation.
The fee only applies when a customer pays a deposit online, through the app.
It's 1% of the service price, taken automatically from that online deposit at the moment it's paid. If a customer pays you fully in-shop — cash, your own card machine, however you already take payment — TressTime is never part of that transaction, so there is nothing to take a cut of.
| Situation | Platform fee? |
|---|---|
| Customer pays fully in-shop, no online deposit | No fee |
| Customer pays an online deposit, appointment goes ahead | Fee applies to that deposit |
| Customer pays a deposit, then cancels in time and is refunded | Customer gets a full refund — the platform fee is not refunded |
That last row matters: on a cancelled-and-refunded booking, you provide no service and refund the customer in full, but TressTime's fee on that deposit is already taken and isn't reversed.
Say your standard price is £35 and, where a deposit applies, it's set to 10%.
| No deposit, pay in-shop | 10% deposit — Free | 10% deposit — Pro | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Service price | £35.00 | £35.00 | £35.00 |
| Paid online (deposit) | £0.00 | £3.50 | £3.50 |
| TressTime platform fee | £0.00 | −£0.35 (1%) | −£0.11 (0.3%) |
| Card processing fee (your payment provider, not TressTime) | — | Small, variable | Small, variable |
| Balance paid to you in-shop | £35.00 | £31.50 | £31.50 |
| You keep, before card fees | £35.00 | £34.65 | £34.89 |
Deposits are off by default
You choose whether to require a deposit at all, and you can only turn it on once your payment account is fully verified and ready to receive payouts. Nothing is switched on automatically, and upgrading to Pro doesn't turn it on for you either.
One exception: repeat no-shows
If a specific customer racks up several cancellations at your shop within a year, TressTime may require a deposit from that customer specifically on their next booking with you — regardless of your own settings. It's a protection against serial no-shows, not a way to generate fees.
Discount codes reduce the fee too
If a customer books with a discount code, both the deposit and TressTime's fee are calculated on the discounted price, not the full price. A discount lowers TressTime's cut along with your revenue — it's never calculated against the original price.
Connecting Stripe: choose “Lite (included)” for fraud protection
While you connect your payment account, Stripe asks which level of fraud protection you want. It pre-selects a paid option, Standard, which at the time of writing adds a small Stripe charge (from 4p) on every screened payment. That charge comes from Stripe, not TressTime. The “Use baseline protection with Lite (included)” option costs nothing extra, and on small deposits it's usually the sensible choice.
Read our Cancellation & Deposit Policy for the full customer rules. Still have a question? Get in touch and we'll help directly.
Last updated: August 10, 2026
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