Clients book
themselves.
The deposit lands first.
Clients book from your Google listing at any hour, and pay a deposit when they do. Our fee rides on the client's payment, so you keep 100% of what you charge for the service.
Setting up takes about half an hour. Free forever, and no card to start.
- You take appointments, and want your own booking page
- You are losing chairs to no-shows and want a deposit up front
- You are paying a monthly fee to a booking platform and would rather not
- One location, or a few, with a service list you can type out
- You want clients paying only when they arrive. A deposit here is card, at booking
- You need a register, inventory, or stylist payroll. This books appointments
- You want memberships, packages or gift cards. Not yet
- You need walk-ins queued rather than appointments booked
Sample bookings. Every one of them adds a client to the salon's own list.
Three steps, and the client is yours at the end of them.
They tap Book on your Google listing
Your EZBookings page opens in one tap - your logo, your services, your prices, and only the times you are actually free. No app download, and nothing putting the salon down the road next to you.
They pay a deposit and leave their details
Checkout collects a name and number, takes the deposit you set, and saves them to your client list. The deposit is why the chair is still worth something if they never turn up.
The relationship is yours to keep
Every regular is a row you own and can export any time - the foundation you build repeat business on, instead of renting access to your own clients from somebody else's marketplace.
The $2.99 booking fee sits on the client's side of the payment. What you charge for the service is untouched.
Every booking adds a name and number to a list you can see grow in real time, right inside the dashboard. And the whole client list is yours to export any time - so when you're ready to reach people directly, you already own the audience.
The math on a $75 appointment.
Same appointment, three ways to book it. Each card shows what lands in your bank on one appointment on average, and then what lands there after 120 of them in a month.
Nothing is holding the slot. The client who does not turn up costs you the whole appointment.
The deposit does the same work ours does. The monthly bill is the whole difference, and it arrives in a slow month too.
The booking fee sits on the client's line. Nothing comes off what you charged for the service.
That is $270 a month more than phone and paper, and $99 a month more than the subscription platform. Against phone and paper the gap is the deposits you stop losing. Against the subscription platform you keep the identical $75, and the difference is only the bill, which is why it is the same $99 whether you book 120 appointments or 20.
Illustrative on a $75 appointment with a $15 deposit, at 120 appointments a month and a 15% no-show rate. No-show rates vary a great deal by trade and by area, and so does what a platform quotes you.
Everything on one account.
Booking page
Your logo, hero photo, and colors on a page built to load fast on a phone. Installs to the home screen if they want it there.
A service list you control
Add services, set how long each one takes, change prices, hide the one you have stopped offering. Changes are live the second you save - no ticket to a support desk.
Client list
Every booking adds a name and number to your list. Export it whenever you want. It's yours, not ours.
Booking page analytics
See how many people open your booking page, how many go on to book, and where the bookings come from. Every number is yours, in your dashboard.
A link for every appointment
Every booking gets its own link the client can keep - the time, the service, what they paid, and your address, long after the tab closes.
Appointments dashboard
New bookings land on your screen with the service, the time, and who is doing it. No POS integration required to start taking appointments today.
What this would cost you as separate subscriptions.
Most salons end up paying for five or six of these at once, each on its own bill, each renewing on its own date. Here they are in one place, and the place is free.
| What you get | What it replaces | Normally costs | With us |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online booking pageClients pick a time and pay on their phone | BooksyVagaro | Normally$30/mo | Included |
| Your salon websiteA page with your logo, photos and prices | WixSquarespace | Normally$29/mo | Included |
| Deposits taken at bookingMoney goes to your own bank account | Square AppointmentsGlossGenius | Normally$29/mo | Included |
| A calendar per stylistTheir hours, their days off, their own services | VagaroMindbody | Normally$45/mo | Included |
| Reminders before the appointmentThey get a nudge the day before, so they turn up | BooksyAcuity | Normally$29/mo | Included |
| No-show protectionA deposit you keep when nobody arrives | GlossGeniusStyleSeat | Normally$25/mo | Included |
| Your client listEvery name and number, downloadable | MailchimpHubSpot | Normally$99/mo | Included |
| Install-to-home-screen appYour booking page saves to their phone like an app | BuildFireAppInstitute | Normally$99/mo | Included |
| Booking and client reportsWhat was booked, when, and who keeps coming back | Mindbody reporting | Normally$49/mo | Included |
| Email your clientsBeing built now, and it will be free too | PodiumMailchimp | Normally$99/mo | Coming next |
Typical published prices for tools restaurants commonly use, per location. They change, and some bundle things together differently. The exact total is not the point: the point is that none of it is on your bill here.
Same toolkit. Different bill.
A delivery app takes its money out of your sales. A subscription platform takes it out of your bank account. We take ours from the customer's order, and they see it before they pay.
| EZBookings | A delivery app | Typical subscription platform | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly software fee | $0 | $0 | $99-$300 |
| Cut of every appointment | None | None | None |
| Deposit taken at booking | Yes | No | Usually |
| Books while you are with a client | Yes | No | Yes |
| Who owns the client list | You | You, on paper | You |
| Export your client list | Anytime | By hand | Sometimes |
| Automatic reminders | Included | You send them | Usually |
| Booking page analytics | Included | None | Sometimes |
| Locked into a contract | No | No | Usually a year |
| How they get paid | Client booking fee | Nothing to pay | Your bank account, monthly |
The ones owners ask first.
So what does it actually cost me?
Nothing. There's no subscription and we take no cut of your sales. A small service fee is added to the customer's order at checkout, shown to them before they pay, and that's what funds the platform. You still cover your own card fees, same as always.
Won't a fee scare customers off?
It's sized to disappear: about $1-2 on a normal order, and it only scales up on unusually large ones. Fees on a phone checkout are familiar now, and it's shown as its own line rather than buried in the prices.
I already add my own surcharge. Does this stack?
It can, and we'd rather talk about it upfront than surprise you. Our fee stays small and proportional. If you're already running a card surcharge, we'll walk through how the order reads before you launch.
Do I need a new POS or tablet?
No POS, and no printer unless you want one. Orders arrive as an email, so the laptop or phone you already own is a complete setup you can finish on your own tonight. What we recommend on top is a tablet on a stand by the pass showing nothing but orders - use a spare tablet if you have one, or the pair we recommend is about $75 from Amazon, bought by you at Amazon's price. We do not resell them and make nothing on them. Nothing to install either way, and a free Android app for the tablet is coming.
How do customers find my ordering page?
You paste your link into your Google Business Profile, your Instagram bio, and a QR code at the front desk. When someone taps “Book online” on your Google listing, your page opens - your logo, your services, your prices, with nobody in between.
Can I leave and take my client list?
Yes. Export it any time, including on your way out. Owning that list is the entire point - holding it hostage would defeat it.
Still have one we haven't answered?
Ask it directly. A real person reads every message, and there is no sales sequence waiting on the other side of the form.
Send a questionPut your own ordering link on Google
before the weekend.
Three steps, and the next order that comes in is one you own.
- 1Create the account
- 2Add your services
- 3Paste the link into your Google profile
- No card to start
- No setup or onboarding fee
- No contract, leave whenever
- No monthly bill, ever
- Your client list exports any time