ChairCal
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Pricing

$19/month.
For the first 100.

Locked for life. After the first 100 stylists, $29/month. Pays for itself with one filled cancellation. 14-day free trial — no demo call, no "let's hop on a quick chat."

Founders rate · First 100 stylists · Locked for life

$19 / month

Then $29/month after the first 100.

1,000 texts (sent or received) + 5,000 emails a month included

Then 3¢ a text, $2 per 1,000 emails

Extra charges capped at $20 a month unless you change it

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14-day free trial · 30-day money-back · Cancel anytime

The two that matter most

Fill

Included

Cancellation recovery — one tap to your best regulars.

  • Texts your top regulars in priority order, best first, a second apart
  • First to tap gets 60 seconds to confirm.
  • Per-client opt-out + automatic STOP handling
  • Comes with 1,000 texts a month — no separate texting plan to buy
  • Earlier-swap: offer a slot to a later-booked client privately

Process Time

Included

Two clients, one pair of hands — books a cut inside a color.

  • Mark the hands-free phase of any service (color, perm, lash, treatment)
  • Booking page exposes that window for a short service that fits
  • Off until you turn it on, per service

Plus everything else a solo stylist needs

Booking page

  • Your your-name.chaircal.com page
  • Services, durations, and prices
  • Closed dates and weekly hours
  • Buffer time between appointments
  • Clients book without an account

Communication

  • Texts + emails per client, one thread
  • 24-hour automatic reminders
  • Your business name in every message
  • Replies land in your ChairCal inbox, not your personal number

Day-to-day

  • Today dashboard built for phone
  • Add each booking to Apple, Google, or Outlook calendar
  • Add-to-Calendar links for clients
  • One-tap rebook at checkout

Account

  • Cancel anytime, no contract
  • Your data is yours — self-service export coming, manual request for now
  • Email support within one business day
  • 30-day money-back guarantee

Bring a stylist, get a month free. She gets her first month free too.

30-day money-back guarantee. If ChairCal doesn't pay for itself in your first 30 days as a paying customer, email support@chaircal.com and we'll refund your first month — no forms, no questions, no exit interview.

Running a salon or suite? Each stylist pays her own plan, or the salon pays $29 a chair a month. How salons work →

Do the math

How much are empty chairs actually costing you?

Drag the sliders. The number on the right is what you're already losing without ChairCal.

If those slots go unfilled, you lose

$5,700

per year

That's 5 cancellations a month at $95 each. Recover just one and ChairCal pays for itself about 5× over that month.

Compared honestly

Where we win. Where they do.

We don't try to be a full salon platform. Vagaro, StyleSeat, and GlossGenius all do more than us — and charge for it. Here's exactly what we do better, and what we don't do at all.

Where ChairCal wins

ChairCalVagaroStyleSeatGlossGenius
Texts your regulars about a cancelled opening✓Waitlist—Waitlist, Gold
Fits a cut inside a color processing window✓——✓
Texts and emails per client, one thread✓———
Next visit booked in one tap✓——Reminders only
Clients book without making an account✓—✓✓
Built for solo stylists✓Salons firstBooth + soloSolo to small teams
Monthly cost$19–$29$30¹$19–$35³$24 / $48 Gold²

What we don't do — on purpose

  • Marketplace discovery. Your new clients come from Instagram and word of mouth. We don't list you on a directory.
  • Promo email/SMS campaigns. We send the texts that fill your chair, not "BOGO color!" blasts.
  • Inventory / retail. You don't run a Sephora.
  • Multi-stylist scheduling & commissions. You're solo. We built one tool for one chair.

What we don't do

  • Take card payments end-to-end. ChairCal doesn't take card payments — keep your Square reader. We focus on the booking side.
  • Gift cards. ChairCal doesn't sell gift cards.
  • Loyalty / rewards. No points program. Your top regulars get the opening text first.
  • Public reviews / ratings. No public ratings on the booking page.

¹ Vagaro 1-calendar tier per vagaro.com/pro/pricing; $23.99 for the first 6 months, then $30. ² GlossGenius Standard is $24/mo billed annually ($28 monthly) per glossgenius.com/pricing; processing time is on every tier, the automated waitlist unlocks at Gold ($48/mo annually). ³ StyleSeat lists $35 for existing pros and $19 after trial for new sign-ups, plus a fee on new clients found through its marketplace. Pricing verified October 2026 and may change — check each provider before deciding.

Texts & emails

1,000 texts and 5,000 emails every month, on the $19 founders rate and the $29 plan alike. Your count starts over on your billing date each month, and unused texts and emails don't carry over. Emails count only when they go to your clients; emails to you never do.

Every text on your business line, sent or received, counts. Carriers charge for every text whichever way it goes, so both directions count. Extra texts are 3¢ each. Emails past 5,000 are $2 per 1,000. Extra usage is listed on your next monthly bill.

You set a monthly limit on extra charges, and nothing past it is ever charged. It starts at $20, so unless you change it, a month costs at most your plan plus $20. Change it any time on your billing page.

Your clients' data

We collect your clients' names, phone numbers, emails, appointments, and the notes and photos you keep about them. We don't sell or share that data. It's yours: email support@chaircal.com to request a copy or to delete it. Self-service export is coming; until then, data is available by manual request. The full picture is on the privacy page.

FAQ

Honest answers.

No. They open your booking link, pick a time and book. There's no app to download and no account to make.

Depends on what you use them for. If you rely on their POS, gift cards, marketplace listing, or loyalty program, those tools have things ChairCal doesn't — ChairCal can run alongside them while you keep payment and retail there. If your payments are already handled outside the booking tool (Square reader, Venmo, cash) and you mostly need bookings, Fill, Process Time, and an inbox — switch over and turn the old tool off.

Yes. Open Clients › Import and drop in the .csv or .xlsx file, up to 5,000 clients. ChairCal recognizes an export from Square, GlossGenius, Vagaro, or StyleSeat and matches its columns for you; for any other spreadsheet, you tell it which column is which. Names, mobile phones and emails come across, plus notes, last visit and visit count when your file has them. Opening alerts are opt-in — each client chooses to hear about cancellations when she books or replies YES to an invite you send.

They'll see your business line: a number of your own, which ChairCal sets up when you add a card. Every text ChairCal sends for you says it's from you, and when a client's first booking is confirmed, she gets your contact card so she can save the number under your name. Replies land in your ChairCal inbox, and your personal number stays private.

Booth renters and commission stylists, yes — anyone whose business is their own chair. W-2 with a salon manager handling the books, no — we don't do roster management or commission splits.

Your data stays put until you ask us to delete it. Email support@chaircal.com any time to request a copy or to delete everything. It stays yours the whole way.

Opening alerts are opt-in — each client chooses to hear about cancellations when she books or replies YES to an invite you send. A client who gives her mobile number when she books gets texts about her appointments. Rebook reminders also go only to clients who opt in. Any client can reply STOP to any text, and ChairCal stops texting her straight away, reminders included, until she texts START. She can still book on your booking page and still gets appointment emails and your email replies, but no opening alerts, by text or email. One thing to know: a STOP applies across all of ChairCal, so a client who texts STOP to another stylist on ChairCal stops hearing from you by text too, until she texts START.

30-day money-back guarantee. If ChairCal doesn't pay for itself in your first 30 days as a paying customer, email support@chaircal.com and we'll refund your first month — no forms, no questions, no exit interview. This guarantee applies to your first paid month only.

The first 100 stylists who sign up pay $19 a month for life, even if the price goes up later. The rate stays locked as long as your account stays active, and so does what it includes: never fewer than 1,000 texts and 5,000 emails a month. Extra texts and emails cost the same as on the $29 plan. We stop at 100 because we mean it: no endless "founders" sale.

Share your invite link (in ChairCal, under Studio). A stylist who signs up from it gets her first month free after her 14-day trial. Once she's paid for a month, a month of your plan ($19 or $29, whichever you pay) comes off your next bill. Texts and emails over your monthly allowance are still billed. Signing yourself up again with the same email, mobile phone or card doesn't count.

No. Every plan includes 1,000 texts (sent and received both count) and 5,000 emails. Extra texts are 3¢ each. Extra charges start at a $20 monthly cap unless you change it. The full meter is under Texts & emails.

No. Nothing is charged during the 14 days, texts included. Texting starts when you add a card: that's when ChairCal sets up your own business line, and until then your clients hear from you by email. Once a card is on, a trial includes 500 texts at no charge. After that, optional texts like opening alerts pause until your paid plan starts, and everything else keeps going.

If you've added a card, your plan starts automatically. If you haven't, we'll email you a reminder before the trial ends, and then your account pauses: your booking page goes offline, but your data stays put. Add a card any time to turn it back on.

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