StyleSeat is a marketplace.
We're the tool that fills your chair.

Yes. If your bookings come from Instagram, word of mouth, and your existing client base, you're paying a monthly fee, plus 30% of a new client's first visit when the marketplace found her, for a marketplace you don't use. ChairCal at $19/mo (founders rate) does the parts of StyleSeat you actually need — booking page, client list, reminders — and adds the parts they don't have: Fill (you tap Send; first to tap gets 60 seconds to confirm), Process Time (fit a cut inside a color), and one inbox for all texts and emails per client.

Bring your clients in from a StyleSeat export. 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.

ChairCal doesn't take card payments end-to-end. Keep using your card reader (Square, Stripe Reader, whatever) for in-chair checkout. You'll lose the same-day-payout convenience StyleSeat advertises, which is a real tradeoff for people who depend on it. If "money in my account tonight" is your hard requirement, stay on StyleSeat.

Inside the StyleSeat marketplace, yes — it ranks you among other StyleSeat stylists. Outside it, it's invisible. If you don't depend on StyleSeat traffic, the search rank inside their marketplace doesn't move dollars into your books. The thing that moves dollars is whether the slot at 2 PM next Friday is filled or empty. That's the math ChairCal optimizes.