Per-stylist pricing
Master cuts $60. Apprentice cuts $40. Same service, different prices. The customer sees their stylist’s price before they book.
No awkward conversation at the chair, no after-the-fact upcharge.
30-day free trial · no card
Booking software that fits your business — not the other way around.
For service businesses where the appointment is the product. Configure it once, then your customers book in thirty seconds — on any phone, with your brand, on your own subdomain.
No card to start
Plans from $30/mo after
Cancel anytime
Crowned & Co. Braiding
Book an appointment
Knotless — Medium3 hr 30 min
$180
Boho Knotless4 hr
$220
Passion Twists3 hr
$160
Stitch Braids2 hr 30 min
$140
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RJ Auto Detailing
Mobile · we come to you
Full Detail — Sedan4 hr
$220
Interior Deep Clean3 hr
$150
Ceramic Coating6 hr
$650
Wash & Wax1 hr 30 min
$90
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Sharp Line Barbers
Book a chair
Skin Fade45 min
$45
Fade + Beard1 hr
$60
Line Up20 min
$25
Kids Cut30 min
$30
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Same platform. Three trades, three catalogs, one flat price.
0%commission on any booking
∞staff included, no per-seat fee
20 minsignup to a live booking page
The whole system, in two minutes
Watch it run a real day.
Patrick and Sarah walk the whole platform: the AI receptionist, the live board, on-the-spot invoices, QR card payments, the kiosk. All filmed on the real product. No mockups.
| What it does | How | Plan |
|---|---|---|
| The phone answers itself | An AI receptionist (David, or any name you pick) answers when you can’t, quotes your real prices, and books real appointments. Around the clock. See it answer a call → | Assistant tiers |
| Everyone gets notified | A booking lands: you get an email (and a text), the customer gets a confirmation and day-of reminders. | Included |
| Your day on one screen | Scheduled, walk-ins waiting, now serving, waiting on payment. One live board, grouped for you. | Included |
| Change an order mid-job | Customer adds a service? Two taps and the price updates on the ticket and the invoice, instantly. | Included |
| A booking page that’s yours | Your services, your photos, your prices. Edit in the portal and it’s live on the page that second, in English, French & Spanish. | Included |
| Invoices on the spot | Build it in the driveway, email it with a PDF before you pack up. | Included |
| Card money, three ways | An emailed pay link, a QR you show in person, or pay-at-kiosk. Straight to your own Stripe account. | Included |
| A tablet front desk | Customers check themselves in, walk-ins pull their own ticket, and can pay right at the kiosk. | Kiosk |
| Every customer, one tap | The whole contact book. Tap to call, tap to text, full history behind every name. | Included |
| Loyalty, reports, reminders | Points per dollar actually paid, honest revenue reports, automatic reminders. | Included |
Booking $30/mo · Kiosk $50 · Answer & Message $60 · Assistant Pro $120. Flat prices, unlimited team, no per-booking fees. More about the receptionist →
On the matter of fit
A platform that bends.
Most booking software was built for one industry and pretends to serve the rest. Calendars assume haircuts. Pricing assumes a single rate. Forms assume cars.
Splendid Booking was built generically from day one. Configurable intake fields, optional pricing tiers, mobile or fixed location, per-staff pricing and policies, white-label airtight. It is the platform you would build yourself — only you do not have to.
A roster of trades served
Built for whoever you serve.
Configure the intake fields, pricing, and services to match how you actually work — not how someone in a software office imagined you do.
New · included on every tier
Run it from Claude or ChatGPT.
Splendid Booking ships an AI connector (an MCP server) and a REST API. Add one URL to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Claude Code, sign in with your admin login, and ask: what is on tomorrow, book Chris Friday at 10, who still owes me money, close Saturday afternoon. It works in your account with your permissions, and every action lands in your audit log. Builders get the same power with a key from Settings.
Features rendered honestly
The parts that matter.
The stuff competitors gloss over and your day actually depends on. Built because we use this ourselves.
Per-stylist deposit policies
The hair braider takes a deposit. The barber does not. Same shop, same booking page, two correct outcomes.
Salons with mixed policies have always had a workaround problem. They do not anymore.
One-click rebook
Your repeat customers book their usual in one tap. Cart pre-filled, provider pre-selected, contact info already there. They pick a date — that is all.
Six clicks down to two. Across thousands of bookings, that compounds.
Provider calendar sync
Each provider gets a private URL they paste into Google or Apple Calendar. New bookings appear on their phone — automatically.
Staff stop asking the owner “what’s my Tuesday?” They look.
Reminders, sent like clockwork
Day-before reminders to your customer. A 6 AM digest of today’s roster to you. Maintenance follow-ups three, six, twelve months out. Branded with your name — written without your time.
The no-show rate falls off a cliff after the first week.
Every email your booking page sends — branded as you, written without your time:
Team logins, owner-grade control
Every team member gets their own login: their schedule, their customers, tap-to-call, mark complete — on their phone. You grant each permission individually and revoke any of them with one click, instantly.
Run a crew instead of a salon? Flip one switch and customers book a time while you assign the jobs — new bookings land as UNASSIGNED, you dispatch, your crew member gets the email.
Works both ways: customers pick their stylist, or never see the team at all. Your call.
Talk to it from your AI
Connect Splendid Booking to Claude or ChatGPT in two minutes. Then just ask: what is on tomorrow, book Chris Friday at 10, who still owes me money, close Saturday afternoon. It does the work in your account, with your permissions.
Builders get the same thing as a documented REST API with keys from Settings — spreadsheets, Zapier, your own scripts.
Included on every tier. How to connect →
Flat fee. Any team size.
Booksy charges $20 per staff member per month. Vagaro, $10 per calendar. Fresha, about $15 a seat. A ten-person shop pays them $100–$210 every month before a single booking happens.†
Here, your whole team is included. Solo or fifteen chairs — one number, no per-seat charges, no per-booking transaction fees, no surprise upgrade when you hire.
† Published competitor pricing as of July 2026.
The product, on a real phone
Watch a real customer book — in seconds.
Not a mockup. This is the actual booking page, on a phone, across the trades we serve.
A start in three steps
From signup to first booking in under thirty minutes.
1
Tell us about your business
Three minutes. Pick your industry, your subdomain, your brand color. Set a password.
about 3 min2
We seed your starter catalog
Sensible defaults for your industry. Tweak the services, prices, hours, and intake questions to match.
about 15 min3
Share your booking link
Drop it on your bio, in your DMs, on your business card. Customers book. You get notified. Nothing breaks.
foreverPricing, plainly stated
Five flat tiers. No transaction fees. No per‑seat charges.
Booking and Kiosk start with a 30-day free trial — no credit card to start. The Assistant tiers are free for the first 7 days: we buy you a real phone number and start answering real calls right away. Unlimited bookings and unlimited staff on every tier, cancel anytime. Pay for the year and you get 2 months free on any tier.
Booking
$30/mo
or $300 a year, 2 months free
Online booking that runs itself.
- Unlimited bookings & staff
- Your subdomain & brand
- Calendar sync & email reminders
- Deposits & card payments
- One-click rebook
- English, French & Spanish
- Text reminders +$10/mo (500 incl.)
Kiosk
$50/mo
or $500 a year, 2 months free
Booking plus a front-desk tablet.
- Everything in Booking
- Text reminders +$10/mo (500 incl.)
- Walk-in kiosk & self check-in
- Per-day ticket numbers
- “Now serving” queue
- Paired tablets, no laptop
New
Answer & Message
$60/mo
or $600 a year, 2 months free
Booking plus a receptionist that answers and takes messages.
- Everything in Booking, texts included
- Answers the calls you miss, 24/7
- Quotes your real prices & hours
- Takes messages, texts you instantly
- Call log with transcripts & audio
- 250 minutes a month included
- First 7 days free
Assistant Pro
$120/mo
or $1,200 a year, 2 months free
Booking plus an AI receptionist on your missed calls.
- Everything in Answer & Message
- Offers your real open times
- Books real appointments by phone
- 600 minutes a month included
- First 7 days free
Kiosk Pro
$140/mo
or $1,400 a year, 2 months free
The whole front office.
- Everything in Kiosk
- Everything in Assistant Pro
- Every channel on one bill — online, walk‑in, and phone
- Receptionist free for the first 7 days
If you have been seeing $49 receptionists in your feed: those take a message and text you a link. These come with your booking page, quote prices off your own menu, and the Pro one puts the job on your calendar. Minutes past the allowance are 25¢ each on your next invoice; it never stops answering. Hear what the receptionist does on a real call →
Text notifications include 500 messages a month; beyond that,
3¢ per message. Email reminders are unlimited on every plan.
The AI connector and the API are included on every tier, trial included.
Cut my booking back-and-forth by 80%. My customers actually thank me for the new site.Robert J. · Owner · RJ Auto Detailing
Common inquiries answered
Frequently asked.
How is this different from Booksy, Fresha, or Square Appointments?
The big stuff: per-stylist pricing (Booksy fakes it with separate services; we do it right), per-stylist deposit policies (no competitor handles a salon where some staff take deposits and some do not), unlimited team logins at no extra charge (they charge per seat), a dispatch mode for crews where customers book a time and you assign the job (that’s Housecall Pro territory — at a fraction of the price), no per-booking fees ever, and your brand is yours — no app-store directory we control. White-label airtight: your customers never see “Splendid Booking” anywhere. And the AI: add Splendid Booking to Claude or ChatGPT as a connector (MCP) and run the day in plain words, with a documented REST API behind it for builders. Booksy and Fresha keep their APIs for approved partners; Square offers a developer API and a beta MCP server that calls raw API methods. Ours is built for the owner: paste one URL, sign in, tick what it may change. See how →
Do you take a cut of my bookings?
No. Flat plan, no transaction fees — one monthly number ($30), never a percentage of your revenue.
Can I migrate from my current platform?
Yes. Export your customer list from your current platform as a spreadsheet and import it in one click (Contacts → Import CSV) — names, emails, phones come straight over. Services and pricing are quick to set up through admin, and we help your first tenants do it personally.
Do you handle payments?
Yes — end to end, through your own Stripe account (a guided one-time setup; the money never passes through ours). Deposit at booking: the customer pays by card before the slot is confirmed; refunds are one click. Balance after the job: email the invoice with a “pay by card” button for whatever’s left — it marks itself paid and sends the receipt. Or keep it manual: Venmo, Zelle, CashApp — we surface your instructions at booking and you mark received in admin. Per-provider deposit policies work throughout: the braider requires a deposit, the barber doesn’t, same shop.
Will my customers know I’m using Splendid Booking?
No. Your subdomain (yourname.splendidbooking.com), your brand color, your logo, your name in confirmation emails. The customer-facing surfaces are 100% yours.
What if I don’t see my industry in the list?
The platform is built generically — pick “Other” at signup, configure your services and intake questions yourself, and you are live. We have seen mobile bike repair, in-home tutoring, photography sessions, and more shipping on it.
What about my customer data — who owns it?
You do. Anytime you want it, hit “Export” in admin and you receive a ZIP with everything: customers, bookings, services, the works. No lock-in, no ransom.
Does it work with Claude or ChatGPT?
Yes. Add
https://mcp.splendidbooking.com/mcp as a custom connector in Claude.ai (or ChatGPT in developer mode, Cursor, Claude Code), sign in with your admin login, and tick what it may change. From then on you ask in plain words — what is on tomorrow, book a customer, send an invoice, close a slow day — and it does it in your account with your permissions. Anything that emails a customer says so first, and nothing is cancelled or completed without your word. You can revoke it any time. Included on every tier. Details →Is there an API?
Yes, a documented REST API with keys you make in Settings: bookings and every action on them, availability, customers, invoices, calls, reports (every list as CSV too), the catalog and the schedule. A key acts as your login and can never do more than you can; you choose which areas it may change. Reference →
Do you charge per staff member?
No — and this is where the industry quietly gets expensive. Booksy is $29.99/mo plus $20 per additional staff member; Vagaro adds $10 per calendar; Fresha’s team plan runs about $15 a seat (published pricing, July 2026). A 10-person shop pays them $100–$210 a month before a single customer books. On Splendid Booking your whole team is included in the flat price: every member gets their own login, their own schedule on their phone, their own calendar sync — at ten staff or one.
Take the boring out of booking.
Start with a 30-day free trial. No credit card to start. Twenty minutes from now you will have a live booking page.