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Take bookings online, fit walk-ins in between and check out at the chair with a phone or Square Terminal. Loyalty points give regulars a reason to keep coming back, and Payaroo walks you through the setup.
Square, made easier with Payaroo.
What your barbershop needs
Barbershops run on two kinds of clients: regulars who book the same barber every two weeks and walk-ins who want the next open chair. Saturday brings a full bench, and cash, tips and a single register make the numbers hard to track.
A setup that fits puts appointments and walk-ins on the same calendar and lets each barber take payment at the chair. It sells the pomade on the shelf through the same system and shows each barber's day in one report.
Two clients walk in while your 3 p.m. is due, and nobody's sure which barber is free.
How Square helps Square doesn't run a walk-in queue, so book each walk-in onto the calendar with an open barber. Your booking site then offers only the times that are still free.
Clients walk back to a single register while the next client waits in the chair.
How Square helps Each barber takes payment at the chair with Tap to Pay on a phone or with Square Terminal, and the tip prompt appears right there.
A regular misses his Friday fade, and the slot goes unused at the busiest time of the week.
How Square helps Automatic text reminders go out before every cut. On a paid plan, add a cancellation policy clients see when they book, a card requirement and a no-show fee.
A client who came every two weeks hasn't been back in two months.
How Square helps Loyalty points on every cut, plus win-back emails and texts to clients who opted in. Both come with Square Plus and Premium.
Recommended setup
The Square tools that matter most for a barbershop — and why each one earns its place.
A calendar for each barber, a booking link for your Instagram bio and room to add walk-ins as they come through the door.
Barbers take contactless cards and phone wallets on their own phones at the chair, with no extra hardware.
A battery-powered checkout that moves from chair to chair, takes swipe cards and prints receipts.
Points by visit turn every cut into progress toward a reward, and clients join with their phone number.
Clients text the shop about running late or moving a cut, and Square Assistant can handle the reschedule by text.
Pomade, beard oil and combs go on the same ticket as the cut, with stock counts for the shelf.
Regulars who'd rather pay from Cash App can scan a QR code at checkout instead of pulling out a card.
How Payaroo helps
Tell us how your business works. We'll help you understand the Square tools that fit.
Core capabilities
Each barber gets a bookable profile with their own services and hours, and clients pick the barber they want online. Permissions decide whether barbers see only their own calendar or the whole shop's.
On Square Premium, set up chairs as resources and link them to services, so booking a hot towel shave also reserves the one chair that reclines.
When the book is full, clients can join a waitlist from your booking site and get a notice if a matching time opens. It needs a paid plan and an online booking site, so walk-ins still go straight onto the calendar.
After the cut, the client picks a tip on Square Terminal or the barber's phone, from preset amounts you set, Square's suggestions or any amount they type.
Add pomade, beard oil or shampoo to the cut's checkout, and stock counts update as you sell. Set a low-stock alert so the shelf isn't empty before the weekend.
Automated win-back and birthday messages go to clients who haven't been in lately, and texts reach those who opted in. Email and text marketing need Square Plus or Premium.
Hardware options
You don't need every device. Start with what matches where you take payments — and add more later.
Accept contactless cards and phone wallets on your own phone with no extra hardware.
Any barber with an iPhone XS or newer, or an NFC-capable Android phone, can take tap payments at the chair. It won't work offline, so the shop's Wi-Fi matters.
A compact, battery-powered card machine with a built-in receipt printer.
One per chair or one to share: it takes tap, chip and swipe and prints receipts.
A countertop stand that turns a compatible iPad into a point of sale, with a card reader built in.
A front-counter checkout on a compatible iPad for shops with a desk, including Cash App Pay at checkout.
A small Bluetooth card reader that pairs with your phone or tablet.
Pairs with a barber's phone over Bluetooth to take chip cards as well as taps.
Software and tools
Barber calendars, online booking, reminders and checkout at the chair or the counter.
Profiles that remember each client's cut, clipper guard and barber.
A shop inbox for client texts, with Square Assistant taking care of confirmations and reschedules.
Visit-based points for regulars, joined with a phone number at checkout.
Win-back and birthday messages, plus opt-in texts when you have open chairs.
How it works
One realistic day at a barbershop, with the setup above doing the work.
Setup finder
Answer a few quick questions about your barbershop. We'll stop as soon as we can point you to a useful starting setup.
Tell Buckaroo how your business works and he'll help you figure out which Square tools make sense.
FAQs
Many barbers start with Tap to Pay on an iPhone or Android phone, which needs no extra hardware but does need internet. Square Terminal adds chip, swipe and a built-in printer, and Square Reader pairs with a phone for chip cards. A shop with a front counter can add Square Stand or Square Register.
Yes, on the same calendar. Square doesn't have a walk-in queue or check-in list, so add each walk-in to the calendar under the barber who takes them. The waitlist, on a paid plan, tells clients about openings on your booking site; it doesn't track people waiting on the bench.
Booking through Google isn't open to booth and room renters, Square notes, because it's limited to businesses that own or lease their premises. If your renters want payments going to their own bank accounts, talk to Payaroo about how the accounts should be set up before anyone signs up.
Cash App Pay works in person on Square Register, Stand and Terminal, where the client scans a QR code with Cash App. Afterpay is open to approved business categories, with amount limits, and you're paid up front. Neither works offline.
Square sets and publishes its own prices. There's no monthly subscription on Square Free. The shop pays processing fees on card payments and still gets the booking site, barber calendars and Tap to Pay. Plus and Premium add loyalty and marketing. The waitlist and no-show fees need a paid plan, and reserving chairs as resources needs Premium. Look up current rates on Square's pricing page, and we'll help you figure out which features your shop would actually use.
Tell us how many chairs and barbers you have and how much of your day is walk-in. Square reviews the application and verifies your identity and your business before approving an account, and Payaroo helps from there with services, barber profiles and your booking link.
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Tell us how your shop runs, from walk-ins to regulars, and we'll help you put the Square setup together.
Square reviews and approves every account. Call Payaroo at 972-431-0439.
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