5 vendors, 4 features that decide the choice for barber shop bookings. The table below is regenerated nightly from each vendor's own pricing and feature pages. Every claim points to where it came from.
| feature | Square Appointments our pick | Booksy | Vagaro | GlossGenius | Setmore |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pricing | Free plan; Plus $49/mo; Premium $149/mo; Pro custom (for businesses processing more than $250k/yr). | Flat $29.99/mo + $20/mo per additional team member. | Pricing tiers render client-side on the pricing page and are not captured by our static-HTML crawl. Free trial advertised; plans scale per provider/staff seat. | Standard $24/mo; Gold $48/mo; Platinum $148/mo; Payroll add-on $40/mo + $6/seat. | Free up to 4 users; Pro $5/user/mo (annual) or $12/user/mo (monthly); Team also listed at $5/mo annual on the pricing-page footnote. |
| best for | Shops on a single Square stack — Appointments inherits the Square Retail / Square POS hardware and unified card processing. | Shops where each chair is a separate barber, who all need their own calendar; flat-fee + per-staff pricing maps cleanly to that model. | Multi-chair shops that want a branded app, marketing, and a deep hardware stack (PayPro POS, card readers); pricing requires a sales contact. | Solo barbers and small shops who want a no-show-protection workflow and AI-driven scheduling at the lowest documented monthly entry price in this comparison. | Independent barbers and small shops that just need online booking, recurring trims, and advance payment — Setmore's free tier covers up to 4 staff at $0. |
| Walk-in tracking | not specifically documented | not specifically documented | not specifically documented | not specifically documented | not specifically documented |
| Recurring appointments | Yes — recurring + multi-staff appointment booking on Plus and above | Yes — standard booking + no-show protection workflows | Yes — multi-staff scheduling features | Yes — scheduling and calendar features documented | Yes — "Organize recurring appointments and take advance payments, so loyal customers keep their trims neat and tidy" |
| Online booking | Yes — online booking site and integrations included on the free plan | Yes — branded Booksy listing + booking widget | Yes — online booking + MySite + branded app | Yes — explicit online booking feature; Barber listed as a supported specialty | Yes — "Book more buzzcuts when you share your availability online" — branded Booking Page documented |
| POS integration | Yes — native Square POS, Retail POS, and Square Reader hardware | Yes — BBPOS WisePOS E and Stripe Reader M2 hardware documented; in-app card payments with documented processing fees | Yes — PayPro, PayPro Mini, PayPro Duo, Card Reader, Pay Swivel Stand, QR Scanner, Receipt Printer hardware | Yes — Card Reader & Point of Sale documented as a product | not specifically documented |
● cited claim · — not specifically documented · citations expand below
Four booking tools, four very different shapes commercially.
GlossGenius and Booksy publish predictable monthly pricing. Square has the broadest tier range. Vagaro requires a sales contact.
Barber shops live on POS — this is the most important column.
All four document online booking and multi-staff scheduling.
Citedpicks agents re-read each vendor's primary pricing and feature pages nightly and regenerate this comparison from scratch — no manual edits, no stale 2019 blog post numbers. Affiliate links are marked. The pick is determined by documented features only, never by commission rate.