/ Booking
Customers pick a time that's actually free, pay a deposit if you ask for one, and get a reminder before they come.
/ The problem
The phone goes while you're halfway through a cut. Someone wants Thursday at four, and you can't check if Sam is in. By the time you call back, they've booked somewhere else. And the person who did book on Thursday never turns up.
/ How it works
Myobos only offers times that work. It reads your opening hours, each person's working week and breaks, and the services they do. Holidays and time off come out of the diary for one person or the whole shop. Buffers keep a gap between appointments where you need one.
You set the minimum notice, how far ahead people can book and the free-cancellation cut-off. Nobody books a skin fade for ten minutes from now unless you let them.
Take a deposit or the full price when someone books. A deposit against a skin fade means a no-show still pays for the chair. The money goes into your own Stripe account.
A reminder email goes out before each appointment. You don't press anything.
Customers move or cancel their own booking, within your rules. Inside the cut-off, the booking stays put.
Run group classes with a set number of places. Sell packs of sessions that count down each time a client books. A late cancellation can forfeit the session.
Your services, prices and lengths, on your own website. They choose a service, a person if they want one, and a free time. They pay any deposit on Stripe's secure page, then get a confirmation email and a reminder.
The booking lands in your calendar straight away, and the notification bell tells you. Each booking links to the customer's record, so you know their last visit before they sit down.
/ Trades that use it most
Barbers and hairdressers book chairs and long colour appointments. Beauty salons and chiropractors book rooms and courses. Personal trainers run classes and packs. Dog groomers book appointments the same way.
/ Try it in the demo
Book a skin fade at Harbour & Co Barbers, then open the admin and find it in the calendar.
/ Questions
Yes. In Staff & hours, give each person their working week, breaks, time off and the services they do. Customers only see times when that person is free.
Yes. They can pick a person, or take the first free time with anyone who does that service.
No. Deposits are optional. You can take payment in person, by bank transfer or on account instead.
By email, automatically, before each appointment. Booking confirmations go the same way.
Your free-cancellation cut-off decides it. Before the cut-off, customers change or cancel themselves. After it, the booking and any deposit stand unless you change them.
/ More features
For taxi and chauffeur firms: fares, zones, bookings, flights, dispatch and drivers.
For builders and trades: estimates, stages, variations, invoices, CIS and RAMS.
Pages, a page builder with AI help, your current site brought across, on your own address.
Products, stock, barcodes, orders and subscriptions. Switch it off if you don’t sell.
One record per email, with history, tags, notes and a proper erase.
Hours, groups, a portal for each person, pay statements and the notification bell.
Start free on a myobos.com address. Your services arrive hidden, ready for you to price and switch on.