For booth renters & solo suites
Booking app for booth renters. Short cuts can’t split your color blocks.
You have a perfect four-hour opening for a color appointment. Then a 30-minute clipper cut books right into the middle of it, and the whole block is gone. Chairwarden simply never shows that slot to clients booking online.
Free to try, up to 15 bookings/month · calendar protection included on every plan
Sound familiar?
“I’ll have a perfect multi-hour opening for a color appointment, but a random clipper cut will book right smack dab in the middle of that block.
“Platforms like this are passive. They just show open slots and let clients pick whatever, even if it creates that ‘Swiss cheese’ effect on your calendar.
Real quotes from stylists describing the problem, not Chairwarden testimonials.
Here’s what that’s actually costing you
One split block is a bad afternoon. A few a month is real money. Do the math.
Chairwarden protects roughly
$1,083/mo
that’s 37x what the Individual plan costs
One question at setup. Protection from day one.
During your 2-minute setup, tell Chairwarden how long a quick service takes and how long a long one takes. That’s it. Your calendar starts protecting itself.
- No “buffer time” settings menu to find
- Included free, not locked behind a paywall
- You can always override it yourself; it only guards online booking
A short service can never be booked into a slot that would fragment a protected long block.
A service at or under your quick threshold can be booked at any time inside a protected block, on the assumption it fits the processing time. Anything longer still cannot.
In both modes, events synced from your connected Google Calendar are always respected. You can never be double-booked over your own personal calendar.
This is your actual calendar, not a diagram
Protected blocks show up right where you’d expect them. No separate dashboard, no extra tab to check.
Tuesday
August 11
Protected: 11:00 AM Full Color can’t be split up
A Vagaro or StyleSeat alternative built for one calendar: yours
Chairwarden isn’t built for a shop with ten chairs and a front desk. It’s built for the person renting a chair, a booth or a suite and running their own book — barbers, stylists, nail techs, tattoo artists, estheticians, massage therapists.
No hidden fees
No per-day double-booking fees, no surprise charges. The price you see is the price you pay.
No percentage cut
Card payments run through Stripe at Stripe’s own rate. Chairwarden doesn’t add a markup on top.
Painless switch
Import your client list and history from Vagaro, Square, GlossGenius, or Schedulicity with a preview before anything moves.
Simple pricing, on purpose
No percentage cut. No hidden fees.
Starter
$0
no credit card, enough bookings to prove the protection works
- Up to 15 bookings/month
- Calendar protection, Strict & Relaxed modes
- Public booking link, your own URL
- Email reminders
- Deposit & no-show protection via Stripe
- Google Calendar sync
No credit card needed to start.
Get startedIndividual
$29/mo
or $23/mo billed annually
Everything in Starter, plus:
- Unlimited bookings
- SMS + email reminders (500 SMS/mo included)
- Import wizard: bring your client list from Vagaro, Square & more
- Full stats dashboard: revenue, utilization, top services
Cancel anytime from your dashboard.
Get startedNo % cut. No hidden fees.
Subscription billing via LemonSqueezy as merchant of record·Optional client deposits via Stripe Connect
Questions
During the two-minute setup you tell Chairwarden roughly how long a quick service takes and how long a long service takes. After that, short services can't book into the middle of a long, high-value block. Clients booking online never see that slot as bookable. Strict mode never allows fragmentation; Relaxed mode allows a service at or under your quick threshold to be booked at any time inside a block, on the assumption it fits the processing time. You can always override protection yourself when booking someone in manually, and events synced from your Google Calendar are always respected in both modes.
Yes, a free tier to try Chairwarden with, no credit card, up to 15 bookings a month, calendar protection included from the first booking. Most booth renters running a full schedule do 40-80 bookings a month, so you'll likely outgrow it within a few weeks. That's by design. It's meant to prove the protection works before you pay for it, not to be a permanent free tier.
$29/month (or $23/month billed annually) for unlimited bookings, including 500 SMS reminders a month. No percentage cut on your card payments, no per-booking fees, no surprise charges. One flat price, and if a single long service is worth $200-350, this is what protects several of those a month.
Yes. The import wizard reads your export file (or a plain CSV) and shows you a preview of exactly what will come across before anything is imported.
No, Chairwarden is built for one calendar: one person renting a chair, a booth or a suite and managing their own bookings, whatever the trade. It isn't designed for a shop with a front desk coordinating several people's schedules.