Comparison
A Booksy alternative built for one chair
Booksy is built for Barbershops and salons with staff — pricing is per employee per month.
Chairwarden is built for one person renting one chair. That narrower aim is the whole difference, and it cuts both ways — there is a list further down of what Booksy does better.
Free to try, up to 15 bookings/month · calendar protection included on every plan
What each one takes from a booking
Booksy
Booksy's Boost feature, when you switch it on, takes a one-time 30% commission on a new client's first visit.
biz.booksy.com, checked 2026-09-05
Chairwarden
$29 a month, or $23 paid yearly. No percentage and no per-booking fee. When a client pays a deposit it lands in your own Stripe account, and we take nothing out of it.
Stripe Connect Standard, direct charges
The part nobody else does
Chairwarden refuses the booking that would split your best slot.
You have a four-hour opening for a colour appointment. A 30-minute trim books into the middle of it, and the whole block is gone — two unusable stubs instead of $250 of work. Chairwarden simply never offers that slot to a short service. You can relax the rule if you want a quick cut to fit inside the processing time.
What Booksy has instead
We found no calendar-protection feature in Booksy's published feature list. Its scheduling is conventional: open slots are offered to whoever books first.
biz.booksy.com, checked 2026-09-05
Where Booksy is genuinely better
- Very strong in barbering, with a marketplace to match
- Built-in marketing tools, including a monthly allowance of SMS marketing messages
- Point of sale and staff management
Choose Booksy if you run a shop with employees and want the marketplace reach, especially in barbering.
What Chairwarden does not do
- No card terminal or point of sale — deposits online only
- No marketing campaigns
- No staff accounts; one stylist per account
- No marketplace, so it will not find clients for you
- No client-facing app — your clients book on the web
Try it on your own calendar
Free up to 15 bookings a month, no card. Calendar protection is on from the first booking.
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