# Websites for barbers

> Websites for barbershops built to do three things fast: show the cuts, show the prices, and let someone book without ringing.

- Source: https://nerdsharks.com/industries/barbers
- Publisher: Nerdsharks (Exeter, Devon, UK)
- Updated: 2026-09-27

There are 51,505 hairdressing and beauty businesses across 377 UK local authorities (ONS UK Business Counts, SIC 96020, 2025, OGL v3.0).

## How customers choose

A barber customer decides in seconds and almost always on a phone. They want to see the standard of cut, know the price, and find out whether they can walk in or need to book. Once they find a barber they like they come back every three to five weeks for years, so the value of a single new customer is unusually high - a good barbershop customer is worth several hundred pounds a year. The decision is heavily influenced by whether the place looks like somewhere they would feel comfortable, which is a question about photographs, not words.

## What most websites in this trade get wrong

Most barbershops do not have a website at all and rely entirely on a social profile, which means they cannot be found by anyone searching, cannot show a price list clearly, and cannot take a booking without a conversation. The ones that do have sites tend to bury the price list and the booking link below a paragraph about passion for the craft. Nobody reads that. The price list and the booking button are the website.

## What the website has to do

- **Online booking** - Removes the phone call, which is the main friction for a younger customer.
- **Price list visible without scrolling far** - Price is the second thing every customer checks and hiding it loses them.
- **Walk-in policy stated clearly** - Ambiguity about whether they can just turn up costs real footfall.

## Pages

- **Home** - Cuts, prices, booking button - in that order.
- **Prices** - Every service, plainly listed, including children and beard work.
- **Book** - The booking system, or the phone number if there is not one.
- **Gallery** - Real cuts done in the shop, not stock photography.
- **Find us** - Map, parking, opening hours.

## Features that matter

- **Online booking or a prominent tap-to-call** - The entire purpose of a barbershop website is filling the chair.
- **Full price list on its own page and on the homepage** - It is the most-visited content on any barbershop site.
- **Photographs of actual cuts from your shop** - Customers are judging whether your standard matches what they want.
- **Opening hours that are correct, including bank holidays** - Wrong hours produce a wasted journey and a lost regular.
- **Walk-in versus appointment policy stated explicitly** - This one sentence changes how many people turn up.

Trust signals: Photographs of real cuts; Barber profiles; Opening hours; Location and parking.

Seasonality: Sharp peaks before Christmas, weddings in summer, and every Friday and Saturday.

## Local authorities with the most

| Local authority | Businesses |
|---|---|
| Birmingham | 830 |
| Glasgow City | 635 |
| Westminster | 620 |
| Leeds | 615 |
| Liverpool | 470 |
| Barnet | 460 |
| Manchester | 450 |
| Camden | 440 |
| Enfield | 415 |
| North Yorkshire | 405 |

## The offer

- **Monthly**: £299 upfront, £99/month (the upfront is a setup fee), 12-month minimum term. We build it, host it and look after it - and after 24 monthly payments, it is yours.
- **Own It**: £1,795 upfront, £49/month, no minimum term. Buy the website outright. It is yours to keep, move or cancel.
- **Pro**: £6,950 upfront, £299/month, 12-month minimum term. No limits. For large, multi-site and fast-growing businesses.
- Payment: The setup fee is paid when you book, and it starts the design. Monthly fees are collected by Direct Debit, covered by the Direct Debit Guarantee, from the day your site goes live.
- Guarantee: You see your finished design on your phone and approve it before anything goes live, with two full rounds of changes included. Nothing launches until you are happy with it. The Monthly plan runs for 12 months from launch.
- Bolt-ons: Google Business Profile management £29/month; Local SEO pack £49/month; Business email £5/month. Coming soon, not yet on sale: Missed-call text back, Review booster.
- VAT: We are not VAT registered, so there is no VAT to add to these prices.

## Questions

### Can you add online booking?

Yes. Every plan includes a booking-request form, live-availability booking can be added to any plan (quoted on your call) and comes as standard on Pro, and we can connect whichever booking system suits your business rather than forcing you onto ours. For appointment businesses it is usually the highest-return feature on the site, because the phone going unanswered while you are working is a constant source of lost bookings.

### Should I put my prices on my website?

Almost always yes. Hiding prices loses more enquiries than it protects, because people assume the worst and go to a competitor who publishes theirs. If your pricing genuinely varies, publish a range and explain in one sentence what moves it - that converts far better than "contact us for a quote".

### I already have a busy social page. Do I need a website?

A social profile cannot be found by someone searching for a barber near them, cannot show a current price list clearly, cannot take a booking without a conversation, and belongs to the platform rather than to you. It works well alongside a website and badly instead of one.