Barbers · Boston MA
Booking software for barbershops in Boston
The Census Bureau counted 142 barbershops with paid staff across greater Boston in 2023, and 119 of them had fewer than five employees.
BookAndGo keeps it simple for Boston shops: set up each barber as a provider, share one booking page, and let email reminders do the chasing before each appointment.
Online booking around the clock
Clients book from your page any time, and the slot comes off your calendar the moment they do.
Email confirmations and reminders
Every booking is confirmed and reminded by email, so fewer clients forget.
Invoices from the booking
Raise an invoice from the appointment, with the sales tax rate you set.
Built for Boston barbers
Boston's metro, seven counties across Massachusetts and New Hampshire, had 142 employer barber shops, 84 percent of them under five staff. Beauty salons outnumbered them by more than fourteen to one, one of the widest gaps in the twenty, which suggests a lot of barbering happens in small independent setups that County Business Patterns does not see. Those barbers need the same thing as a bigger shop: a booking link clients can use any time.
Census builds the Boston metro from seven counties, reaching into New Hampshire, so think of these as regional figures rather than a city count. There were 2,025 beauty salons with employees in the same metro, about 14.3 for every barbershop on the list. Part of that gap is how barbering works: CBP only counts establishments with paid employees, so a barber who rents a chair or works alone with no payroll does not show up.
Middlesex County led with 37, ahead of Suffolk County (30) and Essex County (29). Middlesex County alone holds 26 percent of the metro total. Sorted by staff numbers, 119 had under five staff, 18 had five to nine, 5 had ten to nineteen. Census does not publish every size class for this metro, so the classes shown may not add up to the total. Of the 20 most populous metros, the closest count to Boston's 142 is Atlanta's 150. Against the metro's 2023 population estimate of 4,967,266, that is about 2.9 per 100,000 residents, 11 of 20 on that measure.
In Massachusetts, the Board of Registration of Cosmetology and Barbering regulates cosmetology, barbering and electrology, and issues licenses to qualified individuals, businesses and schools.
Frequently asked
Are most Boston barbershops small?
Yes, by staff count: 119 of the 142 employer barber shops in the metro had fewer than five employees in 2023, which is 84 percent.
Does the Massachusetts Board of Registration of Cosmetology and Barbering license Boston barbers?
Yes. The Massachusetts Board of Registration of Cosmetology and Barbering issues licenses to qualified individuals, businesses and schools.
Can I add walk-ins to the same calendar?
Yes. Click an empty time on the calendar, choose Add appointment, pick the client and service, and confirm. Your online booking page sees the change straight away.
Do clients get reminders?
Every booking gets an email confirmation, and an email reminder goes out before the appointment, so fewer chairs sit empty.
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Your bookings and client records are stored in the United States.
Prices are in US dollars, plus any applicable sales tax.