Barbers · Houston TX
Booking software for barbershops in Houston
119 is the number of barber shops with employees that the Census Bureau recorded in greater Houston for 2023. Of those, 74 were shops with a staff of four or fewer.
BookAndGo gives every Houston barber their own column on one shop calendar, with their own hours and services, and puts a booking page online that clients can use at any hour.
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 Houston barbers
Houston's 119 employer barber shops are a low count for a metro of its size, about 1.6 per 100,000 residents. They are relatively large, though: only 62 percent had fewer than five staff, and 16 had ten to nineteen. That combination suggests a market where a smaller number of established shops carry multi-barber teams, which is exactly where a shared calendar and a waitlist for the busiest days earn their keep.
Census builds the Houston metro from ten counties, so think of these as regional figures rather than a city count. There were 1,516 beauty salons with employees in the same metro, about 12.7 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.
Harris County led with 75, ahead of Fort Bend County (18) and Montgomery County (17). Harris County alone holds 63 percent of the metro total. Sorted by staff numbers, 74 had under five staff, 23 had five to nine, 16 had ten to nineteen, 5 had twenty to forty-nine. Of the 20 most populous metros, the closest count to Houston's 119 is Orlando's 120. Elsewhere in TX: Dallas-Fort Worth 227.
Houston shops are licensed through TDLR, where barbering and cosmetology share one set of rules aimed at preventing cuts, burns, infections and the transmission of contagious diseases.
Frequently asked
Are most Houston barbershops small?
Yes, by staff count: 74 of the 119 employer barber shops in the metro had fewer than five employees in 2023, which is 62 percent.
Is barbering regulated separately from cosmetology in Texas?
Not at TDLR, which runs one barbering and cosmetology program with rules aimed at health, safety and sanitation.
Do clients get reminders?
Every booking gets an email confirmation, and an email reminder goes out before the appointment, so fewer chairs sit empty.
What happens when someone cancels?
If you use the waitlist, BookAndGo offers the opened slot to matching people on it, so a late cancellation has a better chance of being filled.
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Prices are in US dollars, plus any applicable sales tax.