Barbers · San Francisco CA
Booking software for barbershops in San Francisco
For 2023 the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns lists 70 employer barber shops in the San Francisco Bay metro, 47 of them small enough to sit in the under-five-employees bracket.
BookAndGo is built for that shape of shop: one calendar for the whole team, a booking page clients can open whenever they like, and email confirmations and reminders on every 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 San Francisco barbers
The San Francisco metro, five counties around the Bay, had 70 employer barber shops, the smallest count of the twenty and 1.5 per 100,000 residents. Beauty salons outnumbered them seventeen to one, the widest ratio in the set. Only about two thirds of the employer shops were under five staff. Numbers like these say that much of Bay Area barbering happens outside payroll businesses, in independent chairs that still need a professional way to take bookings.
The figures cover the whole metro as the Census Bureau draws it, which is five counties: Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Marin County, San Francisco County and San Mateo County. Set that against 1,189 employer beauty salons in the same area, roughly 17.0 salons per barbershop. CBP counts only establishments with paid employees, so chair renters and solo barbers without staff are missing from the barbershop figure, which makes it a floor rather than a ceiling. That places San Francisco Bay 20 of the 20 most populous US metros by barber shops count.
County by county, Alameda County had 32, San Francisco County 16 and Contra Costa County 15. Alameda County alone holds 46 percent of the metro total. By size, 47 had under five staff, 16 had five to nine, 6 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 San Francisco Bay's 70 is Riverside-San Bernardino's 71. Elsewhere in CA: Los Angeles 235, Riverside-San Bernardino 71, San Diego 81.
Statewide, the California Board of Barbering and Cosmetology says it licenses over 50,000 establishments and over 560,000 individuals, and Bay Area barbershops are part of that register.
Frequently asked
How many barbershops are there in San Francisco?
County Business Patterns counted 70 barber shops with paid employees in the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro in 2023. Solo barbers with no payroll are not included, so the real number of places to get a cut is higher.
How large is California's barbering and beauty register?
The California Board of Barbering and Cosmetology says it licenses over 50,000 establishments and over 560,000 individuals, across barbering and beauty.
Can I email my regulars about a new service?
Yes. Email campaigns go to your own client list from inside BookAndGo, so you can announce new hours, a new barber or a new service.
Where do clients find my booking page?
It is a link you own. Put it in your social bios, on your website and on your business listings, and clients book from there.
Take bookings in San Francisco from today
Your bookings and client records are stored in the United States.
Prices are in US dollars, plus any applicable sales tax.