A barbershop answering service that books the chair
It picks up mid-fade, quotes your prices, and books the next cut into your calendar.
- English and Spanish
- Square or Google Calendar
- Free for your first 7 days
- Hands you anyone who needs you
- 30-day money-back guarantee
Your phone is ringing
The phone always rings mid-fade
Three callers. Pick the one you answer.
Read it before you buy it
Pick a call. See what it says back.
- You
You got anything for a fade this afternoon?
- AI
A cut is $35 and takes 30 minutes. I have 4:15 or five o'clock today.
- You
Quarter past four works.
Booked with your clippers still running.
- You
Do you take walk-ins, or do I need to book?
- AI
Walk-ins welcome, first come first served. If you would rather not wait, I can put you down for 4:15.
- You
Go on then, book me in.
Your own words on walk-ins, read back to the caller.
- You
You open today?
- AI
We are shut Sundays. Monday at 9:30 is free for a cut and beard, $50, 45 minutes.
- You
Yeah, book that.
Sunday's caller becomes Monday's chair.
- You
Do you do color?
- AI
That is not on my list, so I am not going to guess. Can I take your name and number? The shop will call you back.
It says it does not know. That is the whole trick.
Nobody asks for the name on your price list
Hear how it sounds
Caller: Hey, uh, I've got a four o'clock with Dev and I'm stuck on the interstate.
He's stuck on the interstate, and asks about parking on the way out.
Vine Street Barbers, from the car
Caller: Hey, uh, I've got a four o'clock with Dev and I'm stuck on the interstate.
Clayta: No trouble, I'll let Dev know, roughly how late do you think?
Caller: Um, ten minutes, fifteen, and sorry, where do I park?
Clayta: Street parking right out front, and it's free after six.
Road noise is real to the call, because he is driving. The assistant recognizes the booking. It answers the parking question from the shop's own details.
Sample calls are demonstrations, not recordings of real customers.
Put your own two numbers in
Walking past your door
a month
Clayta is $99 a month. Catch 3 bookings and it has paid for itself.
Get startedYou will not catch all of them. Nobody can promise you that.
The demo line
Ring it yourself. Try to catch it out.
It answers as Bloom Salon, our imaginary shop.
Keep your number, cancel anytime.
Your phone right now is a liability
When you're with a client
Rings out, then offers to take a message
Answers on the first ring and books the appointment
Two people ring at once
The second one gets a busy tone or voicemail
Both answered, at the same time, by name
After you've closed
Sits until morning, and by then they have booked elsewhere
Books it into tomorrow's calendar at eleven at night
A caller who speaks Spanish
An English greeting they may not finish listening to
Switches to Spanish the moment it hears it
Knowing what was said
A name on a notepad, if that
A written transcript of every call, in your dashboard
Tap Clayta to see the same five moments handled.
Questions from barbershops
Half my trade is walk-ins. Does that still work?
Yes. It tells callers how busy you are and how long the wait is, instead of pushing everyone into an appointment. You stop losing the one who rings to ask whether it is worth coming down.
Saturday morning the phone rings while it's already on a call.
Everyone gets answered. Clayta handles several callers at the same time, which one person at a desk cannot. They take one call and the rest hear voicemail.
Can it stop people booking a fifteen minute slot for a full restyle?
It books the time you set for each service. A fade and a beard trim take as long as you said they take. Anything not on your list becomes a message, not an invented price.
The shop is loud. Does that matter?
No. The call never comes into the room. Clippers, the radio and the chair next to you are not on the line, because Clayta answers it, not the shop phone.