Chairside sends confirmations, reminders, and reschedule replies for barbershops, tattoo studios, and chiropractic clinics that still book by phone, DM, or memory. One shop, one number, real two-way texting — not a marketing platform bolted onto a booking app.
What it is
Chairside doesn't replace your calendar, your Instagram DMs, or your front desk. It watches the appointments you already schedule and handles the texting around them — before, during, and after the visit.
Automatic confirmation the moment a booking is made, then a reminder text before the visit — timed to the appointment, not a generic daily blast.
Clients reply "C" to confirm or "R" to reschedule and get real back-and-forth, not a dead-end auto-reply. Pro tier adds agent-assisted negotiation for new times.
A short personal check-in after the appointment — aftercare notes for a fresh tattoo, a rebooking nudge for a fade that's growing out, a "how'd that adjustment feel" for chiro.
Written consent collected at signup, STOP/CANCEL/UNSUBSCRIBE honored automatically and immediately — well inside the FCC's 10-business-day ceiling.
A2P 10DLC carrier registration handled for you at setup — texts arrive from your shop's own number, not a shared shortcode.
Plain SMS/MMS at launch. Apple Messages for Business (iMessage) requires an Apple-approved partner relationship — it's a roadmap item, not a promise we make on day one.
Who it's for
If you're already on GlossGenius, Boulevard, Weave, or another platform that bundles text reminders — you probably don't need this. Chairside is for the shop still doing it manually.
1-8 chairs, owner or one front-desk person handling the phone. Booked by call, walk-in, or a bare Calendly/Square link — no bundled comms tool.
Booked mostly through Instagram/Facebook DM — the least-tooled of the three verticals; no incumbent found marketing to this booking style at all.
Solo or two-doctor practices, not multi-location chains. Front desk juggles the phone and the schedule at once.
Pricing
Chairside is the comms layer, not a POS/booking replacement — priced accordingly, below the bundled platforms it sits next to.
Entry-tier monthly price, as published on each vendor's own pricing page (glossgenius.com/pricing, joinblvd.com/pricing — fetched 2026-07-29). Boulevard figures are its current limited-time promo price (standard rate in parens). Boulevard and GlossGenius are full booking+POS platforms; Chairside is comms-only. Bar widths are linearly scaled to dollar value.
Demo
Three scripted scenarios — a confirmation that turns into a reschedule, a reminder with prep instructions, and a personal post-visit follow-up. Every message below is a simulated example, not a real client conversation.
Questions owners actually ask
If that's a bundled platform like GlossGenius or Boulevard, you likely don't need Chairside — that's a real disqualifier, not something we'll argue you out of. Calendly/ Square Appointments/Acuity-style tools send basic reminders but no two-way reschedule negotiation or follow-up sequence — that gap is where Chairside fits.
Consent is collected in writing at signup, and any stop/cancel/unsubscribe request is honored automatically, well inside the FCC's 10-business-day window (FCC 24-24, adopted Feb. 2024) — you don't have to track revocation requests by hand.
1-3 weeks from signup — that's the carrier's A2P 10DLC vetting timeline, not our build time. We'd rather set that expectation now than break it later.
Not at launch. Apple Messages for Business requires an Apple-approved partner relationship and review — it's a stated future item, not a v1 promise.
For chiropractic clinics, the sourced-adjacent range for annual no-show cost is $15,000-40,000/yr (unverified); even a conservative 20% reduction clears the $79-149/mo price many times over. For barber/tattoo, we don't yet have a sourced ticket-value figure — see the internal plan below for that number stated honestly as an estimate, not a citation.
We're lining up a small, free 30-day pilot for a handful of shops before this opens more broadly. No commitment, no invoice during the pilot.
Ask about the pilot