Renting a chair means your client list is the only thing you actually own, and it is the thing you lose every time you move. Cardr puts your booking link in their Apple Wallet, and when the shop changes you edit one line and every client already has the new address.
A barber’s asset is the client list, and chair rental is designed so you never quite hold it. The shop owns the booking system, the Instagram tag and the walk-ins. When you move, and most barbers move, the clients who followed you are the ones who happened to have your personal number. Cardr gives every client a card that lives on their phone and belongs to you, so changing shop is one edit rather than two hundred DMs.
Thirty seconds at the card machine, and the client is already half out of the door with their phone in their hand.
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Thirty seconds at the card machine, and the client is already half out of the door with their phone in their hand.
Every constraint above is what decides the format. A card that fails any one of the three does not get used a second time, however good it looks.
The handover window in a barbershop is the moment they pay. Their phone is out, the next client is waiting, and the conversation is over. That is not enough time for anything that involves typing, and it is exactly enough time to show a QR code.
What you want on the other end of it is not a phone number. It is the booking link, so the rebook happens now rather than in three weeks when they finally remember. Booking is one of the built-in link types and it works on the free plan.
Then the part that decides whether this was worth doing at all. When you move chairs, and the average barber moves more than once, a paper card is wrong and the shop’s booking system is not yours to take. A Wallet pass corrects itself on every phone that holds it. New shop, new address, same card, and nobody had to be told.
Not a mock-up. The artwork below is drawn by the same function that draws the inside of the signed .pkpass file, in the same colours the real pass carries, so this is what Wallet shows.
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The scene changes by trade, but the mechanism does not. See every version of this page.
Rebooking is the whole economics of a chair, and it fails because they cannot find you.
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PricingFree forever, or £12 a monthWhat each plan includes, and the sixty-day guarantee.
You edit the address on your card and every client who has your pass in Apple Wallet gets the corrected version on their phone. That is the single best reason for a barber to use one of these. Compare it with the alternatives: a printed card is now wrong, and the shop’s booking system was never yours to take with you.
Yes, on the free plan. Booking is one of the standard link types alongside phone, WhatsApp, Instagram, website, location and Google Review. Point it at whatever you already use and the rebook is one tap from the card.
No. The pass goes into Apple Wallet, which is already on every iPhone and cannot be deleted. Android clients open your page from the QR code and save you to their contacts from there. Nobody signs up for anything.
On the mirror, on the counter by the card machine, and on your phone for the ones who ask on the way out. The moment that works is when they are paying, because the phone is already in their hand and the next appointment is the thing being discussed.
Free forever for the card, the Apple Wallet pass, the booking link and the two-way exchange, with no card details taken. Pro is £12 a month, or £9 billed annually, for the client list with notes, the drafted messages and the reminders, with a sixty-day money back guarantee.
Nothing for the other person to install, and no card details to start.