Employees. Renters.One shop.One book.
Chaise replaces the paper book and the phone that rings mid-cut: the appointments, the walk-ins and the hours behind them, in one day the whole shop can see.
A shop Chaise is built for
The problem
A paper book, a ringing phone, and a queue nobody can see.
Plenty of shops run exactly this way, and run well. It holds until the phone goes twice at once, or somebody walks in while the book is at the far end of the room.
The day is a paper book
One book behind the desk, and only whoever is holding it knows what the day looks like. It cannot be in two places, and there is no second copy.
Every booking is a phone call
It rings mid-cut. Stop and you interrupt the client in the chair; let it ring and the one calling books somewhere else.
Walk-ins turn into guesswork
Nobody can see who is genuinely free, so the person at the door either waits far too long or goes to whoever happened to look up.
And half the chairs are rented
The renters keep calendars of their own, so the shop's day sits in two places at once and whoever is on the door has to check both before answering a simple question.
What it does
The day, the queue, and the hours behind them.
Walk-ins
The queue is part of the day, not bolted to the side.
Someone arrives without an appointment and goes into the queue, where the whole shop can see them waiting rather than one person at the desk. The job goes to whoever is free.
Hours
Your week, inside the shop's.
Everyone sets their own working hours inside the hours the shop is open. Change a week and the day view changes with it, on every phone.
For the owner
Every location, and who is in it.
Services and prices, who offers what, shop hours, and the people in each location. A second location is a second location — not a second subscription.
For your clients
No app, no account, no code by text.
The app is for the people working in the shop. Clients book in a browser and pick the person, not just the shop — nobody installs anything to get a haircut, your own number stays on the page, and the ones who would still rather ring you can.
How a day runs
One book, and the whole shop is looking at it.
It all lands in one book
Bookings from the web, the phone and the front desk go to the same day view.
The day moves, and everyone sees it
Moves, cancellations and walk-ins show up as they happen, on every phone in the shop.
Everyone sees their own day
Who is booked with them, what is coming, and the hours they set — on their own phone.
Where we stand
The decisions that don't change.
We never touch your money
Chaise books the work; it does not take payments. Clients pay you the way they already do, and there is no float of ours for you to wait on.
Not priced per chair
A chair renter is not a seat we charge you for. Renting a chair out should not cost you money before it earns any.
Texts are not metered
Reminders and confirmations go out without a per-message charge or a monthly bundle to top up.
Every location included
Running two shops costs the same per shop as running one. There is no per-location plan fee.
Your data stays in Canada
The service runs in Montreal. Client records, appointments and notes do not leave the country.
English and French, everywhere
Every screen exists in both and you switch in the app. A screen missing its French does not ship — the build refuses it rather than falling back to English.
Questions
Before you ask for an invite
We're setting the price with the first shops on it, so there is no number to quote yet. What is already decided: no fee per booking, no fee per client, and no charge per chair for renting a chair out.
No. It runs the book, not the till. Clients pay you however they pay you now — cash, your own card machine, whatever is already on the counter — and none of your money passes through us or sits waiting to be paid out. Moving to Chaise means no new payment setup and no change of processor.
No. Clients book in a browser, with no account, no app and no code by text. The app is for the people working in the shop — the owner and the staff each get one.
Yes. Every screen exists in English and French and you switch inside the app. Invoices and employment documents come out in the recipient's recorded language, not in whichever language the person who pressed the button happened to be using.
In Canada. The service runs in Montreal, and client records, appointments and notes do not leave the country.
As part of the day rather than a waitlist on the side. Someone at the door goes into the queue, everyone in the shop can see them waiting, and the job goes to whoever is free.
We're setting shops up by hand, a few at a time, in Toronto. Ask for an invite and we'll come back to you about your shop.
Get Chaise into your shop.
We set the first shops up by hand — a call, then your services, your people and your hours built with you. Leave a number and we'll ring you about your shop.