Barber-built Software

Booking, payments, and business tools for independent barbers and shop owners. Founded and led by someone who's stood behind the chair. We’re driven by the ideas, passion, and best interests of the barbering community.

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What matters to us?

Independent working barbers and shop owners

Building tools that enable the trade and art of barbering to grow while keeping intact what makes each chair unique.

Community-built roadmap.

Our progress is shaped by the barbering community, not Silicon Valley expectations.

No marketplace. No middlemen.

We are NOT here to sell your clients back to you.

The V2 Era

Built for how the industry actually runs. We’re rethinking what booking should feel like — rebuilding it from the ground up with the barbering community.

Currently building:

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Higher Booking v2.0

Out now, barber-built booking software with community driven roadmap.

$35/month

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Your own barber
or shop website

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Break free from marketplace pages. Launch a real website that’s yours – custom domain, real seo, full control. +$35/mo

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First Chair Club

Membership includes:

  • Lifetime access to the Higher Booking platform
  • Welcome Kit
  • Other goodies

Limited to the first 138

Only $1000, regularly $420/yr

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Bud's Story

I was super excited about Higher Booking because my client’ booking experience is so critical. It should be designed by Barbers – not a Silicon Valley tech company. Plus Higher was founded by people from the same DIY punk scene I grew up in, so I know its ethos is grounded in integrity.”

~Bud Martin

Bud’s Barbershop, Philadelphia PA
First Chair Club member #001

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Higher Education

We believe that technology should be included in training the next generation of barbers. Students should be empowered to build a book in school that they can take with them to the shop when they graduate.

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About Higher Booking

Founded in Rochester NY in late 2023. Higher Booking, Inc. is an independently owned and operated corporation focused on barber designed/lead solutions to move the industry forward.

“CLIPPING” Zine

Get a copy of Clippings, our semi-regular zine for barbers.

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